To Save As or Not to Save As ?
Instead of clicking on 'Save As' all the time in Office 2007 or Office 2010 why not set Word or Excel up to permanently and automatically save your documents in .doc format or .xls format.
To do this please read the following instructions:
- In Word 2007 or Excel 2007 click on the circular Office Logo in the top left hand corner or the File tab in 2010
- At the bottom of the resulting Menu you should now click on the Word or Excel Options button.
- On the left hand side of the options Menu you will see firther options so please click on the Save option.
- In the Save option you will see at the top of the page a section called Save documents and underneath this a long white box with the words Save files in this format next to it.
- Click on the down arrow in the long white box and choose Word 97-2003 Document (.doc) or if Excel, Excel 97-2003 Document (.xls).
- Finally click on the OK button.
From now on all of your documents will be saved in the correct format without having to do a Save As.
For Office 2010 the procedure is exactly the same except that you access Options from the File tab on the Menu ribbon.