Re: Family tech support

[Susan Bradley <susan () msmvps com>]

Susan Bradley wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:42:48 +1300, Nick FitzGerald said:
>
>
> > > Yeah, but if she has to actually _exchange_ documents with with 
> > others > who don't run the same similarly broken version of OOO as 
> > she does (and > let's just ignore the embarrasing proportion of OOO 
> > documents that > won't correctly re-open after you save and close 
> > them), or worse, with > lecturers/tutors/etc who will almost surely 
> > be using the "real" MS > version and may be rather intolerant of 
> > marking her assignments if they > don't open properly...
> >   
>
> Hmm... you've never worked in an enterprise where half the people have
> upgraded to the new release of Word, and the other half haven't installed
> the plugin that lets their old Word not vomit when they get documents 
> from
> the new Word.
>
> -----------
>  

Tell your admin download the Office group policy admx file
Go up to the server
Set the default policy for Word/Excel (whatever) to save as the 2003 
format even if someone is using 2007.

No vomit.

I only recently flipped that setting off, but for about two years, we 
had no compat issues.
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