Saving all the Word documents as .doc format by default in Word 2007

By default, Word 2007 saves the documents in .docx format. If you had e-mailed a Word document that is in the .docx format then the recipient must have Word 2007 or Word 2010. If the recipient has a previous version of Microsoft Office then they must have installed the compatibility pack to view Word 2007 documents. If they do not have Word 2007 and have not installed the compatibility pack then they will not be able to view the document that you sent. However, there is an option in Word 2007 that you can do and that is to make Word 2007 to save all the documents that you create in a format that the previous versions of Microsoft Word can recognize. To do this, perform the following steps:
1. Open Microsoft Word and click on the Microsoft Office button and then click on Word Options. (Keyboard shortcut: Alt + F + I. Press Alt key and then H and then I).
2. From the Word Options dialog box, on the left pane click on Save.
3. From the right pane, click on the Save files in this format: drop down box and select Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc).
4. Click OK.

From now onwards, all the Word documents will be saved in a format that the users of previous versions of Microsoft Word will be able to open.