Office 2007 Compatability Mode install Rusty Smith 4/24/2007 8:14:08 PM As far as I can tell the ability to install Office 2007 in Compatibility Mode is just a sales/marketing bullet point and not an actual option that you can select or put in your Office Customization installation file. Have I been duped by marketing into thinking I can deploy in a "Compatibility Mode" or is it on a per document basis for Word, Excel and Power Point? And the "save files in this format" in the Office Customization Tool is the closest thing I can get to Compatibility with 2003? Thanks Rusty Smith Sonic Innovations rsmith[ at ]n0sp4m.sonici.com

Re: Office 2007 Compatability Mode install "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> 4/25/2007 4:25:36 AM Hi Rusty, What are you looking for as the 'compatibility mode' definition in this case? The Save as Default is one of the settings to use the older version along with setting in Word, for example, the Word 2003 compatibility settings in Advanced Word options to be an older version of Word. Backwards Compatibility as a mode is related to enabled/disabled features exclusive to the Office 2007 apps and to using the legacy file formats. It doesn't, for example, have one that uses the older menus and toolbars. ============== <<"Rusty Smith" <Rusty Smith[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4B6A8CC3-77F2-4476-8E69-5DEA4ECC9C15[ at ]microsoft.com... As far as I can tell the ability to install Office 2007 in Compatibility Mode is just a sales/marketing bullet point and not an actual option that you can select or put in your Office Customization installation file. Have I been duped by marketing into thinking I can deploy in a "Compatibility Mode" or is it on a per document basis for Word, Excel and Power Point? And the "save files in this format" in the Office Customization Tool is the closest thing I can get to Compatibility with 2003? Thanks Rusty Smith << -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Re: Office 2007 Compatability Mode install Gerry Hickman <gerry666uk[ at ]newsgroup.nospam> 4/25/2007 9:49:24 PM Hi Bob, Is the "Save As" compatibility mode something that can be enforced (or set as default) by group policy? Bob Buckland ?:-) wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi Rusty, > > What are you looking for as the 'compatibility mode' definition in this case? > > The Save as Default is one of the settings to use the older version along with setting in Word, for example, the Word 2003 > compatibility settings in Advanced Word options to be an older version of Word. > > Backwards Compatibility as a mode is related to enabled/disabled features exclusive to the Office 2007 apps and to using the legacy > file formats. It doesn't, for example, have one that uses the older menus and toolbars. > > ============== > <<"Rusty Smith" <Rusty Smith[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:4B6A8CC3-77F2-4476-8E69-5DEA4ECC9C15[ at ]microsoft.com... > As far as I can tell the ability to install Office 2007 in Compatibility Mode > is just a sales/marketing bullet point and not an actual option that you can > select or put in your Office Customization installation file. Have I been > duped by marketing into thinking I can deploy in a "Compatibility Mode" or is > it on a per document basis for Word, Excel and Power Point? And the "save > files in this format" in the Office Customization Tool is the closest thing I > can get to Compatibility with 2003? > Thanks > > Rusty Smith << -- Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Re: Office 2007 Compatability Mode install "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> 4/27/2007 2:43:16 AM Hi Gerry, Yes, there is a policy FileSaveBlock, in the Office 2007 Group Policy Templates http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=92d8519a-e143-4aee-8f7a-e4bbaeba13e7 that, while it doesn't remove the Office 2007 file format choices in File=>Save As, can be set to produce an error message if they're used (setting is, if I recall, per app rather than as an Office policy) There is a matching FileOpenBlock policy. The default file format setting is one that can be done in the Office Customization Tool (OCT2007). Note. that having all of the documents in 'compatibility mode' can result in a number of Office 2007 features being 'greyed out' and that can be confusing to users. There is additional information on these policies in the Office Resource Kit (2007) at http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/fe3f431c-8d7a-45c8-954f-1268f3b533161033.mspx ================ <<"Gerry Hickman" <gerry666uk[ at ]newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message news:uU1TZO4hHHA.1240[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... Hi Bob, Is the "Save As" compatibility mode something that can be enforced (or set as default) by group policy? >> -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Re: Office 2007 Compatability Mode install Gerry Hickman <gerry666uk[ at ]newsgroup.nospam> 4/27/2007 10:08:19 PM Thanks Bob, It's typical that it's never as straight forward as it should be! Thanks for the links, I'll be able to refer back to this when I get the new GP templates in place. Bob Buckland ?:-) wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi Gerry, > > Yes, there is a policy FileSaveBlock, in the Office 2007 Group Policy Templates > http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=92d8519a-e143-4aee-8f7a-e4bbaeba13e7 > > that, while it doesn't remove the Office 2007 file format choices in File=>Save As, can be set to produce an error message if > they're used (setting is, if I recall, per app rather than as an Office policy) > There is a matching FileOpenBlock policy. > > The default file format setting is one that can be done in the Office Customization Tool (OCT2007). > > Note. that having all of the documents in 'compatibility mode' can result in a number of Office 2007 features being 'greyed out' > and that can be confusing to users. > > There is additional information on these policies in the Office Resource Kit (2007) at > http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/fe3f431c-8d7a-45c8-954f-1268f3b533161033.mspx > > ================ > <<"Gerry Hickman" <gerry666uk[ at ]newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message news:uU1TZO4hHHA.1240[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hi Bob, > > Is the "Save As" compatibility mode something that can be enforced (or > set as default) by group policy? >> -- Gerry Hickman (London UK)