Wednesday, May 30, 2007

[ED-TECH] Office 2007 file formats (REALLY corrected link)

(The link in the "corrected" message confused the final letter.  I put "g" but it should have been "q".  Sorry, again.  I just tested this one, and it really works.)

Ed-Tech List Members,

Files saved by Microsoft Office 2007 use a new file format.  People with earlier versions of Microsoft Office cannot read those files unless they have installed a special converter.  Until more people begin using Office 2007, it is recommended (by me?) that Office 2007 users save files in the older format. 

There is a wonderful video that explains how to do this on a file-by-file basis, or how to change your settings in each Office application so that application uses the old format by default.  To view the video, go to the http://tinyurl.com/2dzoyq web page. 

This video was created by California State University, Long Beach, using Captivate software.  It even has closed captioning.

Bill Vilberg

Assoc. Dir. of Instructional Advancement

305-284-3944