Saving As. . .
When you save a document in Word 2010 or Word 2011 you save a file type called ".docx". These are the four letters after the period that follows the name you give it. But what if you want to save in a different file type. Commonly we have friends or colleagues that use the ".doc" file type. And Word will help you do this.
Look at this
You will select the "File" heading from the menu at the top of the Word Program, or in the menu bar of the Mac.
You will scroll down to the Save As (not the Save) selection and click it. You will get a window something like this:
See where the Green Arrows point. the one points to the format bar. The one to the right points to the selector. You can click on it and a list of formats it can save to will drop down. The include the .doc format, the .pdf format and a bunch of others. Choose the format to which you want to save, and click the Save or OK button. You have done it.
In Pages, the iWork word processing program, do much the same thing. Click File in the Menu Bar, scroll down to "Save As" and you will get this screen:
Actually you get a screen that let's you choose where you want to save and what you want to save it as. If you click the box (left green arrow) to Save copy as: and then the selector up/down triangles you can choose what other format you want to save as, usually either an earlier version of Pages (iWork) or the Word .doc format.
It's cool, it's easy and it's fast. What do you think?
February 17, 2012 at 10:52 AM
Use it. Most of your colleagues can read a .doc file, but some cannot read a .docx file and few can read a pages file.