Note: Selecting Check compatibility when saving documents in the Compatibility Checker window causes the Office application to automatically check for compatibility issues when you save your file as an earlier version. To save your file in an earlier Office format, see Save a file. Need more help? Expand your skills.
Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? For more information about the features available in Word Starter, see Word Starter feature support. Feature availability in each mode. Feature behavior changes. Top of Page. Building Blocks and AutoText entries may lose some information. Templates provide content that shows up in Building Block galleries in Word When you save a template in Word format, the content from the Building Block galleries will be permanently converted to static AutoText entries.
You won't be able to convert the AutoText back to Building Blocks even if you later convert the document to Word format. Citations and bibliographies will be converted to static text and will no longer be updated automatically. In Word , citations and bibliographies update automatically when you modify their sources or apply a new document style. When you save a Word document in Word format, citations and bibliographies are converted to static text that won't automatically update and their sources won't be available.
If you later convert the document to Word , citations and bibliographies won't automatically update. For citations and bibliographies to automatically update, you must recreate the sources in the document or copy them to the Current List in the Source Manager dialog box, and then replace the static citations and bibliographies with the newly created ones.
For more information about citations and bibliographies, see Create a bibliography. Content controls will be converted to static content. If you save a document in Word 97— format, all the content controls will be converted to plain text and associated properties will be permanently lost even if you later convert the document to the Word file format. For example, in Word 97—, users will no longer see items in a drop-down list. Additionally, any protection properties that is, regions that cannot be edited or deleted will no longer be enforced and users will be able to delete and change the contents of the controls.
An embedded object in this document was created in a newer version of Office. You cannot edit it in an earlier version of Word. You can convert Open XML embedded objects so that people using earlier versions of Word will be able to edit them.
Note: Converting objects is not supported in Word Starter. Select Microsoft Excel Worksheet in the Object type list. You can convert embedded objects so that people using earlier versions of Word will be able to edit them. In the Object type list, select Microsoft Word Document. Equations will be converted to images. You will not be able to edit the equations until the document is converted to a new file format. The Word Convert command clears the compatibility options so that the document layout appears as it would if it had been created in Word or Word To convert the document without saving a copy, click Info , and then click Convert.
To create a new copy of the document in Word or Word mode, click Save As , and then choose the location and the folder where you want to save the new copy. Type a new name for the document in the File name box, and then click Word Document in the Save as type list. Make sure the box next to Maintain compatibility with previous versions of Word is cleared. If you are in Word Compatibility Mode, the words Compatibility Mode appear in the document's title bar, after the file name.
If the title bar does not display Compatibility Mode , you are in Word mode and all features are available. Note: If you are using Microsoft Word Starter , be aware that not all the features listed for Word are supported in Word Starter. For more information about the features available in Word Starter, see Word Starter feature support.
You can either work in Compatibility Mode or you can convert your document to the Word file format. The Word Convert command clears the compatibility options so that the document layout appears as it would if it had been created in Word To create a new copy of the document in Word mode, click Save As , and then choose the location and the folder where you want to save the new copy.
Type a new name for the document in the File name box, and click Word Document in the Save as type list. Click the File tab. Do one of the following: To convert the document without saving a copy, click Info , and then click Convert. When you open a document in Word , it is in one of two modes: Word Word Compatibility Mode If you are in Word Compatibility Mode, the words Compatibility Mode appear in the document's title bar, after the file name.
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