🚀 go-pugleaf

David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> Lee Wei Shun <leews@pacific.net.sg> writes:
> 
> > Richard Steiner wrote:
> > >
> > > Here in comp.os.linux.misc, gareth@ibis.demon.co.uk (Gareth Jones)
> > > spake unto us, saying:
> > >
> > > >Mark Evans <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >I don't know about Word 98 (my company doesn't use macs), but with
> > > >Word 97 it is a pretty simple operation to change the default save
> > > >format.
> > >
> > > How?  I've been looking for a way to do that for a couple of months.
> > >
> >
> > Goto Tools -> Options -> Save -> Save file as
> >
> > scroll down the list to whatever: e.g. Word 6.0/95 (*.doc)
> 
> I suggest you look "default" up in a dictionary.  This does not change
> the default save format, but saves a single file with a different
> format.
> 
No, no, David, that's changing the default, not saving a file: note that
it's under the Tools->Options menu, not File.

Before I go too far in defending MS, though, I tried this in Word97, and
what happened to me was:

I changed the default to HTML.
When I tried to save a new document, the frigging paperclip came up and
told me that "Other people may not have the latest version of Office, so
it is suggested you save the file in the following format: HTML file."
Well, that's the point of changing the frigging default, innit?
And then it gave me a list of options: saving it that way, not saving it
that way (which switches it back to Word format), and "See what might be
lost" (which gives you a non-pertinent text).
So they make it *real hard* to use the new default once you change it.