In Office Word 2007, alignment tabs are used to position text relative to the margins of your document or a region within the document and adjust their position if you change the margins. Margin tabsĪlignment tabs will be converted to traditional tabs. If you later convert the document to Word 2010 format and no changes have been made to the images in an earlier version, the graphic will be changed back to a SmartArt object. You will not be able to edit text inside a graphic, change its layout, or change its general appearance. When you save a document that contains SmartArt graphics in Word 97-2003 format, they will be converted to static images. SmartArt graphics will be converted into a single object that can't be edited in previous versions of Word. However, if you later convert the document to Word 2010 file format and no changes have been made to the equation images in a previous version, the equations will become text and you will be able to edit them. If you save the document in Word 97-2003 format, equations will be converted to images that you can't edit. Any comments, endnotes, or footnotes present in the equations will be permanently lost on save. You will not be able to edit the equations until the document is converted to a new file format. In the Object type list, select Microsoft Word 97-2003 Document.Įquations will be converted to images. In the Convert dialog box, click to select Convert to. Point to Document Object, and then click Convert. You can convert embedded objects so that people using earlier versions of Word will be able to edit them. Select Microsoft PowerPoint 97-2003 Presentation in the Object type list: Point to Presentation Object, and then click Convert. Select Microsoft PowerPoint 97-2003 Slide in the Object type list.Ĭonvert embedded PowerPoint 2010 presentation objects Point to Slide Object, and then click Convert. Select Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheet in the Object type list.Ĭonvert embedded PowerPoint 2010 slide objects In the Convert dialog box, click Convert to. Point to Worksheet Object, and then click Convert. For more information about the features available in Word Starter, see Word Starter feature support. Note: Converting objects is not supported in Word Starter. You can convert Open XML embedded objects so that people using earlier versions of Word will be able to edit them. You cannot edit it in an earlier version of Word. Embedded objectsĪn embedded object in this document was created in a newer version of Office. 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. If you save a document in Word 97–2003 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 2010 file format.įor example, in Word 97–2003, users will no longer see items in a drop-down list. Content controlsĬontent controls will be converted to static content.
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.įor more information about citations and bibliographies, see Create a bibliography. If you later convert the document to Word 2010, citations and bibliographies won't automatically update.
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When you save a Word 2010 document in Word 97-2003 format, citations and bibliographies are converted to static text that won't automatically update and their sources won't be available. In Word 2010, citations and bibliographies update automatically when you modify their sources or apply a new document style. You won't be able to convert the AutoText back to Building Blocks even if you later convert the document to Word 2010 format.Ĭontent from the following Building Block galleries will be converted to AutoText:Ĭitations and bibliographies will be converted to static text and will no longer be updated automatically. When you save a template in Word 97-2003 format, the content from the Building Block galleries will be permanently converted to static AutoText entries. Templates provide content that shows up in Building Block galleries in Word 2007. Top of Page Feature behavior changes Building Blocksīuilding Blocks and AutoText entries may lose some information. Note: If you are using Microsoft Word Starter 2010, be aware that not all the features listed for Word 2010 are supported in Word Starter.