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Old 09-23-2010, 08:54 AM
wornways wornways is offline Word 2007: How to get rid of "Microsoft Office Word Compatibility Checker" harrasalog Windows Vista Word 2007: How to get rid of "Microsoft Office Word Compatibility Checker" harrasalog Office 2007
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Default Word 2007: How to get rid of "Microsoft Office Word Compatibility Checker" harrasalog

I'm working with a few hundred RTF files which are used as help screens in an application I'm writing online documentation for. Until now I've never seen this "Microsoft Office Word Compatibility Checker" harassalog come up, but with this one RTF file it's displayed every time I hit [Cntrl]+[s] to save my work, which is about twice per sentence because this action is built into my typing habits.

It's pretty distracting having to dismiss this harrassalog each and every time I do save the document.

I'd get rid of the "... features in ... this document [that are] not supported," but all I'm told by the harassalog is that "Some custom properties that are stored in this document will be lost." There is only 1 occurrance reported.



I'm given no way to find out what custom property this is so I can get rid of it and get back to work.

Can anyone help?
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MarkJJ MarkJJ is offline Word 2007: How to get rid of "Microsoft Office Word Compatibility Checker" harrasalog Windows 7 64bit Word 2007: How to get rid of "Microsoft Office Word Compatibility Checker" harrasalog Office 2007
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Default One solution is to save as .docx then save as .rtf

This dialog drives me crazy on a regular basis. It makes .rtf almost unusable in Word 2007. Perhaps that's the point. Microsoft may have invented .rtf, but it's an open format, so they don't want anyone to use it.

One solution that will fix the problem for a while, though only for a while, is to save your .rtf document as a .docx document, close it, reopen the .docx, then save it as a .rtf document. Your new .rtf document will be fixed, i.e. you'll no longer be harrassed with the dialog whenever you save.

Occasionally, it will come back. I've never been able to work out what changes to the document make it come back.

Also be aware that saving as .docx might alter the format of the document. Ironic, really, that in harrassing us with a spurious warning that "Some custom properties that are stored in this document will be lost," Microsoft forces us to re-save the document in such a way that formatting in the document really is lost.

Nice.
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Your rant misses the point that docx is an open format and supports a lot that RTF doesn't. The warning is not spurious.

If all you want is an RTF file, you may as well use WordPad. WordPad's native format is RTF. Or you could write in Word, copy to WordPad and save from there.
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