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DATE:9-July-2008
Filed Under: Windows

In most cases there is no need to click on the Save as type field while in the Save As dialog box. Try adding the three letter extension of the file type you want the file to be saved in to the end of the file name. For instance, if you want to save a Word 2007 file, named Try this, as a Word 2003 file add the .doc extension to the end of the file name (Try this.doc).  Your system will have to support the file format you are saving the file in. If you don’t have Office, Flash, or Photoshop installed on your system, your system will not recognize these extensions.

.html                web page
.doc                 Word document (old)
.docx               Word 2007
.gif                   Image format used for low color images
.jpg                  Image format typically used for digital photographs
.ppt                  PowerPoint document (old)
.pptx                PowerPoint 2007 Document.
.html                File format used to save a text file as a web page
.txt                   Text file
.xls                   Excel file (old)

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Commonly Used File Extensions offers many other file formats that may work using this method.

Office File Extensions features file extensions for Office 2007 and 2003