Dealing with Office 2007 & Office 2003 file formats

[Guest RSpence1270]

My company plans on moving to Office 2007 soon. However, we have a delimma

 

with how to handle how Office files are saved.

 

 

 

For example, if a person open a .doc & makes changes in Office 2007 and some

 

of those changes are not supported by the .doc, then the file is saved as a

 

..docx. This leaves us with two files... a doc & a docx. We really don't

 

want someone updating the .doc anymore.

 

 

 

Any suggestions on how to deal with this?

 

 

 

Side notes:

 

~We have the compatibility pack installed on all computers.

 

~The batch converter tool doesn't seem like a good fit for us. We have

 

files in multiple locations, many servers...

 

~We have considered using Global policy to change the Save options to save

 

only to a .doc. However, that defeats the purpose of having Office 2007.

 

 

 

I apologize if this has been asled before. Thanks for the help!