MS Word prompts me to save in latest format

I have just converted a bunch of RTF files to .doc, but it appears that the
.doc format was Word 97. I have Word 2000 on my laptop, and whenever I click
to save, it prompts me to see if I'm sure I want to save in 2000 format. Is
there any way I can just get Word to save this automatically in 2000 format,
without prompting me?

 

Thanks, Steve. I've never written a visual basic macro but I suppose its time to learn.

 

On second thought, the error message that I get is different than the one that is addressed in that help page. I think I'll wait on learning Visual Basic macros until I know that that's the one I need to use.

I've searched the MS support pages, but the only thing I've seen that remotely addresses this is a converter pack for Office, which I've installed and which doesn't help the issue.

FWIW, the error message I get is:
Filename.doc is a Word Version 6.0 or 95 for Windows document. Do you want to update it to the latest Word format?

 

The error message reads as the following:

Filename.doc is a Word Version 6.0 or 95 for Windows document. Do you want to update it to the latest Word format?

As far as .doc files, every few years, even though the format is still .doc, they change a bit, which is why newer versions of Word will ask if you want to save the doc in the newest format (I have Word 2000).

 

I have it set to save as ".doc ", the first option at the top (of the field that gives you all those choices). There are plenty of other choices, obviously, but no Word 2000 .doc. There is a Word 2000 rtf, but that's not what I want.

 

Well I found out what I was looking for. Its not a batch converter, but its a filter that installs into MS Word itself. This will automatically save an older Word file format into the 97/2000/03 Word format--without asking if this is what you want to do. The only caveat I can see is that if you are going to be using the same file on different computers with older versions than 97 (incredibly unlikely) that you would need to be sure to do a Save As, and then click on that older file format--b/c again, Word will save your file in the new format without prompting you.

Here's the filter--its by MS itself:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...f0-70e5-4595-8a98-370278f40c57&DisplayLang=en

 

Actually, I posted too soon. When I was no longer getting messages about saving in Word 6.0/95 format, I assumed that the docs were getting saved in 97/2000/XP format. Wrong! They were simply being saved in the older 6.0/95 format, but at least without the prompt.

Its not a big deal, one way or the other, but I didn't want to have to deal with any loss of formatting, etc., in future edits of these docs.

Oh well. You'd have thought that someone would have come up with a mass converter by now. On the other hand, I can't imagine that there are still a lot of 6.0/95 docs floating around requiring one....