Yes, use the 97-2003 option for a .doc and ignore the warnings about features not being retained. All the usual features you'd use in a normal document will be absolutely fine.

In your Word Options under Save you can choose to make 97-2003 your default file format for saving. That's what I do so as to have no problems sharing with any other system.

Chris

That's very heplful Chris, to save trouble in future. I'll try to do that.

Sheila

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OK, did that. Really useful.

under Save you can choose to make 97-2003 your default file format for saving.

Ooh, I hadn't spotted that - thanks for mentioning it.

Emma

Good idea to email to yourself 1st, so you see how it will look.

Pat

and, as far as I can tell, it looks exactly the same as the .docx version

The two formats are completely different, in terms of how they are saved in the file. A docx file is actually a zip file containing a number of directories and files which conform to a widely-recognised standard, whereas a doc file is a Microsoft proprietary file format.