monkey44 wrote:
For those tracking this, I just opened my older Dell laptop with Wdw7, and opened the email file my editor sent - the same file that converted itself. It loaded fine, opened in Wdw7 and in MSWord 2007, same program we both have on our LT - so, that answers at least one question - something in Wdw8 transfers this file into the new Word program.
Based on other commenters, maybe when you loaded Office 2007 onto W8, the standard Office defaults for docs was applied and you need to now go in and reset the doc types to your preference again ---- you probably did this in W7 on the Dell a while back and forgot.