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Office 2010 and the 2007 Office suite SP2 provides support for ODF in Microsoft Office Word, in Microsoft Office Excel, and in Microsoft Office PowerPoint. Users of these Office programs can open, edit, and save the files in the OpenDocument Text (.odt) format, in the OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods) format, and in the OpenDocument Presentations (.odp) format.
A warning message is displayed when users try to save a file in ODF in Word 2007, in Excel 2007, in PowerPoint 2007, in Word 2010, in Excel 2010, or in PowerPoint 2010. This warning message contains information that resembles the following:
Microsoft Office <Application Name>
<File Name> may contain features that are not compatible with this format. Do you want to continue to save in this format?
For more information on incompatible features and on changing your default file format, click Help.
Don't show this message again.
Yes No Help
In Word 2007, in PowerPoint 2007, in Word 2010, or in PowerPoint 2010, this warning message contains the
Don't show this message again check box. To suppress this warning message, click to select the
Don't show this message again check box, and then click
Yes or
No in the warning message. After you do this, if you want to display this warning message again, you have to change the registry as follows.
Word 2010
Registry subkey | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word\Options |
Value name | DisableSaveAsLossWarningOpenDocumentText |
Value type | DWORD |
Value data | 0 - Display the warning message 1 - Suppressthe warning message |
Word 2007
Registry subkey | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Options |
Value name | DisableSaveAsLossWarningOpenDocumentText |
Value type | DWORD |
Value data | 0 - Display the warning message 1 - Suppressthe warning message |
PowerPoint 2010
Registry subkey | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\PowerPoint\Options |
Value name | DisableSaveAsLossWarningOpenDocumentPresentation |
Value type | DWORD |
Value data | 0 - Display the warning message 1 - Suppressthe warning message |
PowerPoint 2007
Registry subkey | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\PowerPoint\Options |
Value name | DisableSaveAsLossWarningOpenDocumentPresentation |
Value type | DWORD |
Value data | 0 - Display the warning message 1 - Suppressthe warning message |
In Excel 2007 or in Excel 2010, this warning message does not contain the
Don't show this message again check box. To suppress or to display this warning message, you have to change the registry as follows.
Excel 2010
Registry subkey | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Excel\Options |
Value name | DisableSaveAsLossWarningOpenDocumentSpreadsheet |
Value type | DWORD |
Value data | 0 - Display the warning message 1 - Suppressthe warning message |
Excel 2007
Registry subkey | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\Options |
Value name | DisableSaveAsLossWarningOpenDocumentSpreadsheet |
Value type | DWORD |
Value data | 0 - Display the warning message 1 - Suppressthe warning message |