using group policy to make office 2007 programs save with office 2003 formats

By default Office 2007 programs save in the new Office 2007 format, which several years after its release is still a problem for clients/users who haven't installed the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack for the older Office programs.

So for years I've been manually setting up each program to save in the old format each time I logged into a laptop as a new user. Here's the method for using group policy to make office 2007 programs save with office 2003 formats:

open Group Policy Management

Expand the forest

expand domains

expand your domain

right click on default domain policy and click edit

right click on administrative templates and choose add/remove templates

add the templates that you downloaded and unzipped from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=73d955c0-da87-4bc2-bbf6-260e700519a8&displaylang=en

alter the save settings as necessary there in group policy

if necessary run gpupdate /force on the client machines