Which word document format do you use as default?

[dangel]

.docx

Now Office 2010 is out there's two gens of Office that use it - about a year ago our whole corp started using this.

[Attila the Bun]

I have regressed and tend to use *.txt for storing.

Work uses MS office but to be honest it's been so long since I used word I couldn't tell you the version.

So add one to "other - pdf etc" because I can't because I too new. (where do you find those post rewards again)

[Englander]

.doc unless I'm prepared to trek down to the IT department to speak to the IT guy to convert it from .docx into .doc so that the school computers can actually open the file.

[Queelis]

.docx, or any .***x format, for that matter. Simply because they use up less space (saved a .ppt file as a .pptx and the size dropped from 56 to 12 megabytes - I know it's not much, but why have the disk space completely wasted?)

[Bugbait]

I use .docx purely because it's the default and I'm too lazy to change it. Do minimal word processing anyway.

[pp05]

Internally .odt.

To send outward usually doc and pdf as a last resort.

[Developer-]

.docx as its a much better format. There are compatibility updates for Office 2003 that add on support. Otherwise I just send a PDF.

[LeeRain]

Actually I use .txt for nearly everything myself unless it needs formatting for a letter or something.

[MarcLister]

I use .doc if I'm sending elsewhere, but for all internal stuff I stick to .docx

Ditto. Docx at home on Office 2007 and .doc at work on Office 2003. I have the Office 2007 convertor pack installed on my work computer as a few of my colleagues save their files in Office 2007 on their home computers and don't realise we haven't got Office 2007/10 and so I have to convert the files for them.