I prefer using Word 97, rather than a more recent version, Word 2000. All of my saved documents are in the WORD 97 format.

Yesterday, someone sent me a document written in WORD 2000, and when I downloaded it, it opened up a WORD 2000 version, to read it.

Much to my surprise, when I now go to My Documents, all of my stored WORD documents have been changed to WORD 2000, which I very definitely DON'T want to keep that way.

How can I change them all back to WORD 97, and how can I avoid something like this happening again?

Thanks for any advice.

Don