Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word,

[Jomama]

I read about this new "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats" in a Windows Secret article and I liked the new fonts that it offered, they were very clean looking.
I am using office 2k, so I downloaded it and installed it and liked it even more, so I converted some of my docs to that format.
Then after playing I went back to work using my Works 95(a) program and holy smoke, the fonts were in there too. a bonus, I thought.
As I was working in the spreadsheets, databases and wp, I suddenly noticed that I couldn't find the .wps I had just saved. ***?
It was then I discovered that every word processing doc I had saved (normally a .wps) was being saved as a .doc. even if I named it "my file.wps" it was saved as "my file.wps.doc"
Obviously, Bill's boys are messing with me.
Try as I might I couldn't find a workaround. Even if I didn't use those new fonts, it was still saved as a .doc.
I pondered the pros and cons and figured that the longer I used it like this the more irritating it would get. So i rolled the System Restore back to before the install and life was sweet (if not new) again.
Beware of wolves in sheeps clothing.

[Force Flow]

Fonts are dumped in a common folder, so any apps can access them. Usually in C:\windows\fonts or c:\winnt\fonts

Did you do a file > save as, and select the file type? Simply adding an extension to the filename doesn't do anything.

I don't think the compatibility pack is officially supported by anything older than office 2000.

[Jomama]

It was a "save as". .wps is what was showing in the extension box in the save as dialog box. But .doc was the actual extension after the save.
Coincidently, perhaps, but yesterday I had to do a "repair"install of word 2k, as it was crashing everytime I started it.
Working OK now.
Thanks for the reminder, I forgot that fonts are dumped into a common folder, that would explain why works was picking them up.
But not why works was giving .doc as a priority, and not just a priority but exclusively the .doc extension is a mystery to me. Especially since it was showing the .wps as the default.