New, blank documents you create from now on will no longer be in Compatibility Mode.
If you can't see the folder AppData, see How to make hidden files and folders visible. Select File > Open, browse to the folder where Normal.dotm is found, select it and click Open.Ĭ:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates.If needed, make changes to the document to handle the issues found.
Repeat step 3 to check more Word versions, if relevant.Word will describe any issues found and will also show the number of occurrences for each type of issue. Select the Word version you want to check compatibility with and uncheck other Word versions. In the Microsoft Word Compatibility Checker dialog box that opens, click Select versions to show.In the Inspect Document section, click the Check for Issues button > select Check Compatibility.You can check whether there are such issues in relation to the content in a document. Therefore, Word needs to change the check box content controls to something else, as close to check box content controls as possible. If the document is to be opened in Word 2007 or an earlier version, Word can't show check box content controls since they were not implemented until Word 2010. You have inserted check box content controls in the document.
See how to update a document to get out of Compatibility Mode below.Įxample: You have created a document in Word 2010 or a newer version of Word. Also, people using an earlier version of Word may no longer be able to work with all parts of the document that have been created using newer features. Note that this may change the layout of the document. If you open a document that is showing, you can convert it to the format of your current Word version.
However, if you understand what it means, you can better decide whether you want or need to update the document to get out of Compatibility Mode. In many cases, you can just ignore the information about Compatibility Mode. Also, a document in Compatibility Mode preserves the layout of the document from the earlier version. This means that the document can still be edited by people who are using the earlier version of Word. Talk to experts about Microsoft Office 2019.As long as a document is showing, new or changed Word features that were not included in the earlier version will be disabled. Visit the dedicated forum to share, explore and If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, to learn more. Mark the replies as answers if they helped.
If you have any updates, feel free to post back to let us know. You can also visit OneDrive online, try to upload a Word document to the location. Add the OneDrive folder path to have a check. In addition, please open Word, click File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Trusted Locations.
Please try to create a new Windows user account to log in the computer, try to log in OneDrive with other user account and save Word files to OneDrive. If you exceed that limit, you'll receive an error message. Does the issue only occur with this specific folder?Īs far as I know, the entire path, including the file name, must contain fewer than 400 characters for OneDrive, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. What version of Word and OneDrive are you using? Please update them to latest version to have a check. I don't know what else to look at or what to tell the guy.
I also created a test document with notepad and that saved fine. The funny thing is that Publisher saved a file with the same name to that folder he's trying to use. To put it in. I even created a test Word doc, called test, and tried to save it to the folder he's trying to go to and it still give a message that there's a problem with the file name. I tried saving the his document to "OneDrive\Documents" and it saved there but won't go in the folder he's trying He reduced the name down to a single word and it still gives the same error. Him a message that there's a problem with the file name. The location is several folders deep and it gives He created a new Word document today and he's trying to save it to a folder in OneDrive. His data on the old laptop was saved to his OneDrive and it synced on the new laptop. There's a user at my work who can't save a Word document to his OneDrive. I hope someone can help because I haven't seen this before.