Set Appleworks to save as .doc by default?

Hi, is there a way to set Appleworks word processing to save as .doc format and spreadsheets to save as .xls by default? (without having to set the save-as file type manually) Is it illegal for MS Office competing products to do this (ex. Mellel, Appleworks, etc)? I feel like if you're going to compete with MS Office on an enterprise level, you need to adapt your product to save as MS Office file types by default... product dominance.

Hello Nova.
I understand your wishes.
BUT Apple made different choices and AppleWorks will not evolve so what are you hoping ?
I can't tell you: me a simple user like you will add the required feature to at our old AppleWorks.
Restoring Neutra's buildings cost much more than the original construction did.
It's the same for applications.
A serious revamping of AppleWorks would have required a lot of bucks resulting in a probably "not really up to date" product.
Apple choose to leave it and enter a new era with iWork.
At this time, if I remember well, we are not allowed to set Pages's default save format to .doc but as the app is young, you may send a request about this feature to Apple. They are listening and I will not post to them telling: don't do that
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE 25 octobre 2005 11:48:07)

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