Word 97 has a “Save as HTML” option in the File menu. I often need to save documents in RTF. Is there some way of setting up a “Save as RTF” option in the File menu thus avoiding the need to go to “Save As” and then choose RTF off the drop box?

Word 97 doesn’t have ‘Save as HTML’ in the file menu as default so this must have occurred when you did a particular operation. As far as I know, there isn’t any way to change the menu item to ‘Save as RTF’, however, you can set up RTF as the default format in which to save documents. Go to > ‘Tools’ menu > ‘Options’ > ‘Save’ tab, and change the drop-box next to ‘Save Word files as’¦’ to ‘Rich Text Format (*.rtf’).