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| Thread ID: 85359 | 2007-12-07 21:12:00 | Problem opening Word 2002 docs in Word 2003 | johcar (6283) | Press F1 |
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| 618852 | 2007-12-07 21:12:00 | Running Office 2003 - just installed SP3 (which I think is the root of this problem). I also have the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack installed, to allow 2007 version documents to be accessed by Office 2003. When I went to open a document I had emailed to myself from work (created with Word 2002) after installing the Service Pack, I get a singularly unhelpful message dialog: "You are attempting to open a file that was created in an earlier version of Microsoft Office. This file type is blocked from opening in this version by your registry policy setting." Well, I certainly haven't changed anything!!! Can anyone advise whether M$'s service pack in this case has also installed a flag to allow editing of older file versions? (Won't open in WordPad either - says "Can't load Word for Windows 2.0 files" - does this mean it might just be that the document is corrupt???) Or a method by which I can undo this stupid setting? I assume that Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher, Project, FrontPage and Visio are affected by the same 'issue'.... |
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| 618853 | 2007-12-07 21:16:00 | Info here (support.microsoft.com) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 618854 | 2007-12-07 21:29:00 | Cheers Speedy - living up to your name, as usual!! :thumbs: And as usual, with good info! It works, but as usual with Bill's stuff, there are hooks . . . The thing that bugs me about the regedit instruction on the link you supplied says I have to specify each folder, rather than just specifying the highest level folder . . . :( I assume I just create the "ExemptDirectory" value for the first folder and then an "ExemptDirectory01" value for the next and so on . . . ??? |
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