Everything is Encrypted

[K]

At home I have Word 2007 and have almost no experience with it. All other
systems I come in contact with are W2003. In my W2007 I created a short docu
and saved it to my flash drive. Then I created a second, new docu and saved
it to My Documents on the work station that came with the W2007 installed.
When I went to my flash drive and found the docu I just saved, it showed as a
..docx, had a red bar and was listed as encrypted. Then I went to My
Documents, found that docu and it was the same - a .docx, red bar and listed
as encrypted. Any ideas anyone may wish to offer about why every docu I
create and save in W2007 is saved as an encrypted file will be greatly
appreciated. Thanks, K.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Never, never, never save directly to removable media.

 

[K]

Thank You JoAnn for considering and responding to my post. I had recently
been told not to save directly to my flash drive and that was what I was
trying when I saved one copy directly to my flash drive and the other to My
Documents. But both were encrypted - the one on the flash drive and the one
in My Documents. It is easy to believe that the problem is me. I shy away
from word processing on my new system because I'm still on the uphill side of
learing Word 2007 and I do not have much time to dedicate to the task.
Instead of taking the time to relearn Word I do all my 'homework' in Notepad
then convert it to Word 2003 when I get to work. I can store all my Notepad
files from the 2007 system directly to my flash drive as well as all my cut
and pastes and Excel files, and they are not encrypted. I can even store
directly to my flash drive all the W2003 files I bring home from work and
none of those are encrypted when I open them in W2007, so that suggests I am
doing something wrong in W2007. Is there a way to turn off the encryption
function? Maybe I have turned it on by mistake. Any ideas will be greatly
appreciated. K.

Never, never, never save directly to removable media.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

At home I have Word 2007 and have almost no experience with it. All other
systems I come in contact with are W2003. In my W2007 I created a short
docu
and saved it to my flash drive. Then I created a second, new docu and
saved
it to My Documents on the work station that came with the W2007 installed.
When I went to my flash drive and found the docu I just saved, it showed
as a
.docx, had a red bar and was listed as encrypted. Then I went to My
Documents, found that docu and it was the same - a .docx, red bar and
listed
as encrypted. Any ideas anyone may wish to offer about why every docu I
create and save in W2007 is saved as an encrypted file will be greatly
appreciated. Thanks, K.

 

[Graham Mayor]

It is more likely corrupted than encrypted - which is why you should NEVER
save from Word to a flash drive - always copy to and from such a drive.
The following macro will do just that (saving both to hard drive and flash).
The macro assumes the flash drive is H: by default, but you can change the H
to the actual letter in the line
strFlash = InputBox("Enter Flash Drive Letter", "Flash Drive", "H") or in
response to the dialog box
If you are exchanging documents with a Word 2003 system, I would recommend
that you only use fonts that are available on the 2003 system e.g. Times New
Roman and Ariel and that you save as Word 97-2003 format, to ensure maximum
compatibility.

Sub CopyToFlash()
Dim strFileA As String
Dim strFlash As String

strFlash = InputBox("Enter Flash Drive Letter", "Flash Drive", "H")
With ActiveDocument
.Save 'save the original document
strFileA = .name 'Saved original document name
strFlash = strFlash & ":\" & strFileA 'Flash drive filename
.Close 'Close the document
End With
On Error GoTo oops 'Error handler for missing flash drive
FileCopy strFileA, strFlash 'Copy source to flash
Documents.Open strFileA
End

oops:
If Err.Number = 61 Then
MsgBox "Flash Full! The partial file created will be deleted",
vbExclamation
Kill strFlash 'Remove the partial file
Else
MsgBox "The flash drive is not available", vbExclamation
End If
Documents.Open strFileA
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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Thank You JoAnn for considering and responding to my post. I had
recently been told not to save directly to my flash drive and that
was what I was trying when I saved one copy directly to my flash
drive and the other to My Documents. But both were encrypted - the
one on the flash drive and the one in My Documents. It is easy to
believe that the problem is me. I shy away from word processing on my
new system because I'm still on the uphill side of learing Word 2007
and I do not have much time to dedicate to the task. Instead of
taking the time to relearn Word I do all my 'homework' in Notepad
then convert it to Word 2003 when I get to work. I can store all my
Notepad files from the 2007 system directly to my flash drive as well
as all my cut and pastes and Excel files, and they are not encrypted.
I can even store directly to my flash drive all the W2003 files I
bring home from work and none of those are encrypted when I open them
in W2007, so that suggests I am doing something wrong in W2007. Is
there a way to turn off the encryption function? Maybe I have turned
it on by mistake. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. K.

Never, never, never save directly to removable media.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

At home I have Word 2007 and have almost no experience with it. All
other systems I come in contact with are W2003. In my W2007 I
created a short docu
and saved it to my flash drive. Then I created a second, new docu
and saved
it to My Documents on the work station that came with the W2007
installed. When I went to my flash drive and found the docu I just
saved, it showed as a
.docx, had a red bar and was listed as encrypted. Then I went to My
Documents, found that docu and it was the same - a .docx, red bar
and listed
as encrypted. Any ideas anyone may wish to offer about why every
docu I create and save in W2007 is saved as an encrypted file will
be greatly appreciated. Thanks, K.

 

[K]

Thank You Graham. Because of my compuliteracy, or rather my lack thereof, I'm
afraid that all I was able to learn from your posting is that W2007 is not
backwards compatible with other MS products. If I had know that when I
purchased this new system I would have never purchased Office 2007. This
means, all my 'homework' from now on must be done in Notepad because that is
the only compatibility my level of compuliteracy can handle. This is quite
worrisome to me and will greatly influence my future purchases, this sign
that MS is beginning a pattern of not being backwards compatible with their
own products. Thanks again Graham, I really appreciate your taking the time
to consider my post and to provide what appears to be a very thorough answer.

It is more likely corrupted than encrypted - which is why you should NEVER
save from Word to a flash drive - always copy to and from such a drive.
The following macro will do just that (saving both to hard drive and flash).
The macro assumes the flash drive is H: by default, but you can change the H
to the actual letter in the line
strFlash = InputBox("Enter Flash Drive Letter", "Flash Drive", "H") or in
response to the dialog box
If you are exchanging documents with a Word 2003 system, I would recommend
that you only use fonts that are available on the 2003 system e.g. Times New
Roman and Ariel and that you save as Word 97-2003 format, to ensure maximum
compatibility.

Sub CopyToFlash()
Dim strFileA As String
Dim strFlash As String

strFlash = InputBox("Enter Flash Drive Letter", "Flash Drive", "H")
With ActiveDocument
.Save 'save the original document
strFileA = .name 'Saved original document name
strFlash = strFlash & ":\" & strFileA 'Flash drive filename
.Close 'Close the document
End With
On Error GoTo oops 'Error handler for missing flash drive
FileCopy strFileA, strFlash 'Copy source to flash
Documents.Open strFileA
End

oops:
If Err.Number = 61 Then
MsgBox "Flash Full! The partial file created will be deleted",
vbExclamation
Kill strFlash 'Remove the partial file
Else
MsgBox "The flash drive is not available", vbExclamation
End If
Documents.Open strFileA
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--
<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>

Thank You JoAnn for considering and responding to my post. I had
recently been told not to save directly to my flash drive and that
was what I was trying when I saved one copy directly to my flash
drive and the other to My Documents. But both were encrypted - the
one on the flash drive and the one in My Documents. It is easy to
believe that the problem is me. I shy away from word processing on my
new system because I'm still on the uphill side of learing Word 2007
and I do not have much time to dedicate to the task. Instead of
taking the time to relearn Word I do all my 'homework' in Notepad
then convert it to Word 2003 when I get to work. I can store all my
Notepad files from the 2007 system directly to my flash drive as well
as all my cut and pastes and Excel files, and they are not encrypted.
I can even store directly to my flash drive all the W2003 files I
bring home from work and none of those are encrypted when I open them
in W2007, so that suggests I am doing something wrong in W2007. Is
there a way to turn off the encryption function? Maybe I have turned
it on by mistake. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. K.

Never, never, never save directly to removable media.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



At home I have Word 2007 and have almost no experience with it. All
other systems I come in contact with are W2003. In my W2007 I
created a short docu
and saved it to my flash drive. Then I created a second, new docu
and saved
it to My Documents on the work station that came with the W2007
installed. When I went to my flash drive and found the docu I just
saved, it showed as a
.docx, had a red bar and was listed as encrypted. Then I went to My
Documents, found that docu and it was the same - a .docx, red bar
and listed
as encrypted. Any ideas anyone may wish to offer about why every
docu I create and save in W2007 is saved as an encrypted file will
be greatly appreciated. Thanks, K.

 

[Graham Mayor]

I did not suggest that Office 2007 was not backward compatible as it is. All
Office applications are backward compatible. However, Office 2003 and
earlier are not *forward* compatible with 2007 and so you needs to prepare
you documents in a format that users of those earlier versions, with whom
you may have to share documents, are able to open. You can certainly save
your documents from 2007 in Word97-2003 format and other Word users will be
able to open them without the need for further software. However Word 2007
also introduced a new font set. There is nothing to stop you using the fonts
available to Word 2003 users as I suggested earlier.

Your question concerned document corruption. It was never a good idea to
save to removable media whatever version of Office you have. The macro I
provided overcomes the problems associated with this (though it requires you
to set the file format). If you don't know what to do with the macro
listing, read the linked page from my web site
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

Like any piece of software you will not get the best from Offce 2007 until
you learn how to use it, but it is certainly capable of producing your
homework assignments.

--
<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>

Thank You Graham. Because of my compuliteracy, or rather my lack
thereof, I'm afraid that all I was able to learn from your posting is
that W2007 is not backwards compatible with other MS products. If I
had know that when I purchased this new system I would have never
purchased Office 2007. This means, all my 'homework' from now on must
be done in Notepad because that is the only compatibility my level of
compuliteracy can handle. This is quite worrisome to me and will
greatly influence my future purchases, this sign that MS is beginning
a pattern of not being backwards compatible with their own products.
Thanks again Graham, I really appreciate your taking the time to
consider my post and to provide what appears to be a very thorough
answer.

It is more likely corrupted than encrypted - which is why you should
NEVER save from Word to a flash drive - always copy to and from such
a drive.
The following macro will do just that (saving both to hard drive and
flash). The macro assumes the flash drive is H: by default, but you
can change the H to the actual letter in the line
strFlash = InputBox("Enter Flash Drive Letter", "Flash Drive", "H")
or in response to the dialog box
If you are exchanging documents with a Word 2003 system, I would
recommend that you only use fonts that are available on the 2003
system e.g. Times New Roman and Ariel and that you save as Word
97-2003 format, to ensure maximum compatibility.

Sub CopyToFlash()
Dim strFileA As String
Dim strFlash As String

strFlash = InputBox("Enter Flash Drive Letter", "Flash Drive", "H")
With ActiveDocument
.Save 'save the original document
strFileA = .name 'Saved original document name
strFlash = strFlash & ":\" & strFileA 'Flash drive filename
.Close 'Close the document
End With
On Error GoTo oops 'Error handler for missing flash drive
FileCopy strFileA, strFlash 'Copy source to flash
Documents.Open strFileA
End

oops:
If Err.Number = 61 Then
MsgBox "Flash Full! The partial file created will be deleted",
vbExclamation
Kill strFlash 'Remove the partial file
Else
MsgBox "The flash drive is not available", vbExclamation
End If
Documents.Open strFileA
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--
<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>

Thank You JoAnn for considering and responding to my post. I had
recently been told not to save directly to my flash drive and that
was what I was trying when I saved one copy directly to my flash
drive and the other to My Documents. But both were encrypted - the
one on the flash drive and the one in My Documents. It is easy to
believe that the problem is me. I shy away from word processing on
my new system because I'm still on the uphill side of learing Word
2007 and I do not have much time to dedicate to the task. Instead of
taking the time to relearn Word I do all my 'homework' in Notepad
then convert it to Word 2003 when I get to work. I can store all my
Notepad files from the 2007 system directly to my flash drive as
well as all my cut and pastes and Excel files, and they are not
encrypted. I can even store directly to my flash drive all the
W2003 files I bring home from work and none of those are encrypted
when I open them in W2007, so that suggests I am doing something
wrong in W2007. Is there a way to turn off the encryption function?
Maybe I have turned it on by mistake. Any ideas will be greatly
appreciated. K.

:

Never, never, never save directly to removable media.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



At home I have Word 2007 and have almost no experience with it.
All other systems I come in contact with are W2003. In my W2007 I
created a short docu
and saved it to my flash drive. Then I created a second, new docu
and saved
it to My Documents on the work station that came with the W2007
installed. When I went to my flash drive and found the docu I just
saved, it showed as a
.docx, had a red bar and was listed as encrypted. Then I went to
My Documents, found that docu and it was the same - a .docx, red
bar and listed
as encrypted. Any ideas anyone may wish to offer about why every
docu I create and save in W2007 is saved as an encrypted file will
be greatly appreciated. Thanks, K.