Hi Doug,
I don't mean to sound paranoid, but your link takes you out of the
Microsoft website, to an unknown URL, and then asks us to download
an unknown .zip file, launch it, and to top it all, it ask us to,
quote "When you are prompted for an administrator password or
confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation"
Does this sound safe to you, or does this sound like the type of
thing the other moderators would laugh at us for because we followed
the instructions.
Really... Darkeforce... what do you think?
Caby Smith
csmith@exhibitimaging
:
See
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/232/1/Unable-to-open-DOC-attachments-from-Windows-Mail.html
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Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of
my services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
message It's just like Microsoft to make something that isn't completely
backwards-compatable.
I don't see how something like this wasn't caught in beta-testing.
What about it, experts? Can I at least get an honest answer of "I
don't know"?
:
Hi Darkeforce... I've been posting on this exact behavior. I've
tried both
ways of associating the files. All I get is "pat" answers from
the "experts"
who clearly haven't read my post... in the same way they
obviously didn't read your post. I've cruised the intenet
looking for answers and there seen
to be a lot of people asking the ery same question.... no one id
answering...
:
When I click to open DOC files, it opens in MS Works
wordprocessor, which I
don't like at all. When I try to associate DOC files with Word
2007 (winword.exe), either by right-clicking and using "Open
with", or by selecting "Default Programs" from the Start Menu
and setting file associations, it doesn't show Word 2007 as a
possible option, and browsing to
it manually still won't make it a possible option - Office Word
never shows
up in the "other programs" list, and clicking OK after browsing
to it doesn't
change the association away from MS Works.
Additionally, Office 2007 doesn't show up in the "Set default
programs" list, either, so you can't set all Word formats to
open with Word 2007 that
way.
:
I don't think you can associate .doc files with a particular
version of Word
in XP either. And you may not need to. I have XP with both
W2003 and W2007
loaded on my computer. When I start a file from Explorer--by
double clicking
it or right clicking and choosing open--Word will open it in
whichever
version was opened last. Word behaved this way with the
operating system
before XP as well.
I just checked the file associations on my computer; all the
Word file
extensions are associated with "Microsoft Office Word".
Are you saying that your computer doesn't behave this way. If
not, please
describe what does happen.
PamC
Darkeforce wrote:
EXCEPT...
If you had read my first post, you would see that those tools
WILL NOT
RECOGNIZE Word 2007 as a potential program with which to open
DOC files. Even
clicking the Browse button and manually browsing to and
selecting Winword.exe
WILL NOT get the Change Association dialogue to include Word
2007 as one of
the possible options for DOC files.
You can certainly associate .doc files with 2007.
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I'm using Vista Home Premium