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caz
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MS Office 2003 service pack disables... - 1/2/2008 13:02:45
Microsoft's Service Pack 3 for Office 2003 blocks you from opening certain file formats that MS deems less secure - including its own.
The service pack will block access to files including some Office Excel 2003, MS Office PowerPoint 2003 and MS Office Word 2003, as well as Corel Draw formats.
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BobbyDouglas
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RE: MS Office 2003 service pack disables... - 1/2/2008 13:41:51
MS needs to start releasing everything to small groups of people for a couple months before something goes live.
There are a lot of formats I've never even heard of (.wk1, .wk4, .wj3, wk1 FMT, .wks, .wk3, wk3 FM3, .wj2, .wq1, .fm3, .wj1), however, that page claims that ppt and pps are blocked (but that might be only those made in older versions of PowerPoint).
What's the point of blocking files, if it is assumed that the average user runs anti-virus?
You have to go through 12 registry steps in order to get this fixed, how are people expected to be familiar enough with the registry to do something like this? Where's the simple fix executable? Ahhhh!!
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RE: MS Office 2003 service pack disables... - 1/2/2008 19:11:21
So, if a person has MS office 2003, they potentially can't open a file that they themselves created?
And if versions 2003 and before may be blocked, and anything after 2003 might not work properly, what's that leave?
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Maybe even some OpenOffice files will be disabled too? 
