Will Microsofties ever learn? Without warning the Microsoft Office SP3 update blocks over a dozen common document formats, including many Word, Powerpoint and Excel documents. Install the update and you can't open the files. Why? Because they can! We don't care. We don't have to. What's affected? Powerpoint formats prior to PowerPoint 97. Excel formats prior to Office 2003. Lotus, Quatro and Corel Draw. And the following Word formats: Word 11 saved by Word 12 Word 4.x, 5.x, 6.0, 98, 2001, X and 2004 for Macintosh Word 1.x, 2.x, 6.0, 95, 97, 9, 10 and 11 for Windows Any older formats Trust us. It is for your own good. Microsoft forthrightly explains why in article 938810 buried deep in the... more
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