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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / June 2008Legerdemain
It now appears that Word documents received via email that couldn't be opened in Office 12.1.0 can now be opened again in 12.1.1... <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953822> The security threats associated with type codes WDBN appear to have gone away which is easier to live with.  SignatureCheers, Steve The reply-to email address is a spam trap. Email steve 'at' shodgson 'dot' org 'dot' uk <roll eyes> > It now appears that Word documents received via email that couldn't be > opened in Office 12.1.0 can now be opened again in 12.1.1... [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > The security threats associated with type codes WDBN appear to have > gone away which is easier to live with. I have a feeling that the security threats have not gone anywhere :-) I think they are just being a little smarter about their response. Instead of "believing" the Type and Creator Code, I suspect they are looking in the document to see if it is true. Remember: The majority of the files that wouldn't open, in fact contained modern versions of the Word document format, they were just labelled incorrectly by the saving application. I *hope* the effect of this change is that they will still refuse to open automatically if they really ARE the old deprecated file formats. Surely they wouldn't simply turn the check off and leave us to find out the hard way? They wouldn't do that, would they? Cheers On 26/06/08 7:12 AM, in article 6cfsf3F3f958hU1@mid.individual.net, "Steve Hodgson" <hamrun@gmail.com> wrote: > It now appears that Word documents received via email that couldn't be > opened in Office 12.1.0 can now be opened again in 12.1.1... [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > The security threats associated with type codes WDBN appear to have > gone away which is easier to live with. SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac Sydney, Australia. mailto:john@mcghie.name |
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