MS Office 2003 service pack disables

Telly · 01-02-2008, 08:53 PM

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.

MS work around

And they wonder why sales of Macs are doing very well indeed

gary223 · 01-02-2008, 08:55 PM

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!!

Telly · 01-02-2008, 08:57 PM

A nasty suspicious mind might think it's a ploy to make people upgrade to Office 2007 Maybe even some OpenOffice files will be disabled too?

I think that .wk1, etc are Lotus files.

gary223 · 01-02-2008, 08:57 PM

wk1 and wk3 are Lotus 123 files, some of the others could be Microsoft Works.

I booted MS Office off my machine a year ago and replaced it with Open Office. FrontPage went at the same time and now Expression Web has been given the boot as well. The only MS stuff I have on my desktop is XP Pro and the IE browsers for checking sites.

If I could find equivalent software I would switch to the Mac full time.

Telly · 01-02-2008, 08:59 PM

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?

alyCe · 01-03-2008, 05:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gary223

If I could find equivalent software I would switch to the Mac full time.

What kind of software don't you find for mac?

01-02-2008, 08:53 PM	#1
Telly Intern Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 12	MS Office 2003 service pack disables 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. MS work around And they wonder why sales of Macs are doing very well indeed

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01-02-2008, 08:55 PM	#2
gary223 Intern Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 17	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!!

01-02-2008, 08:57 PM	#3
Telly Intern Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 12	A nasty suspicious mind might think it's a ploy to make people upgrade to Office 2007 Maybe even some OpenOffice files will be disabled too? I think that .wk1, etc are Lotus files.

01-02-2008, 08:59 PM	#5
Telly Intern Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 12	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?