[Peter T. Daniels]

Thanks -- wouldn't it be sensible of them to provide this link along
with the invitation to make the update?

On Jul 10, 7:56*pm, Jay Freedman wrote:
Please don't go all paranoid on us. g

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953195says what SP2 does. Unfortunately, it
does so in typical Microsoft fashion -- everything it says is true, and you
won't understand most of it unless you have an encyclopedic background knowledge
of Office features and foibles.

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On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:43:01 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"



wrote:
I don't use or expect to use protected forms, but maybe I do use other
stuff that's affected by SP2.

Why won't anyone say what it does?

On Jul 10, 10:17*am, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot
com wrote:
Or will there be an SP2A that fixes the problem in the first place?

I am still waiting for any official word on this, but that, actually, is an
interesting question to which I would guess the answer is no, but I don't
know for sure.

SP2 causes a problem.
There is a hotfix.
The hotfix causes a serious problem.
There is another hotfix.

So, you would need to install two hotfixes if the protected forms problem
affected you.

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"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ...
I still wish someone would explain _why_ I should install SP2, which
is still sitting there in "Available Updates" labeled "important."
What does it do?

Then I would of course immediately install the hotfix.

Or will there be an SP2A that fixes the problem in the first place?

On Jul 9, 10:40 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Note, however, that the hotfix does not "fix" any variables that have
already been corrupted.

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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message

.. .

Peter, you missed Graham Mayor's posts in this thread on 2 July:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970942/
Now tested - and it does appear to fix the problem with the variables.

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On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:32:01 -0700, Tont
wrote:

I'm not sure what other information is available for this. One of the
other
work arounds is to save the document/template in Word 2003 ".doc" ".dot"
format. It seems like it's only the Word 2007 document formats (docx,
docm,
dotx and dotm) that are affected. I realise that this impractical for
many
organisations.

Could someone with the appropriate Microsoft contacts keep this tread
updated so that we're aware of when a fix (other than removing KB969604)
is
available to this issue.

Many thanks to all - Peter Hewett---