[Scott R]

Try Article 938810. This has the Registry changes you need. For Word I had
to add New DWORD Value FilesBeforeConversion manually.

"david@rogersmead" wrote:

Thanks to P Jamieson (and Microsoft) but as my various old docs are in
various subfolders this is fairly impractical.

I am using 2003 and presume this blocking has been brought in only in the
recent Word SP and or 2007 converter. WHY

Has anyone got a "batch" converter or am I going to have to install ANOTHER
(old) copy of word (or Open Office!) to read my own files readily.

I am astounded that Word 2003 (even after SP's) should not remain backwards
compatible with MS's own products! Is there likely to be a "proper" fix
brought out?

a copy of