Yeah, that has the same registry entry that I already manually entered on the
user's PC. It didn't work. And considering my personal machine doesn't have
that registry entry, yet has no problems opening older version docs, that
leads me to believe that Q938810 and Q922849 are inaccurate and that there is
another way to disable the blocking feature.
P.S. IMHO, any change like this, that can so drastically affect the way a
user is used to working should have a UI for turning it on and off.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Use the downloadable .reg key from http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938810
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"Wil B" wrote in message
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Im trying to figure out how to disable the file blocking feature in Office
2007 and Office 2003 SP3. Ive tried the registry entries outlined in
Q922849
and after rebooting they are not working. Trusted locations is not an
option
as my users need to be able to open documents from all over our network as
well as from Outlook email attachments (you can't enter a Temp folder in
the
Trusted Locations UI). In addition, the file blocking feature doesn't
seem
to be applied consistently as I have no problems with it blocking docs
that I
try to open on my machine and the registry entries discussed in Q922849
are
not present in my registry.
And just to top it all off I downloaded the Office 2007 GPO templates
(because I assumed the registry entries would fix the problem) so that I
could apply the needed changes without having to go to each machine and
running a .reg file. Imagine my surprise, after adding the templates to
the
GPO editior, to find everything in German. And yes, I specified English
when
downloading, even tried it twice.
Can anyone give me a reliable way to disable the various Office
applications
from blocking old version files?