Old documents now inaccessible

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Nick Payne

The stupidity of using products that store data in a proprietary format is
now revealed. After installing SP3 for Office2003, I now can't access some
of my old documents from ten years back unless I start modifying registry
keys. And how nice of Microsoft to be so upfront about this that the KB
article notifying of this only appeared a couple of months after the SP.
 
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Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Nick,

The KB article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938810
was revised this week (version 3.0) but it has been there for awhile.
The updated version includes links to downloadable .reg keys that will update your registry for you if you'd prefer to not do so
manually.

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The stupidity of using products that store data in a proprietary format is
now revealed. After installing SP3 for Office2003, I now can't access some
of my old documents from ten years back unless I start modifying registry
keys. And how nice of Microsoft to be so upfront about this that the KB
article notifying of this only appeared a couple of months after the SP. <<
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Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
 
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