Tue, Sep 25 2007 18:23
bradley
You receive an error message when you try to open or to save a file type that was blocked by your registry policy settings in Word 2007 or in Word 2003:
You receive an error message when you try to open or to save a file type http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922849 From Gary in the newsgroup Hi,
The "You are attempting to open a file that was created in an earlier
version of Microsoft Office" error is one that seems not to impact many, but
that is scant comfort if you are one of those impacted. MS's response is
lame, so I've included a fix here. The .REG entries are included for Excel,
PowerPoint, Word, and Corel Draw. All info was extracted from the current
crop of MSKB articles that are available as of 9/23/2007.
What you'll need to do is create a .REG file appropriate to the version of
Office (either 2003 or 2007) you'll be using it on. To do this, create a
.TXT file from either of the following sections, then rename it
O2K3Error.REG or O2K7Error.REG (other then the .REG extension, the actual
name is unimportant) as appropriate to your version of Office, and merge it
into the registry at each XP workstation experiencing the error. Please note
that 1) although I am confident these fixes will work on W2K workstations, I
have none to test these on, and 2) if you'll be using these on W2K machines,
the REG files will have to be tweaked for the W2K version of Regedit.EXE. (I
* think*
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