[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] Still having issues post Office 2003 sp3? - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"
Wed, Nov 28 2007 17:38 bradley

Still having issues post Office 2003 sp3?

Still needing to get back to those old files after you installed Office 2003 sp3

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938810/

Take the contents of this and put it in a text file and save it as officefix.reg, or download the zip file and unzip it.

Or you can use this http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/attachment/1367599.ashx downloadable file there.

Click on the file to have it insert the info into your registry.

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REGEDIT4


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Security\FileOpenBlock]
"LotusandQuattroFiles"=dword:00000000
"DifandSylkFiles"=dword:00000000


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\PowerPoint\Security\FileOpenBlock]
"FilesBeforePowerPoint97"=dword:00000000


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\PowerPoint\Security\FileSaveBlock]
"Converters"=dword:00000000


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Security\FileOpenBlock]
"FilesBeforeVersion"=dword:00000000


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Import\CDR]
"Enabled"=dword:00000001

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# re: Still having issues post Office 2003 sp3?

Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:06 PM by P. L. Ward

I used it and it SAVED me!  Thanks!

P.

# re: Still having issues post Office 2003 sp3?

Monday, December 03, 2007 8:49 PM by Chris Knight

Nice.

Got a solution for Access 2000 runtimes that get blown up by Office 2003 SP3?

# re: Still having issues post Office 2003 sp3?

Saturday, December 29, 2007 1:11 PM by Tom Bishop

I tried this download a day ago and found it did work to let me open my older XLS files but today I opened the file to work in it and add some new data. Upon finishing when I went to save the file I got the same error message about registry policy prohibitions and it wouldn't let me save the file. I have an extremely difficult time then quiting Excel and when I reopened it to check my file the file was still there but it was empty, the spreadsheet was gone! Any thoughts on this delema?

Regards; Tom

# re: Still having issues post Office 2003 sp3?

Tuesday, January 01, 2008 7:23 PM by michael tock

Any idea where there will be fix for opening access files?

# re: Still having issues post Office 2003 sp3?

Thursday, January 03, 2008 9:16 AM by Rob Philpott

Many thanks for the download - this has overcome the problem of accessing hundreds of old archive files, created by Microsoft's SP3

# re: Still having issues post Office 2003 sp3?

Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:52 PM by Bob R.

When trying to email from a program the error message appears: "The command line argument is not valid. Verify the switch you are using".

When using Thunderbird there is no problem, just with Outlook.

Any ideas - fixes?

# re: Still having issues post Office 2003 sp3?

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:31 AM by kostas

After i installed office 2003 sp3, some email looks like this RGVhciBQYXJ0bmVyLA0KDQogICAgICAgIGJlbGxvdyB5b3UgY2FuIGZpbmQgYSB2ZXJ5IGFnZ3Jl

c3NpdmUgcHJvbW90aW9uIGluIG9yZGVyIHRvIGFjY2VsZXJhdGUgeW91ciBzZWxsIG91dC4NCg0K

UHJvZHVjdHM

I used to receive from these recepients with no problem prior to sp3 installation. Does anyone please know how to solve this problem?