Re: PROBLEM: 12.1 version of Word 2008 will

> In article ,
> wrote:
>
> > I'm also having this issue.
> > Double click, right click -> open with, drag and drop on Word icon all
do not
> > work with most do***ents.
> > The same applies to Excel. I have not tried Power Point.
> > All of the effected do***ent have been sent to me from various
sources. The
> > do***ents that do work all appear to have been saved by me at least
once.
> > I can provide example do***ents that don't work, and a 'saved' version
of the
> > same do***ent that does work.
> > Word / Excel versions 12.1.0 (080409).
> > Mac OS X 10.5.2
> > This has only been an issue since sp1 was installed.
>
>
>
> Out of curiousity - are those that are seeing this only seeing it in
> do***ents that were e-mailed to you?
>
> Looking more in depth here -- I have do***ents going back as far as
> 2003 (which would have been moved from computer to computer in the past
> 5 years) that are not opening. Both Excel and Word do***ents.
>
> But these were definitely e-mailed to me as attachments.
>
>
> If I go over to my co-workers PC and grab a file on a USB flash drive
> -- I *can* open those files. But if he e-mails them to me, I can not.
>
> - Steve
>

You are correct. Any word docs that I have been emailed, and have not been
modified, I can not open by double clicking. Docs that have been copied
over the network open fine.
All of the test do***ents I have are originally from a Windows version or
Word. I have not yet tested a Mac created version yet.

Cheers,
Jason