Re: PROBLEM: 12.1 version of Word 2008 will not open WinWord .doc

Richard_Starling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> Steve, 100% agree. Dalya says this thread has outlived its usefulness,
completely disagree with that. The thread pointed at for 'useful
information' has a worse than useless workaround and then blames other
email clients for 'corrupting' Office do***ents. Why then if I restore to
12.0.1 does everything start to work again?
>>     

Uh, I just meant that posting new information in this thread is unlikely 
to help find a solution, because MS has identified the cause of the 
problem.  According to them, the specific browser/client you use to 
download the do***ent doesn't matter, because the change could have 
happened anywhere along the doc's lifecycle.

So a whole bunch of people posting about which browser they use, or 
where these files come from, or what makes the problem files different 
from other files, isn't going to get us anywhere useful.  MS is already 
past that point.

You are right that rolling back to 12.0.1 ought to be mentioned as a 
workaround for this. It would be better, I think, to post other 
workarounds in clearly marked new threads, rather than burying them in a 
complex and confusing list of attempts to identify the cause of the
problem.