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

The message to which you attached your reply goes back to the very
beginning
of this [exhaustive] thread, which has also become fragmented.

In the messages posted since you'll find that you can, in deed, open the
files and that there are no "workarounds" involved... Take a look at JE's
reply to your message & you'll find that the only "workaround" involved is
little more than to open the file using the most fundamental & basic
technique for doing so.

Further, it has nothing to do with Windows computers specifically. It's a
matter of how the file has been handled by certain types of software which
have decoded the attachments inappropriately and could have occurred
anytime
during the life of the file.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones 
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 5/19/08 1:27 PM, in article
C74BA38F-A9DC-4BE4-97AB-DD568342F983@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 "sb on mac" <sb on
mac@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I'm having the same problem. Before the update I didn't have any
problems,
> and now that I've updated, I cannot open .doc files that were created on
> Windows computers. Word itself opens, but it creates a blank
do***ent--which
> doesn't really do me any good. I don't think I should have to attempt
fifty
> different workarounds (though i have) in order to open a simple file--
it
> should just work. In case you need to know, I am running a macbook w/
the
> leopard os. 
> 
> "CyberTaz" wrote:
> 
>> Hi Steve -
>> 
>> Have you tried Control/Right-clicking one of the files in Finder &
using
>> Open With, then specifying Word 2008?
>> 
>> If that works, use Get Info to set Word 2008 as the associated program
for
>> all files of that type.
>> 
>> Also, if you didn't run Disk Utility - Repair Disk Permissions after
>> applying the update do that first, restart your Mac... you may not have
to
>> change the association.
>> -- 
>> HTH |:>)
>> Bob Jones
>> [MVP] Office:Mac
>> 
>> "Steve Maser" <maser@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:140520081311019636%maser@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> I have a folder of word do***ents -- all of these opened on Office
2008
>>> with the 12.0.1 patch.
>>> 
>>> I updated my Office 2008 with the manual 12.1 download.
>>> 
>>> Now, only *some* of the do***ents will open when double-clicked.
>>> There's a finder action that makes it look like it's opening, but it
>>> doesn't.
>>> 
>>> A "File --> Open" works to open the do***ents.
>>> 
>>> I can "save as" the do***ent and just rename it and it works to open
>>> the "save as" do***ent.
>>> 
>>> I passed some of these files on to a colleague in another department
>>> and he couldn't double-click open the files, either.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It's *possible* these do***ents that aren't opening were created on
>>> some version of WinWord (I'd have to track this down as to what
version
>>> if that's the problem.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Anybody else seeing this?
>>> 
>>> - Steve 
>> 
>> 
>>