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

In article <200520080915481636%maser@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Steve Maser <maser@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Your 1500 users clearly don't have thousands of do***ents extremely
> deep within subfolder upon subfolder upon subfolder -- on multiple
> server volumes, etc.   You must not work in a higher-ed environment
> where you have faculty with do***ents going back decades, etc...

K-12 to doctoral programs...

And yes, rat's nests of subfolders on dozens of servers. Spotlight is 
their friend... and it works within File/Open!

Most users haven't been using XL or Word since 1984/5 (90% of the 
students weren't even born then), but many have do***ents going back to 
the early 90's at least. OTOH, they don't *use* those do***ents very 
frequently.

In any case, go back much before 1988 and NO version of Word or XL can 
open the 1.x docs, so it doesn't matter a bit.

But, as has been previously mentioned, that's largely irrelevant. Since 
the third-party bug affects NEW do***ents that they touch, most of the 
times we've seen the problem have not been with pre-Office98 docs..

> It would be *less of a problem* if a user could drag-and-drop the
> do***ent on the Office application in the dock.   But that's not even
> an option.

Of course not! That's using the same OS X Launch Services path as 
double-clicking...