Re: PROBLEM: 12.1 version of Word 2008 will

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> FWIW, we also have regularly told them that they should, if they plan to
> work on a do***ent, save it first and work off the saved copy. That's
> far more stable than editing docs in a tem****ary directory, and just
> good practice.

Don't know anyone who works like this. Open the attachment do***ent with a
double click, review the contents and then discard or file in the
appropriate place is the way almost everyone I know works.
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> Or, as has been stated many times, they didn't realize that third-party
> applications were applying type codes that hasn't been applied by an MS
> app during this century, and which in 99% of cases is *incorrect*.
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> It's a BUG, but in the third-party apps!

You keep saying this but if they didnt know they didnt test it.

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> And FWIW, the WDBN file type has been deprecated since Office 98 when
> the new type came out. Sup****t for deprecated features are often carried
> along by software developers for a version (or several), but in general,
> removal of sup****t for deprecated items is not typically announced in a
> release note.

Disagree, if you are introducing incompatibility and usability issues then
it should be flagged up to prospective users. By the way how do you explain
that when I double click a Word email attachment the focus is passed from
the email client to Word which simply sits there with an empty do***ent
and does nothing? Based on previous explanations Word should not be
advertising its handling of WDBN file types and therefore focus should not
be passed to it - or am I missing something?

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> > I have gone back to 12.0.1 and will not upgrade until
> > this is fixed.
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> Well, living with dozens of bugs may work for you, and that's fine. It
> doesn't for the users I sup****t.
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> They'd rather be more productive than petulant.

I'm not being petulant, but for me this undo***ented, unannounced change
in behaviour constitutes the biggest problem with SP1 and far outweighs
any bug fixes I get in return. I work for a computer services company and
my users are definitely not as compliant as yours seem to be, and neither
am I.
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