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

JE, my point was that our workflow is all MS, and the docs are not
"double-clickable"
No third-party stuff here.
They all worked fine before 12.1.
Did EXCH break it?
Did some PC version of Office break it?
Or did the 12.1 update break things?

I'm not mad at you, but I am mad that people here seem to think USERS
should
pay the price for this.
Finding and using Open/File is not acceptable.
I don't even like/accept it and I get what's going on.
When you deal with people who have deals to make; contracts to create/edit
and time is of the essence, this is stupid.

I don't care why - if 12.0 and 12.0.1 can open these docs, so should 21.1
and 21.2 etc.

Still no reason for this, and the MS site still calls this an "issue"
It IS an issue.

Scott




On 5/20/08 10:30 AM 5/20/08, in article
jemcgimpsey-D393F8.11301520052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 "JE McGimpsey"
<jemcgimpsey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <C4584F14.163FD%scott.boettcher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Scott Boettcher <scott.boettcher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Bugs in 3rd party apps?
> 
> Well, if not bugs, at least failure to follow decade-old specifications.
> 
>> LOL
>> Docs created with MS Office on PC
> 
> Which don't HAVE Mac file types, and therefore (AFAICT) aren't assigning
> bad ones...
> 
>> Docs sent via Exchange server to Entourage/MS Webmail users.
>> Files fail to open with double-click.
>  
>> Where's the third-party software, JE?
> 
> So far, Eudora and Firefox have been directly shown to cause the
> problem. 
> 
> Perhaps I've missed it, but I've not seen any re****ts of problems that
> have been do***ented here to involve files that have ONLY been touched
> by the above MS apps (including the templates they're created from), and
> I can't recreate the problem on the systems that I have access to. Nor
> have I had any user re****ts of that occurring.
> 
>> That's the best one yet.
>> Are you really Steve Balmer?
> 
> No. I just try to help users sort out problems.