Re: MS Office 2008 Excel/Word problems

Microsoft did this intentionally as a "feature" of Office Service
Release 1.

Somebody made a little drag & drop app to change the identity of old-
format Office files so that they're clickable:

http://www.cortig.net/files/FileTypeScripts.zip

There's also a folder action, described here, I believe:

http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?p=175

That might be handy with Eudora's attachment folder?

-Greg

On Jun 10, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Eric Fong wrote:

> Hello:
>
> We just started using MS Office 2008 (Excel) on one of our new
> iMacs. We've found something strange. While using Eudora to read
> e-mail, sometimes there will be a word or excel attachment. When we
> double-click on it, usually the application opens up and the
> attachment will open as well. However, this is not always the
> case. Sometimes, we have found that we'll have to go to our
> attachment folder and click on the document there, and SOMETIMES it
> will open up. Other times, just the application starts and that's it.
>
> The document types that we are trying to open are .xls and .doc, not
> the newer .xlsx nor .docx formats. Any ideas? thanks.
>
> eric

 
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