{"id":17,"date":"2008-01-02T10:40:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T10:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/01\/02\/office-2003-service-pack-disables-older-file-formats.aspx"},"modified":"2008-01-02T10:40:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T10:40:25","slug":"office-2003-service-pack-disables-older-file-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Office 2003 Service Pack Disables Older File Formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8220;In Service Pack 3 for Office 2003, Microsoft disabled support for many older file formats. If you have old Word, Excel, 1-2-3, Quattro, or Corel Draw documents, watch out! They did this because the old formats are &#8216;less secure&#8217;, which actually makes some sense, but only if you got the files from some untrustworthy source. Naturally, they did this by default, and then documented a mind-bogglingly complex workaround (<a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/938810\/en-us\">KB 938810<\/a>) rather than providing a user interface for adjusting it, or even a set of awkward &#8216;Do you really want to do this?&#8217; dialog boxes to click through. And of course because these are, after all, old file formats &#8230; many users will encounter the problem only months or years after the software change, while groping around in dusty and now-inaccessible archives.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In Service Pack 3 for Office 2003, Microsoft disabled support for many older file formats. If you have old Word, Excel, 1-2-3, Quattro, or Corel Draw documents, watch out! They did this because the old formats are &#8216;less secure&#8217;, which actually makes some sense, but only if you got the files from some untrustworthy source. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}