Help I just updated Office 2003 and I can’t open my files
You may have noticed if you recently installed Office 2003 SP3 that some files will no longer open. No you are not imagining it and your users are not going crazy. It was actually an intentional move by Microsoft to close up yet more security holes in older code. What you say you have to be able to read those files, fear not David LeBlanc comes to the rescue with his very nicely done explanintion of the problem, the risks and the workarounds. As much as I hate when new software breaks old files, I have to aplaud Microsoft this time for going back and fixing Office 2003, when they are clearly moving ahead with Office 2007 which has recently released it’s own SP which means 2003’s days are numbered based on the software life-cycle.