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click on xlsx file and have to navigate to it to open it Office 2007 Document Problems I installed Excel 2007 and now when I click on an .Xlsx file Excel opens up; however, I have to navigate to where the file is located and click on file to see it. Any ideas? 
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Grafitti
Jan 19 2007, 11:38 AM
I switched over to the final Office 2007 format on one computer. The others are running Beta 2 with the service pack. When i save files in the older doc, xls, ppt formats, i can open them fine on both computers. when i save them in the new version (docx, xlsx, pptx and so forth) they will open fine on the computer that created them, but not if i move them from the beta to the final computer, and vice versa. It's irritating, because also before i installed the final on my computer, i had the beta2 version, and now that i've upgraded, all documents created in that earlier version are no longer readable on the same machine. I get this error at first: (example)
"Excel found unreadable content in 'filename.xlsx'. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook?"
and when i click yes, this comes up:
"The workbook cannot be opened or repaired by Microsoft Excel because it is corrupt."

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Jimmy89
Jan 20 2007, 11:39 AM
by the sound of that when the final version was built they (MS) has changed the way that they write to the files, thats why they are unreadable and to the older version seems like they are corrupted!

the older formats work fine because there is nothing in the format that has changed between the final and the beta2. i think you will have to upgrade from beta2. anyway, i think that beta2 runs out around February so you might have to upgrade then!

good luck, write back if you have any problems
-jimmy89

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dhanesh
Jan 20 2007, 01:55 PM
Probably its the same reason that Jimmy gave you. Because I have shifted to the latest Office 2007 Final version and creating documents in the new format would open up in any PC that has the Final version of 2007 (thats the non-beta version). Creating documents in an older format also opens up in the New versions and also in Office 2003.

So guess u need to save documents in the Office 2003 format, atleast untill everyone transitions over to Office 2007.

Regards
Dhanesh.


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unimatrix
Jan 21 2007, 10:59 AM
We always save in 97/2000 format. That ways most everyone can open our documents whether they are on Mac, PC, or using some other Office product that can read .doc.

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Grafitti
Jan 21 2007, 04:33 PM
Possibly... i re-installed the beta2 version on the computer that i had upgraded, but i still can't open the files i created on this same computer, with the beta version of office.
I know it was only a beta and i should be saving in a backwards compatible mode, it's just so much easier if you have hundreds of documents to save them in the new format where they take up less than a quarter of the space that a 2003 document does. plus everything that gets lost when you save as older version, especially with excel formatting and formulas. Not to mention powerpoint, which say i have a 20 MB file in pptx format, saving as 2003 mode will increase file size to over 200 MB.

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nightfox
Jan 29 2007, 12:21 PM
That is called MS screwing people over again! Especially since Beta 2 expires June 1, I think? Personally, I like Office 2003 better except that stupid side bar which I'm glad to see is FINALLY gone. Also, I've noticed that Word 2007 doesn't like to "save" your preferences. I hate the new default font and the template with the spaces. I TOLD Word to use the modified no spaces template with times as the default font. Nope.

[N]F

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Jimmy89
Jan 29 2007, 09:51 PM
the new format is good because as Grafitti said it takes up much less space. But these new versions are not going to be compatible with the older version of office (2003 etc) unless they download the compatibility patch.

i would much rather stick with the old .doc, .xls, .ppt, formats until everyone (or a vast majority) has switched over to the new xml format.

if you were just working on your own computer, or knew that your documents were going to be read on a office 2007 system then you can save the files as the new format.

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Grafitti
Jan 30 2007, 12:01 PM
QUOTE(Jimmy89 @ Jan 29 2007, 09:51 PM) *

the new format is good because as Grafitti said it takes up much less space. But these new versions are not going to be compatible with the older version of office (2003 etc) unless they download the compatibility patch.

i would much rather stick with the old .doc, .xls, .ppt, formats until everyone (or a vast majority) has switched over to the new xml format.

if you were just working on your own computer, or knew that your documents were going to be read on a office 2007 system then you can save the files as the new format.

But that's the thing: I've been working and saving on 2007 mode, but from one computer to another, and even the same computer, after reformat and windows reinstall, i can't read the files created on one computer to the other.

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livingston
Feb 16 2007, 07:56 PM
I've the Office 2007 Pro Final, I don't face any problems opening the files that I've created with Office 2007 Beta 2, which I was testing before.

When I open a document or spreadsheet created in the Beta version, in the current Office 2007 Final, it prompts that the file created is of different format and asks whether to convert it to current format or not. When selected yes the file is automatically converted into the present Office 2007 format.

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FeedBacker
Jan 17 2008, 09:01 PM
\"Excel found unreadable content...\"
Office 2007 Document Problems

I am now having this issue with the full release, not anything beta. I have 5 tabs with one query to a SQL database on each tab. The results are formated using the new table formatting option. No matter how I save the file in one of the new formats, close it, and reopen the file, it gives the message, and 3 or sometimes 4 of the tabs have lost their queries and the formatting is gone.

It has nothing to do with "KPI's" as the Microsoft error suggests.

We are working in compatibility mode, because 2007 hasn't been rolled out to the entire company yet. I converted it just to be sure, but still having same issue.

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iGuest
Oct 23 2009, 12:26 PM
click on xlsx file and have to navigate to it to open it
Office 2007 Document Problems

I installed Excel 2007 and now when I click on an .Xlsx file Excel opens up; however, I have to navigate to where the file is located and click on file to see it.

Any ideas? 


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iGuest
Sep 8 2009, 02:27 PM
Office 2007 Document Problems / I might have found a solution for Office 2003, but your mileage may vary....
Office 2007 Document Problems

Thanks to Byros for that very useful post

8/9/2009: I had a sudden problem with office 2007 on Vista with sp2...Could not open most .Doc files.  Word would crash during the opening process and I would have to manually kill it.

Indeed, as Byros suggested, my "Webclient" service was stopped, it was even set to "disabled".  Restarting it and setting it to "automatic" fixed the problem right away.

Thank you Byros

-reply by Michael

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iGuest
Sep 6 2009, 01:21 PM
problem opening word docs
Office 2007 Document Problems

hi guys,

when I try to open a word attachment in my outlook I can preview the doc but when I try to open it I just get a blue screen, then when I try to close it I get an error message saying that "word has stopped working"

Can annyone help

-question by harry

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iGuest
Jul 29 2009, 10:57 PM
Re: How to reduce size of ppt in compatibility mode?
Office 2007 Document Problems

Try saving not in ppt, but in pps...

The "show" version - so as soon as the user double clicks the file, it opens a show directly, and does not open the application. 

-reply by Robert

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iGuest
Apr 12 2009, 09:57 PM
I might have found a solution for Office 2003, but your mileage may vary....
Office 2007 Document Problems

I had this problem the other way around, I couldn't open documents created in Office 2007 with Office 2003 even after installing & reinstalling the File Format Converter from Microsoft, this happened with Word & Excel.

After wasting hours reading lots of posts through the web, deleting normal.Dot, then reinstalling Office, messing with windows registry, nothing worked.

Until out of desperation I checked the services running under Windows XP and found that the service named WebClient was on manual and not running, so I initialised the service and then suddenly all Office files opened and saved flawlessly (2003 & 2007), now I don't know if this service is the only one directly responsible for this behaviour or if additional services need to be running in order Office to properly open and save documents.

But here's the solution that worked for me: 

Execute services.Msc 

Look for a service called : WebClient

Check wether the service is running, if not initialise it, and make sure its default settings are set to Automatic so it starts whenever you start your PC, Click Ok .

Now try to open & save Office documents, and see if it works, it did for me.

Like most services on WinXP the description for this service is so generic that it almost makes no sense:

Enables Windows-based programs to create, access, and modify Internet-based files. If this service is stopped, these functions will not be available. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

One of the reasons I still miss Windows 95 and I don't like Windows NT, 2000, XP or Vista one bit, I've already installed Ubuntu and OpenOffice and I'm seriosly considering dumping PCs and Windows in favor of Macs

Hope that helps...

-reply by Byros

 


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