Word XP: File Open dialogue Preview warning for worksheets

I'm getting a warning every time I preview an excel file in Word's open file
dialogue. The warning message is about a potential security risk from the
worksheet text converter and requires a yes or no response to run the
converter. I looked for a setting to suppress this warning to no avail.

This has started since the latest OfficeXP webupdate. Previously, I had used
the File Open dialogue Preview quite extensively to browse through worksheets
with no warning.

Any way to stop this warning? - tia

Hi =?Utf-8?B?SG91bmQ=?=,

there's nothing you can do about this. It's a security issue, and Microsoft has
had a bee in its bonnet the last year or so when it comes to any possible
security loopholes. Converters have to be signed and trusted. Many of the older
converters that Microsoft got from third parties years and years ago were
written before there was anything like code signing. And the companies that
originally wrote them no longer exist, for the most part. The converters that
Microsoft felt were used more often were rewritten and signed by Microsoft;,
such as the spreadsheet converter, others weren't.

These converters are going to trigger the security warning and you can't turn it
off. Copy/paste would be your alternative.

I'm getting a warning every time I preview an excel file in Word's open file
dialogue. The warning message is about a potential security risk from the
worksheet text converter and requires a yes or no response to run the
converter. I looked for a setting to suppress this warning to no avail.

This has started since the latest OfficeXP webupdate. Previously, I had used
the File Open dialogue Preview quite extensively to browse through worksheets
with no warning.

Any way to stop this warning?


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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