Microsoft Product Questions

* How can we use classic DOC and XLS files with recent Microsoft software that prompts for DOCx and XLSx files?

Microsoft wants to "protect" customers from using any older versions of Excel, or competing products such as Open Office Calc.

The .XLSx and .DOCx file extensions were created to extend Microsoft's monopoly. "Protected View" protects MSFT profit. Good old XLS and DOC files are fine for almost all users.

Here are the settings to turn this nonsense off.

File
Options

Trust Center

Trust Center Settings...

File Block Settings

For opening:

File

Open

Protected View: Editing this file type is not allowed due to your policy settings. Click for more details.

File Block Settings

Unselect all the boxes

* Open selected file types in Protected View

For saving XLSX to XLS:

File

Save As...

Excel 97-2003 Workbook (*.xls)

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