[SOLVED] WF 7.6 and Office 2007

We are going to upgrade from 7.1 to 7.6.8 and our company is goint to upgrade to MS Office 2007. Do you know if version 7.6.8 is compatible with Microsoft Office 2007? I can not find a document anywhere that states what WebFOCUS is compatible with in respect to MS Office.

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Darin Lee

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You would probably have to open a call with techsupport to verify, but 7.6.x IS compatible with Office 2003 and everything in 2003 can be handled by 2007 so I would expect there no be no issues. WF 7.6.x will NOT generate the new format (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) yet, but Office 2007 does handle the older format that WF currently creates.

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Darin

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DW Marker

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However, you can't create Excel templates using Excel 2007, so if you need that functionality you will need to keep a version of 2003 around somewhere until IBI addresses the change which Microsoft made with 2007.

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susannah

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As Darin says, the .xlsx format that 07 wants and the .xls that wf produces, results in an annoying error box popping up, that might disturb your endusers , and cause alot of techsupport calls.

That's interesting, DW. i've just upped to office 2007 and hadn't discovered that bit in Excel yet. (i'm still looking for the familiar buttons!)
thanks for reporting it.

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There is a fix for that very irritating

quote:
"The file you are trying to open, '[filename]', is in a different format than specified by the file extension. Verify that the file is not corrupted and is from a trusted source before opening the file. Do you want to open the file now?"

message. you need to add a key to the registry which disables the check.
The key does not exist by default and so needs to be addded.

 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\Security
Value: (DWORD)"ExtensionHardening" = [0 = Disable check; 1 = Enable check and prompt; 2 = Enable check, no prompt deny open]
Default setting if value not present is 1 (enable and prompt).

susannah

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thanks

now if we could just fix Microsoft's grammar