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Change in how Excel opens Text flies after applying MS08-014
Hello All,
End-user reports that prior to the MS08-014 update, he would open a text file from Explorer using Open With Excel. Excel would open the file and format such that all text was placed in a single column (over multiple rows). This is the desired effect. Now, after the update, when opening a text file using Open With Excel, Excel formats the text file into multiple columns. It appears that the Text Import Wizard is running (in the background, with no dialogs boxes appearing) against the text file. This is NOT the desired behavior. User says there are other users in his area who have not applied the updates and their computers are not doing this and opening text files and formatting the text as expected. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms08-014.mspx describes MS08-014 as a critical update which modifies how Excel open files. The Executive Summary, in part says: This security update addresses these vulnerabilities by modifying the way that Microsoft Excel performs validations when opening Excel files. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949029 in part describes known issues with this update, but does not mention any changes that would produce this problematic behavior. Does anyone have any additional details about this patch or how it may have triggered this behavior? Thanks, rich |
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Change in how Excel opens Text flies after applying MS08-014
Discussed in thread "Open Text Files in Excel, Changed Behavior", where that
security update was identified as the culprit (and its removal solved the problem). -- David Biddulph "rich" wrote in message ... Hello All, End-user reports that prior to the MS08-014 update, he would open a text file from Explorer using Open With Excel. Excel would open the file and format such that all text was placed in a single column (over multiple rows). This is the desired effect. Now, after the update, when opening a text file using Open With Excel, Excel formats the text file into multiple columns. It appears that the Text Import Wizard is running (in the background, with no dialogs boxes appearing) against the text file. This is NOT the desired behavior. User says there are other users in his area who have not applied the updates and their computers are not doing this and opening text files and formatting the text as expected. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms08-014.mspx describes MS08-014 as a critical update which modifies how Excel open files. The Executive Summary, in part says: This security update addresses these vulnerabilities by modifying the way that Microsoft Excel performs validations when opening Excel files. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949029 in part describes known issues with this update, but does not mention any changes that would produce this problematic behavior. Does anyone have any additional details about this patch or how it may have triggered this behavior? Thanks, rich |
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