Thanks for replying. I went into the registry, but I don't have the Security
folder. I got to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\C ommon\
and that's as far as I could go. Any other suggestions?

"Jim Rech" wrote:

Create the following Dword registry key using Regedit.exe from Start-Run
and set its value to 1.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\C ommon\Security\NoPromptForRC4Encryption

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Jim
"carbon06" wrote in message
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| I'm using Office 2007, but I'm saving in the old formats (.doc, .xls,
etc.)
| because not everyone at our site has the new version of office. Every time
I
| try to save & close a password protected document, I receive the following
| message:
|
| This document is both encrypted and password protected. The Office Open
XML
| Formats available in the 2007 release provide stronger excryption. Do you
| want to increase the security of this document by converting to an Office
| Open XML Format?
|
| Is there any way to turn this off? It is extremely annoying and I don't
want
| to use it.
| Thanks.