Saturday 14 March 2009

Office 2007 Document Upgrade - No Thanks

If Microsoft had it's way we'd all upgrade our PCs every time a new version of Windows/Office/DirectX came out.

Every time you save an encrypted document in Office 2007 it prompts you to upgrade your document format to the Office Open XML format. No thanks, I'd rather not, I'm quite happy with the standard 97/2003 format.



To disable this 'feature' you had to add a new registry key, it would have been too simple to put it in as an option, everyone might change it:

1. Using Regedit.exe go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common
2. Create a new key (folder) called Security
3. In the new folder create a new DWORD Value called NoPromptForRC4Encryption and set it to 1

2 comments:

  1. BTW, there is a reason why this pops up. You see, the encryption used in Office binary format documents is weak. Basically, RC4 was implemented in the old formats in a weak way (keystream reuse), allowing the password protection to be cracked with special tools. AES encryption used in the new format is much better, hence the message.

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