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Description of the January 2010 update for Office Word

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How Word Viewer 97-2000 Determines Default Document Path
Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000 does not contain or set a default document path in its own registry key. This article describes how Word Viewer 97-2000 determines the default document path to use when you start it. How Word Viewer 97-2000 Determines...
How to open new file formats in earlier versions of Microsoft Office
Describes the installation requirements to open and save files that are in the Open XML Formats by using earlier versions of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
Description of the Office updates: June 8, 2010
Lists the Office updates that are released on June 8, 2010.
Microsoft Security Advisory: Vulnerability in Microsoft Word could allow remote code execution
Provides a link to Microsoft Security Advisory (953635): Vulnerability in Microsoft Word could allow remote code execution.

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MS08-052: Vulnerabilities in GDI+ could allow remote code execution
Resolves several vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows GDI+ that could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted image file using affected software.
MS09-027: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word could allow remote code execution
Resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Outlook that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) file.
MS09-068: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Word allows remote code execution
Resolves a vulnerability in Word that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Word file.

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Cannot Copy and Paste Floating Objects in Word Viewer
In Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000, if you open a document that contains floating objects and then try to copy the floating object from Word Viewer and paste it into another program, a blank object is pasted. Use one of the following methods to work...
Word Viewer Always Starts as New Instance of Program
When you start Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000, it always creates another instance of Word Viewer, even if Word Viewer is already running. For example, any one of the following actions creates another instance of Word Viewer: Double-clicking a...
Document Open in Word Viewer, Word Has Read-Only Access
If you open a document in Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000 and then open that same document in Microsoft Word (while it is still open in Word Viewer), Microsoft Word opens the document as read-only. Microsoft Word should open the document as...

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