Microsoft Security Advisory: Microsoft Office File Validation for Office 2003, 2007 Office, and Office 2010: April 12, 2011

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Install Office File Validation

Prerequisites

To install Office File Validation, you must have the following prerequisites:

• You must have Office 2003, the 2007 Office system, or Office 2010 installed.
• You must have all recommended updates for all Office programs. To install all recommended updates, visit the Microsoft Update website:
  
  Microsoft Update
• You must install the following architecture updates to Microsoft Publisher before you install Office File Validation:
  
  • Microsoft Publisher Architecture update:
    
    
    Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 Architecture update
    
    Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 Architecture update

Install Office File Validation

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

Download the Office File Validation package now.

Release Date: April 12, 2011

For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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Known issues with Office File Validation

• Files that were created in Microsoft Excel 2.0, Microsoft Excel 3.0, or Microsoft Excel 4.0 will fail validation when you use Office File Validation in Office 2003.
• Solver.xla will fail validation when you use Office File Validation in Office 2003.
• When you paste lots of charts or points of data into an Office 2003 document, the paste function may take a long time to complete while Office File Validation tries to validate the new data.
• Opening files from a network share that have many charts or points of data will take longer to open in Office 2003.
  
  For more information about this issue, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  
  2570623 Excel 2003 Office File Validation (OFV) opens workbooks slower across the network

Default Behavior

When you try to open a Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Publisher 97-2003 file, and that file fails Office File Validation, you receive the following warning:

Resolution

For Office 2010

You can manually set the registry entries by using the following values:
Add the DisableEditFromPV REG_DWORD to any or all the following registry subkeys to disable Edit in Protected View in Office 2010:

For the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Office 2003

You can manually set the registry entries by using the following values:

For the 2007 Microsoft Office system

Add the InvalidFileUIOptions REG_DWORD to any or all the following registry subkeys for Office File Validation in 2007 Microsoft Office system:

For Office 2003

Add the InvalidFileUIOptions REG_DWORD to any or all the following registry subkeys for Office File Validation in Office 2003: