You see a warning message instead of document text when you open a Word 2003 document in Word 2004 for Mac (841490)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac
- Microsoft Office Word 2003
SYMPTOMSWhen you open a Microsoft Office Word 2003 document in
Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, instead of the document text, you may see the
following warning message: Permission for this document
is currently restricted. If you are not running Microsoft Office 2003 or an
application that supports documents with restricted permission, you can read
this document by downloading the Rights Management Add-on for Internet
Explorer.
Download the Rights Management Add-on for Internet
Explorer
Learn more about documents with restricted
permission If you click Unprotect on the
Tools menu, nothing happens. The warning message is still
visible. However, if you save the document after you use the Word 2004 for Mac
Unprotect feature, the contents of the article are deleted except for the
warning message. The file size of the document will reduce to less than 32
kilobytes (KB). Opening the unprotected document by using Word 2003
will not restore the document. CAUSEThis problem occurs because Office 2004 for Mac does not
support the Information Rights Management (IRM) feature of Microsoft Office
2003. When you try to unprotect the document, the IRM-protected text is deleted
because this is the expected behavior for IRM-protected documentsSTATUSMicrosoft
has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed
in the "Applies to" section.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 5/19/2004 |
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| Keywords: | kbnofix kbprb KB841490 kbAudEndUser kbAudITPRO |
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