Attempt to open docx/xlsx results in error

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gazuzzaki
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Attempt to open docx/xlsx results in error

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The error itself has been described by someone else here: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=100&p=307&hilit=ms+office#p307

Browsing to winword.exe, opening it in a sandbox and then opening a document in it works perfectly fine! Same for Excel. But that's Matrix-grade black magic to my 70/80 years old users.

However, double-clicking on a docx or xlsx document, as people are used to, results in the aforementioned error. Starting either of the programs from the Start Menu, exhibits the same behavior.

Clearly, the problem isn't in running these program in Sandboxie! The problem seems to lie in starting them - either from the Start Menu or by attempting to open a file.

Any ideas?

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Re: Attempt to open docx/xlsx results in error

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There have been improvements to Sandboxie, that might include that not being the case anymore. A more recent version of Sandboxie might behave like one would expect.

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