Word 2 and earlier binary documents and templates

This policy setting allows you to determine whether users can open, view, edit, or save Word files with the format specified by the title of this policy setting. If you enable this policy setting, you can specify whether users can open, view, edit, or save files. The options that can be selected are below. Note: Not all options may be available for this policy setting. - Do not block: The file type will not be blocked. - Save blocked: Saving of the file type will be blocked. - Open/Save blocked, use open policy: Both opening and saving of the file type will be blocked. The file will open based on the policy setting configured in the "default file block behavior" key. - Block: Both opening and saving of the file type will be blocked, and the file will not open. - Open in Protected View: Both opening and saving of the file type will be blocked, and the option to edit the file type will not be enabled. - Allow editing and open in Protected View: Both opening and saving of the file type will be blocked, and the option to edit will be enabled. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the file type will be blocked.

No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.

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  Legacy converters for Word

  Windows7
• User
  Office Open XML converters for Word

  Windows7
• User
  OpenDocument Text files

  Windows7
• User
  Plain text files

  Windows7
• User
  RTF files

  Windows7
• User
  Set default file block behavior

  Windows7
• User
  Web pages

  Windows7
• User
  Word 2000 binary documents and templates

  Windows7
• User
  Word 2003 and plain XML documents

  Windows7
• User
  Word 2003 binary documents and templates

  Windows7
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  Word 2007 and later binary documents and templates

  Windows7
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  Word 2007 and later documents and templates

  Windows7