Hello All,

End-user reports that prior to the MS08-014 update, he would open a text
file from Explorer using Open With > Excel.  Excel would open the file and
format such that all text was placed in a single column (over multiple rows).
This is the desired effect.

Now, after the update, when opening a text file using Open With > Excel,
Excel formats the text file into multiple columns.  It appears that the Text
Import Wizard is running (in the background, with no dialogs boxes appearing)
against the text file.  This is NOT the desired  behavior.

User says there are other users in his area who have not applied the updates
and their computers are not doing this and opening text files and formatting
the text as expected.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-014.mspx   describes
MS08-014 as a critical update which modifies how Excel open files.  The
Executive Summary, in part says:  This security update addresses these
vulnerabilities by modifying the way that Microsoft Excel performs
validations when opening Excel files.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949029   in part describes known issues with
this update, but does not mention any changes that would produce this
problematic behavior.

Does anyone have any additional details about this patch or how it may have
triggered this behavior?

Thanks,

rich