The case of the blank file properties dialoghttp://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2010/05/18/the-case-of-the-blank-file-properties-dialog.aspxHello all. Prabhakar here again, and today I would like to talk about an issue which I recently came across where a user was not able to pull up the detailed description of files on a Windows Server 2008 machine. When the user would right-click a fileen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)re: The case of the blank file properties dialoghttp://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2010/05/18/the-case-of-the-blank-file-properties-dialog.aspx#3334743Mon, 31 May 2010 04:08:37 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3334743Gkeramidas<p>didn&#39;t get a chance to post because the blogs were down. But, maybe you can shed some light on this.</p> <p>running win7, right click on an xls file, choose properties and on the detail tab, try to enter a version number. you can&#39;t. now change the xls to xlsm and try the same thing. you can now enter a version number. why is this blocked for an xls and not an xslm?</p> <p>i use this to track versions of 2003 excel files and i&#39;m constantly renaming the file so i can change the version number.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3334743" width="1" height="1">re: The case of the blank file properties dialoghttp://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2010/05/18/the-case-of-the-blank-file-properties-dialog.aspx#3334742Mon, 31 May 2010 04:06:44 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3334742gary<p>didn&#39;t get a chance to post because the blogs were down. But, maybe you can shed some light on this.</p> <p>running win7, right click on an xls file, choose properties and on the detail tab, try to enter a version number. you can&#39;t. now change the xls to xlsm and try the same thing. you can now enter a version number. why is this blocked for an xls and not an xslm?</p> <p>i use this to track versions of 2003 excel files and i&#39;m constantly renaming the file so i can change the version number.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3334742" width="1" height="1">