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    - Using Word with Terminal Server When trying to run word from my workstation I don't get the Fonts. If I run Word on the Terminal Server it works fine. Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61725
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    - Compile Error When I open and close Word 2000 on my XP Home, I get the following message: Compile error in Hidden Module: AutoExec What do I do to get rid of the message? < : )))) >< Caught In The Net Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61724
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    - Microsoft Word When I boot up the computer, Word automatically opens to a new document 1. How do I shut the Word off from starting when the computer boots up? Thank You Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61722
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    - infinite pagination with Word 2002 I have word 2002 on Win XP. With one specific file, Word repaginates my file infinitely. It eventually freezes and CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't work. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks. Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61719
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    - Need a document that makes Word crash We're using MS Word XP as part of a VB application that processes large batches of documents. On a couple of occasions Word has crashed while opening a document. There is nothing really wrong with the document, and if you shut down Word and reopen it then it doesn't crash again. The real problem is that when Word reopens the same document that it crashed on before, it displays a dialog box to ask the user whether you really want to open a possibly bad document. Since this application has to run as a batch process with no user intervention I'd like to write code to deal with Word failures in a more graceful way. From the Word VBA help it looks like I could use this property. Application.DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsNone I think that would prevent the confirmation dialog box from appearing. The problem is I can't reproduce the crash to know whether that change would really work. Does anyone out there have a .doc file that causes Word XP to crash every time you open it? I tried using a hex editor to insert some random garbage into a test file but couldn't get Word to crash. So if anyone does have a suitable bad file like that I would really appreciate it if you could e-mail me a copy. -Nick Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61715
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    - Word Freezes I am running Windows Windows 2000 Pro, MS Office XP. I am trying to apply styles using templates that I've created. But whenever I use Word (Save, organize styles, or anything else really), my CPU runs at 100%, and just like another post that I read, I am able to use other programs, it just locks up word. I end up having to close the program using the Task Manager. And it's not like I'm short on space, so I don't know what the problem is. Searched the knowledge database and such, and haven't been able to find anything. ANY IDEAS?? HELP!!!! Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61713
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    - MS Word immediately closes with no intervention OS = Windows 98 MS Office 2000 -- Problem is with both Excel and Word I have the same products on both of my home computers. One functions adequately -- the other does not. I receive no error messages. I can open Word or excel via any path and the result is always the same. They both go through all of the motions to open -- virus scan, setting up tool bars, pulling up the document requested. After appearing to open and within five seconds, the application closes. No error messages. I have tried 1. uninstalling and reinstalling, 2. Repairing via the MS Office CD, 3. Replacing the Normal.dot file with the known working one. How can I resolve this issue? Thanks, Lee Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61712
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    - Program Error: Winword.exe has generated errors...?? Thanks for any help in advance, I had Office 2000 Professional installed on my PC, which is using Windows 2000 Professional, and it was working fine. I wanted to updated my SQL Server from 7 to 2000, but when I did so, I received the following error message when attemtping to save changes in a Word doc: Program Error Winword.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created. So I uninstalled both Office 2000 Pro & SQL Server 2000, and reinstalled them both. But I'm still getting that error message. I even tried uninstallin SQL Server 2000, and reinstalling SQL Server 7, but the same thing happened. Can anyone help me to figure out what's going on? I'm confused, and I don't know how to solve this. Thanks. KWilliams Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61711
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    - "Cannot Create Work File" Error (Q302629) using TSE on W2K Periodically, users running Word2000 via a W2K terminal server (and Citrix Metaframe), will get hit with the errors detailed in the Knowledge Base article Q302629 just after opening an existing document. I've worked through methods 2 & 3 of fixing the problem to no avail. I haven't looked at the data subkey fix (in method 1) cause I've not been successful in finding the registry keys for the affected users. Has anyone beat their head up against this problem before and can recommend any course of action? Thanks Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61710
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    - Save As Functionality Greyed out I recently installed Office 2002 and subsequently installed Adobe Reader 6.0. After installing Reader 6.0, I started receiving "Macro Disabled...." error messages when starting Word. I have not been able to find a solution to fix....have tried setting Macro Security to "Low", tried installing SP 2.....nothing is working. Any suggestions? Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61709
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    - word freezes When I try to print an open word document, the window blinks (active/inactive) as though I had tried to open a document already open. I find the application has frozen when this happens. However it doesn't happen consistently, seemingly less (maybe none)when I open the application first and then use the Open command in the File menu. Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61708
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    - Where did my toolbar go? Somehow the lower toolbar, the one with italics, bold- face, and the like, has vanished from my Works Word. Nothing in the Help does it, and a system restore also failed to get it back. I use it a lot, and am mostly crippled without it. Anybody know how to get it back? Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61707
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    - Word using 100 percent cpu when doing anything in Word I have a box with Windows 2000 Pro running Office XP and when I try to type a document Word takes up 100 percent CPU and the computer freezes. All other apps work fine. All the Office updates have been applied. Any ideas? Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61701
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    - word stops responding when copying and pastng from web hi, whenever i copy and paste some text from the web into word xp the application stops responding and causes a high amout of cpu usage. after a couple of minutes the text then appears and all is fine. can anyone tell me what causes this as copy and pasting into apps like wordpad cause no problems. thanks k Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61700
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    - word crashing I have come across a number of IBM netvista machine that randomly crash when working in word, they are all XP professional with offcie 2000 professional, all fully serviced packed and updated, the error log is as follows Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Hang Event Category: (101) Event ID: 1002 Date: 12/05/2003 Time: 12:28:52 User: N/A Computer: IBM-904990F8470 Description: Hanging application WINWORD.EXE, version 9.0.0.2717, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat 0008: 69 6f 6e 20 48 61 6e 67 ion Hang 0010: 20 20 57 49 4e 57 4f 52 WINWOR 0018: 44 2e 45 58 45 20 39 2e D.EXE 9. 0020: 30 2e 30 2e 32 37 31 37 0.0.2717 0028: 20 69 6e 20 68 75 6e 67 in hung 0030: 61 70 70 20 30 2e 30 2e app 0.0. 0038: 30 2e 30 20 61 74 20 6f 0.0 at o 0040: 66 66 73 65 74 20 30 30 ffset 00 0048: 30 30 30 30 30 30 000000 have gone to the link which gives similar info but states no user intervention required !!! the machines are brand new, and log on to a sbs 2000 domain controller, have never actually seen the problem myself as they always work fine when I am their but the error log says other wise any help would be much apriciated keith Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61696
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    - transferring word I was told that it was possible to move Word from one computer to another. If this is possible, could you please tell me how to accomplish it. The pc's are in different locations in the office. We just need to remove it from one and add it to another. Please help me!!!! Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61695
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    - Error opening Word and Excel (GDI.EXE) Whenever I try to open Word, I got a memory page fault. It says that GDI.EXE caused a fault on XXXXXXXX memory address. No documents can be displayed on the screen since Word crashes before the document is displayed. Same case for Excel. Excel opens itself with no error, but when I try to open a file, it crashes with the same GDI.EXE error. Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61693
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    - Comparing Documents I am having a problem with the compare document feature of Word. A client sends a contract to me in word format. I open it up and revise it. Then I save the revised copy of the document. When I compare the revised copy to the original, the first couple of pages are fine. Suddenly (usually around page 3 or so), it starts redlining the whole document. I am using Word 2000 SP-3. Any ideas please email me and let me know. Thanks! Chris Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61692
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    - mail merge attachment error I'm sending out 400 e-mails with a mail merged document attached. The recipients will then complete the missing fields and e-mail it back. The problem is some people are getting errors when they try to open the word doc. They get a screen error message saying: _____ is a mail merge main document. Word cannot open its data source, __________.txt. Click for: Find Data Source or Options. If they choose Find Data Source, nothing happens. If they click Options, they get a screen message that says: If the mail merge source, ________, no longer exists, Choose Remove Data/Header Source or choose Remove All Merge Info. Then there are those two boxes to select. Either option gets the document to load. We are using Word 97. The recipients are using any number of versions of Word. Any suggestions? Thanks! Beth Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61690
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    - Word freezes up changing formatting I have a problem similar to DR Huffman Word freezes up randomly when a process like formating lists with bullets, removing bold in tables, adding underline to text. All actions are through the toolbar icons. Sure could use some help!!! Thanks MarkD Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61684
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    - Limit on number of word graphic objects? I have a coworker who has always used Word's own drawing features to draw diagrams in Word. We recently moved to Office XP (his machine's OS is NT 4) and he generally finds things do not work as they used to. However he now has a specific problem with a particular document which probably contains hundreds of textbox graphic objects, most with a dozen characters of text in them. When he tried to add just one more text box, Word hung. It turns out this document has more text boxes in it than he has ever drawn before. We discovered that if we delete 3 of the text boxes, it will let us add 3 new ones, but one more and Word will hang again - then we have to kill it with the task manager. So - is there a limit on the number of a) Word - drawn text boxes b) characters in Word-drawn text boxes c) Word- drawn graphic objects that Word XP can put into a single document ? Are there any workarounds ? I have recommended moving all the drawing to Powerpoint, since there have been other issues about the text in the text boxes gaining heading styles which would never happen with graphic objects pasted in from another application. However time does not permit moving to another application for this document. . Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61682
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    - Word cpu usage very high Whenever I turn on word 2002 it drives my cpu usage sky high and I cant use the program. I have tried to unistall it and reinstall it but I still get the same trouble. I did a complete virus scan and came up clean. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jack Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61677
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    - Hyperlink problem When I create a new hyperlink to another doc located on the same server, the path to that link appears like this; ..\..\..\..\Press Coverage\Press Cuttings\2003\July 2003 \Computerwire (15.07.03).jpg It appears fine at first with the full path but if I save the doc it keeps reverting to the format above. Regards, Steve. Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61676
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    - WORD 2002 STARTUP PROBLEMS If I click on a doc file to open Word, I get the following message "Cannot open document template A20MSW10.DOT" When I close that message, I get "Cannot open document template AWARE 97.DOT" When I close that message, I get "FILE XXX.DOC IS NOT AVAILABLE" If I open Word directly, I get the first two messages. I cannot find either of these .dot files anywhere. If I try the support template, I get the message "Support.dot is not available" If I clear the error messages, everything seems to work (except opening files). Any suggestions? Don Friedman Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61675
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    - Word 2002 : Page Numbering in Footer Problem Hi Everyone, I have a problem with Word 2002. One of my files always show a Page 0 of 51 in the footer on ALL pages (I inserted a Page X of Y autotext). Does anyone know how to get it to work properly again? Thank you. Alex. Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61671
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    - Problem with opening word When I try to open Word 2000, the system freezes up and doesn't open. I'm forced to manually shut the system down When I restart the system and make another attempt to open Word, the system freezes up again. Can anyone help me? Drew Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61667
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    - .tnef file extensions I recently started receiving emails with attachments id'ed as msword ".tnef" files. I can't open/read the files using any app I have loaded, including MS Office Suite, Corel Suite, Acrobat or anything else. What are these files and what app do I need to open, or what do I tell the sender regarding forwarding these attachments. (i.e. saving as text only first, or something) ??? Thanks Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61665
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    - Word 2000 Suddenly when I try to access word or any word files, I get the error message "Winword has caused an error in MS09.DLL If you continue to have problems try restarting your computer." Restarting my computer does not work. Can any one help? Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61651
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    - Incorrect Pages Breaks between foot notes I am having trouble with the foot notesmoving up the page when I have foot notes. The solution was to createend notes, this is not a option. Any suggestions? Page Breaks Incorrectly If You Insert a Continuous Section Break Between Footnotes Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61650
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    - Using OLE automation get error when merging excel data via DDE I have a Visual Fox Pro Application that uses OLE automation to pull up a WORD document, merges in excel data via DDE to the printer and closes word. It works a majority of the time. But sometimes (its intermitant but usually after multiple merges), the merge will take place but crash when word closes generating an error in the VFP application which crashes. I have tried everything I can think of, including recreating the document, changinging the method from DDE to 'translation' and ODBC. Nothing I tried works. Has anybody encountered this behavior? -JAmes Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61648
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    - missing vowels and consonants My u's, g's, h's, o's, are missing when I press start and missing vowels and consonants are found in other areas of my computer--like in Microsoft Word. Then they reappear for no reason and they disappear for no reason. Sue Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61646
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    - missing vowels and consonants At times when I press start, my u in shut, suspend, run, are missing; my g is settings is missing, my o is missing in programs, my h is missing in help. Then if I go to Microsoft Word, the same vowels and consonants are missing and I don't know how many more are missing. The a is a weird symbol or character. This makes things very hard to read. Then for no reason that I can find, the letters all reappear. My provider said he never heard of anything like this. Can you help me, please? Sue Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61645
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    - find.replacement.clearformatting nightmare ! When issueing this command via OLE (Delphi 7) the application crashes. This only happens with this one customer who has Windows XP and Word 2002 SP-2. Microsoft sent me an unofficial hot fix (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815006) which did not fix anything, not hot at all. I have exhausted all possibilities short of commenting out this statement. Please help !!! Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61644
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    - Bug in Word 2002 (SP 2) using Acrobat 5.05 Using the Acrobat Distiller printer, there's a bug that seems to occur only with Microsoft Word 2002 (SP 2). Problem occurs when creating a 2-UP PDF file, i.e., 2 pages per sheet within the PDF file itself. When choosing 2-UP in the Print dialog, the picture changes to show 2-UP, but the PDF file is created with only 1-UP. For example, using a .txt file, I am able to create a 2-UP PDF file with Notepad and Wordpad, but not with Word. No problem with Excel .xls file or .htm file in IE. I suspect that the problem occurs only with Word. -- http://www.standards.com/; Howard Kaikow's web site. Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61642
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    - #Value with a index/match formula I am getting a #Value result with the formulat =index(Mej!$A$1:$B$123,match(B1,Mej!$B$1:$B$123,0),1The problem is that it works for some cells, but as I drag it down some cells end up with "#Value". I have no clue what is causeing this. Any help would be appreciated. SI also have tried using it such that in the match "B1" is part of the "Mej!$B$1:$B$123" array with the same results. any ideas. Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61630
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    - Just Curious I created a template with several autotext and macros. It works just fine on my pcs (both have Office Pro 2000 SP-3 and one is XP and the other is Win 2000). However some of my team have Win 2K and Office 2000 SR-1a. They keep experiencing "winword.exe caused errors..." crashes. They have suggested that my template is the cause. I have agreed but have told them need to upgrade to SP-3 and see if the problem still exists. Just wondering if anyone has a clue to what could be causing the crashes and if I can do something with the template to bullet-proof it for Office 2000 SR-1a? Thanks, Dennis Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61629
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    - Large Word file (MAC OS X) I made the big mistake of writing a lengthy paper (almost 200 pages),=20 mostly mathematical with M$ Word. It seems that -- even though I=20 have sufficient space -- Word will not allow me to save the file to = _any_=20 disk and reports a cryptic DOS like error about "not enough room."=20 Funny, I have lots of room and the file really isn't big. Last update to = this file had to be trashed! I am sick of this program. Has anyone else=20 (Windows or Mac) had a similar experience. I guess I better go back to LaTeX. Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61626
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    - Problems with my HTML pages Hello, I'm not sure it's with Word or my computer so I thought I would ask here first. I have a website and I use Microsoft word for my html documents. The follow link is to my website this will help you understand my question: http://www.angelfire.com/az3/donna84118/. All my html files work when I open then but any season from 2000-2003 why is this? My Computer freezes up and I have to close the html page also when I go to my website to open 2000 or after my pc freezes then as well. I don't understand why? When I go and use my other Pc these work fine and I have Word on both computers that I own. I have windows xp on both system. I have a sony vaio laptop and this is the one having the issues my compaq pc works fine with my word documents and html files. ANY HELP would be help me thanks for your time. Donna Tepas Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61622
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    - Table of contents error When I create a Word book chapter with headings, then use the headings to create a table of contents (TOC), I can update the TOC in the same document and print it. But if I try to copy the TOC into a new document and then add other chapter TOC to it, then print, I get an error. Error! Bookmark not defined. (where the page number used to be) Is it possible to solve this problem? Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61620
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    - Lost I have lost my toolbars on my Word 2000. I have tried to find them everywhere I think and I've uninstalled and reinstalled and still can't seem to find where they went to, if anyone can help me to find out what might have happened, I would really appreciate it!!!!!!!!! Thanks, Dorris :-) Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61619
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    - Winword.exe trying to save a table in Word 2000sp3 I have an end-user who keeps getting winword.exe errors when trying to save a table. This happens on existing documents or new documents. They do not receive the error with documents not containing tables. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Machine is P933 running W2K and Office2Ksp3. Thanks in advance, Scott Wise Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61618
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    - Microsoft Equation Editor Hi I am trying to use the Equation Editor 3.0 in office 97 but it keeps saying it is not installed. I have re-installed office but it still will not work. We have identical machines that it does work on so what could be the problem? We have Office 97 professional on Windows 2000 professional. Thanks Mori Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61617
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    - Editing Function: Font etc. Is their an Editing Mode, rather than just highlighting word-by-word to apply 'line-thru' etc? Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61606
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    - Word 2000: Help Index: Won't Appear when Clicked Anyone have solution: When I click on Help Menu, I get explanation of help but not the help index. Haven't used this feature for 'forever'...don't want Assistant, just index...last time I used it, whenever that was, no problem!!! Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61604
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    - Word 97 w/XP Saving Problems Since reloading my works suite 99 (with word 97 included) on the XP operating system {Word will only will save documents as the first letter of the document. This happens even if I type something else in the file name to save as area. It use to suggest a title as the first word of the document on the 98 system. I've tryed loading and unloading the program numerous times, changing the normal.dot template, trying different save options to no avail. If it makes a difference I was unable to totally uninstall all of the microsoft greetings part of that works suite, it would say I have to have maintence access to complete it. One other thing, My spell checker does not work now also with outlook express 6.0 with XP.Options are avaiable, everything looks good, it just fails in outlook and says spell checker has been stopped do you wish to send mail anyway? Any help would be greatly appreciated. TJ Hornet Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61603
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    - Winword.exe err while trying to open word 2000 Cannot open word 2000, tried the fix option from the disk, tried to uninstal & reinstall the word 2000, alos didnt solve the prob, getting message that its writing to an err log but i cannot find it, maby someone know's where is it located and what the name of the log. I have installed the symantech winfax Pro, and suspect it may have somthing to do with it. Platform: Pentium 2 300mhz Win2K Office 2000 Help ! :-0 Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61601
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    - Switched from Domain to Workgroup - now can't access documents I recently moved a small network from a domain-based model to a Workgroup for simplicity of administration (please don't ask why). I also needed to move a hard drive from a broken machine (which may have been the domain controller) to another machine in the workgroup. I now have a problem accessing files from many of the folders - I get this error: "The document name or path is not valid. Try these suggestions. *Check the file permission for the document or drive *Use the file open dialog box to locate the document " I can't copy, move or do anything with the files, as I don't appear to have the necessary permissions. Does anyone know how I can resolve this? TIA for any help Ian Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61600
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    - Word 2002 is confused over the active doc filename Hi, I wonder if anyone has had this problem, or can suggest whats going on here? I'm editing a longish doc. and have resaved the latest version of it with a new filename. Word can find and open the new doc. and shows its new name in the recent file list. So far so good. But when I try to insert a filename and path footer using the footer autotexts, it puts in the OLD filename. Checking the file properties box shows that Word still thinks this is the old file, not the new one, even though it has been "saved as..." the new name and subsequently opened in this new name. Resaving doesn't resolve this error, and there does not seem to be a way to manually update the properties. All ideas and suggestions will be gratefully received. Thanks Geoff Rendall, Sussex, UK. Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61598
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    - Visual Basic editor opens after word closes When Closing a word document that is a templete, for example a memo the visual basic editor opens and starts debbuging things. When word closes a normal text document it is fine so it is just when an inbuilt template or wizzard is used that the problem occurs. Any Ideas ? Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61597
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    - Word closes itself seconds after opening Word will not stay open. After 2-3 seconds from opening word will automatically shuts itself down. Any Ideas Tag: cannot open specific word Tag: 61595

when i tried to open a file created in word 97, i cannot
open it and said: "valid .doc extension" and something
like that. i have tried other ways expressed in the
dialog box. but all failed. it looks like file crush.
anybody has any idea to solve this problem and to be able
to open that file. it is a very important one for me.
thanks,

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Re: cannot open specific word by Richard

Richard
Fri Jul 25 14:00:02 CDT 2003

Since you mention Word 97, it sounds like you are using a newer version, so
try this: within the Word application, select File-Open. Then be sure the
drop-down box is set to open "All files." Proceed to find the Word 97
document and open it this way.

If that doesn't work, try opening it in Wordpad. You can then copy the text
to a new Word document and save it.

"Kyaw Kyaw Thein" <kkthein38@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:070d01c35261$3dc8c8e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> when i tried to open a file created in word 97, i cannot
> open it and said: "valid .doc extension" and something
> like that. i have tried other ways expressed in the
> dialog box. but all failed. it looks like file crush.
> anybody has any idea to solve this problem and to be able
> to open that file. it is a very important one for me.
> thanks,
>

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