Add-in: Remove Hidden Data PROBLEMS

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Hello,

Our firm has installed globally the Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden
Data.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=144e54ed-d43e-42ca-bc7b-5446d34e5360&displaylang=en



There seems to be major problems with this.

If any 2 applications try and launch word you get an error to save
normal.dot.



For instance Outlook launches winword. If you have word as your default
mail editor.

Then we have a custom application that launches word. Here is the code.

Set oWordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Set wordDocument = oWordApp.Documents.Open("c:\x.doc")
wordDocument.Save
wordDocument.Activate
wordDocument.Close False
oWordApp.Quit

If you run outlook then this code you will get a message that normal.dot is
locked and prompt to save it.

If you un-install the Add-in: Remove Hidden Data everything works fine.



Why does the add-in seem like it is trying to modify the normal.dot?

I can understand when you first install it? But why always?



Anyone else see this?

MS - do you have a fix yet for this?
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Re: Add-in: Remove Hidden Data PROBLEMS by Doug

Doug
Mon Aug 02 18:34:56 CDT 2004

See the Knowledge Base Article "Known issues with the Remove Hidden Data
add-in for Office 2003 and Office XP" at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;834636&Product=wd2002

--
Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be
interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid
consulting basis.

Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"greg" <greg@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:%23ZL5weNeEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> Our firm has installed globally the Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden
> Data.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=144e54ed-d43e-42ca-bc7b-5446d34e5360&displaylang=en
>
>
>
> There seems to be major problems with this.
>
> If any 2 applications try and launch word you get an error to save
> normal.dot.
>
>
>
> For instance Outlook launches winword. If you have word as your default
> mail editor.
>
> Then we have a custom application that launches word. Here is the code.
>
> Set oWordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
> Set wordDocument = oWordApp.Documents.Open("c:\x.doc")
> wordDocument.Save
> wordDocument.Activate
> wordDocument.Close False
> oWordApp.Quit
>
> If you run outlook then this code you will get a message that normal.dot
> is
> locked and prompt to save it.
>
> If you un-install the Add-in: Remove Hidden Data everything works fine.
>
>
>
> Why does the add-in seem like it is trying to modify the normal.dot?
>
> I can understand when you first install it? But why always?
>
>
>
> Anyone else see this?
>
> MS - do you have a fix yet for this?
>
>
>
>
>
>


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Re: Add-in: Remove Hidden Data PROBLEMS by Jay

Jay
Mon Aug 02 19:40:14 CDT 2004

Aside from the specific shortcomings of the RHD add-in, you can try to
make your custom application more robust. The article at
http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/interdev/ControlWordFromXL.htm shows how
to attempt first to get an existing Word object if there is one, using
GetObject, and then start a new one only if that fails. This method
may eliminate the in-use error.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman http://aspnet2.com/mvp.ashx?JayFreedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

"Doug Robbins" <dkr@NOmvpsSPAM.org> wrote:

>See the Knowledge Base Article "Known issues with the Remove Hidden Data
>add-in for Office 2003 and Office XP" at:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;834636&Product=wd2002
>
>--
>Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be
>interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid
>consulting basis.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Doug Robbins - Word MVP
>"greg" <greg@nospam.com> wrote in message
>news:%23ZL5weNeEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> Our firm has installed globally the Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden
>> Data.
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=144e54ed-d43e-42ca-bc7b-5446d34e5360&displaylang=en
>>
>>
>>
>> There seems to be major problems with this.
>>
>> If any 2 applications try and launch word you get an error to save
>> normal.dot.
>>
>>
>>
>> For instance Outlook launches winword. If you have word as your default
>> mail editor.
>>
>> Then we have a custom application that launches word. Here is the code.
>>
>> Set oWordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
>> Set wordDocument = oWordApp.Documents.Open("c:\x.doc")
>> wordDocument.Save
>> wordDocument.Activate
>> wordDocument.Close False
>> oWordApp.Quit
>>
>> If you run outlook then this code you will get a message that normal.dot
>> is
>> locked and prompt to save it.
>>
>> If you un-install the Add-in: Remove Hidden Data everything works fine.
>>
>>
>>
>> Why does the add-in seem like it is trying to modify the normal.dot?
>>
>> I can understand when you first install it? But why always?
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyone else see this?
>>
>> MS - do you have a fix yet for this?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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Re: Add-in: Remove Hidden Data PROBLEMS by greg

greg
Tue Aug 03 11:06:54 CDT 2004

thanks...
I will give these a try



"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:mhntg0lm6bl44v3mfj65s2efqh2i555h8u@4ax.com...
> Aside from the specific shortcomings of the RHD add-in, you can try to
> make your custom application more robust. The article at
> http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/interdev/ControlWordFromXL.htm shows how
> to attempt first to get an existing Word object if there is one, using
> GetObject, and then start a new one only if that fails. This method
> may eliminate the in-use error.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman http://aspnet2.com/mvp.ashx?JayFreedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
>
> "Doug Robbins" <dkr@NOmvpsSPAM.org> wrote:
>
> >See the Knowledge Base Article "Known issues with the Remove Hidden Data
> >add-in for Office 2003 and Office XP" at:
> >
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;834636&Product=wd20
02
> >
> >--
> >Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be
> >interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a
paid
> >consulting basis.
> >
> >Hope this helps,
> >Doug Robbins - Word MVP
> >"greg" <greg@nospam.com> wrote in message
> >news:%23ZL5weNeEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Our firm has installed globally the Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove
Hidden
> >> Data.
> >>
> >>
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=144e54ed-d43e-42ca-bc7b-5446d34e5360&displaylang=en
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> There seems to be major problems with this.
> >>
> >> If any 2 applications try and launch word you get an error to save
> >> normal.dot.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> For instance Outlook launches winword. If you have word as your
default
> >> mail editor.
> >>
> >> Then we have a custom application that launches word. Here is the
code.
> >>
> >> Set oWordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
> >> Set wordDocument = oWordApp.Documents.Open("c:\x.doc")
> >> wordDocument.Save
> >> wordDocument.Activate
> >> wordDocument.Close False
> >> oWordApp.Quit
> >>
> >> If you run outlook then this code you will get a message that
normal.dot
> >> is
> >> locked and prompt to save it.
> >>
> >> If you un-install the Add-in: Remove Hidden Data everything works fine.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Why does the add-in seem like it is trying to modify the normal.dot?
> >>
> >> I can understand when you first install it? But why always?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Anyone else see this?
> >>
> >> MS - do you have a fix yet for this?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>


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