Word Closes and Recovers When Compiling Project

(Word 2003 and VB 6.5)
I'm creating a rather lengthy form with about 100 text fields. Development
has gone smoothly until now, when Word has begun to close unexpectedly and
recover the document whenever I use Debug > Compile Project.

Because I get no information about the reason for the crash, I can't
investigate or correct it. Any ideas on what might cause this problem, or how
to find the offending code/item? Is there a maximum number of objects on a
user form, perhaps?

zkid
Thu Dec 06 17:32:00 PST 2007

Have you tried the form on a different computer? If it has no problem there,
then it's probably a corrupt normal template. You can try blowing that out.
Otherwise, if the problem occurs on the other computer, your form might be
corrupt.

"Larry" wrote:

> (Word 2003 and VB 6.5)
> I'm creating a rather lengthy form with about 100 text fields. Development
> has gone smoothly until now, when Word has begun to close unexpectedly and
> recover the document whenever I use Debug > Compile Project.
>
> Because I get no information about the reason for the crash, I can't
> investigate or correct it. Any ideas on what might cause this problem, or how
> to find the offending code/item? Is there a maximum number of objects on a
> user form, perhaps?

Larry
Thu Dec 06 17:44:00 PST 2007

I hadn't thought of that, and I'll try it in the morning when I get back to
the office. That's for your reply.

"Larry" wrote:

> (Word 2003 and VB 6.5)
> I'm creating a rather lengthy form with about 100 text fields. Development
> has gone smoothly until now, when Word has begun to close unexpectedly and
> recover the document whenever I use Debug > Compile Project.
>
> Because I get no information about the reason for the crash, I can't
> investigate or correct it. Any ideas on what might cause this problem, or how
> to find the offending code/item? Is there a maximum number of objects on a
> user form, perhaps?

Larry
Fri Dec 07 10:16:02 PST 2007

Replacing normal.dot didn't do it, but removing the Word form from the
document seemed to stop the issue from occurring. I'm using a VB form, but
the document had an older design's Word form in it, and that seems to have
been causing the problem.

Thanks again.

"zkid" wrote:

> Have you tried the form on a different computer? If it has no problem there,
> then it's probably a corrupt normal template. You can try blowing that out.
> Otherwise, if the problem occurs on the other computer, your form might be
> corrupt.
>
> "Larry" wrote:
>
> > (Word 2003 and VB 6.5)
> > I'm creating a rather lengthy form with about 100 text fields. Development
> > has gone smoothly until now, when Word has begun to close unexpectedly and
> > recover the document whenever I use Debug > Compile Project.
> >
> > Because I get no information about the reason for the crash, I can't
> > investigate or correct it. Any ideas on what might cause this problem, or how
> > to find the offending code/item? Is there a maximum number of objects on a
> > user form, perhaps?