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Conference noted::windows95

Title:Microsoft Windows 95 ("Chicago")
Notice:Please read topics 1 to 22 before writing anything
Moderator:EEMELI::BACKSTROM
Created:Mon Nov 14 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2958
Total number of notes:19968

2915.0. "Unable to save word doc in office 97" by CUJO::PADILLA () Wed Apr 30 1997 05:54

    help
    
    I recently installed office 97.  I am unable to save documents.  When I
    attempt to SAVE AS or SAVE I get a visual basic compile error.  From
    here it  throws me into what appears to be a visual basic debug
    session.  I finally found that I can save if I exit using the X, but
    not the pull down menu when it asks if I want to save it.  
    
    configuration
    generic box
    amd 486 100
    16 meg ram
    2.5 gb drive
    850 meg drive
    win 95
    plus!
    tons of misc programs (including v3 of visual basic - could this be
    interfering?)
    
    This was an  upgrade from wfw 3.11 and office 4.2
    
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2915.1NAC::BULEAN::BANKSGoose CookerWed Apr 30 1997 12:417
    Could it be a word macro virus that didn't survive the change from Word
    Basic to VBA?  As far as I know, saving a file should not normally
    invoke any Visual Basic code, unless some application (or virus) has
    been installed.
    
    Check your macros for the presence of an autoexec, autoload or autosave
    macro.
2915.2QUARK::LIONELFree advice is worth every centWed Apr 30 1997 20:015
The "upgrade from wfw 3.11" is the key.  You've got macros that invoke 16-bit
DLLs, and this doesn't work with Word 97 (nor Word 95).  Remove all the macro
definitions from your template.

				Steve
2915.3That workedCUJO::PADILLAThu May 01 1997 01:1211
    Macros were the problem.  I deleted all the macros and now it seems to
    work just fine.  I'm still a little confused about where they might
    have come from since I don't use them (embarassed to admit I don't know
    how yet) and I don't get any documents from any sources other than my
    own creation ( at least on that particular box).  So, once again,
    Thanx!!
    
    
    Ernie
    
    
2915.4QUARK::LIONELFree advice is worth every centThu May 01 1997 01:474
    One place they can come from is fax utilities which add a macro so that
    you can fax a document directly from Word.
    
    				Steve