problem with commandbutton names (Word 2003)

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Hello All,
I created a Word document with fields, sections and command buttons. Every section is protected / blocked except the section that the user has to work in.
After the user has filled the fields and text areas he/she presses the command button of that section. The section is signed with his/her login name and the date, the section is protected and the next section is unprotected, the document is saved and send via e-mail to the next person to work in his/her section.
This al works very well.
I named the command buttons: cmdPartA, cmdPartB etc.

And now the strange thing:
I have to change some text in the document. So I open the document, unprotect it and change the text. Then the document is protected again and is saved with a new name.
When I open this new document all seems okay, but after a few seconds a message is shown:
“Kan de ontwerpmodus niet afsluiten omdat besturingselement cmdPart011 niet kan worden gemaakt”
(Sorry it is a Dutch text, translated it is something like: “can’t exit design mode because control cmdPart011 can’t be created ”

The strange effect is that al the names of my command buttons have been changed: cmdPartA11, cmdPartB11, etc.
The only way to get rid of this problem is to recreate the document from scratch.

I hope someone has a solution for me.

Thanks in advance for your answer.

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Do you create the command buttons in code? If so, could you post the code?

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Hello Hans,

No, I create to buttons by hand in the document and than change the properties to give them a proper name.

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(For others reading this: Patrick sent me a sample document by e-mail)

Hi Patrick,

I have tried to reproduce the problem that you described but I haven’t been able to do so in Word 2002 SP3.
I unprotected the document, edited some text, then protected it for forms again, but the command buttons kept their original names and they still worked as intended (I tested each of them, after modifying the code so that the e-mails weren’t actually sent). The document was saved in between. Closing and reopening the document, and quitting and restarting Word made no difference.

So I’m afraid I have no idea what causes the problem for you, or how to solve it.

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Hans,

Thanks for the effort.
My conclusion is that this seems to be a local problem. So I will take it up with our IT department.
Thanks

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(Edited by wdwells on 13-Jan-09 08:08. On second reading, my usert’s problem was not identical, but similar,)

Hi Patrick
One of my users had a similar problem. The solution printed below solved it. This is adapted from Hans’ post found here to address Office 11 instead of Office 12.

– Quit all instances of Word.
– Select Start | Run…
– Type regedit and press Enter or click OK.
– Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice11.0WordData.
– Use File | Export to export the Data key to a .reg file.
– With Data still selected, select Edit | Delete or press the Delete key.
– Confirm that you want to delete this key and all subkeys.
– Start Word again to see if the problem is gone.
– If not, you can restore the Data key by opening the .reg file that you saved.

H.T.H.

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Hello Don,

Thanks for your reply.
Unfortunately I am not able to check this because of restrictions our company sets on user accounts.
But I will discuse this later on with out IT department.

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