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Thanks Hans.

Hi Hans,
I downloaded and installed CCleaner to give it a try. Looked in Options and there are a lot of checkboxes. Do you use the default settings? Becaus if I do and hit analyze there’s an awful lot of registry entries in the list. Among others many, many ‘extensions’. Not sure about those…

Thanks. You solved a problem I wasn’t yet aware of I had it…
Right after reading this a user called with the question why she only saw the first page in print preview.
Your suggestion hit the nail on the head. Great timing!

It stands for “Binary Large OBject”, but I haven’t a clue what exactly alexanderd means by using that word…

> Your current PATA (IDE) HDD wont’ be able to be used

You’re right, of course. But t8ntlikly can buy a USB HDD case for around $25 to put it in and use as an external USB drive.

Thanks for clarification!

>> but if there is a macro named AutoOpen in a standard module, it will be run when Word statrs (and loads the add-in).

Now I’m confused Hans. I thought you needed a Sub Main in a module called AutoExec to run code when Word starts…

Once in a while I experienced similar problems with FormField formats. I think it’s some form of corruption. The solution that always works for me is to remove that FormField, add a fresh one and set the correct name and settings again.

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wouldn’t it be a great feature if a file tooltip showed the contents of that comments field

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[/indent] Total Commander is a very good alternative for Windows Explorer, with two panes and many useful features. A kind of “Swiss army knife” shareware program. It has an option to put comments, if available, in a sort of tooltip if you hover over the filename.

(Edited by JanB on 30-Oct-06 09:10. added second sentence)

There’s another very useful command preventing users to accidently hide a (custom) toolbar and then calling the helpdesk to get it back again. It removes the commandbar from the list you get when you right-click on the toolbar area.

CommandBars(“MyBar”).Protection = msoBarNoChangeVisible

Maybe in the BIOS the option “Wake On LAN” is enabled. If so, disable it.

Maybe it can be done with a little scripting using AutoIt, a Windows automation language. It can be used to script most simple Windows-based tasks.

Hans,
A bit off topic, but if Phil’s excellent post is for Word XP and 2003 too, shouldn’t that be reflected in the title too?

(Edited by JanB on 26-Oct-06 08:31. )

I think your users won’t be very grateful when they get this MsgBox every time they create or open a document.
As an alternative, you could create a module AutoExec, with a Sub Main. This will be executed each time Word starts. Put the code in here too, including the MsgBox, and drop this MsgBox from Document_New and Document_Open.

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Forgot to mention that this code should be in a global template, located in the Word Startup folder.

I would try 3 things:

1. Rename Private Sub FillDocProperties and it’s calling line(s) so that it has a unique name in the entire project.
2. If that doesn’t help, then export the whole module as a .bas file, delete the module from the project and import it again.
3. If that didn”t cure the problem, I’d export all modules and build the template from scratch, importing all modules into the new project, to get rid of any corruption

PS
Maybe it’s sufficient to put your picture at your co-workers desk?