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Whoops! Sorry I didn’t get back more quickly. Yep, new profile seemed to clear out the dupe folders and the Distribution lists now show in the contacts list when you click the address list icon while addressing a message. Some of the personalizations (toolbars, layout) apparently do not carry over but that is not a real problem. Autocompletion does not seem to be working at all, though. Is there a setting somewhere to enable it that I have not found?

As it is now is definitely an improvement but autocompletion would be nice.

Thanks for the help.

Hmmm. And then import the data from the old profile somehow? I’ll have to look into that.

Thanks for the input.

I had found #1 on the slipstick site. Unfortunately has had no effect.

Both of the Personal Folders have the ‘close’ item greyed out.

The End of the Story

Well, based on the impression from the two new programs that they simply could not see Outlook, I decided to take action. I had already done a repair install of Office 2003 but this time I literally uninstalled Outlook and then installed it. And that did the trick.

Bizarre but … this is Microsoft after all.

Hi. Hope you haven’t retired and run off to Zanzibar. Still need your help with this one.

Yes, as you suggested I did the repair for Office (both 2000 and 2003). Still My Outlook Calendar fails with the Automation Error message. Based on a Google search on that error I reinstalled Windows Scripting Host and tested the MDAC version. Still no soap.

Today I threw up my hands and went looking for other printing apps. Amazingly, all the others I find are also Word macros. But I decided to try them. One is Outcal.dot and the other is OlCalndr.dot. They react the same as each other but differently from MyOlCal.

With MyOlCal, the macro blows up before the input/control form comes up. (The form is the module named MY.) With these two new macros, the form comes up and allows you to make your selections. But when you tell it to make a calendar it reports that ‘Outlook must be open and a calendar selected’ for them to work and then crashes out. So, apparently they cannot see that Outlook is there. I wonder if it is the same error and just a different error message for MyOlCal? And if true, what can be causing this?

On the other computer in the office, where MyOlCal still works fine, the other two programs also work just fine.

Does this Inspire any thoughts?

Sorry for the time lag. Weekend break and other worldly things.

The stop button (actually, it says break) is greyed out. If I disable the macros, References is active but it asks for a Password that I do not have. I did a search for My.show but nothing shows up.

References is greyed out. I tried clicking all around in the Tree View to see if something would make References available but no change.

Yes, both those modules are present. What debug shows when it pops up is this:

Public Sub Autonew()
Application.StatusBar = “Initializing. Please Wait…”
MY.Show
End Sub
Public Sub Restart()
DoEvents
MY.Show
End Sub

Does that help any?

Tried that today. Office 2003 indicates that it has loaded everything that it comes with. Still wants Office 2000 disk 2. Still won’t accept it.

Nuisance.

Thank you, John. It is a small blessing to know that at least I am not alone.

Thanks to Hans, I have an understanding of the problem and a possible macro based solution. Interesting discovering the limitations and quirks of various programs.

As always, the Lounge and the people who frequent it are great resources.

Many thanks.

HI. Hans pointed me to this discussion after I had a text wrap question. I had created a file in OpenOffice and then saved it in .xls format and was surprised that Excel did not show the wrapped merged cells properly. Anyhow, OOo seems to be more capable at wrapping text than Excel but, if you have to export it back to Excel format, the same problems are still there. If the file is for personal use, perhaps OOo would help solve your difficulties.

Of course, it would probably introduce difficulties of its own.

Interesting. The attached file has several rows as illustration. Only one of the rows is acting up as previously described. Others seem OK. Look at row 6. Note that you cannot see the text unless you change the cell format from text to general (forgot to mention that previously). After format change you can see first line but row will not autoexpand to show the rest of it.

Oh, that’s incredible. Exactly what I needed. Reduced an 11MB .pub to 450K.

Now why did they hide that?

Thank you so much for showing it to me.

Well, I discovered that you could change the default send action to be Send Later and that serves the purpose.