"Word has detected that your computer has a version of Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker that is known to cause instabilities in Word 2002. To resolve this issue, download an update from Adobe System's web site." If you don't have reasonably recent version of Acrobat, forget that advice!
As outlined at MS site, find and rename PDFMaker.dot files to PDFMaker.old. Normally found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Startup
check boxes for Word
Checkbox Add-In - Lets you put active checkboxes in your documents without protecting them as forms! But this only works if the machine has CheckboxTemplate.dot in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Startup
convert to or from Office - DataViz
crash, Word and Excel crash after 10 seconds
Word crashes as soon as it opens
First rule out a temp file as the culprit. When you copy/paste between applications a temp file is created. If Word runs into a rogue temp file then many strange errors can occur.
First delete all temp (*.tmp) files:
- Exit Word and Outlook if you are using it as your email editor
- Go to Start/Find/Files or Folders
- Change "Look in" to reflect the drive/folder to the root of your Local drive.
- In the Named text box, type *.tmp
- Click the "Find Now" command
- Delete the temp files you find.
Should you encounter a "File in use" error, press <Ctrl> and click the file to deselect it.
As an additional note, the Owner file is another temporary files Word creates. If you have been experiencing multiple crashes or if Word has been hanging on you then it is best to search for Owner files (~$*.do?) and delete them as well. These can cause "file in use" and "read only" errors
hpzntp04.dll - remove the printer driver and then reinstalling when reconnecting to the network
a site with maybe an updated .dll
HP's drivers for 920c (Win 2K)
fixes - see updates
Key (product key), find - Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder,
2
macros
(Excel) - located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\XLSTART
Microsoft Works Spreadsheet file, convert to Excel - see also convert to or from Office
R & L Software conversion
utility (but this doesn't work when I download it -
How
to see full menus and get rid of that annoying arrow.
Click Tools, Customize, check Always show full menus
PDFMaker - see Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker
Product key
Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder,
2
Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office XP (administrative)
Service Pack 2 (SP2) - Important
Prior to installing Office XP SP2, you must install Office XP Service
Pack 1 (SP1).
Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Office XP (administrative)
SP1 for Office XP problem workaround update, 2
SP1 problem workaround update for Office XP
4.1: msiexec /p c:\office\MAINSP2ff.msp /a c:\office\proplus.msi SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb /L* c:\office\sp2Log.log
4.4: msiexec /p c:\office\Owc10SP2ff.msp /a c:\office\owc10.msi
SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb /L* c:\office\owc10.log
Shortcut
Tip Balloons
Click Tools,Customize, check Show shortcut keys in screen tips
uninstallation
package not supported
- Install the Windows Installer Cleanup tool
found at Z:\11 IT Station information\utilities\msicuu2.exe
- Find it in Start Menu/All Programs and run.
- Reinstall Office.
updates
automatically detect what updates you need for Office, 2
WinFaxPrintAndMerge - Compile Error in Hidden Module - see Compile Error in Hidden Module: WinFaxPrintAndMerge
Word for Windows
Compile Error in Hidden Module: WinFaxPrintAndMerge - Using Windows Explorer, locate and delete the existing macro file and then choose not to use macros with WinFax. The macro file is Wfword2k.dot and is located in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Startup folder. If you do this, stop here--you are done.
crashes - see crash, Word and Excel crash after 10 seconds
How to Shrink Down Word Files Ten-fold
For those of you who paste a lot of graphics
files into your Word XP (Word 2002) documents, have you ever noticed how big
those Word document files get? Here's a tip that will shrink those Word docs
down ten-fold!
1.
Open the Word document and save it
with a different name (this is so that you have the original copy of the
document just in case something goes haywire).
2.
With the Word document open, click
the Edit menu and then click Select All.
3.
Now that the entire document is
selected, Hold down the CTRL key. With the CTRL key held down, hold down the
SHIFT key. With the SHIFT key and the CTRL key held down, press the F9 key
(this is the CTRL+SHIFT+F9 keyboard combination).
4.
Save the document. Compare the size
of the new document with the size of the old one. We think you'll be pleasantly
surprised!
"Word has detected that your computer has a version of Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker that is known to cause instabilities in Word 2002" - see Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker
Works, Microsoft Spreadsheet file, convert to Excel - see Microsoft Works Spreadsheet file, convert to Excel