[austechwriter] Re: Word argh

Hi Elizabeth,

You might have what I call a Macro-proof Word document, which was created with 
illegal (for MS-DOS/Windows) characters in the file name.

I've seen it happen when a writer I was working with saved a Word doc, which 
automatically captured the first line of text in the document (containing 
colons, slashes and the like) as its file name.

The Visual Basic simply would not converse with the file.

On the plus side, it's a great way to make your Word files macro virus proof.

It is wortha try to rename the file, but just renaming the document might not 
work, as VB will now recognize the file as something rather nasty.

If that is the case, you will need to copy and paste the content of the 
offending file into a new file, based on your associated template (in fact, 
make sure that the template doesn't have a dodgy file name as well).

Just make sure that when you save the file you keep its name brief, concise and 
system-legal.

So much for the (in)famous Windows long file name support!

Cheers,

Michael


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