[mso] Re: Cannot open documents
- From: "Dian Chapman" <dian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:09:44 -0500
What that error message means is that there is a template with locked
code that is attempting to install when you go that route. Chances are
it's some addin template you have installed for enhancement of the
program. But there's an error in the code. It can't tell you the exact
error, because the code module is locked.
So you'll need to hunt out the troublemaker and remove or rename it. Go
to your ...office/startup and word/startup directories and look for any
*.dot files in them. Normally, none should be in there. But if someone
at your office is sharing templates or code modules (macros) with you,
there may be one or more inserted in there to open for global access
when you open a Word doc. Or you may have installed some program such as
Adobe, that has Word template macros it provides by inserting a shared
template in your startup dirs.
If it's an important template from your office, notify the maker that
there's a problem. If it's something you don't recognize, rather than
deleting it, you can just rename it to *.OLD. Then it won't try to
install...but if you later learn you need the code file for some reason,
you can easily rename it to access it again.
If it's some leftover garbage template you KNOW you don't need, you can
delete it or move it out of that dir.
Dian Chapman
Technical Consultant, Instructor,
Microsoft MVP & TechTrax Editor
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Wayne Hogue
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:06 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Cannot open documents
I have Word 2002, and now when I try to open a document using the open
document icon, I get a message: Compile error in hidden module:
modShadowMacro and it refuses to open any document. I can open My
Documents and open any file I want. But it is frustrating not to be able
to open from within Word. Any suggestions?
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