4248 error on users machines

[Joe Solarczyk]

Hi,

I have a VB app that opens a Word doc and replaces bookmarks with info from
a dataset. The bookmarks are located in both the header and body of the
document.

I have tested this with both Office 2003 and Office XP on my XP and Win2K
machines and it works without a hitch. However it consistantlty gets the
4248 error on several users machines. I put trace code in and the document
opens OK but gets the error as it attempts to replace the bookmark in the
header.

The Microsoft knowledge base doesn't seem to be of any help on this. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Joe

 

[BJLMorgan]

Jo

Are you using the macro to change the document properties?

 

[Peter Hewett]

Hi Joe Solarczyk

What is error 4248???? I don't know about you but I don't carry a lexicon of Word/Com
error messages around with me!

Cheers - Peter

Hi,

I have a VB app that opens a Word doc and replaces bookmarks with info from
a dataset. The bookmarks are located in both the header and body of the
document.

I have tested this with both Office 2003 and Office XP on my XP and Win2K
machines and it works without a hitch. However it consistantlty gets the
4248 error on several users machines. I put trace code in and the document
opens OK but gets the error as it attempts to replace the bookmark in the
header.

The Microsoft knowledge base doesn't seem to be of any help on this. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Joe

HTH + Cheers - Peter

 

[Andrew Cushen]

According to the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

<<
Run-time error '4248':
This command is not available because no document is
open.
The Knowledge Base (KB) addresses your problem here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;813983

That should be together with no spaces.

All I did was go to the KB:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;EN-
US;KBHOWTO

, set "Select a Microsoft Product" to "All Microsoft
Products" (setting it to Word 2003 would probably work
even better) and search on "Error 4248", including the
quotes. The article above, which is specific to Word 2003,
was the 3rd one from the top.

The MSKB is your friend!


-Andrew
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