Ambiguous name detected: TmpDDE error in Word

[phbrsunshine \(remove this\)]

I am trying to print word document from a folder using
the tasks and toolbars menu or "right clicking" the
selected documents...this has been working fine. Now I
am getting a Visual basic error that says "Ambiguous name
detected: TmpDDE, and must open each document to print
it. Please help me, the folks at Dell tell me that it is
impossible to print without opening the documents...

Thank you,
Shannon

 

[Beth Melton]

Hi Shannon,

When you use the short cut menu to print a document a macro is
temporarily created in Word. This macro is stored in your Normal.dot.
This macro should be deleted but if you encountered an error and Word
was unable to delete the temporary macro then the next time you
attempt to print a macro with a duplicate name is encountered.

To resolve the issue you will need to start Word and go to
Tools/Macro/Macros and delete the TmpDDE macro.

If you are unable to resolve the problem then you can always create a
new Normal.dot. Locate Normal.dot and rename it to OldNormal.dot. Word
will create a new one upon starting.

If this resolves the problem, any customizations can be copied to the
new Normal.dot via the Organizer (Tools/Templates and Add-Ins) Once
this is complete OldNormal.dot can be discarded. If the problem still
exists then you can delete the new Normal.dot and rename your
OldNormal.dot to Normal.dot.

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[Beth Melton]

Thank you Beth Melton. This fixed my problem, finally.

Thank you again,
Shannon