Q
quietlee2021
We have a Word document that is set up as a form, it contains several ActiveX
controls and does have a few VBA macro's associated with the controls. The
document has had a number of revisions using Word 2002 without any issues.
And the form gets loaded to our corporate portal for users to download and
use.
Our problem is the document had been edited in Office 2003, some text had
been deleted, and text added to a few Drop-Down Form Fields. The document is
protected when finished.
What we found was if the document is opened by users of Word 2002 (XP) they
get a MS Visual Basic dialog box warning: Can't exit design mode because
Control '<control name>' can not be created. When the document is
unprotected we find that the various ActiveX controls have had the Name
property changed, by appending a 1 to the end of the control name. Naturally
if the document is saved when opened in Word 2002, the name change to the
ActiveX control is also saved, corrupting the document for all users.
Track changes is turned off for the document. And I've been able to
consistently replicate the same behavior on different machines. And all
machines use XP Pro.
Questions of course are why is this occurring - as this is consistent this
isn't just the usual 'Office having problems with ActiveX copy and paste to a
new document' situation. And of course a suggestion as to a workaround?
Thanks in advance!
controls and does have a few VBA macro's associated with the controls. The
document has had a number of revisions using Word 2002 without any issues.
And the form gets loaded to our corporate portal for users to download and
use.
Our problem is the document had been edited in Office 2003, some text had
been deleted, and text added to a few Drop-Down Form Fields. The document is
protected when finished.
What we found was if the document is opened by users of Word 2002 (XP) they
get a MS Visual Basic dialog box warning: Can't exit design mode because
Control '<control name>' can not be created. When the document is
unprotected we find that the various ActiveX controls have had the Name
property changed, by appending a 1 to the end of the control name. Naturally
if the document is saved when opened in Word 2002, the name change to the
ActiveX control is also saved, corrupting the document for all users.
Track changes is turned off for the document. And I've been able to
consistently replicate the same behavior on different machines. And all
machines use XP Pro.
Questions of course are why is this occurring - as this is consistent this
isn't just the usual 'Office having problems with ActiveX copy and paste to a
new document' situation. And of course a suggestion as to a workaround?
Thanks in advance!