error message"this command is not available in this version of Microsoft Word"

[yodamaster]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel use the german version - but the message should be about that. this happens in a file i am using for days without problems. it is not locked for editing - i would not know about anything i've done. since today i get this message, whenever i want to type within my document. after i hit the OK button in the message window it dissappears and i can go on. until it pops up the next time... it does NOT matter, WHAT i type in: a blank, a character, a tab... and this is not in a field, just normal text...

anybody knows what happened?

this behaviour remains the same, if i copy all the text and paste it in a new doc.

by the way: i had this happening before. opening a file to type within it, and then this message comes up...

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi,

I guess the important questions are: how up-to-date are both Word and Mac OS
X? It is always a good idea to install all the latest updates, as they may
fix some of the problems you have been experiencing. One more question:
where did the document come from? Was it created on a Windows PC running
Word 2007, or Word 2010 beta? Is there anything special about the document,
i.e. does it contain macros or linked content from Excel etc.?

 

[yodamaster]

this is the strange thing: the document was created on my MAC - using office 2008 - current updates - OSX Leopard - current updates as well...
no makros, no excel, no fields... just a text file with TABs and keyboard shortcuts using the auto-correct feature...

the same file giving that much trouble now "behaves" well. this happened to me before - several times - on 3 different computers - all osx - all current drivers & updates..

the same files run flwless on my WIN XP office... this only happens in office for mac..

 

[John McGhie]

These can be VERY difficult to find :-(

The error message means that when you do a particular thing, you are making
a call to a part of Microsoft Office that does not exist in Word 2008.

Unless we can figure out what the thing that you are doing is (exactly what
it is...) it can be impossible to guess what it might be.

Often, it means that made a call to a non-existent VBA module.

That may be the document, or it may he a "Helper" application. Be very
suspicious of things such as spelling applications and synching
applications, those that interact with Word.

Of course it will work find in Office XP/2003, because that has the VBA
modules required.

If you open the document in Word 2003 and check in the VBA editor for
modules, forms, or toolbars in the document, you may be able to see whatever
it is (a document created in Word 2008 should not have any of those in the
document: in the template, maybe, but not in the document!).

Hope this helps

this is the strange thing: the document was created on my MAC - using office
2008 - current updates - OSX Leopard - current updates as well...
no makros, no excel, no fields... just a text file with TABs and keyboard
shortcuts using the auto-correct feature...

the same file giving that much trouble now "behaves" well. this happened to me
before - several times - on 3 different computers - all osx - all current
drivers & updates..

the same files run flwless on my WIN XP office... this only happens in office
for mac..

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