missing file

[deveray]

Word 97 lost Veenlr3.hlp. It causes an error when trying to use Ring Central Fax from inside Word. It all went wrong when I loaded Word 2002. Upon discovering that 02 has an unacceptable design flaw (like 2000 before), I uninstalled, only to find the error, which leads to telling me the above file is missing. Trying to restore to an earlier date did not help.

Microsoft says the file is on Disk 7 of some sort of set, under the address of: Os\Msapps\Vba\Veenlr3.hlp

My error message says it belongs here: C:\\programfiles\commonfiles\microsoftshared\VBA\VEenLR3.hlp

 

[Graham Mayor]

It's a visual basic help file - and is on the Office 97 install CD -
http://www.microsoft.com/officedev/tips/VBAHlp.htm

What unacceptable design flaw?

If Ring Central Fax produces a driver in Control Panel > printers you
should be able to print to that driver from Word - any version. It is
usually add-ins for such programs that cause the problem and for simple
faxing are not required. The following macro will enable you to print to
fax - just change the name of the fax driver as appropriate:

Sub FaxPrint()
Dim sCurrentPrinter As String
sCurrentPrinter = ActivePrinter
ActivePrinter = "Fax"
Application.PrintOut FileName:=""
ActivePrinter = sCurrentPrinter
End Sub


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[Graham Mayor]

An unacceptable design flaw in general is to take something that
works and make it worse with no reverse format compatability.

Specifically, Word 2000 forced users to put up with a button down on
the Windows taskbar for every single document open in Word. With
someone like me, that can easily climb to 10 documents. No way to
shut it off. I prefer just hitting the WINDOW tab in Word to see
which documents are open, then choosing which to go to. Additionally,
I have added a command button called NEXT, which allows me at one
click to move onto the next doc in the list.

Frankly I found this a dramatic improvement, which really comes into its own
with Windows XP, which handles the task bar better.
The option to do it the old way was restored in Word 2002 and there is a
macro available to make Word 2000 do it the old
way.

Specifically, Word 2002 has a bug or glitch that no one seems to have
caught. If opening a document in Normal View that was created and or
closed in Normal View (where 99 percent of my work is done), the page
information down at the lower left corner does not appear, as it does
in Work 97.

ie: Page 14 Sec 1 14/15

I never noticed this as a problem when I used 2002, as I never use normal
view, except with huge documents. It is fixed, if in fact it was broken, in
2003.

Tech support knew of knew fix. Beyond that, Gates is into the blurred
or soft look since XP, and with this new release of Word. I simply
love crisp lines. Who knows how long it will be until clean
delineations return.

No accounting for taste

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[Margaret Aldis]

Specifically, Word 2002 has a bug or glitch that no one seems to have

caught. If opening a document in Normal View that was created and or closed
in Normal View (where 99 percent of my work is done), the page information
down at the lower left corner does not appear, as it does in Work 97.

ie: Page 14 Sec 1 14/15

I think you'll find this is determined by whether Tools > Options > General
Background repagination is checked. If it isn't Word does not recalculate
page numbers in Normal view. (I think this is the same in Word 97, but
maybe the status bar information isn't greyed out in that version?) Anyway,
if background repagination is checked, you'll see the page number OK, I
think.

 

[deveray]

I have seen the XP taskbar improvement for open windows, which allows scrolling the open docs in Word. That would be the same as the WINDOW tab in Word itself, only one step closer. Far superior to having 10 markers down on the Windows taskbar. You say that you liked all the markes. I can't see how because after seven or so, one can't read what they are anyway due to each one becoming so narrow. Then again, perhaps you have a far wider screen than I do. The problem with Word 2003 (and I'm still trying to find out why it came out one year after the previous edition) is that it requires XP. 2002 was the last one that worked backward to previous Windows editions. And XP, no surprise, will not allow one to use previous editions of Word. So getting one or the other requires purchasing its counterpart. At any rate, thanks again for the help. Nice chatting.