Object names jumbled in word 2000 or 2002

[ontheball]

I have created a document in word 2003 which works just fine, but when
opening it in word 2000 or 2002 the vb object names get jumbled. For
instance, if the first checkbox in the document is called chk1 in 2003 it
could be called lbl_print when opening it in 2000 or 2002. There doesn't
seem to be any pattern which makes this difficult to solve. I have about 25
objects in the document and none of them are named what they should be. Any
suggestions?

 

[Cindy M.]

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I have created a document in word 2003 which works just fine, but when
opening it in word 2000 or 2002 the vb object names get jumbled. For
instance, if the first checkbox in the document is called chk1 in 2003 it
could be called lbl_print when opening it in 2000 or 2002. There doesn't
seem to be any pattern which makes this difficult to solve. I have about 25
objects in the document and none of them are named what they should be.

Did you explicitly assign names to these object? Or did you simply accept the
ones Word generated when you inserted them?

Generally, this is a problem for names Word generates. I've never known it to
happen for names assigned explicitly. OTOH, I've never tried to create a
document with ActiveX controls in Word 2003, then use it in an older version...

The problem may be some damage in the document, combined with the way Word will
tend to destroy and recreate these objects behind the scenes, as the user edits
in them. If you hold CTRL to start Word in safe mode (clean Normal.dot), insert
some controls in a new document and give them specific names, save, close. Then
take this document to an older version of Word - is it more stable than what
you're seeing now?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[woolfm]

You might test to see if the names are jumbled when you open the file on a
different computer. We just solved this problem for one of our employees by
completely uninstalling and reinstalling Office.