Print dialog rejects entries text

[henryn]

Folks:

Office 2004
MacOS 10.3.7

I'm printing a 100 page document which includes in-line graphics to multiple
PDF files, with the restriction that no PDF file size may exceed about 1
megabyte. (Why? Email attachment size limitations.)

So I'm spending a lot of time in the File--> dialog box, entering page
ranges. If a PDF file produced is too big, I delete it (in the Finder) and
try again.

I'm not editing the document at all.

Starting with a fresh launch of Word, I can print up to maybe 5 times at
most before the print dialog rejects text entries in the Page Range field --
in fact, in all fields. The dialog is still "live" -- I can change the
radio buttons and print. But I can't enter text.

If I quit and restart Word, I can enter text -- for maybe a couple of times
through the print dialog, maybe just once, then the problem reoccurs.

Not that this should matter, but the text I'm entering is "generic" -- no
special characters.

My system seems otherwise healthy.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Henry

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[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hiya Henry:

I am sure you will be delighted to know that you have found a bug, and I
have sent it off to the developers for you

I can only speculate on that one. The dialog you are in is a Mac OS dialog,
and I think it's a Finder sub-window.

I can only assume that each time you do this, you create a phantom File Open
lock on the original document, until eventually you run out of file handles.
The later versions of OS X seem to have acquired a "lazy" handling of temp
file clean-up, which probably isn't helping.

I would be interested to know whether a) Logging out, or b) Rebooting would
clear the problem. I suspect it would. Not that that would be seen as any
kind of a solution

Cheers

Folks:

Office 2004
MacOS 10.3.7

I'm printing a 100 page document which includes in-line graphics to multiple
PDF files, with the restriction that no PDF file size may exceed about 1
megabyte. (Why? Email attachment size limitations.)

So I'm spending a lot of time in the File--> dialog box, entering page
ranges. If a PDF file produced is too big, I delete it (in the Finder) and
try again.

I'm not editing the document at all.

Starting with a fresh launch of Word, I can print up to maybe 5 times at
most before the print dialog rejects text entries in the Page Range field --
in fact, in all fields. The dialog is still "live" -- I can change the
radio buttons and print. But I can't enter text.

If I quit and restart Word, I can enter text -- for maybe a couple of times
through the print dialog, maybe just once, then the problem reoccurs.

Not that this should matter, but the text I'm entering is "generic" -- no
special characters.

My system seems otherwise healthy.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Henry

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