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Sheila Hoffman
I've posted for help on the Public Word Doc Management group and a couple of
MVP types have tried to help. So far though nothing is helping. I've
reinstalled Word and I have NO add-ons. I've reset the register per:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm". However that did
not fix the issue. I'm wondering if anyone else has any ideas?
This is so wierd. I have Word 2000 as part of Office for Small Business.
When I try to save a file I give it a name and choose a directory, but Word
saves it with the first few words as the file name and saves it to the root
directory instead of where I choose. I tried re- installing Office but it's
still doing the same thing. We're running on Windows 98SE (it's an old
machine). Any ideas what to try. It's most frustrating. Sometimes I can't
even find the file at all after I save it. And this happens every time
whether I do save or save as.
The issue is on my husband's machine. Today I asked him this morning if he
has the same issue in Excel. He doesn't. I just thought that'd tell me if it
was Office-wide or just Word. It appears to be just Word. I also asked him
if he had any other issues in Word. He informed me that indeed he did. He
can't do a search or a search/replace. He says what happens is "I can see
the outline of the dialog box in the bottom corner of the screen as it tris
to open, it rapidly progresses to the middle of the screen growing larger,
then it POPS as if it's a soap bubble and disappears completely." I went to
look. His description is accurate. MOST ODD. Obviously something's corrupt.
You said the resintall I did didn't overwrite stuff. Would it be
constructive to completely remove Word and resinstall? Would that involve
removing all of Office? I don't want to muck up his Outlook since it's
working fine.
Thanks,
Sheila
MVP types have tried to help. So far though nothing is helping. I've
reinstalled Word and I have NO add-ons. I've reset the register per:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm". However that did
not fix the issue. I'm wondering if anyone else has any ideas?
This is so wierd. I have Word 2000 as part of Office for Small Business.
When I try to save a file I give it a name and choose a directory, but Word
saves it with the first few words as the file name and saves it to the root
directory instead of where I choose. I tried re- installing Office but it's
still doing the same thing. We're running on Windows 98SE (it's an old
machine). Any ideas what to try. It's most frustrating. Sometimes I can't
even find the file at all after I save it. And this happens every time
whether I do save or save as.
The issue is on my husband's machine. Today I asked him this morning if he
has the same issue in Excel. He doesn't. I just thought that'd tell me if it
was Office-wide or just Word. It appears to be just Word. I also asked him
if he had any other issues in Word. He informed me that indeed he did. He
can't do a search or a search/replace. He says what happens is "I can see
the outline of the dialog box in the bottom corner of the screen as it tris
to open, it rapidly progresses to the middle of the screen growing larger,
then it POPS as if it's a soap bubble and disappears completely." I went to
look. His description is accurate. MOST ODD. Obviously something's corrupt.
You said the resintall I did didn't overwrite stuff. Would it be
constructive to completely remove Word and resinstall? Would that involve
removing all of Office? I don't want to muck up his Outlook since it's
working fine.
Thanks,
Sheila