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Using Win2K/MSO2K.
haven't encountered this problem in a long time, mostly
because (1) i thought maybe MS had fixed it and (2) being
aware of what caused it i had avoided triggering it. But
came back this week.
In the past, i found that when a digital signature was
applied to an MS Word project with macros that contained
compile errors, and the file/template was saved in that
state, then when it was reopened (or sometimes immediately
after the sig was applied) the project completely locked
up (and this problem was 100% reproducible, back in
2000/01 anyway). So I have steadfastly avoided adding a
dig sig until all errors were dealt with on a template
project, but at least once last year i remade the mistake
and found the project still accessible.
i screwed up this week and accidentally applied a dig sig
to my normal.dot instead of the template i was working on
and saved it...and immediately realized my potential
mistake and removed the signature and resaved it...but
found it had locked up anyway next time i opened Word. Any
way you try to access it, either through the VB Editor or
programmatically, it says "Project is Unviewable" as if
normal.dot was acting like an add-in template.
i am hoping someone can tell me there has been a solution
for this in the last 3 years, or at least a way to get the
code out of a locked project...no one had any fixes
before. i had been so busy i hadn't backed up my own stuff
since march (my bad but what can you do about maintenance
work when there's job work to be done?). many (many!)
painful hours of code writing is trapped in this damaged
file. I will be forever indebted to anyone who can tell me
how to retrieve the code, if nothing else, from a locked
up .dot file.
thank you!!!!!
haven't encountered this problem in a long time, mostly
because (1) i thought maybe MS had fixed it and (2) being
aware of what caused it i had avoided triggering it. But
came back this week.
In the past, i found that when a digital signature was
applied to an MS Word project with macros that contained
compile errors, and the file/template was saved in that
state, then when it was reopened (or sometimes immediately
after the sig was applied) the project completely locked
up (and this problem was 100% reproducible, back in
2000/01 anyway). So I have steadfastly avoided adding a
dig sig until all errors were dealt with on a template
project, but at least once last year i remade the mistake
and found the project still accessible.
i screwed up this week and accidentally applied a dig sig
to my normal.dot instead of the template i was working on
and saved it...and immediately realized my potential
mistake and removed the signature and resaved it...but
found it had locked up anyway next time i opened Word. Any
way you try to access it, either through the VB Editor or
programmatically, it says "Project is Unviewable" as if
normal.dot was acting like an add-in template.
i am hoping someone can tell me there has been a solution
for this in the last 3 years, or at least a way to get the
code out of a locked project...no one had any fixes
before. i had been so busy i hadn't backed up my own stuff
since march (my bad but what can you do about maintenance
work when there's job work to be done?). many (many!)
painful hours of code writing is trapped in this damaged
file. I will be forever indebted to anyone who can tell me
how to retrieve the code, if nothing else, from a locked
up .dot file.
thank you!!!!!