What are "Disabled Items"?

[George]

Am using Word2002 (XP) on a WinXP-pro PC. Want to clean up what might be
"dead" items. In Word, clicked Help > About MS Word > Disabled items... and
see:

Document: old1995letter.wpd
Document: Palmapp.dot
Addin: palmapp.dot

For "Document: old1995letter.wpd", there's no such file on the PC any more
at all. I put cursor on it and clicked ENABLE, it went away and never came
back, which is good (I think). (How'd a long-since-delete file get in there
anyway?)

What are Palm ones for? Can I select, ENABLE, and make them disappear? I
don't know of any Palm application I installed that uses Word. And, there's
no reference to Palm anywhere under the lists in Tools > Macro > Macros

Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is very intriguing. Ordinarily Palmapp.dot would be in your Word or
Office Startup folder and would load when you start Word. I don't know how
you would manage to "disable" it except to uncheck it (unload it) in Tools |
Templates and Add-ins, and that wouldn't prevent it from loading the next
time you start Word. I'd be curious to know what happens if you do enable
it.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

During my Blaster adventure, I got a similar message about DataPrompter.dot,
but the message was not that Word had disabled it but a question as to
whether I wanted to disable it, which I did, then reenabled it after
starting, then restarted without error, etc. All part of the fun!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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