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From: legg@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Christian Legg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: W4W Header Problem
Message-ID: <1525@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
Date: 27 Sep 90 04:46:30 GMT
Sender: legg@ucs.adelaide.edu.au
Organization: Information Technology Division, The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
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  I wonder if anyone else has come across this 'problem'..

  We are running Word for Windows version 1.1 (though the same problem is
evident in 1.0) under Windows 3.

  Loading one particular file (10 pages, w4w format) gives us header
problems. After loading the file, the header that it was saved with appears
correctly in print preview mode. Attempting to edit the header will then
bring up an empty header window. Clicking the close button on this empty
header window causes an unrecoverbale error to occur, crashing us out of
w4w. Typing in some header text then clicking close records the new
header information so that print preview looks ok, but subsequent editing
of the header window brings up an empty header window and the program will
crash when close is pressed.

  Opening this file in page view mode causes the program to crash with
the same 'unrecoverbale error' message.

  It seems like the file is jinxed in some way. Saving it in RTF format,
then loading it back in and saving it over its original instance removes
the problem, and headers can be edited and function as headers should.
Similarly, files created from scratch seem OK.

  These problems occurred regularly in standard and 386 enhanced mode,
with both w4w 1.0 and 1.1 under Windows 3. w4w 1.0 locks up at the same
place as the crash point when run under its runtime windows.

  So, any ideas? Microsoft down under don;t know enough about their
products to tell me what the matter is. Has anyone else come across it,
and is there a better way to handle it?

  cheers

    Christian Legg

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