Re: form crashes Word 98

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The following article should help:
<http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/TroubleshootWord2001.htm>
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I suggest looking first at the sections on Memory and Corrupt Documents.

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On 4/22/05 3:14 PM, in article
1114208057.634776.288950@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "fogharty@xxxxxxxxx"
<fogharty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> All I wanted to do is create a form for people to fill-in
> electronically.
>
> It's full of check boxes and text fields and all that, but it crashes
> my Mac running OS 9.2.2, and other computers running OS 10.3.
>
> It's only the protected version of the form that crashes, my
> unprotected, editable form is OK.
> Obviously something is corrupted, but I can't figure out how to fix it
> (I've tried starting from scratch, using less fields, etc.)
>
> Is there a way to have the user enter text without using text fields,
> but then can I have them use check boxes and drop-downs elsewhere
> within the same document?
>
> I'm creating the form on a Mac G4 running OS 9.2.2 and Word 98. It will
> be used by a number of people running all combinations of operating
> systerms (Word, 2001, XP, Panther, etc.) I need the final result to be
> a Word file of some kind (not html).
>
> Thank you
>

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