Re: Word 2004 freezing on launch in Tiger--HOLDING DOWN SHIFT KEY ON LAUNCH WORKS!!

There are numerous reports of toxicity associated with PDFMaker.dot, but
you're the first to report this effect from it :-)


On 19/8/05 7:08 PM, in article jit.1u093e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "jit"
<jit.1u093e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> I've had the same freeze and Microsoft Error reporting problem on 2 macs
> since installing Tiger (Office 2004). On one I finally did a clean
> install and reinstalled Office and Adobe CS. I didn't reinstall my font
> management program, nor my 6000 fonts. This resolved the problem.
>
> Word was fine for 2 days, with the only customization being one added
> shortcut (paste special) and one quick toolbar created. I used
> Illustrator and InDesign intensively too with no problems. This means
> that the Adobe fonts installed by CS didn't create any issues. But then
> I opened Acrobat, causing it to install the Adobe PDFMaker macro, and my
> problem returned.
>
> I've deleted PDFMaker.dot from Office/Startup/Word PDFMaker from
> ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft, and PDFMakerLib from Microsoft Office
> 2004. For good measure, I also deleted PDFMaker.xla from
> Office/Startup/Excel and PDFMaker.ppa from Office/Startup/PowerPoint.
> So far so good.
>
> Do others with this problem have the PDFMaker.dot installed?
>
> Jim
>

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