Re: "Microsoft Reporting Error" bug in Tiger?

Unlike some of the others in this thread my biggest problem is in the
Microsoft Reporting Error process.

Office 2004's "Microsoft Reporting Error" sub-application or script, itself,
appears to have bugs.

On every single occasion that it's been activated during Entourage or Word
operations, "Microsoft Reporting Error" ITSELF freezes.

Force-quit, then, has failed to quit either "MRE" or the in-trouble Office
application.

Usually, after after MRE is dancing in the dock (but never functioning),
it has jammed even Activity Monitor and normal Finder shutdown. It has
never responded to Force Quit and only on a couple occasions responded to
killing the MRE and other frozen Office process in Activity Monitor.

On re-starting the computer, no problems can be found when running Disk
Utility, DiskWarrior 3.0.3, or TechTool Pro 4.0.5. Rebuilding Entourage
11.1 does not prevent the problem from re-occurring nor does removing the
Word normal template.

Respectfully, Norm



On 9/2/05 2:03 PM, in article BF3E3645.25888%dummy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Pete"
<dummy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I just remembered that in addition to doing what I wrote below, I also
> opened up font book and resolved any duplicate fonts I had. For me at
> least, the combination of those two things seemed to have fixed things...for
> now...
>
>
> On 9/2/05 4:49 PM, in article BF3E330C.25881%dummy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Pete"
> <dummy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> Make that three! (1.25 gHz AlPB, 512). Although
>>
>> I may have recently tracked down a solution (or at least a fix that has
>> worked for me thus far...). With some detective work help from posters at
>> arstechnica.com, it looked like Word was crashing when it was trying to save
>> the normal template just before it quit. I went to the MUD folder, removed
>> the normal template and restarted Word, forcing it to create a new normal
>> template. I had customized my previous normal template with some toolbars,
>> styles, etc. and, using the style organizer, I moved the customizations from
>> the old template into the newly created one. I haven't had a Word crash on
>> quit since then! /fingers crossed
>>
>> Let the list know if this works for you too!
>>
>

.

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