Re: Second Try: Word 2003 'Save As' Error on XP Box

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From: Beth Melton (bmelton_at_NoSpam4Memvps.org)
Date: 11/07/04 

Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 10:08:41 -0600

Glad to hear things are working again and thanks again for the posting
error update. :-) 

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"brian" <brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:EAE06132-358E-4F92-A496-74D82CEF1118@microsoft.com...
> Thank you Beth.  Regarding the posting error, yes I am using the 
> Office
> portal and am seeing the error.  In fact, if I get the error again, 
> I'll grab
> the text and paste it in a second reply to this message so that 
> you/MS see
> what I see.
>
> I did some checking on the MAPI error message [Managed MAPI Service
> Catastrophic Failure] I saw in Outlook and found numerous references 
> to the
> Business Contact Manager.  The Word and Outlook problems appear(for 
> now
> anyway) to have gone away after I did the following three things:
>
> 1.  Ran scanpst.exe on my outlook.pst file. This utility found 44 
> errors
> from the .pst file I initially brought across from Outlook XP that 
> I'm
> running on a W2K box nearby.
> 2.  Used the 'unofficial' patch described at
> http://blogs.officezealot.com/gorlach/archive/2004/07/20.aspx.
> 3.  Ran Office 2003's Detect and Repair utility.
>
> I'll see how things go from here.  For now, Word and Outlook are 
> humming
> along with no further issues.

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