Re: Does Word SP-3 address the old problem of a build-up of list templates?

From: Charles Kenyon (msnewsgroup_at_remove.no.spam.addbalance.com)
Date: 04/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:14:51 -0500

Once a document is corrupt, merely opening it in a fixed system isn't likely
to help the document. I suspect (without knowledge) that the fix keeps the
number from building up, it doesn't fix existing buildup. 

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"Mary" <leckavrea-nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:e9TzOR%23JEHA.3924@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I've just been sent a "bad" Word file by a colleague to see if Word 2000
> SP-3 still sees it as corrupt. And yes, it did. I used Visual Basic Editor
> to check the number of list templates in the document and it returned a
> count of 2282.
>
> So it seems manually editing the registry is still necessary even after
> updating Word to SP-3. I wonder why the MS Knowledge Base article says
"This
> problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1/SR-1a."
>
> "John McGhie [MVP - Word]" <john@mcghie.name> wrote in message
> news:BCAC7602.EB49%john@mcghie.name...
> > From memory, that fix was applied with SP 1 for Word 2000.
> >
> >
> > This responds to article <mht8809r1o3h1a0e5olhkdvloihol85bau@4ax.com>,
> from
> > "Word Heretic" <myfullname@tpg.com.au> on 20/4/04 11:01 AM:
> >
> > > G'day "Mary" <leckavrea-nospam@yahoo.com>,
> > >
> > > Like you say, it's unclear although I tend to think it _has_ been
> > > implemented.
> > >
> > > Steve Hudson - Word Heretic
> > > Want a hyperlinked index? S/W R&D? See WordHeretic.com
> > >
> > > steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment)
> > >
> > >
> > > Mary reckoned:
> > >
> > >> I'm using Office 2000 on Windows XP. I've had problems in the past
with
> > >> documents which had a build-up of list templates. Then I discovered
MS
> > >> Knowledge Base Article 241581, which addresses this issue. I made the
> > >> necessary edit to the Windows registry which corrected the problem.
> > >>
> > >> Recently I got a new system (also Windows XP). After installing
Office
> 2000,
> > >> I applied all the updates from the MS site, so now Word shows as
> version
> > >> 9.0.6926 SP-3. Do these updates automatically address the list
template
> > >> issue, or is it still necessary to manually edit the registry? The KB
> > >> article does not make it clear whether the lastest updates
> automatically
> > >> correct the problem?
> > >>
> > >
> >
> > -- 
> >
> > Please respond only to the newsgroup to preserve the thread.
> >
> > John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer,
> > McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
> > Sydney, Australia.  GMT + 10 Hrs
> > +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@mcghie.name
> >
> >
>
>

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