Re: Does Word SP-3 address the old problem of a build-up of list templates?
From: Mary (leckavrea-nospam_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/21/04
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:51:15 -0400
Charles, actually I know from experience that opening such a corrupt
document (where the corruption is caused by a buildup of list templates)
does "fix" the document. The corruption message is no longer present and the
number of list templates is reduced. However, the fix happens automatically
as soon as you open the document and unless you know that the previous owner
has had a corruption message and (less likely) had checked the no. of list
templates, you would not be aware that anything had happened.
I work for a company where most Word users are still on 97 and few of them
have applied the fix as the tech support department is reluctant to have
them edit the registry. So they frequently encounter this particular breed
of corruption. My original question was prompted by the fact that some have
now moved to Word 2000 and I was wondering if they still need to manually
edit the registry or if SP-3 would have automatically fixed this problem.
"Charles Kenyon" <msnewsgroup@remove.no.spam.addbalance.com> wrote in
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> 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.
> --
>
> Charles Kenyon
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> "Mary" <leckavrea-nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > 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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