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I suggested a number of clear, valid testing procedures to find the problem.
Why "babbled?"
Furthermore, if you *hadn't* deleted Lorraine's original post, you would
have seen that all users have the same version of Word. Therefore, your
"version incompatibility" suggestion is just so much... well, have a nice
day.
Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zola [mailto:zola -at- zolaweb -dot- com]
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 12:02 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: Word 2000 WINWORD error
>
> At 09:19 AM 5/17/2004, Goldstein, Dan babbled happily:
> ><snip>
> >* Have a few other people try opening the document. If they
> can open it,
> >then the problem is in his local Word installation, not in
> the document.
>
> I inadvertently deleted the original post...
>
> It may just be a version incompatibility. Try saving it as an
> rtf and he
> can put it back in Word Format when he gets it. (assuming you
> aren't using
> error tracking etc.)
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