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Q265374: WD97: Post Service Release Fixes for Word 97

Article: Q265374
Product(s): Word 97 for Windows
Version(s): 
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbdta word8 word97
Last Modified: 28-DEC-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Word 97 for Windows 
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SUMMARY
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Microsoft has made available several releases of fixes for Microsoft Word 97 for
Windows.

For additional information, click the article numbers below to view the articles
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q171159 WD97: List of Fixed Problems in Word 97 for Windows, SR-1

  Q151020 OFF97: List of Fixed Problems in Office 97 for Windows, SR-2

In addition, Microsoft is making available additional fixes that are not part of
either Service Release 1 (SR-1) or Service Release 2 (SR-2). These combined
fixes are now available as part of the latest Microsoft Word 97 Update. The
latest Word 97 update available is:

  Word 97 Update: Macro Vulnerability

MORE INFORMATION
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To obtain the latest Microsoft Word 97 Update, browse to the following Microsoft
Web site:

  http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/9798/Wd97mcrs.aspx

NOTE: This fix requires that you first install Office 97 Service Release 2b
(SR-2b). For more information about Office 97 SR-2b, please visit the following
Microsoft Web site:

  http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/9798/sr2off97detail.aspx

After you install this latest Word 97 update, when you click About Microsoft Word
on the Help menu, the version information is changed to reflect the current
version of Word, as in the following:

  Microsoft (r) Word 97 SR-2
  Copyright (c) 1983-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. (QFE 8909)

If you attempt to run this update again on a system on which the patch is already
installed, you receive the following message:

  The patch is already installed.

If you reinstall Microsoft Word 97 for Windows, you must reinstall this update.

For additional information about the version history of Microsoft Word 97 for
Windows (Microsoft Office 97 for Windows), click the article number below to
view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q248710 OFF97: Overview and History of Office 97 Patches

For more information about the installation of the Word 97 Update: Macro
Vulnerability fix, please see the Readme.txt file.

Fixes Included in "Word 97 Update: Macro Vulnerability"
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  Released: May 2001

The following fixes are included in this update. All fixes from earlier updates
are also included in this update.

To view the Microsoft Knowledge Base article about the problem and its fix, click
the link for the article that you want:

  Q214652 WD97: Macro Warning Doesn't Appear Opening File Attached to Template
  That Contains Macros

  When you open a Word document or RTF format file that is attached to a
  template that contains macros, the macro virus warning message may not
  appear. Word provides a macro warning message when a document that contains a
  macro is opened; however, if that document is attached to a non-trusted
  template that contains a macro, no warning is issued.

  Q279501 WD97: Error Message When You Scroll in Document That Contains Table

  When you scroll (or use Page Up or Page Down) through a Word document
  containing a table, an error message may appear.

  Q297406 WD97: Wrong Number of Misspelled Words When Checking Spelling

  When you attempt to check the spelling of your Word document, Word may
  indicate an incorrect number of misspelled words.

Fixes Included in "Word 97 Update: Mail Merge Security"
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  Released: October 2000

The following fixes are included in this update. All fixes from earlier updates
are also included in this update.

NOTE: The fixes listed in this update are also included in the latest Word 97
update listed at the beginning of this article.

To view the Microsoft Knowledge Base article about the problem and its fix, click
the link for the article that you want:

  Q163807 WD97: Illegal Operation Opening Form Field Options Dialog Box

  When you attempt to view the Options dialog box for a form field, you may
  receive an Invalid Page Fault error in MSO97.DLL.

  Q172488 WD97: Unexpected Results When Clicking Between Text Form Fields

  When you click a text form field, an Entry or Exit macro may not run or a
  form field of type Calculation may not update.

  Q191281 WD97: DocProperty Field Truncated After 127 Characters

  When you insert the contents of a document property into a Word document, the
  contents of the field may be truncated after 127 characters.

  Q256571 WD97: Word Stops Responding During Spelling and Grammar Check in Page
  Layout View

  When you open a document in page layout view, and the Check Spelling and
  Grammar check box is selected, Word stops responding when it reaches a blank
  header or footer that contains a paragraph mark.

  Q260279 WD97: Access Violation When You Move Insertion Point into Table Cell
  in Unprotected Part of Form

  When you move the insertion point into a table cell within an unprotected
  section from a protected form section that contains macro code that runs on
  exit from the protected cell, an exception access violation occurs.

  Q272749 WD97: Macros Enabled Using Access Database File in Word

  When you use a Microsoft Access database file that contains macros in
  Microsoft Word, Word does not display the macro virus warning message.

  Q272751 WD97: Macros Are Enabled When Word Automatically Opens ASD Files

  When Word automatically recovers a document from a previous session of
  Microsoft Word, macros contained in the document are enabled, and no macro
  warning message is displayed.

  Q274249 WD97: Macros Enabled Using Access Database File in Mail Merge
  Document

  When you open a Word mail merge document from either an e-mail attachment or
  a Web location (Internet-defined, intranet-defined, or Internet
  Explorer-defined Restricted Sites zone) that contains information from a
  Microsoft Access database, macros contained in the database may be enabled,
  and Word may not display the macro virus warning message.

Fixes Included in "Word 97 Update: Leap Year"
---------------------------------------------

The following fixes are included in this update. All fixes from earlier updates
are also included in this update.

NOTE: The fixes listed in this update are also included in the latest Word 97
update listed at the beginning of this article.

To view the Microsoft Knowledge Base article about the problem and its fix, click
the link for the article that you want:

  Q143147 WD97: Word Does Not Receive Subsequent Updates from DDE Server

  When communicating via DDE from a DDEML server with Microsoft Word 97 for
  Windows, the DDE link may stop updating when a DDE conversation is going on
  simultaneously on the same topic with more than one item.

  Q146584 WD97: Deleted Text Reappears with Tracked Changes On

  When you are working in a Word document, deleted text may reappear.

  Q146593 WD97: Corrupted Field Codes in the Header or Footer with Save Preview
  Picture

  Fields in the header or footer of a document appear incorrectly, Word stops
  responding (hangs) when you delete text in the header or footer, or you
  receive an invalid page fault (IPF) in module Winword.exe when you save the
  document as RTF.

  Q159678 WD97: Incorrect SECTIONPAGES or NUMPAGES Field When Printed

  The result of the SECTIONPAGES field or NUMPAGES field is printed
  incorrectly, although it is displayed correctly on the screen.

  Q168729 WD97: View Merged Data Fails After Using Find Record

  After you use Find Record (on the Mail Merge toolbar) in a mail merge
  document, View Merged Data no longer updates the merge fields in the merge
  document.

  Q172918 WD97: Dot or Dash Border Lost Opening Word 6.x, 7.x Document

  When you open a Microsoft Word 6.x or 7.x document in Word 97, dot or dash
  borders on inline (non-floating) objects are lost.

  Q176470 WD97: Next Page Section Break Changes to Odd

  When you enter a next page section break and change the subsequent paper
  orientation (portrait to landscape or landscape to portrait), the next page
  section break may turn into an odd page section break.

  Q187483 WD97: Word Generates Application Error When File Saved in RTF

  When you save a Microsoft Word 97 document in Rich Text Format (RTF), you may
  receive an application error in WINWORD.exe.

  Q214598 WD97: Merge to Printer Causes "Fields Nested Too Deeply" Error

  If a Word document contains IF fields and you select Merge to Printer on the
  Mail Merge toolbar, you receive the "Fields nested too deeply" error message.

  Q214652 WD97: No Macro Warning Appears When You Open File Attached to
  Template That Contains Macros

  When you open a document file that is attached to a template that contains
  macros, the macro virus warning message may not appear. Word provides a macro
  warning message when a document that contains a macro is opened; however, if
  that document is attached to a non-trusted template that contains a macro, no
  warning is issued.

  Q219541 WD97: Indications of Revisions Are Lost After Copy and Paste

  In Word 97, when you copy text that includes tracked changes from one Word
  document and paste the text into another Word document, the pasted text no
  longer contains the indications of revisions that were made in the original
  document (underlining, bolding, strikethrough, or font color).

  Q220339 WD97: STYLEREF Field in Header May Cause Word to Stop Responding

  When you page through the headers of a Word document that contains a STYLEREF
  field, Word may stop responding (hang).

  Q227831 WD97: Track Changes Shows Changes When None Were Made

  When you create a document in Word 97 that contains an outline numbered list,
  save the document, and then turn on the "track changes" feature, the text is
  marked as having been modified.

  Q229742 WD97: Error Message After You Undo a Deletion of a Section Break

  In Microsoft Word 97 for Windows, when you try to print a document, perform a
  mail merge, delete the last character in a document, scroll through a
  document, select all and press DELETE, or open a file, you may receive an
  application error or an invalid page fault in WINWORD.exe.

  Q229867 Word 97: Security Breach with Word Temp Files, NTFS Permissions

  Temp files created by Word on an NTFS partition during large copy-and-paste
  operations do not inherit security attributes from the associated document.

  Q229869 WD97: Word Hangs Checking Spelling in Multi-line Form Field

  When you try to check the spelling of a field within a table that includes
  multiple lines of text, Word may stop responding (hang) if the last line of
  text in the field is not followed by a hard return.

  Q231309 WD97: Bullets Change When Pasting Text to Another Document

  When you paste text from one document that contains a style name defined as
  bulleted text, into another document that contains the same style name with a
  different bullet style, the paragraph should take on the attributes of the
  destination file's style with the same name. In this scenario, it does not.

  Q234676 WD97: Word Document Is Saved Locally When Saved in Internet Explorer

  When you open a Word document in Microsoft Internet Explorer from a URL
  similar to http://sharename/foldername, modify the document, and then save
  it, the document is not saved to the location from which you opened it. It is
  saved to a local folder instead.

  Q236864 WD97: Word Crashes When Embedding TrueType "Characters in Use"

  When you save a document with embedded TrueType fonts, Word may crash with an
  invalid page fault or an application error in WINWORD.exe.

  Q237195 WD97: Cannot Find/Replace Text with Paragraph Format in Table

  In Word 97, when you search for text and specify formatting as a search
  criterion, text with the specified formatting is not found if it is in a
  table.

  Q237200 WD97: Form Fields Not Visible When Table Is Pasted as Word Document
  Object

  When you copy all or part of a Word table that contains form fields and paste
  it into a new Word document as a Word document object, some of the form
  fields are not visible.

  Q237258 WD97: Page Size Changes When You Edit Document Object Embedded in PPT
  Slide

  In PowerPoint 97, when you edit an embedded Word object that contains a table
  or drawing object and then move the Word object, the Word page size shrinks
  or grows each time you move the object.

  Q237274 WD97: Error Message: "This Document May Be Corrupt" After Switching
  Between Bullet and Number List Format

  When you open a document in Word 97, you may receive the error message "This
  document may be corrupt".

  Q237278 WD97: Access Violation When You Programmatically Apply a ListTemplate
  That Doesn't Exist

  When you programmatically apply a ListTemplate that does not exist, you may
  receive an access violation in WINWORD.EXE.

  Q237279 WD97: Word Stops When You Use ApplyListTemplate Method

  Word stops responding (hangs) when you use the ApplyListTemplate method to
  re-apply the same named list template to a selection.

  Q237339 WD97: Automating Word Creates an Additional Document

  When a Word document object embedded in another file--for example, a
  Microsoft Excel workbook--is first manipulated via automation and then opened
  for editing in a separate Word window, an additional "phantom document"
  appears, called Documentx (where x corresponds to the number Word gives to
  the next newly created document; for example, Document1 or Document8).

  Q237737 WD97: Bullets Convert to Squares When Font Is Permanently Converted

  When you choose to permanently convert a font substitution, bullets formatted
  in the substituted font appear as squares.

  Q237848 WD97: File Not Registered in ROT After Being Opened in ODMA

  Word does not register a file in the Running Object Table (ROT) after you
  open a document that is controlled by PC Docs. This results in COM code being
  unable to bind to the Word document file when the file has been opened
  through ODMA.

  Q238407 WD97: Table Border Broken When Table Breaks Across Page

  A table that has borders applied and that breaks across a page may be
  intermittently missing the bottom border.

  Q239573 WD97: Cannot Set More Than One Property on Merged Cell Using Range
  Object

  When you set more than one property of a merged cell within a Word table
  through a Range object of a Cell object, none of the changes is applied to
  the merged cell.

  Q240232 WD97: Selection.Information Returns Incorrect Information from Merged
  Cells in Word Table

  When you use the Selection.Information(wdStartOfRangeColumnNumber) or
  Selection.Information(wdStartOfRangeRowNumber) method to return the column or
  row number from a Word table with merged cells, the information returned does
  not take into account that a table contains merged cells. Thus the returned
  information cannot be used to reference cells in rows that contain merged
  cells.

  Q240852 WD97: Invalid Page Fault When You Click ActiveX Control in Document
  Protected for Comments

  When you double-click an ActiveX control--for example, a text box control--in
  a Word document that is protected for comments, you may receive a invalid
  page fault in VBA332.DLL.

  Q241142 WD97: Unable to Edit OrgChart 2.0 Object

  After inserting a new OrgChart 2.0 object into a document, you may be able to
  edit the object only a few times before it becomes corrupted.

  Q241224 WD97: Word Table Embedded in Another Document Has White Line

  When you open a file, such as a PowerPoint presentation, that contains an
  embedded Word table with shading, you see a white horizontal line within the
  shading at some zoom values.

  Q241628 WD97: Using Selection.Cells in a Loop Gives Incorrect Results

  Programmatically setting or referencing Selection.Cells properties for cells
  in a Word table gives incorrect results when executed within a loop. For
  example, the foreground pattern color changes for only three out of four
  selected cells.

  Q241921 WD97: Copied Text Viewed as Metafile Appears Clipped in Viewer

  When a section of text is formatted with a specific style in Word 97 and then
  copied, using either CTRL+C keys or the Copy command (Edit menu), and then
  viewed as an enhanced metafile through the Clipboard Viewer, the text is
  displayed with the style defined in Normal.dot. This can result in clipping
  of the copied and pasted section due to the font conversion.

  Q243684 WD97:Deleting Paragraph Mark at End of Table Causes Exception Access
  Violation

  When you delete a blank paragraph mark at the end of a Word table along with
  the final row marker on the table, Word 97 may enter into a CPU spin, or an
  Exception Access Violation may occur.

  Q244205 WD97: FileName Field Code Does Not Resolve Mapped NetWare Server Path
  Correctly

  When there are multiple drives mapped to the same NetWare server, Word may
  not resolve the path correctly when you use the FILENAME /p field. Instead of
  the correct drive, Word may display the path relative to another mapped drive
  to the NetWare server.

  Q244434 WD97: Table Is Corrupted After Saving in Word 6.0/95 Format

  Saving a document in Word 6.0/95 format results in a corrupted document if
  the document contains a table, and a floating picture is anchored in a table
  row. If you reopen the document in Word 97 and switch to normal view, Word
  may stop responding (hang), or an access violation may occur. Documents
  opened in Word 95 or Word 6.0 contain duplicate copies of the floating
  picture.

  Q244437 WD97: Splitting Rightmost Cell in Table Loses Some Format

  If any cell in the rightmost column of a Word table has a style applied and
  you split the cell, the resulting leftmost cell does not have all of the
  applied style's formatting, yet the rightmost cell shows the style as
  applied.

  Q244516 WD97: Word Stops When Using VBA to Check List Formatting Properties

  Word stops responding (hangs) and CPU utilization goes to 100 percent when
  you use Visual Basic for Applications to determine properties of list
  formatting in a selection.

  Q247233 WD97: Invalid Page Fault When You Press ENTER in Table or Label Row
  at Top of Screen

  When you press ENTER in the leftmost cell of a table or label row that
  appears at the top of the screen, you may receive an invalid page fault in
  WINWORD.exe.

  Q256904 WD97: Day Name Is Incorrect in a Date and Time Field

  In Word 97 for Windows, when you save a document as type Word 6.0/95 (*.doc)
  or Rich Text Format (*.rtf), the name of the day for a date after February
  29, 2000, is incorrect.

  Q265623 WD97: Embedded Document's Custom and Built-in Properties Lost If VBA
  Module Present

  Custom and built-in properties of a Word document can be lost when a Visual
  Basic for Applications (VBA) module is present and you either embed a Word
  document object that contains a VBA module within an Excel or Word document,
  or you add a VBA module to a Word document that is embedded within Excel or
  Word.

  Q269566 WD97: Error Message When You Click Exit, AutoCorrect, or Increase
  Indent

  When you click AutoCorrect on the Tools menu, Exit on the File menu, Increase
  Indent on the Formatting toolbar, or Bullets or Numbering on the Standard
  toolbar, Microsoft Word may stop responding (hang) or display an error
  message.

Fixes Included in "Word 97 Update: ODMA"
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The following fixes are included in this update. These fixes are also included in
all later Word 97 updates.

To view the Microsoft Knowledge Base article about the problem and its fix, click
the link for the article that you want:

  Q142685 WD97: ODMA Close Doc Function Never Issued After Printing Selection
  with Background Printing Enabled

  When you run Microsoft Word 97 with an ODMA-compliant document management
  system (DMS), a CloseDoc function is not issued via ODMA if you have
  background printing turned on, and you are printing only a selection in the
  document.

  Q145584 WD97: Documents May Be Deleted from ODMA System

  When you use Word 97 for Windows in conjunction with an ODMA-compliant
  Document Management System (DMS), and you quit the DMS while Word 97 has
  documents open through the DMS, and you then attempt to save the open
  documents, the original documents may be deleted from the disk.


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