Re: Word 2007 endless loop fixing footnotes in Vwanji language
Jim Henderson44
----- Original Message -----
From: "BobH" <BobHa...@gmail.com>
To: "silas-talk" <silas...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 1:13 AM
Subject: [SILAS-talk] Re: Word 2007 endless loop fixing footnotes in Vwanji
language
>
> So you're saying it doesn't fail when the footnotes are, e.g., in
> English?
>
> On the assumption that it really is a bug in Office: If you don't
> have
> contacts at Microsoft, we do and could report this problem.
>
> To do that you should produce a short demonstration document that
> shows
> this failure. Please take some time to trim both the data AND the
> macro to
> the minimum that demonstrates it. That allows the problem to be
> easily
> confirmed on some other machines and easier for Microsoft to believe
> it is
> their bug.
>
> Contact me offline if you want to pursue this...
>
> Bob H, NRSI
>
Well, I prepared a cut-down version of the file, and the problem went
away, so I guess it's something to do with a particular memory area
overflowing because of a bug in Word 2007.
Bob, would you like me to send you the file that causes the problem,
and a data file that works properly?
I did find out that Word 2007 can produce a booklet version of the
Vwanji pastoral epistles if I first run the SILAS macros to produce a
proof printout version of the same file, so that's a work-around for now.
Jim
> On 2 July, 20:34, JimH <Jim.Henderso...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been stepping the macro through, and Word 2007 can search and
>> find things in the footnotes, but as soon as it tries to change
>> something, the macro processor never comes back to the next line to
>> process. Ctrl-Break usually interrupts macros, but it has no effect
>> here.
> ...
>> So all I can say at this stage is: Don't use Word 2007 to run macros
>> that try to change footnotes in the Vwanji language. Use Word 2003 for
>> Vwanji and all will work well.