Word Templates, decimal point & number lock

[Rhiannon]

Yes -- I even went back and checked to make sure. Ack!

[Rhiannon]

I don't know why this is happening, however when I first posted the attachment, it did the same thing. Today I can open it. ??!!!??!!?

Maybe due to a web problem, rather than the document itself?

[Phil Rabichow]

I still haven't figured it out. If I double-click the attachment, I get a screen of gibberish. If I right click & choose "save link as...", I appear to download it, but when I try to open, it says the document path isn't valid.

[Rhiannon]

When I first posted it, I tried opening it to see if it was really there, and instead of opening it in Word, it tried to open it as (I think) an HTML file. I know I got a line of gibberish, followed by a lot of black space....

I will try attaching it again and we'll see if your machine likes this one better.

[Rhiannon]

[img]/w3timages/icons/blush.gif[/img]oops.... forgot to attach it before I posted....

[Rhiannon]

[img]/w3timages/icons/blush.gif[/img]oops.... forgot to attach it before I posted....

[Rhiannon]

well...and now you have it twice....[img]/w3timages/icons/nuts.gif[/img]

[Andrew Lockton]

Rhiannon

Try recording the action that causes the beep. Double click the REC on your status bar (bottom of screen) and then type the .. and then stop the recording. Now have a look at the macro and tell us what you just recorded.

[Rhiannon]

Here is what I typed:

........................................ .456.456.

Here is what Word thinks I typed:

.................... 456456

And here is what the macro recorded:

Sub TEST()
'
' TEST Macro
' Macro recorded 01/31/01 by Barbara McCormack-Dunfee
'
Selection.TypeText Text:=".................... 456456"
End Sub

I don't think this got us anywhere, but it was a good try...

[Andrew Lockton]

Sorry Barbara, It was worth a try but now I am completely confounded. I have no idea what the problem is but it also appears that even the points before the number were reduced. It must be an option on your machine.

As a possible fix, go to a machine that doesn't have the problem. Start recording a macro and then visit the Tools|Options dialog and click on each tab then close the dialog and stop recording. Now put that macro on your problem machine and run it. This will apply all the options on the good machine to the dud one. If it is in the Options area then that will fix the problem. If it doesn't then I think it is a hardware/system issue.

[Phil Rabichow]

Hi Barbara:

I still don't know if you tried starting Word from the command line, as I mentioned in a previous post. Also, copy the table by selecting it & copying it without the last paragraph mark. Paste this into a new document & save the new document as a template. See if either of those fixes the problem.

Also, I'm curious about something. Double click a blank spot on a toolbar & then click the keyboard button. Turn NUMLOCK off & in the "press new shortcut key" box, type the numpad period. What shows up below the box?

[Rhiannon]

I tried starting it from the run box, and that made no difference.

The keyboard assignment with numlock off places "delete" in the box, and underneath says "currently assigned to: editclear"

[Charles Kenyon]

Sorry,
I downloaded your document and didn't experience any problems here. (Word 2000 w/ PC Concepts keyboard)

(Although your document did trigger a macro warning on my machine.)

[Phil Rabichow]

Hi Barbara:

I got the macro warning too, but couldn't find any macros. I just tried to download it again, but then couldn't open the template...got a message that the path wasn't valid.

I had it open before & couldn't find a problem, just like everyone else. Since you get the problem even if you start Word from the command line, it's not a corrupt normal.dot or an add-in.

You might try exporting the Data key from the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice9.0WordDat a

& then deleting the key. Word will rebuild a new key when it's restarted (you lose all your customizations). This will let you know if the Data key is corrupt. If that doesn't fix the problem, you can delete your new data key & merge the old one that you've saved.

The other thing you could do is to copy the table to a new document, save it as a template, & see if that works. If it does, you can get rid of the old one. You may never know what went wrong, but at least it'll work. If not...I think my bag of tricks is empty. Wish I could help.