[Ti] more on Word v.X under Panther on a G4 Powerbook

[Renaud Dreyer]

> on 12/22/03 9:17 AM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley at hutley at geneva-link.ch 
> wrote:
>
>>> From: "Glenn L. Austin" <glenn at austin-home.com>
>>>
>>> Word (and Excel, and PowerPoint) don't support file names longer 
>>> than 31
>>> characters.
>>
>>> From: Dave Friesen <davefriesen at mac.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Ti] Panther and (Word) file names
>>> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 11:34:07 -0800
>>>
>>> It's not a Panther behavior, it's something that was around for
>>> Jaguar and even before then.
>>
>> Glen, Dave - yes, I am aware of the long-standing file-name length
>> limitations in Office.
>> I have been using Office for a very long time, with many thousands of
>> documents, so you get used to the issues.
>>
>> But what I am reporting under Panther is something entirely new, that
>> I have never seen before.
>>
>> The actual error message ("This is not a valid file name") seems 
>> different.
>> Before (1998-Jaguar), the message was something else.
>>
>> I also had these messages today, when opening or working with Word 
>> files:
>>
>> Word could not fire event            (OK)
>>
>> Compile Error in Hidden Module: UTILS        (OK)
>>
>> Compile Error in Hidden Module: AUOTEXEC    (OK)
>>
>> I have definitely never seen these error messages before, nor do I
>> know what they mean, or why they even appear.  I just click OK, and
>> there is nothing specific  happpening that I can detect.
>>

Have a look at the following:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307410

It applies to Office under Windows but the symptoms are very similar. 
Do you have Norton Antivirus and/or Adobe Acrobat installed on your 
machine? Ciao,

             Renaud Dreyer