Right now we have a program that opens all of the word files in a folder and adds some information to the footer. After switching from Windows XP and Word 2003 to Windows 7 and Word 2007 we have started getting the following error:
Run-time error ‘5096’:
EOALPHABETICARABICARABICABJADARABICALPHABAHTTEXTCAPSCA
(c:\Users…\Content.MSO\8BE508C6.docx)
It occurs at random in any of the files (you can be 10 files in or 100). I thought that it might be a problem with the files being on a network drive so I modified the program to copy each file locally first, add the footer to that copy, and then copy it back out to the network. However, that didn’t seem to work. I’m looking for any suggestions on how to fix the problem or possibly rewrite the solution. However, I need to keep the solution in VBA since this app is part of a bigger suite which in not ready for a .NET re-write.
As it turns out I was able to workaround this problem by copying the word files locally, running the main code on the local copies, then copying them back out to the network. It didn’t seem to be working at first because the user’s machine on which I tested it did not have the most recent version of the program.