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Msoffice 2000(printing word document

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by ljoseph

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End User is getting the following msg. when printing a Word Document: DRIVER PLUG-IN ERROR: OEM DATA STRUCTURE IS INVALID. ABORTING FUNCTION. After this occurs, a error window appears with VB codes and if you click OK each times these codes appear, the document will eventually print. I reloaded the printer driver and words apps, but the problem still presist. Can you help me with this?

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by r_howard65

The prblem is not with your printer drivers. first, what os are you running? Is it up to date? Does Office have the latest service packs? Microsoft loves VB(Visual Basic). the prgrammers are notorios or leaving dead code in thier programs. My conclussion is if your OS is running ok w/all other programs,including printing. Try printing from a diff. program,even run a test page-to make sure that it prints properly. Narrow it down to Word 2000. It is VB heavy. I have had to uninstall it in the past, reboot and install it again. You may want to do a custom install and diable that help character(all VB,office startup,and fast find(a memory hog)

by veetz

The same situation happened here once.

The fix was to go into Add/Remove programs and completely remove Word2000. Then the machine was shut off for five minutes.

Upon turning the machine back on, Word2000 was re-installed in the Add/Remove programs again.

No one here has ever been able to figure out what the problem was but now it prints out of Word.

by braveh4rt

Maybe your office is corrupt. Try to fix it by the help file then chose fix ..if i am nort wrong.
Or you can go to control panel==add remove programs.
then add/remove.
when prompted you can chose fix.
by the way what version is your msoff2000?
thank you

by kmmarti

Yes, I have had similar problems in the past with MS2000, but before I would remove/reload the entire program, are you running Windows 2000? I was wondering if the device drivers you're using support Win2000? If not, goto the products website and obtain them. Just a guess. Another thought is to goto Microsoft and look up the VB codes to see what exactly is failing. I had to do this after I accidently deleted a .dll from an operating system and could not understand why I lost all of my sound card functions. Just a thought.

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