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Can't Fire Event Error

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by wagman 1 view

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I have a system that gets an error when closing Word 97 documents. The error is either a Compile Error: Invalid Character or a "Can't Fire Event" error. I have tried all the things on Microsoft's site. the only thing that works is creating a new file and then inserting the old file into and resaving the new document. The documents that error do do error on other systems in the office. Any ideas or at least some help on explaination would be very much apprciated.

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by mtnsqs

This sounds like a macro virus on your Word installations. Probably something on the close macro.

Its probably in the specific files, not a generic one - as the problem is not yet bad.

Update your antivirus softweare and run it will full checks - particularly the macro virus ones - a lot of people turn off the macro virus protections. You eill need to run it on every system that has any of the files. (I'd do them all to be safe)

by wagman

I have done that. That was the first thing I did, I found some marco virus on some files and cleaned them and reinstalled word to a different directory. This was not the problem. As stated before it does not happen on all the computers and they are all configured the same....Thanks

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