opening Word doc in Office 2007

[Kipper Kelley]

hello

a colleague of mine rec'd a Word 2003 document from another employee working
at our Houston office. (we're in Denver)

When my colleague tried to open the document in Word 2007, he noticed that
Word was trying to send the document to the printer in HOUSTON, then to the
printer in Chicago, then to the printer in California, etc.

When he clicked "ESC" to get out of this whole operation, Word "barfed" (his
words, not mine so not really sure exactly what that means, but it can't be
good)

Has anyone else experienced this? if so, what is causing it? how do we
prevent it? how can we determine if this will happen before opening the
document?

i am thinking it might have something to do with converting from 2003 to
2007 but why would it try to send to the printer? does this have something to
do with the page setup (i.e. margins, etc)

any help would be appreciated!

thanks,

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

was there an autoopen macro in the document?

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[kiwiz4eva]

Thanks Doug

I guess that was not the problem. here is the reply i got back from my
colleage:


No auto-open macro. I have my view set to print layout by default so I
imagine it was looking for the printer to find out about printable margins,
page size, etc. What I don’t understand is why it looks for the printer for
so long before giving up?


thanks for your help!!!