Outlook 2007 issues

[CEV]

I have installed Office 2007. While in Outlook in some email I have a red
bar that keeps going from left to right and the top of the email. I also
keep geeting an error that says: "Outlook could not create the work file.
Check the temp environment variable." Anytime I try to open an email this
message comes up. This message also comes up when I try to open word. Now I
had Office 2003 installed before and it was running fine. Is this a known
issue? I could not locate it on MS web-site. How can I fix this?

Thanks,

CEV

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have installed Office 2007. While in Outlook in some email I have a
red bar that keeps going from left to right and the top of the email.

A bad Word document template, perhaps?

I also keep geeting an error that says: "Outlook could not create the
work file. Check the temp environment variable." Anytime I try to
open an email this message comes up. This message also comes up when
I try to open word.

See if this helps:
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=823589&SiteID=17

 

[CEV]

Thanks a million!! That must have been it. It's working like a charm now!!

CEV

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thanks a million!! That must have been it. It's working like a charm
now!!

You're welcome. Thanks for reporting back.

 

[Simplifi]

The link to a
solution--http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=823589&SiteID=17--appears
to no longer be valid. I'm getting the same error ("Outlook could not create
the work file. Check the temp environment variable.") Can you hook me up
with the solution that worked for CEV?

Thank you!

 

[Brian Tillman]

The link to a
solution-
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=823589&SiteID=17
--appears
to no longer be valid. I'm getting the same error ("Outlook could
not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable.") Can
you hook me up with the solution that worked for CEV?

As you say, that article is gone. However, if you check the value of your
TEMP environment variable and make suire it's pointing somewhere valid,
perhaps that will be the solution. Open a command prompt window, type SET,
then press Enter. Look for "TEMP" and "TMP" and see that they point to a
valid path. If they don't, change them to be what they should be. Also see
the "Check the TEMP Folder" section of this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309191

 

[Matt Traynor]

I'm getting the same error but in Microsoft Word 2007. I don't know how to
tell if the value of my temp environment variable is pointing somewhere
valid. It says, %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp
Is that valid???
It won't let me save anything until it is fixed
..

 

[Brian Tillman]

I'm getting the same error but in Microsoft Word 2007. I don't know
how to tell if the value of my temp environment variable is pointing
somewhere valid. It says, %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp
Is that valid???
It won't let me save anything until it is fixed

If you open Windows Explorer and enter

%temp%

in the Address bar and click Go, do you see a valid folder? Does it contain
anything?

 

[frank]

Hi

Office enterprise 2007 on windows XP.

I'm getting the same error in Word (can't open work file) and Outlook 2007.
I followed all your advices but the error still occurs. Many thanks in
advance.
KR, Frank

 

[Florin ALEXE]

I Have the same problem and the link
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=823589&SiteID=17
is no longer available.
Can you help me?

 

[Wild]

I have same problems in office 2007 and using Vista,have not found any
solutions for this .Can somebody help in this problem?

 

[Yatt]

Does anyone have a clue about this? I have a client with this same problem
and have had absolutely no luck finding a solution or replicating on another
machine.