Microsoft KB Archive/229742

= WD97: Error Message After You Undo a Deletion of a Section Break =

Article ID: 229742

Article Last Modified on 1/24/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q229742



SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Word 97 for Windows, when you try to do any of the following:


 * Print a document.

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 * Perform a mail merge.

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 * Delete the last character in a document.

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 * Scroll through a document.

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 * Select all and press DELETE.

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 * Open a file.

You may receive an error message similar to one of the following:

Windows NT 4.0:

WINWORD.exe - Application Error

The instruction at 0x3007ceac referenced memory at 0x001252d1.

The memory could not be 'read'.

Click ok to terminate the application.

Windows 95 or Windows 98:

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.

If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.

When you click Details (on Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, press ALT+D), you receive the following message:

WINWORD caused an invalid page fault in WINWORD.EXE at 0137:301e4f1f.

NOTE: The actual memory address may vary.



CAUSE
You previously deleted a section break and then undid the delete, and the header in the section before the deleted section break contains a shape.

Formatting information for shapes in the document header is corrupted. This can occur when you undo the deletion of a section break, and the header of the previous section contains one or more shapes.



RESOLUTION
To resolve the problem described in this article, obtain and install the latest Microsoft Word 97 update from the following Microsoft Web site:

http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/9798/Wd97mcrs.aspx

IMPORTANT NOTE: Microsoft Word 97 post-service release fixes are cumulative. The latest update contains all of the fixes since Service Release 2. If you install the latest update for Word 97, you do not need to install any other updates after Service Release 2.

For additional information about the fixes included in the latest update for Word 97, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

265374 WD97: Post Service Release Fixes for Word 97



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, save the document in RTF format, and then open the RTF document in Microsoft Word 97.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Word 2000.

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