Microsoft KB Archive/224034

= "The server application, source file, or item cannot be found" error message when you work with Word 2000 document objects =

Article ID: 224034

Article Last Modified on 12/2/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q224034



ERROR MESSAGE
When you are working with Word Document objects, the following error message may appear:

The server application, source file, or item cannot be found. Make sure the application is properly installed, and that it has not been deleted, moved, or renamed.

NOTE: Microsoft Office 2000 has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to enable this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office 2000, please download the Microsoft Office 2000 Customizable Alerts file from the Microsoft Office Update Web site at the following address:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8FBEE1D3-C5BB-4A36-A2F7-DC63DE2A818C

NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking the Web Info button in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts enabled.



The application has been deleted, moved, or renamed.
The application with which the object is associated is missing.

For example, when you double-click a Bitmap Image object in a Word document and the Microsoft Windows Paint application has been removed, the above error message appears.

To resolve this problem, you must re-install the missing application.

You are trying to edit a WordArt object.
For additional information about this problem, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

198192 WD2000: Unable to Edit Earlier Versions of WordArt Object

136215 WD: Error When Starting Word Art Using Insert Object Command

You are inserting a Microsoft Excel object into another program.
When you insert a Microsoft Excel object into another program, this error message may appear.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

178305 Inserting MS Excel Object Causes Errors

You are using an Image Document object under Windows NT 4.0.
The problem described in the "Error Message" section above may occur when the following conditions are true:
 * You insert or double-click an Image Document object in any of the programs listed at the beginning of this article. -and-


 * Your computer is running Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0.

For more information about this problem, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

167723 OFF97: Error Using Image Document Object under Windows NT 4.0

In the programs listed at the beginning of this article, you can insert an Image Document object by following these steps:
 * 1) On the Insert menu, click Object. Click the Create New tab.
 * 2) In the list of Object Types, click Image Document, and then click OK.

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