Microsoft KB Archive/150299

Address Book: OLE Automation Error

PSS ID Number: Q150299 Article last modified on 06-14-1996

1.0, 1.0a

WINDOWS

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= SYMPTOMS =

If you edit or delete a special day in the Bob Address Book, you may receive the following error message:

OLE Automation Error

= CAUSE =

When a special day is entered in the Address Book, this information is automatically transferred to the Calendar. Deleting the information from the Calendar and then attempting to edit the special day in the Address Book, causes the error.

= RESOLUTION =

To resolve this problem delete the page containing the special day and re-enter the information.

Workaround
If you do not want to delete the page and re-enter the information, copy the page into another book before deleting it from the address book.

To copy the page into another book do the following:


 * 1) Launch the Address Book.
 * 2) Go to the Who’s Special Day page you want to edit.
 * 3) Click the Other Options squishy.
 * 4) Click the Move, Copy, or Delete This Page squishy.
 * 5) Click the Add A Copy Of It To Another Book squishy.
 * 6) Select a different Address Book.
 * 7) Click Copy It.
 * 8) Click the Other Options squishy.
 * 9) Click the Move, Copy, or Delete This Page squishy.
 * 10) Click Delete It.
 * 11) Click Delete It to confirm your choice.
 * 12) Click the Other Options squishy.
 * 13) Click the Open Another Book Or List squishy.
 * 14) Select the book you chose in step 6.
 * 15) Click Next.
 * 16) Locate the information you copied from step 7.
 * 17) Click the Other Options squishy.
 * 18) Click the Move, Copy, or Delete This Page squishy.
 * 19) Click the Move it To Another Address Book squishy.
 * 20) Select your original Address Book.
 * 21) Click Move It.
 * 22) Click Move It to confirm your choice. The information has been moved back into the original address book.
 * 23) Click the Other Options squishy.
 * 24) Click the Open Another Book Or List squishy.
 * 25) Select your original address book.
 * 26) Click Next.
 * 27) Go to the Who’s Special Day page you want to edit. You will now be able to edit the special day information.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Bob version 1.0 and 1.0a. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

KBCategory: Kbusage KBSubcategory: B_Address

= Additional reference words: w_bob =

Keywords : B_Address Version : 1.0, 1.0a Platform : WINDOWS ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1996.