Microsoft KB Archive/65155

Loss of Template Macros When Exiting Word for Windows

PSS ID Number: Q65155 Article last modified on 02-24-1993

1.00 1.10 WINDOWS

Summary: In Microsoft Word for Windows version 1.0, you can lose a template macro if you do the following: 1. Create a template macro. 2. Create a macro using this template. 3. Save the macro but don’t save the template. 4. Exit Word for Windows. The macro closes without a prompt to save the template. If you exit out of Word, you still won’t be prompted to save the template and you will lose this template macro. Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Word for Windows version 1.0. This problem was corrected in Word for Windows version 1.1. In Word version 1.1, you will be prompted to save the template macro before allowed to exit Word.

More Information: To duplicate this error, do the following: 1. Start Word for Windows. 2. From the File menu, choose New, select Template, and choose OK. 3. From the Macro menu, choose Edit, select Template, type Macro1 in the Edit Macro Name box, and choose OK. 4. Change the macro. 5. Activate and close the template the macro is based on. 6. Double-click the macro’s menu bar or press ALT+- (HYPHEN), C to close it. 7. When you see the prompt “Keep Changes to Macro1?”, choose Yes. 8. When you see the prompt “Save Changes to Template1?”, choose Cancel. 9. Double-click the menu bar or press ALT+- (HYPHEN), C again. The macro closes without a prompt to save the template. If you exit Word, you still won’t be prompted to save the template.

Additional reference words: w4wmacro 1.00 1.10 w4wtemplate