Microsoft KB Archive/185516

= WD97: Crash IPF Reading an RTF File Converted from Mac Word 5.1 =

Article ID: 185516

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q185516



SYMPTOMS
When you open a Rich Text Format (RTF) file in Microsoft Word 97, you may receive the following error message:

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

When you click Details the following message appears:

Winword caused an invalid page fault in module Winword.exe at 0137:.



CAUSE
This problem occurs when the following conditions are true:


 * The file was created in Microsoft Word 5.1 for the Macintosh.

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 * The file contains links and tables.

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 * The file was opened in Microsoft Word 97 and then saved in Rich Text Format (RTF).

If there is a link before a table, and if the first cell of that table contains a link, the document becomes corrupted. This corruption causes the invalid page fault.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB185516

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