Article ID: 173976
Article Last Modified on 10/22/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office 97 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Access Developer's Toolkit 1.1
This article was previously published under Q173976
Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.
SYMPTOMS
When you compile a Help project file in the Help Compiler Workshop that ships with Microsoft Office 97 Developer Edition Tools or Microsoft Access Developer's Toolkit version 7.0, you receive the following error message:
Note that this problem also occurs if you download version 4.03 of the Help Compiler Workshop from the Microsoft Download Center.
CAUSE
You are using Hall compression. Note that if you click the Compression option "Maximum (recommended)," Hall compression is automatically selected.
RESOLUTION
Do not use the Maximum Compression option or the Custom option with Hall compression. Change the compression setting for the Help project to None, or change compression setting to Custom and click to clear the Hall compression check box. To do so, follow these steps:
- Start the Microsoft Help Workshop.
- On the File menu, click Open.
- In the Open dialog box, select your Help Project File, and then click Open.
- In the <Project Name> window, click Options, and then click the Compression tab.
- Click None, or click Custom, and then click to clear the Hall compression check box. Then Click OK.
- In the <Project Name> window, click Save And Compile.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft Access Developer's Toolkit and Microsoft Office 97 Developer Edition Tools.
MORE INFORMATION
Steps to Reproduce Problem
- Start the Microsoft Help Workshop.
- On the File menu, click New.
- In the New dialog box, select Help Project, and then click OK.
- In the Project File Name dialog box, type "MyTest" (without the quotation marks) in the File name box, and then click Save.
- In the MyTest project window, click Files.
- In the Topic File dialog box, click Add.
- In the Open dialog box, select your .rtf file, and then click Open.
- In the Topic Files dialog box, click OK.
- In the MyTest project window, click Options.
- Select the Compression tab and click Maximum (recommended). Then click OK.
- In the MyTest project window, click Save And Compile. Note that you receive the error described in the "Symptoms" section.
REFERENCES
For more information about Compression, search the Help Compiler Workshop Help Index for "compression," and then select the topic "To specify compression options."
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