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WD97: Recording AutoMark Index Causes Word to Stop Responding

Article ID: 176582

Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q176582

SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to record a macro that uses the AutoMark feature for indexing a document, the following error message may appear:

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.

If you click Details, the following error message appears:

WINWORD caused an invalid page fault in module WINWORD.EXE at 0137:30080f6c.

WORKAROUND

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To work around this problem, use the following sample Visual Basic for Applications macro, which performs the functionality of recording AutoMarking indexes:

   Sub MarkIndex()
      Dim sConDoc As String
      sConDoc = "C:\My Documents\My Concordance Document.Doc"
      ActiveDocument.Indexes.AutoMarkEntries sConDoc
   End Sub

Note that "C:\My Documents\My Concordance Document.Doc" should be your concordance document path and file name.

For more information about concordance documents, click Contents And Index on the Help menu, click the Index tab in Word Help, type the following text

   concordance

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Mark index entries" topic. If you are unable to find the information you need, ask the Office Assistant.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem has been corrected in Word 2000.

MORE INFORMATION

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

173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

REFERENCES

For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

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