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Inserting Bullets in Word XP causes crash
Does anybody know what could cause Word XP to crash once I choose to either insert bullets or to change them? I saw on a forum to rename a key in the registry,
Typically this is caused by corruption in the Registry. Exit Word and
in the Registry drill down to:HKEY CURRENT USER\Software\Microsoft\Of
Gallery Presets Rename the key in the Registry and Word will create a new one upon
starting.
but when I did this a new key wasn't created anyhow.
Typically this is caused by corruption in the Registry. Exit Word and
in the Registry drill down to:HKEY CURRENT USER\Software\Microsoft\Of
Gallery Presets Rename the key in the Registry and Word will create a new one upon
starting.
but when I did this a new key wasn't created anyhow.
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Likely, you can just run the regedit described in Step 5 of Word Troubleshooting at www.theofficeexperts.com/word.htm
punkincasey? Anything here?
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Sorry for the delay. I've been trying to get our Tier2 (desktop support) to try this, but they'd rather blow the local and domain profile and though that works, seems to be a lot of trouble for the customer. I'm going to assume that your suggestion would have worked....maybe it will happen to another customer and I'll just try it out to be sure. Thanks!
I've got the same problem. Someone here at work had problems inserting a particular bullet point (Format >> Bullets & Numbering). Whenever you chose this particular bullet type (which was the standard "round bullet") Word wanted to send an error report and crashed.
I didn't have the problem on my computer. Until I got the document sent to me, opened it and tried it. Now *every document* (even after restarting / closing and opening Word / logging on / off etc.. ) has the same problem with that bullet point.
Thankfully the doc recovery system actually works pretty well (at least they can get that right). Altering / deleting / fixing the normal.dot template doesn't solve the problem. Dreamboat got it right. Step 5 of this article he linked: http://www.theofficeexperts.com/word.htm
That solved the problem. Sure, it means I have to re-set toolbars and things up on a bunch of computers but that's
a lot better (and easier to deal with) than random crashes.
I didn't have the problem on my computer. Until I got the document sent to me, opened it and tried it. Now *every document* (even after restarting / closing and opening Word / logging on / off etc.. ) has the same problem with that bullet point.
Thankfully the doc recovery system actually works pretty well (at least they can get that right). Altering / deleting / fixing the normal.dot template doesn't solve the problem. Dreamboat got it right. Step 5 of this article he linked: http://www.theofficeexperts.com/word.htm
That solved the problem. Sure, it means I have to re-set toolbars and things up on a bunch of computers but that's
a lot better (and easier to deal with) than random crashes.
... Just to add. I tried what punkincasey said in his original post. If you rename just "List Gallery Presets" (in my case for Word XP) in the registry for your version of word it'll fix the problem (reset just the bullet points) and leave all your other options in place.
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