Normal.dotm errors when closing Word 2007
Hello,
We recently upgraded to Office 2007 on our Citrix XenApp 4.5 servers. Everything was running OK for a while. Now, some users are getting errors when trying to close Word.
The first one is: "Normal.dotm was being edited by another Word session. If you save this document with the original name, you will overwrite any changes made in the other session."
After closing that one out, another error appears: "Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal.dotm. Do you want to save those changes?"
Not sure where to start troubleshooting this. Please help.
Thanks,
WEG_IS
We recently upgraded to Office 2007 on our Citrix XenApp 4.5 servers. Everything was running OK for a while. Now, some users are getting errors when trying to close Word.
The first one is: "Normal.dotm was being edited by another Word session. If you save this document with the original name, you will overwrite any changes made in the other session."
After closing that one out, another error appears: "Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal.dotm. Do you want to save those changes?"
Not sure where to start troubleshooting this. Please help.
Thanks,
WEG_IS
Under Word Options, Advanced, File Locations perhaps User Templates is set to a Server location, and multiple users are competing to each save options in the same normal.dotm file.
ASKER
Tskelly - we are using profile redirection. Everyone has a Templates folder in their P: drive, which is where their normal.dotm is located.
If you start Word with the /a command switch, do you still get the error?
ASKER
No.
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Maybe a normal.dotm file exists on the users' C: drive, which is loaded before the network normal.dotm. Can those machines be checked, and if a normal.dotm exists on the C drive, try erasing it before opening Word?
ASKER
Tskelly - I have searched the C: drives on the XenApp servers. The normal.dotm does not exist on them, only in the user profiles.
When that happens, get the user to check the number of instances of Winword.exe in the Processes tab of Task Manager.
Could an administrator have left a normal.dotm file on the Citrix Server that loads before the ones in each users profiles.
ASKER
Looks like it may be an issue with an Add-In, as was mentioned here. Both Dymo Label and Adobe Acrobat are installed on the server. I am going to be uninstalling and reinstalling those when I get a chance to try to resolve the issue.
This question has been classified as abandoned and is being closed as part of the Cleanup Program. See my comment at the end of the question for more details.
On an isolated system, this can be reproduced programatically, so it could be a rogue macro or add-in.
Terminal servers add another dimension, so it might be worth asking for the Citrix zone to be added to this question.