re: Question about 'Turn off the Clipboard Toolbar in Office 2000 and Office XP'
Thursday, January 20, 2005 at 10:09 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11846 messages posted)
Zebulebu
I'm not sure about Office 97 but here's some free tools that will help pin it down...
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"Of course, with Word being run 'silently' there's no way for me to access it and
see what is causing the problem"
Use the tools below, they will help..
Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open?
Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles
and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
Plus more free tools that will help pin it down.
like Filemon
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml
On Thursday, January 20, 2005 at 9:37 am, Zebulebu wrote:
>I have a question about Turn
>off the Clipboard Toolbar in Office 2000 and Office XP:
>
>Does anybody know whether there is a similar function in Office 97? I am looking
>into an issue with Word causing a batch process to hang overnight. Basically, Word
>is being invoked in the background by an app written in VB to perform mail merge
>functions from a SQL Server 2K DB. Unfortunately, the batch process hangs every
two
>or threee minutes or so, seemingly with Word looking for some sort of user intervention.
>
>Of course, with Word being run 'silently' there's no way for me to access it and
>see what is causing the problem, but I expect it is something like a multiple clipboard
>looking for user input.
>
>Does anybody know if Office 97 has such a function? This problem has been driving
>us insane for months now - anybody who could help out will take satisfaction from
>the fact that me and my colleagues might be able to get some sleep once it is solved!
>
>Cheers
>
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