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General questions regarding autorecover
I've got a couple of users who regularly crash word while copying and
pasting tables to and from documents. We rolled out a new document management system recently and we've found that any document opened from that system has the autorecover feature turned off. I've got quite a bit of code to go through to find the culprit, but I was hoping for some more general information about the autorecover option. I'm up to speed on the purpose of autorecover (not a replacement for ctrl+s). Here are my questions: Where is the autorecover preference stored? normal.dot, template, registry, settings file? Can documents carry an autorecover setting with them? Is it possible to toggle the autorecover setting in vba? Thanks to anyone who can help. Chad |
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General questions regarding autorecover
As far as I know, the answers are ...
Registry No Yes This is a user setting under Tools Options Save. I don't know how your Document Management system might turn it off for an individual user except with code - but once it's off it will stay off - and when turned on again should remain so until explicitly turned off. Are you quite sure it's only off for documents from the DMS, and on for others? -- Enjoy, Tony wrote in message oups.com... I've got a couple of users who regularly crash word while copying and pasting tables to and from documents. We rolled out a new document management system recently and we've found that any document opened from that system has the autorecover feature turned off. I've got quite a bit of code to go through to find the culprit, but I was hoping for some more general information about the autorecover option. I'm up to speed on the purpose of autorecover (not a replacement for ctrl+s). Here are my questions: Where is the autorecover preference stored? normal.dot, template, registry, settings file? Can documents carry an autorecover setting with them? Is it possible to toggle the autorecover setting in vba? Thanks to anyone who can help. Chad |
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General questions regarding autorecover
Thanks for your answers. It may not be the dms, but my testing seems
to point that way. If I enable autorecover in word, then close and reopen, the setting stays (as expected). If I open a doc from my dms, the setting gets turned off. If I do FileNew from the opened dms document, and check the settings of the new blank document, autorecover is turned on. If I switch back to the dms document, autorecover is turned off. That's why I was wondering if word stored that setting in the document. Otherwise, how could the autorecover setting be different for two separate documents? The dms executes quite a bit of code before the document is opened. Custom doc properties get created/populated. Fields get updated. Lots of stuff happens. I need to step through the code to find out where it might be happening. Do you happen to know offhand the vba to toggle the autorecover setting? |
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General questions regarding autorecover
It sounds like your dms is doing it via code - maybe it has a reason, maybe
it's just badly written. To switch it off, set Options.SaveInterval = 0 To switch it on, set it to some other number. -- Enjoy, Tony wrote in message oups.com... Thanks for your answers. It may not be the dms, but my testing seems to point that way. If I enable autorecover in word, then close and reopen, the setting stays (as expected). If I open a doc from my dms, the setting gets turned off. If I do FileNew from the opened dms document, and check the settings of the new blank document, autorecover is turned on. If I switch back to the dms document, autorecover is turned off. That's why I was wondering if word stored that setting in the document. Otherwise, how could the autorecover setting be different for two separate documents? The dms executes quite a bit of code before the document is opened. Custom doc properties get created/populated. Fields get updated. Lots of stuff happens. I need to step through the code to find out where it might be happening. Do you happen to know offhand the vba to toggle the autorecover setting? |
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General questions regarding autorecover
Most of the users don't even know that autorecover exists. Those that
do tend to have a correct understanding of it's purpose (they've learned from bitter experience). Thanks for providing the vba code. I'll see if we can't incorporate that into the code that opens the document. Thanks for both your suggestions. This has been very helpful. Chad |
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