My COM component is automating Word 2003. For the vast majority of Word
documents there are no problems. However, for some documents I get an error
like this when the program tries to save the Word document as an xml file:

A file error has occurred.

Try one or more of the following:

* Check the disk drive to make sure the disk is properly inserted.

* Check the disk or the disk drive to make sure there is not a hardware
problem.

* Check the network connections.

The location where its trying to save Word is C:\Temp. There shouldn't be
any problem saving there because there's plenty of disk space remaining and
everyone has permissions to save there.

The program involves running a validation macro after which the file is
saved as an xml file. The error only seems to happen for certain documents.
The documents look fine to me.

Any idea why a simple save as xml operation should cause this error?

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