Hello All: I have a custom template running in word . The users input is stored and retrieved from a INI file residing on the user's computer and the method of writing and reading form the INI file was to use system.privateprofilestring. This worked perfectly in word 2003 and now in word 2007 I get an error message for this method. I am using windows xp professional. Can anyone shed some light on how I can fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Manju.
I know of no inherent reason that System.PrivateProfileString will not work with Word 2007. I have however encountered problems that I believe are timing issues with its use. My situation was that I was running an application from Outlook, writing a contacts details to an .ini file, then the application was starting Word and attempting to populate the controls on a userform by using the System.PrivateProfileString in the initialize statement of the form. In that case the error that was being returned was that the object had been deleted, which I tool to mean that it had not yet been created. You don't say at what point you experiencing the errors, but you might try using an OnTime statement to provide an opportunity for the values to be written before proceeding to the next step. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Manju" wrote in message news:0A767FC0-1482-40AC-88DD-5063098208D7@microsoft.com... > Hello All: > I have a custom template running in word . The users input is stored and > retrieved from a INI file residing on the user's computer and the method > of > writing and reading form the INI file was to use > system.privateprofilestring. > This worked perfectly in word 2003 and now in word 2007 I get an error > message for this method. I am using windows xp professional. Can anyone > shed > some light on how I can fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Manju. >
Thanks Doug. Although I did not write the OnTime statement your comment sparked off a thought that if I write to the INI file before the focus shifts to the word template it might work. I did just that and it works now. Thanks again, Manju. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: > I know of no inherent reason that System.PrivateProfileString will not work > with Word 2007. I have however encountered problems that I believe are > timing issues with its use. > > My situation was that I was running an application from Outlook, writing a > contacts details to an .ini file, then the application was starting Word and > attempting to populate the controls on a userform by using the > System.PrivateProfileString in the initialize statement of the form. > > In that case the error that was being returned was that the object had been > deleted, which I tool to mean that it had not yet been created. > > You don't say at what point you experiencing the errors, but you might try > using an OnTime statement to provide an opportunity for the values to be > written before proceeding to the next step. > > -- > Hope this helps. > > Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my > services on a paid consulting basis. > > Doug Robbins - Word MVP > > "Manju" wrote in message > news:0A767FC0-1482-40AC-88DD-5063098208D7@microsoft.com... > > Hello All: > > I have a custom template running in word . The users input is stored and > > retrieved from a INI file residing on the user's computer and the method > > of > > writing and reading form the INI file was to use > > system.privateprofilestring. > > This worked perfectly in word 2003 and now in word 2007 I get an error > > message for this method. I am using windows xp professional. Can anyone > > shed > > some light on how I can fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Manju. > > > > >
"Manju" wrote in message news:0A767FC0-1482-40AC-88DD-5063098208D7@microsoft.com... > Hello All: > I have a custom template running in word . The users input is stored and > retrieved from a INI file residing on the user's computer and the method > of > writing and reading form the INI file was to use > system.privateprofilestring. > This worked perfectly in word 2003 and now in word 2007 I get an error > message for this method. I am using windows xp professional. Can anyone > shed > some light on how I can fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Manju. > Hi Manju I've found System.PrivateProfileString to be unreliable all the way back to Office 97. I use Karl Petersons kpINI class module instead. Faster, more reliable and more capabilities. And Free! http://vb.mvps.org/samples/project.asp?id=kpIni -- Regards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup
Hello everybody, I just encountered the same problem when running a 2003 application on 2007. The file with all the entries ist definitely there. Read the file works fine, but trying to update an entry causes an error every time. As I am running the stuff on VISTA could it be that some Vista system protection service prevents the program to write a file in the Windows directory? Any help would bei greatly appreciated. Thanks, Joern. -- Jörn Schramm IT-Dienstleistungen GutenbergstraÃe 31 88348 Bad Saulgau www.joernschramm.de "Manju" wrote: > Hello All: > I have a custom template running in word . The users input is stored and > retrieved from a INI file residing on the user's computer and the method of > writing and reading form the INI file was to use system.privateprofilestring. > This worked perfectly in word 2003 and now in word 2007 I get an error > message for this method. I am using windows xp professional. Can anyone shed > some light on how I can fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Manju. >
"Jörn" wrote in message news:56432594-0A18-44FD-882D-7947C4C84B25@microsoft.com... > Hello everybody, > > I just encountered the same problem when running a 2003 application on > 2007. > The file with all the entries ist definitely there. Read the file works > fine, > but trying to update an entry causes an error every time. As I am running > the > stuff on VISTA could it be that some Vista system protection service > prevents > the program to write a file in the Windows directory? > > Any help would bei greatly appreciated. > Unless you have administrator rights, attempts to write to a file in the Windows directory will fail. Depending on how it is set up and depending on what facilities you uso to write to the file, I believe Vista operates a kind of virtualisation, where it creates a copy of a system file somewhere else and allows you to write to that instead. How (or indeed whether) it manages to work out whether to read from the original file or your local copy I have no idea. The answer is to place the INI file somewhere within the user's profile, where the user will always have rights to read & write the file. -- Regards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup
