I have an issue on a client machine that seems to be interferring with a word addin that ive built.
When any word document opens on the client machine, a second blank document opens also.
Ive seen this issue on a number of different machines but havent seen an explanation as to why.
Has anyone else seen this behaviour in word and have you managed to stop the second document opening?
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If this issue is happening regardless of whether or not your addin is installed, perhaps the user has a strange macro running in their default template file (normal.dot)?
You could try replacing normal.dot with a version from a machine which doesn't have the problem to see if that helps!?
If you are delivering your addin as a .dot, it is very easy to accidentally set it up to have a document in it that opens. This, of course, assumes that the problem follows the addin. If it does not follow the addin then you don't have a programming problem.
It happens to me in Windows Explorer when the preview pane is enabled on it.
If you double-click a word document then 2 instances of Word open, one of them is with empty document.
Disabling the preview pane eliminates the problem.
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I've recently noticed a bug in the VS Code editor. Usually double clicking on a word selects the entire word. I use this a lot in combination with CMD + D to then select other instances of the word in a file. But its stopped working on my work laptop running 1.65.2.
I do not have the same issue on my personal machine running 1.66.0 but I can't update to this version as updates are centrally controlled by my company.
I've seen a few posts about this online with it affecting other users but haven't really come across any solutions.
Anyone got any ideas?
VS Code has a neat feature where if you search for something in the terminal grep/ack or similar tools, the resultant file links are clickable (with ctrl+click). I love that feature! Recently however I reinstalled VS Code with fresh settings, and a strange new default behavior has started that was definitely not present in my old install. Whenever I click links like that, in addition to opening the link, the name of the file is also copied into my clipboard, overwriting what I searched for.
My old work flow was copy search term, go to console, grep <paste>, click link, ctrl+f, . That doesn't work anymore, and I would prefer to restore the old mechanism, but due to the somewhat peculiar circumstances I'm not sure what I would search for to configure this behavior.
Any ideas ?
I am wondering if something is wrong with my computer (or myself), because I can't seem to drag & drop a file into Visual Studio Code to open it in the editor. Closing an opened folder first doesn't make a difference. VSCode always shows me the 'stop sign', in every spot I tried (the editor, the opened tab bar, an existing opened file, ...).
Why does VSCode block this ?
(I have experienced this in earlier versions as well. Currently on v1.6 on Windows 7.)
Searching for a solution, I stumbled on this page, where one commenter explains:
I think you are running into the security issue where lower permission processes cannot send messages to higher permission processes. Explorere.exe, running at normal permission levels, cannot send the window message to winword.exe, running elevated.
I am indeed always running VSCode as Administrator, but not my Explorer windows.
When I run VSCode in non-administrator mode (so just my regular user), drag-and-drop works fine.
I feel silly as I lost 15 minutes looking into this. In case it helps:
Make sure you are not trying to open files from a zip file...
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For some reason, when I click to open Microsoft word or go to open any documents that would cause Microsoft word to open, every word file that is on my computer starts opening and my Microsoft word immediately stops responding but continues to open every document. Does anyone know why this occurs or knows how to fix it?
I had this once: when Word crashed and I restarted it, it would open whole bunch of documents. I figured it happened because I never actually closed the Word itself, only closed the current document (while the Word application itself kept running), so when Word finally restarted after crash, it reopened all documents that were accessed since the previous start of the application.
As far as I remember, I used "brute force" approach to deal with the problem: I let the Word open everything it wanted (which took a while - several minutes at least), and when it finally was done, I manually closed each and every opened Word file, then closed the Word itself, restarted it and it was fine.
Oh, one more thing: all of that was happening on Mac, but I don't think it makes a lot of difference.
Hope that helps!
I have a really interesting situation here. I'm running Windows 8 Pro x64 with Office 2013 (Office 365, more specifically) running. Somewhere while I was setting up Outlook, I made a mistake causing it to create in invalid .ost file. I found the file in Explorer and it happens to be an empty file.
All the solutions to this involve using the Mail icon in the Control Panel. That'd be great, but it doesn't exist! I've searched and searched for solutions to this issue, and I can't find a single one that applies to Windows 8. Either the solution is so outdated that it's not even usable in Windows 8, or the solution somehow doesn't work with my setup.
I've come to an absolute end of ideas for this, and I've decided to come to see if anyone here can wrestle down my problem. Thanks for your help!
Edit: I've thought of a few possible solutions, and the only one that seems remotely feasible seems to be to completely restart the Outlook setup process. However, I can't figure out how to do this, and I can't reinstall just Outlook because it's part of Office 365. Any help on this would be incredibly helpful. Thanks!
Did you try deleting (or renaming/moving, to be more cautious) the empty .ost file? Once it's not there, that may cause Outlook to regenerate it properly.
Is there anything listed in your "Add/remove programs" for Outlook 2013 or Office 365? I've been running Outlook 2013 (in its beta glory) for awhile, and I occasionally have issues which are fixed by doing a quick repair.
To do a quick repair:
Press Windows key + Q. Search for "remove programs" and change the search scope filter to "Settings".
Select "Change or remove a program".
I have "Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 - en-us" as one of my programs. Click that (or something similar for Office 2013) and then click "Change".
Select "Quick Repair" and click "Repair".
Finally, if none of that works, here's how to find the Mail icon in the Control Panel:
Bring the mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen (where the Start button used to be) and right-click. Select "Control Panel".
In Control Panel in the upper right-hand corner, there is a "View by" dropdown menu. It may be set to "Category". Change it to "Large icons".
I now see a Mail icon. If it's not showing up for you, that probably means that Outlook wasn't configured properly and you do need to reinstall.
Hope this helps.