I'd have to agree. I've never had an issue with Office 2007 opening files from network shares. As all my users are thin-client, no-one would be able to open anything - and I would probably have been crucified.
2010/1/19 Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> > There's something else wrong, IMO. > > Is this on a single machine, or everything connected to that server? > > I have had/used Office 2003/2007/2010 on dozens of machines that were > WinXP/Vista/7/Mac across several LAN's (and WAN/VPN's) with backend > servers that were Win 2K,2K3,2K8/NAS/NFS and haven't had this issue > once, much less being repeatable. > > I'm also network manager for a gov agency w/ 2200 users, if this were a > repeatable problem, I would have heard about it. > > When you say "bl**dy progress", it seems you are implying this is design > defect with Word? I consider that unlikely... you would have heard about > it here... Office 2k7 has been out for years. > > Does this happen on other workstations? Against other servers? Any other > apps? Have you diagnosed any network conditions? Patched Office? Patched > Windows? Patched your file server? > > I'm not sure laying this at the feet of "progress" is terribly helpful. > > -sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Pauls Hotmail [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:33 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Strange Word issue on Windows 7 HP Laptop > > You're lucky, I have *no end* of problems even opening documents in the > first place. I've narrowed it down to being a problem only when opening > docs stored on a remote fileserver. If the doc is copied locally first, > there is never a problem. > > It's not completely consistent, and lots of times O2K7 will open network > files just fine, but all too often the office app will have "downloading > <documentname>..." in its status bar and will then *completely* freeze > such that even Windows Task Manager cannot and will not terminate the > process, the only way (IME) out of this situation is to logoff & logon > again. > > Grrrr... bl**dy progress... > > Paul G. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Terry Dickson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 19 January 2010 13:22 > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Strange Word issue on Windows 7 HP Laptop > > I hate to say it but that is pretty normal with Office 2007. Not to say > it happens on every install, but most I have seen. If you look at the > spacing in the paragraph section of the ribbon you will see a section > for spacing I think the default is after 10. I no longer have Office > 2007 I am using 2010 but it is the same. You will need to change the > spacing after to zero to resolve and I am not sure how I got that to > stick in 2007. I remember we had other issues in 2003 that we changed > the normal.dot and that saved it. > I will see if I can find it and post back, I am sure others will have it > posted pretty soon. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 7:05 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Strange Word issue on Windows 7 HP Laptop > > Is word the only app that does it? Wordpad? 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