If things are going well for you while using a Microsoft product, do not
worry, you will get over it. Just wait for the next service pack.
I have an application with a report which uses several Rich Text fields
and a couple of image fields. I output the report into RTF (Microsoft
Word) files. Recently, all of a sudden, the files I output from this
application looked funky. Most of the components in the file were
surrounded by a thin black outline. Of course, this happened after I
reconstituted a new hard drive with the latest version of R:Base.
Thinking that my problem was the latest update of R:Base, I called
John. (Yes R:azzak, I should have known better!) I also sent John an
RTF file created by my application. When John opened it, everything
looked fine. I decided to take my file to another computer in which
Microsoft Office has not been updated in a long time. Everything looked
fine. The problem did not seem to be R:Base (DUH!) but rather Microsoft
Word 2003 (DUH, DUH!!!). Since I installed Microsoft Office on my new
hard drive, it automatically updated to SP3.
In Microsoft Word 2003 Version 11.8134.8132 SP2 everything looks good.
If I click on any of the components, then right-click on the border that
appears, a menu will appear. If I choose "Format Autoshape" a form
opens. In the form, under the "Colors and Lines" tab, there is a
section called "Line". In this section there is a "Color" option set to
"No Line".
In Microsoft Word 2003 Version 11.8169.8172 SP3 the components look
funky. Most of the components are surrounded by a thin outline. If I
click on one of the outlined components, right-click on the border that
appears and choose Format Autoshape>Color and Lines, the "Color" option
in the "Line" section is set to BLACK.
My guess, the rtf file produced by my application does not specify a
line color. In SP2, in such a case, the Line Color defaults to "No
Line". In SP3 the default Line Color is BLACK. What is the default
Line Color in Word 2007?
Darn it! I hate Microsoft!!!!!
Stuart J. Cohen, Ph.D.
Major, Medical Service Corps
Research Specialist
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
National Disaster Medical System Federal Coordinating Center
Phone: 202-782-3636
Cell: 301-514-3975
Fax: 202-782-4360
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
