The following is a response from a Microsoft "MVP" from the Microsoft
Word General Questions Users Group, regarding my situation. I hate
paying Microsoft good money so I can debug their programs!
"What you're seeing are textbox borders. I'm not sure why they're
showing up sometimes but not others. Oddly enough, they show up here in
Word 2003, but not in Word 2007. My guess is that there's some .rtf
nuance that accounts for it.
"To hide the lines, you're going to need to select each text box,
right-click the border, and choose Format AutoShape. In the Colors and
Lines tab, set Line Color: to No Line.
"This won't be hard for the most part. I'm also seeing a right border on
the NDMS image, which is hard to select. You might try using the Select
Objects tool (in the Drawing toolbar), or you can right-click the main
textbox and choose Order - Send to Back... then reorder the different
objects once the background object's border is hidden.
"A more efficient solution, however, is to open the file on one of the
computers where the problem doesn't occur, then save the file in Word
*.doc format. When I did that (using Word 2007), I was then able to open
the resulting file using Word 2003 without the lines appearing."
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]
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Stuart Cohen wrote:
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]
