With their latest update Microsoft seems to have fixed this problem. It
only took them about a month. In the very incredibly unlikely event
that such a problem would be found in R:Base, it would have been fixed
in a day! One down, 99 more to go.
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]
Stuart Cohen wrote: 1/28/2008 6:16 PM
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]
