When I hit 'print' I get the info that it is printing, the printer activates, and kicks out blank pages. Then two weeks ago I lost the printer, getting the message "There was a problem sending command to program". Everything has worked fine for a couple of years. I have Win 7 on a computer on which I can also play crisis 2 Office 2007, and an HP Photosmart 6515 printer.
I have the same problem with trying to print. You can always save it as a 2007 word doc after ii is open if you wish. Change Layout this document as if created in: to Microsoft Word 2003. Scroll to the very bottom and under Compatibilty Options. This will bring up the Word Option window. Click on the Office symbol in the upper left corner and on the bottom choose Word Options. Try removing those as well to see if it will help. If you have any templates or macros enabled/installed on word. You'll need to make sure that show hidden files and folders is selected to be able to view the app data folder.Īlso when you go to the compatibility tab under start-all programs- Microsoft office- word "Right click-Properties-Compatibility" Make sure that you also change the "Change settings for all users" as well. Go to : C:\Users\"Your User Name"\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates and rename the Normal.dotm (right click rename) to OldNormal.dotm and see if that helps. Go into the services.msc and find the print spooler, and then stop and restart it. I know it seems weird, but give it a shot and see if it helps. Have you stopped/restarted the print spooler. So I was unable to do it.Īny assistance would be greatly appreciated. As for the other two I started to mention that above, how the folders did not exist in the registry. I copy pasted and typed it out multiple times. I kept getting an error stating I used improper syntax. The fixit program changed my default printer to MS XPS and claimed to have disabled addins which there shouldn't have been any as far as I know.Īlso, I tried the steps (same link as above) listed upto these:ĭetermine which COM add-in program is causing the problem docx > make sure it lists "Microsoft Word Document"Ĭopy/paste the following command into the run box > press enter: Go to Start orb > control panel > default programsĬlick on "associate a file type or protocol with a program" Right click the word.exe icon > properties > compatibility tab If I restart my computer, then the first document i open will work properly but anything after that (including the same document) will throw that error. docx file I get an error stating " There was a problem sending the command to the program." It fires up Word but doesn't open the file. So here is the issue (sorry I got ahead of myself), When I try to open a. I was unable to actually do any of the registry "fixes" as the folders did not exist. We tried a few things, including running MS Fixit. Despite CatByte's and My best effort, we weren't able to make it work. When all was said and done, my MS Office Word (2007) wasn't working right.
CatByte was assisting me in removing a Nasty thing from my computer. There’s still a reason to want to get the newest version of Office, but in the meantime, the add-on ensures that you don’t have to.I was Referred over here by CatByte. And although you can edit the file, if you want to save it again, you have to save it in the old format. There are two catches: You won’t be able to see certain advanced features in the document that are only present in newer Office, such as pivot tables, though the converter does the best it can in translating such features for use in your version.
Before you download it, be sure that you’ve updated your version of Office all the way through Microsoft Update. There’s an optional add-on for older versions of Office that allows you to convert and edit newer Office files. Regardless, it seems like you’re out of luck: you can’t open the newer files with the older Office.
Or, you’re running Windows XP, which doesn’t work with new Office anyway. Perhaps because you invested the money in the old version back then, and you don’t feel like upgrading. Perhaps because it has traditional menus rather than the Ribbon that Microsoft is so fond of these days. You’ve got an older version of Microsoft Office that you love. XLSX file, representing the newest versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. Here’s the situation: Someone sends you a.