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I am not too sure if I have posted this in the right forum, but the problem concerns a 2008 R2 server, so here goes: We are currently having problems saving Word 2007 files onto our Windows 2008 R2 Standard server. Excel files sometimes cause the same problem. This has happened in the past and then resolved itself after an hour or so, but this time it hasn't gone away. The Word files open normally, although sometimes much slower than you would expect for a 150 to 500 KB file. However, when we come to save the files everything seems to come to a halt. If we use 'Save', Word stops responding for a few moments before resuming. Next there is a bar graph display showing progress, (usually only seen when saving much larger files). This process can take anything up to about thirty seconds for a typical 150 KB letter file. Finally, Word displays an error message saying "X:\folder\sub folder\letter.doc is currently in use. Try again later." If we try to save the file with a new file name exactly the same thing happens, (with the 'Save As' dialogue box not responding for a few seconds before resuming). Sometimes we can save the file with a new name once, but cannot save it again unless we also change the file name again. There seem to be several common factors here: Firstly; this applies to all clients on the network, and all Word (and Excel) files kept on it. Secondly, the files (or their file names) are saved, but with zero file length. (If we open these files there is just a blank page; which is very worrying!) Thirdly, it doesn't seem to matter which network drive we use on the 2008 R2 server, or which folder. Fourthly, we can save files to a local drive, and then copy them to the original folder on network drive without any problems at all, (even when using the same file name). As an experiment, I have also been able to save the files to a test server (a spare W7 x64 workstation) that I set up for the purpose. Finally; this only seems to affect MS Office files. Other files, such as Adobe Photoshop and In Design files, which are much, much bigger, are unaffected. Having searched various online forums this seems to be a very common problem, affecting several generations of MS Office and MS Server, but nobody seems to have found any solutions. Does anyone here have any ideas, as I have the feeling I might be spending the weekend with a stack of installation disks, and I would far rather know what the problem is first? Best regards, Nigel.

Basically I'd like to to pick up the nth to the (n+x)th characters in a document and have them replace LTrim$(Str$(Counter))in this line of a macro: DocName = "Myletter" & LTrim$(Str$(Counter)) Problem is, as someone who has only used VBA in Excel before - & is something of a novice there - I don't know the syntax or how to find out the character number of a particular bit of text. (Well, I could probably have a go at guessing the latter, but is a return a single character? or none? or 80?) And Word's own VBA help files & articles - on & offline - are still above my head. Why? I've a mail merge to generate a set of reports that should be uploaded to our Parent Information System (we use MCAS). To do that I need each student's page to be saved as a separate document when I run the merge. I've found a bit of code that does that, & even got it to work (more or less), but it saves each document with a title in the form "My Letterx" where x is , as you can see from the code, a counter. Now that's a step along the way, but I want the admin number or something so that I don't have to go through and manually rename each one before I upload it to the Bromcom DMS. The number is, of course, in the data source (a separate spreadsheet) and I'm hoping that if I insert it into the document right at the start as a merge field a solution along the lines of what I've asked for above would do the trick. Or would it just pick up the field reference?? Or is there a way of picking it up directly from the data source? I know that if we had all our assessment data in Bromcom or AM this could be done automagically, but ... *sigh* don't ask! Thanks in advance for any light anyone can shed on this.

Basically I have pupils who are making a list of steps to make a cake and they are using numbering list to do this but once I get to number '10' the text starts at least 4 spaces forward and when I try to delete the spaces it deletes the actual number 10 I have attached a screen shot to show you Please help its really annoying!

We have a rare (but none-the-less, re-occuring) problem with Word (and sometimes Publisher, but nowhere near as often). For some reason when working on Word, a user goes to click on the 'Save' button, nothing happens. Same goes for clicking on 'Save As ...'. Absolutely nothing happens. Clicking on the save to PDF/XPS button does, however, give the save dialog box, but only to save as PDF/XPS (as it should). The fix for this is (so far), is to get the user to logout of the PC, then log back in. This is ok as long as the user has basic text, tables and pictures on the document, as the work can be copied out of Word and into Wordpad (it's just Word that has this problem, no other program does). Unfortunately, due to the type of user account that is most used, we can't look at any system/reg settings because of restrictions, and logging the user out for one of us to log in fixes the problem anyway. In a way this wouldn't be as bad if user's saved their work as soon as they create the documents ... but 90% of the time, the user has done "hours of work" only to find they cannot save.