word cannot start the converter mswrd832_deny.cnv

[Bald Raven]

I have a Visual Basic Sdt 2003 application that creates an MS Word 2000
document. MS Office 2007 is installed on the Windows XP workstation. The
application ran fine until 1/28/2009. Now, when the VB application starts,
it get an MS Office Word error, Word cannot start the converter
mswrd832_deny.cnv. I suspect the network administrators pushed out a patch
that messed up my application. More info on the error suggest the converter
is not properly registered or the cnv file was corrupted. Does anybody know
how to fix this?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Raven,

There is an MSWrd832.cnv from Microsoft, the one you're showing,
mswrd832_deny.cnv, as a guess would seem to be a blocked or corruption
issue. It's function was to convert Word97-20003 files to Word6/7/95.
If I recall correctly, it is no longer included with Office 2007. The
Converters also rely on registry entries/permissions to function and sone of
the older converter versions were considered to be possible security
targets.

You may want to search on .CNV files in play. Their usual home would be in
\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\TextConv\

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I have a Visual Basic Sdt 2003 application that creates an MS Word 2000
document. MS Office 2007 is installed on the Windows XP workstation. The
application ran fine until 1/28/2009. Now, when the VB application starts,
it get an MS Office Word error, Word cannot start the converter
mswrd832_deny.cnv. I suspect the network administrators pushed out a patch
that messed up my application. More info on the error suggest the converter
is not properly registered or the cnv file was corrupted. Does anybody know
how to fix this?>>

 

[Bald Raven]

Thanks for your help.

I found mswrd832_deny.cnv in the directory you specified. Is there a way to
replace it with an uncorrupted version? Would it be better to remove
references from the registry? Was a patch distributed recently (before
1/28/09) that corrupted the file or registry?

How do I restore functionality to application?

Bald Raven (8-{>