still need help

[eric]

I hope I'm not just being impatient, but I'm getting
worried that my recent post ("project locked--project is
unviewable") seems to have died without anyone offering
me a solution. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help
me. I'd hate to have to recreate all the code that went
into the project.

Thanks to Graham Mayor for starting the help process.

eric

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day "eric" <[email protected]>,

Tis a horrible problem for sure and there is no sure fire way around
it. I have been lucky with persevering with the dialogs on occassion.
However, I protect myself against all the ways that Word Happens...
(TM) by using VSS to store each major set changes in. When it blows
up, I revert.

To AVOID the problem, don't digitally sign dev copies of templates and
do regularly clean your projects with the Payne Office code cleaner.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic
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eric reckoned:

 

[Guest]

Thanks. I guess what you're saying is that I DO have to
rewrite my code.

The people I'm doing this project for want their macro
security kept at high. As I understand it, that means the
project needs to be digitally signed. And you seem to be
saying that once it's digitally signed, it effecively
can't be modified. Does that mean that one must
essentially create a new project each time it needs to be
modified? Is this where VSS comes in?

What is VSS? (I can't find reference to it in Word or VBA
help.)

One other question: You and Graham referred
to "templates." I don't think I'm doing a template, just
a mailmerge doc with some VBA bells and whistles. Does
that make it a template?

Thanks.
Eric

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day <[email protected]>,

Trust installed tools and addins goes someway towards alleviating the
digital cert requirement. VSS is MS' Version Control System. You check
a file out, make changes, and check it back in. An open source variant
is called CVS I think.

Normally, being the dev, I work like this:

Check out SomeTool
Fix SomeTool
Check In SomeTool
Sign/Protect SomeTool
Distribute SomeTool
Get Latest on SomeTool (ie, revert to the pre-protect copy)

As for templates, 99% of the time VBA is stored in templates. Doesn't
have to be, just that's the place we expect to find them most of the
time.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic
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