XP project won't open in Word97

[Let2Editor]

I copied the below message from the VBA97 board. I am having the same problem.
I cannot debug the program in Word97 because I cannot open it. Anybody know
why? Ed
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I have for the past several year been composing a VBA project in XP and it has
been reaily viewable (and runnable) in 97. It is not locked or otherwise
protected. There are a few commands that are not compatible between the two,
but I could always run debug in 97 and the incompatible code would be
highlighted and I could comment it out.

Now, all of the sudden, I cannot view the project in 97 (but I can in 2000).
Why not? Anyone have any ideas. Nothing has changed in terms of programs,
computers, etc. It was an overnight thing. I have coded and manipulated and
resaved the code to make sure its not that. Help!!

 

[Roy Lasris]

I fixed this. Seems that one of the user forms properties was set to a value
not processable by Word97. In particular, it was the ShowModal value, which was
set to False. Once set to True, all worked well. So, Ed, look through your
users forms and make sure that all ShowModals are set to True.

How did I discover this, you may ask? The old fashioned way. I exported and
saved all modules and forms via XP, and then, one at a time, imported them into
a Word97 project until I got an error message. Tedious work, but at least it
worked.