OFF97: Invalid Page Fault in OLE32.DLL Closing DocumentLast reviewed: March 18, 1998Article ID: Q180188 |
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SYMPTOMSWhen you close a Microsoft Word document or a Microsoft Excel workbook, you may receive the following error message:
This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.If you click Details, an error message similar to the following appears:
<PROGRAM> caused an invalid page fault in module OLE32.DLL at <address> CAUSEThis problem may occur if the Office item log file, Offitems.log, is damaged.
WORKAROUNDTo troubleshoot this error, attempt to isolate the problem to corruption in the Offitems.log log file, which is located in your Windows folder. To check for corruption in the log file, follow these steps:
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATIONThe log file, Offitems.log, stores journal information into Microsoft Outlook on the create, open, close and save events for any file in Office 97. If renaming the log file allows Outlook to start successfully, Outlook regenerates the log files. However, any journal information contained in the original log file will be lost. The Outlook Journal process automatically records a log of user activities. Each of the Office 97 programs provides AutoJournal capabilities, logging to an Outlook Journal entry each time you open, save, or print a document. With the Journal and the Outlook 97 timeline view, you can find information based on when you worked on a document, and not worry about where you saved it or what you named it. To configure Outlook 97 to use the AutoJournal feature, use the Journal tab on the Options dialog box. With this you can add, remove, and edit the types of AutoJournal entries. If you turn on Outlook AutoJournal for any of the Office 97 programs, Outlook tries to record activities of the Office program directly to the Outlook Journal. When Outlook is not running, the Office program makes a call to Mso97.dll that causes the journal entry to write to "Offitems.log" in the Windows directory. When Outlook starts, the Journal processes these entries after a Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) idle time of 30 seconds. For more information on the Journal feature of Outlook, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Article-ID: Q172002 Title : Setting Outlook Journal Registry Entries Article-ID: Q167975 Title : Office Programs Stop Responding While Outlook is Busy Article-ID: Q167975 Title : OL97: Office Programs Stop Responding While Outlook Is Busy Article-ID: Q166850 Title : OL97: Outlook Starts Slowly with AutoJournal Feature |
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