WD97: Many Page Breaks with "First Page Footer" Causes Problems

ID: Q166956

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you work with a Word 97 document that contains many page breaks, the following may occur:

When you add a "Different First Page" footer to your document, some of the footer text may bleed into the first page footer.

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When you save your document as "Rich Text Format (*.rtf)," the following error message will be displayed:

This program has caused an illegal operation and will be shut down.

If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.

When you click Details, the following message is displayed:

WINWORD caused an invalid page fault in module WINWORD.EXE at 0137:30080f6c.

NOTE: This problem has occurred with as few as 10 page breaks.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem has been corrected in Word 2000.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbusage word97 kblayout
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug