ArgumentOutOfRange with WordProcessingDocument.Open
There is apparently a bug in the Open XML SDK 2.0 when trying to work with a document that contains a Ribbon extension using the namespace for Office 2010 <customUI...
View ArticleBug Word 2010/2013 with Enumeration wdFindAsk
As more people migrate away from Word 2003 and 2007 to a newer version, more bugs are starting to come out of the woodwork. Again, this one was brought up in a forum. When a developer writes code to...
View ArticleBug: VB.NET Compatibility Setting using LINQ
In my last post I showed how to change the target version of Word for a document using the Open XML SDK in order to ensure that “[Compatibility Mode]” does not appear in the document’s title bar. The...
View ArticleWord 2013 Bug: DocumentBeforeSave event triggering when user chooses “Don’t...
EDIT: There’s an update to this in a new blog entry. To summarize: this behavior is by design and there is a workaround for the problem. A new bug was reported in the Word for Developers forum this...
View ArticleWord 2013 Bug: “Not available for reading” error on opening a document
The more people use Word 2013, the more changes and problems are bubbling to the surface. Again, this one was brought to the world’s attention in the Word for Developers forum. “Reading mode” was...
View ArticleBUG: Migrating VSTO Word 2008 document to later versions of VSTO
I attempted to upgrade a Word 2007 document-level customization, created with VSTO 2008 to VSTO 2012 and Word 2013 the other day. Even after following all the migration steps, I was still getting an...
View ArticleProblem using a URL as index for the Documents collection
A poster in the Word for Developers forum has brought a new problem with the Documents collection to light this week. Unlike the one discussed in an earlier blog post, this behavior applies to all...
View ArticleOpen XML SDK: Does the runtime version matter? YES!
There was a discussion in the Open XML SDK forum today that I found interesting. Certain namespaces for Office 2010 weren’t being recognized with a reference to the Open XML SDK version 2.0, even...
View ArticleBUG Word 2013: Selection in Word disappears after running code
Since the release of Word 2013 we’ve been seeing sporadic complaints in the Word forum from developers that the selection highlighting disappears after their code executes. Only yesterday did someone...
View ArticleBug Word 2013: COM exception comparing documents
I’m breaking the rhythm of the series on Web Add-ins to report a bug that was discovered by a developer in the VSTO forum, this week. This is occurring in a scenario where a called procedure returns a...
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