IPF in Word Viewer When Document Opened on Server

In Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000, if you try to open a document from the Open dialog box (on the File menu, click Open) by typing a UNC (Universal Naming Convention) path to a directory, you may receive an Invalid Page Fault.

This problem occurs when you are working on a Windows NT network share and all the following conditions are true:

• The server that contains the document is in a different domain than the domain that you are currently validated on.
• You have been granted adequate permissions to access the document.
• You do not have a mapped drive to the server and share that contain the document.

If it was working correctly, after you typed in the UNC location to the file and tried to open the file, Windows NT would display a dialog box that asks for your domain and password. If the information that you supplied was correct and if you had been given permissions to access the file, the document would open.

This problem is fixed in the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003.

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To work around this problem, use one of the following methods.

Method 1: Map the Network Drive

Map a drive to the server and share that contains the document, and then open the document by6 using the drive letter (instead of the UNC path).

Method 2: Copy and Paste to Network Drive

1. Connect to the server and share from Microsoft Windows Explorer and copy the document.
2. Connect to a server and share in a domain that you are currently validated on, and then paste the document there.

You should be able to open the document by using a UNC path to the server and share where you are validated.

Method 3: Copy and Paste to Local Drive

1. Connect to the server and share from Windows Explorer, and then copy the document.
2. Paste the document to your local hard disk, and then open it from there.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section of this article.
This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003.

You can use the Microsoft Word 97-2000 Viewer to view documents that were created in Microsoft Word 97, in Microsoft Word 2000, in Microsoft Word 2002, and in Microsoft Office Word 2003.

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