The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

October 1997

Microsoft Office 97

Service Release I

The Office 97 Service Release I (SR-I) makes it easier for users of different versions of Office to share files with one another. In particular, SR-I includes the Word 6.0/95 Binary Converter for Word 97, which enables Word 97 users to save riles in the Word 6.0/95 native file format. SR-I also delivers enhanced support for POP3 and SMTP Internet e-mail in the Outlook (tm) 97 desktop information manager, the new Microsoft access Snapshot, support for Intel’s MMX technology, and various new viewers, converters and other minor enhancements an updates.

If you have not previously downloaded the Office 97 SR-I Patch:

Please go to the Office 97 SR-I Patch download page. If you downloaded the Office 97 SR-I Patch prior to 8/I 6/97: Please download the Office 97 SR-I Patch Update which will bring your previously installed Office 97 SR-I Patch up to date.

Unsure of which patch file to install? Download and run the Office 97 SR-I Patch Version Checker to find out. (Because the Version Checker looks for updated Word 97 files, this requires that you have the U.S. English version of Word 97 already installed on your machine.)

The U.S. English Office SR-I Patch doesn’t install the E-mail Forms Fix Utility properly. If you use both the Microsoft Outlook 97 and Microsoft Exchange mail clients on the same -machine — and need to switch between them, you may want to download and install the E-mail Forms Fix Utility after installing the SR-I Patch. You should consider installing this utility even if you’ve installed Outlook but haven’t begun using it yet and use the Exchange client instead. However, you don’t need the E-mail Forms Fix Utility if you’ve upgraded permanently to Outlook (and will never need to switch back to the Exchange client), or if you installed SR-I from the CD, rather than downloading it from this site.

For product support, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/ MSOfficeSupport/.

© 1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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make it execute again after a failure. Using a separate statement like CNTBARO is easier to follow.

Notice that I placed the code restoring the old error handler immediately after the line that might generate the expected error. This reduces the risk of encountering some other error while the temporary handler is in place. For instance, if the error handler hadn’t been restored when the DEFINE BAR statement was executed, and the DEFINE BAR statement had a typo in it, the error handler would just set IlPopupOK to .f. and go on without alerting the user.

This technique is useful in a variety of contexts other than looking for pop-ups. For cases where it’s impossible (or just a lot of work!) to check whether a statement will produce an error, it’s often easier to set up a temporary error handler and give it a try. Just be sure to leave a comment in your code so you can remember why it works!

[Ed. Note: This tip first appeared in Fox Talk.)

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