Re: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K

From: martin.goudreaultat_private
Date: Tue May 29 2001 - 03:45:33 PDT

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    See TID# Q265007 at support.microsoft.com
    
    Known issue, fixed in SR-2
    
    Ciao
    
    Martin Goudreault
    Senior Systems Support
    Bombardier - Aerospace
    
    
    
    Morning All,
    
    I was playing around with word this morning, and found something quite
    interesting. I thought I'd post it to see what you all thought.
    
    I'm not sure if this is a known bug in Word 2000, and I can't find out right
    now as I don't have web access from my PC at work.
    
    I can consistently crash Word 2000 using the following method:
    
    1) Open up any text/document editor such as notepad or wordpad
    2) type a single word (must be a known word, no punctuation).
    3) highlight the whole word and CTRL+C
    4) launch word 2000
    5) CTRL+V
    6) press HOME to take you to the start of the line
    7) type I
    8) hit the space bar
    
    this consistenly crashes word 2000 for me, and i get the following error
    message:
    
    DDE Server Window: WINWORD.EXE - Application Error
    The instruction at "0x3076a63e" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The
    memory could not be "read".
    
    I am running:
    Win2K 5.00.2195
    Word 2000 9.0.3821 SR-1
    
    I doubt that this would be exploitable, but I thought I'd find out if any of
    you could reproduce it.
    
    Thanks
    Oliver.
    
    
    



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