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BookDesigner Error message
What does the following error message from BookDesigner refer to?
"Operation Failed. Check you MS Word Installation? Thanks. |
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When you open, say, an HTML file in BD, it uses Word to convert that file into RTF. I believe that this message means that it failed to find "Word". Do you have it on your computer?
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Of course
![]() It works on all my other machine..so I am not completely out of luck, but I would love to know how to fix it. |
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Is word in use at the time?
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I am having the same error message--but I don't use Word, I use OpenOffice, so the error message makes sense. But I have no intention of giving Microsoft any more of my money. Does anyone know a workaround to get Book designer to work with OpenOffice?
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But you can try to use the inner BD pre-processor as follows. 1. Open your input file in OO and convert it to html. 2. BD -> Settings: re-format completely: checked; keep pictures: checked; keep styles: checked. 3. Load html to BD. Because the inner BD pre-processor is not so powerful as the Word's one, some formatting errors may appear. To check and fix them do as follows after the file loading: 1. Tools -> Html Fragment Editor 2. fragment: check "whole code" 3. if there are formatting errors (they will be reported at the status bar) - fix them manually and press "apply". |
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I have MS Word 2003 installed. When I try to convert on this particular machine using BookDesigner it fails with the error message - see above. I note that it begins the conversion, going so far as getting the embedded cover graphic, but then it fails. What should I check regarding my Word installation? Any help would be appreciated. |
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I'm not sure what BD checks for the conversion process, but vvv stated that it uses some of Word's libraries, perhaps M$ pushed a recent update down to Word that "fixed" something. I'd try a MS Office/Word -> Detect & Repair operation to see if that fixes anything. Worst case scenario is your computer wastes ~5 minutes and nothing is found, best case is it might fix the problem.
BTW I received that error message the first time I ran BD. I wasn't aware it required Word to run and I was trying to convert a LIT. Would be nice if BD threw a more detailed message to help troubleshoot where it hangs; e.g., Word not installed, problem accessing [such and such].dll, etc. |
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