Folks,
I tried all the repair solutions offered in this thread but with no luck. I wasn't that keen on removing and re-installing Office, so I thought I would follow up on the mention of long file names in the MRU list as I recalled that I had been sent an e-mail with a .tif attachment with an unusually long file name just before I started to have the problem with MDI. I found two registry keys with what looked like the MRU file name list and deleted the text from the key values and bingo MDI is working properly again!
The keys are...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\Open Find\Microsoft Document Imaging\Settings\Save As\File Name MRU
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\Open Find\Microsoft Document Imaging\Settings\Open\File Name MRU
Hope this helps.
Mark.
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