Microsoft Document Imaging Format (MDI)

[angler2229]

Recently I pushed out Office 2003 to 50 some computers at my school. We run Win 2000. Four of the computers in a workroom near me are creating Microsoft Document Imaging files (MDI)inadvertantly. The students claim they are opening Word and saving the documents like they always did, but .mdi is the only format available to them. When they go to print the doc, the program forces them to do a Save As...

I tried copying the text to Notepad, and believe it or not, the same thing happens. These documents refuse to print at all!

I have never seen anything like this before. Neither has our district tech support.

Is this something that may be happening soon on all the other computers with the newly loaded software? I still have another 75 computers to load Office 2003, and I don't want to do that if the same problem is going to occur there!

Thanks,

Daniel

 

[TonyJollans]

Sounds like the computers don't have a physical printer installed.

Enjoy,
Tony

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[angler2229]

That may seem like a possible solution, but alas, they do have valid printer installed.

Here is the really weird thing - if I log onto the computer, Word opens and saves normally. If I take the student's file and open from my computer, it opens and prints just dandy. They seem to be cursed!

This has me puzzled.

Daniel