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Author
18 Oct 2007 3:14 PM
CEV
I have installed Office 2007. While in Outlook in some email I have a red
bar that keeps going from left to right and the top of the email. I also
keep geeting an error that says: "Outlook could not create the work file.
Check the temp environment variable." Anytime I try to open an email this
message comes up. This message also comes up when I try to open word. Now I
had Office 2003 installed before and it was running fine. Is this a known
issue? I could not locate it on MS web-site. How can I fix this?

Thanks,

CEV

Author
18 Oct 2007 6:02 PM
Brian Tillman
CEV <ch***@advancebkg.com> wrote:

> I have installed Office 2007. While in Outlook in some email I have a
> red bar that keeps going from left to right and the top of the email.

A bad Word document template, perhaps?

> I also keep geeting an error that says: "Outlook could not create the
> work file. Check the temp environment variable." Anytime I try to
> open an email this message comes up. This message also comes up when
> I try to open word.

See if this helps:
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=823589&SiteID=17
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
Author
28 Nov 2007 9:33 PM
Simplifi
The link to a
solution--http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=823589&SiteID=17--appears
to no longer be valid.  I'm getting the same error ("Outlook could not create
the work file. Check the temp environment variable.")  Can you hook me up
with the solution that worked for CEV?

Thank you!


Show quote
"Brian Tillman" wrote:

> CEV <ch***@advancebkg.com> wrote:
>
> > I have installed Office 2007. While in Outlook in some email I have a
> > red bar that keeps going from left to right and the top of the email.
>
> A bad Word document template, perhaps?
>
> > I also keep geeting an error that says: "Outlook could not create the
> > work file. Check the temp environment variable." Anytime I try to
> > open an email this message comes up. This message also comes up when
> > I try to open word.
>
> See if this helps:
> http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=823589&SiteID=17
> --
> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
>
Author
29 Nov 2007 1:04 PM
Brian Tillman
Simplifi <Simpl***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> The link to a
> solution-
> http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=823589&SiteID=17
> --appears
> to no longer be valid.  I'm getting the same error ("Outlook could
> not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable.")  Can
> you hook me up with the solution that worked for CEV?

As you say, that article is gone.  However, if you check the value of your
TEMP environment variable and make suire it's pointing somewhere valid,
perhaps that will be the solution.  Open a command prompt window, type SET,
then press Enter.  Look for "TEMP" and "TMP" and see that they point to a
valid path.  If they don't, change them to be what they should be.  Also see
the "Check the TEMP Folder" section of this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309191
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

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