Description of the InfoPath 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: June 16, 2006

Issues that the hotfix package fixes

This hotfix package fixes the following issues that were not previously documented in a Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

• When you try to open a form in InfoPath 2003, the form may take longer to open than expected. This behavior may occur if the form contains many managed code event handlers.
  
• If you programmatically close the task pane in InfoPath 2003 when the cursor is inside a text box, you cannot move the cursor by using the keyboard. Additionally, you cannot move the cursor by pressing BACKSPACE to delete the character that is before the cursor in the text box.
  
• In InfoPath 2003, when you try to insert a new node before an existing node on a form that uses choice groups and repeating sections, the new node is inserted after the existing node.
  
• You create a form that contains a text box that has leading spaces before the text in InfoPath 2003. Every time that you click outside the text box, one of the leading spaces before the text is deleted. This behavior occurs if you click to select the Paragraph breaks check box. The Paragraph breaks check box is located on the Display tab in the Text Box Properties dialog box.
  
• You right-click after the end of a line of text inside a Rich Text Box control in an InfoPath 2003 form. If the last character in the line of text has formatting applied, such as bold, underline, or italic formatting, all shortcut menu items are unavailable (dimmed).
  
• You use the User Roles feature in InfoPath 2003 to add user names to a form. However, users who belong to a different domain do not appear in the Select Users dialog box when you try to add user names to the form.
  
• In Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Service Pack 1 or in InfoPath 2003 Service Pack 2, when the decimal and thousands separators in the control panel differ from the default settings of the current locale, you cannot insert controls into a form.
  
• When you open a form that performs certain calculations when the form opens in InfoPath 2003, the form takes longer to open than expected.
  
• When you try to open a form that performs many calculations when the form opens in InfoPath 2003, the form does not open. Additionally, you receive the following error message:
  InfoPath cannot create a new, blank form. There was an error in the custom validation code.
  
  Error details: Recursion too deep; the stack overflowed.
  Note If you try to open the form in design mode, the form opens as expected.
  
• When you try to open a managed code solution that contains validation events that occur when the solution is opened in InfoPath 2003, the validation events do not occur as expected.
  

Service pack information

This problem was first corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 3.To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next software update that contains this hotfix.

If the hotfix is available for download, there is a "Hotfix download available" section at the top of this Knowledge Base article. If this section does not appear, contact Microsoft Customer Service and Support to obtain the hotfix.

Note If additional issues occur or if any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support telephone numbers or to create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site: Note The "Hotfix download available" form displays the languages for which the hotfix is available. If you do not see your language, it is because a hotfix is not available for that language.

Prerequisites

This hotfix is a post Office 2003 Service Pack 2 hotfix. To install the hotfix, you must have Office 2003 Service Pack 2 installed. For more information about Office 2003 Service Pack 2, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Restart information

You do not have to restart your computer after you apply this hotfix package.

Hotfix replacement information

This hotfix package is not replaced by any later hotfix package.

Registry information

To use one of the hotfixes in this package, you do not have to make any changes to the registry.

File information

This hotfix may not contain all the files that you must have to fully update a product to the latest build. This hotfix contains only the files that you must have to correct the issues that this article lists.

The global version of this hotfix uses a Microsoft Windows Installer package to install the hotfix. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in the following table. When you view the file information, the date is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.

Download information

Microsoft Windows Installer .msp file information

After the hotfix package is installed, the global version of this hotfix package has the file attributes, or a later version of the file attributes, that are listed in the following table:

Additional notes

• For more information about how to install this hotfix, see the Readme.txt file that is included in the hotfix package.
• For more information about the terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  824684� Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates