Object reference

"Object reference not set to an instance of the object"

Leon the Huguenot has a brief but utterly frustrating episode with a Windows computer.

"Object reference not set to an instance of the object" What a helpful error message! How self-explanatory!

I received this message in relation to my Dymo LabelWriter this afternoon when printing labels from Word. I tried various things to no avail. Of course Word Help would be as much use in this situation as a bread poultice so I did not try this. In fact Word Help is usually as helpful as a bread poultice in any situation. This may explain why very few bread poultices are used these days.

On getting onto the web, where I have sometimes found salvation for my computer errors, there was nothing intelligible; no explanation as to what I should do; no guidance.

It seems this error occurs in relation to many other devices and I am the first person in the world ever to get it with a Dymo LabelWriter. Perhaps the others who did get it just gave up immediately and chucked their LabelWriter out with the food scraps.

My current plan is as follows:

(a) Try repairing Word 2007. That might be a problem if it asks for the Word disc since I have at least 7 legitimate copies of Word 2007. I have labelled none of them with the computer they are on. Why would I be as sensible as that? I will have to try them sequentially until I hit the right one.

(b) Reinstall the Dymo software so that the now blighted marriage between Dymo and Word will be refreshed and the little "Object reference not set to an instance of the object" episode just laughed off as a mild hiccough in the development of a long-term relationship.

I shall let you know how it goes. Since I am probably the only person reading this blog...like the previous blog I briefly established...at least I shall be able to inform myself of what I did. It is rather like sitting right down and writing myself a letter. That could be the lyrics of a song.

I must write down my other recent computer episode before it fades from the history of the planet. Now what did that concern? Sorry, it has faded from the history of the planet. Apologies to the history of the planet.

Finally, since one of the labels attached to this blog is "mating habits of pterodactyls", which I have attached to attract people to this blog, I guess I shall have to say something about them. I know everyone has an unhealthy, perverse interest in the mating habits of pterodactyls but you're not going to find anything about them here. I consider them quite unsuitable for a family-oriented blog. Look somewhere else for those e.g. my forthcoming blog entitled "mating habits of pterodactyls".