...and here's another geeky one. Targeted at a even more niche audience, the Poorhouse imagines.

Anyone who has already experienced the "joy" of controlling Microsoft Publisher from another application via Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) may have noticed quite a bit of trial and error seems to be needed, unless that's just the way the Poorhouse codes. Which it is. Anyway, moving on...after an application was upgraded from Publisher XP to 2003 it suddenly stopped working.

Whenever the calling application (an Access database as it happens) tried to "autofit" - that is enlarge or reduce the size of text so it perfectly fits into a surrounding text-box using the "best fit" method - the following useful-as-ever Microsoft error message flashed up and crashed the program.

Method "autofittext" of object textframe failed
Run-time error -2147467259