Word 2003

I have Vista Home Edition and MS Office 2003 installed. For some reason, all
of Office works except for Word. Whenever I open it, it stays open for about
5-10 seconds and then Vista 'finds a problem with it' and closes. The
solution says to update Office...which I have done several times. I've also
tried to uninstall Office completely and doing a fresh install...same
problem. I'm at a loss and my classes start next week. I'm forced to use an
online version of Google Docs to write papers...not really the best choice
IMO...HELP!!!!

Hi,

A bad normal.dot file can cause this issue. Make sure Word is closed, then
delete the existing one under:
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Template s

When you restart Word, a new one will be created for you.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:26D74787-CC6E-4C51-8991-287BE08EF975@microsoft.com...
>I have Vista Home Edition and MS Office 2003 installed. For some reason,
>all
> of Office works except for Word. Whenever I open it, it stays open for
> about
> 5-10 seconds and then Vista 'finds a problem with it' and closes. The
> solution says to update Office...which I have done several times. I've
> also
> tried to uninstall Office completely and doing a fresh install...same
> problem. I'm at a loss and my classes start next week. I'm forced to use
> an
> online version of Google Docs to write papers...not really the best choice
> IMO...HELP!!!!

Well...it was worth a shot but it didn't work. I keep getting Microsoft has
encountered a problem and is looking for a solution...with no luck. What is
strange is that Office worked without a problem until recently, I don't think
it's a bad disk or something like that, it's odd.



"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A bad normal.dot file can cause this issue. Make sure Word is closed, then
> delete the existing one under:
> C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Template s
>
> When you restart Word, a new one will be created for you.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:26D74787-CC6E-4C51-8991-287BE08EF975@microsoft.com...
> >I have Vista Home Edition and MS Office 2003 installed. For some reason,
> >all
> > of Office works except for Word. Whenever I open it, it stays open for
> > about
> > 5-10 seconds and then Vista 'finds a problem with it' and closes. The
> > solution says to update Office...which I have done several times. I've
> > also
> > tried to uninstall Office completely and doing a fresh install...same
> > problem. I'm at a loss and my classes start next week. I'm forced to use
> > an
> > online version of Google Docs to write papers...not really the best choice
> > IMO...HELP!!!!
>
>

Hi,

Sorry it didn't work for you. You may want to try asking this in one of the
Word groups:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ication.errors

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F4999790-10FE-4024-8D99-9EEECF6CE7D1@microsoft.com...
> Well...it was worth a shot but it didn't work. I keep getting Microsoft
> has
> encountered a problem and is looking for a solution...with no luck. What
> is
> strange is that Office worked without a problem until recently, I don't
> think
> it's a bad disk or something like that, it's odd.
>
>
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A bad normal.dot file can cause this issue. Make sure Word is closed,
>> then
>> delete the existing one under:
>> C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Template s
>>
>> When you restart Word, a new one will be created for you.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>>
>> "Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:26D74787-CC6E-4C51-8991-287BE08EF975@microsoft.com...
>> >I have Vista Home Edition and MS Office 2003 installed. For some
>> >reason,
>> >all
>> > of Office works except for Word. Whenever I open it, it stays open for
>> > about
>> > 5-10 seconds and then Vista 'finds a problem with it' and closes. The
>> > solution says to update Office...which I have done several times. I've
>> > also
>> > tried to uninstall Office completely and doing a fresh install...same
>> > problem. I'm at a loss and my classes start next week. I'm forced to
>> > use
>> > an
>> > online version of Google Docs to write papers...not really the best
>> > choice
>> > IMO...HELP!!!!
>>
>>