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    - heading style defaults I read somewhere that if I tried to delete an in-built heading style, I couldn't and that Word would simply reset it to the heading's default. --- I can't figure out how to 'try to delete' a heading style Going back to the heading's default would suit me perfectly. When editing a paper for someone from Korea, I introduced heading styles so that I could make a Table of Contents, and saved the modified heading styles to the template. Later I realized that the heading styles I was working on (from a Korean computer, typing in English) were based on Normal style which included Korean - so that the heading styles on my computer now include Korean (although they are based on MY Normal style which uses US English as the default). It works, but I would like to remove the Korean language residue. I have tried looking into the language part of modify, but I can't see that there is anything there to work with to delete something - only to add a language (I can see that I need to learn advanced templates - but right now, I just want to get things back to where they were.) Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75879
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    - Macros-enable or disable Every time I turn on Word 2002 there is a message to enable or disable a Macro-I have tried to follow the instructions because I think it has something to do with a Certificate, but nothing works. The macro that is showing up is c:\program files\microsoft office\office 10 \startup\LEXlink.dot. This obviously has something to do with a LEXIS program I installed, and I am really not sure if I will need this macro. Short of trying to delete the file is there any way to let word know that the macro is safe, so I don't have to click "enable macro" everytime I start Word? Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75878
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    - in heading style, removing 'keep with next' the problem with 'keep with next' is that #2 heading numbering doesn't start again after an intervening #1 heading, etc. - the result is I, A,B, II C, D, III, IV, E, F - so, it works for#1 headings - but it is unacceptable for #2 (or #3) headings - without it working, you can't make a correct Table of Contents Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75877
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    - Show/ Hide Symbol I am using Office XP with all the service pak's. In my word documents the show/hide symbol appears. When I click the show/hide icon to make it disappear so only the I-beam marks the placement of text the show/hide symbol will not disappear. Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75871
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    - WINWORD.EXE- Application Error.......The memory could not be "read" When I try to open an existing file and even opening a new file I ge this error message: Microsoft Word: WINWORD.EXE - Application Error The instruction at "0x01f6216b" referenced memory at "0x00000000". Th memory could not be "read". I've been on the Microsoft website and installed ALL the Office update as well as ALL the Windows updates my computer needed, after scannin for updates. I restarted, and I still get that same error message. Any ideas? Please help ----------------------------------------------- ~~ Message posted from http://www.ExcelTip.com ~~View and post usenet messages directly from http://www.ExcelForum.com Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75868
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    - Hyperlinks won't format Hey guys, thanks in advance. Have Word 2000 and recently it hasn't been letting me format any hyperlinks. When I do type one in it looks like this {HYPERLINK "http://www.yahoo.com"}, without being blue or underlined, just the black text. The same problem happens when I try to copy/paste from a web page. All of the hyperlinks revert to text that look like the example above. I've gone through the tools -> autocorrect path and checked the format box and unchecked it and also reinstalled word, but nothing seems to help. Any suggestions. Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75863
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    - Word 97 loses font selections Recently upgraded from Office 95 to 97 and also to Windows 98. Word will not access all fonts when new document is opened, but they are contained in the appropriate Windows/Fonts folder. It also does the same when a Word file from another computer is opened. Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75862
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    - Delete Block & Home problems I used to Block text, hit Delete, and it was gone. Now I get a little message on the left end of the Statue Bar that says "Delete Block No(Yes)"-- how do I get back to a simple one-step delete?? (It works OK in other programs, just not Word). Also, when in mid-page in Word, I used to hit "Home" and the cursor immediately jumped to the beginning of the line. Now it does nothing until I hit the left arrow too (after)-- then it jumps to the beginning. "End" works fine. Again, how to get back to one step?? Thanks in advance for any "HELP"........ Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75858
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    - Problem with Inserting objects from file in Word XP I have a problem with Word XP that just started to occur. If I drag and drop a file or use Insert|Object|From File I get the error "Word cannot obtain the data for the blah.blah link." I have no idea why this has stopped working. I've tried all the usual web searches but can't find a fix. Anyone have a solution? Thanks Cameron Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75854
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    - Server threw an exception Clip Organizer cannot complete the operation. The server threw an exception. Error Code 0x80010105 I had this problem with Word 2002 and still have it with Word 2003. What do I need to do to fix this? Thanks for any help. Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75853
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    - Word 2002 will not load files Suddenly Word 2002 will not load any .dot or .doc files. I just installed McAfee virusscan ver 8. And I uninstalled and rein stalled Word with no change. Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75848
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    - arbitary overwrite from attached normal.dot WORD 2000 From time to to time, in say 5-10 page documents, exactly 256 bytes of stuff overwrites the current text. The 256 bytes are copied from Normal.dot attached to the current document. (The first 128 bytes can be found exactly in the original Normal.dot file). Confirmed by examining the documents and normal.dot using a hex editor; for several different documents and 4 different normal.dot's since its happening to 4 people on 4 different computers). Anyone else experiencing this ? Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75847
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    - Word Opens w/previous doc I have MS Word (XP). Recently, every time I open up word, instead of starting with a blank page, it starts with an old doc and calls it document1. Can you help, because I am at a lose to know what to do. Thank You Doug lonewolf1a@att.net Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75845
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    - abnormal program termination When I close a Word file I get a Runtime Error! message, and the program must be shut down. Does anyone know how to resolve this? Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75843
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    - lost # on jewel case for installation I recently had to replace the hard drive on my laptop. Afterwards, Windows ME works fine but I need to reinstall Microsoft Word 2000. I have lost the jewel case that has the # needed for installation over the past year. Is there another way to install Word or is my CD useless? Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75837
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    - XP Word keep trying to install After an upgrade of office 2000 to office XP, AND I try to open word for use the installation start up and ends in the following error error 1606 could not acess network location %:lluserprofile%\application\data\Microsoft\officer\data Also It will not allow to Repair\Remove\Install I always get the error above. Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75836
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    - Word documents frozen I have Microsoft Office XP Pro SE (2002) loaded on a Windows 2000 PC. I started experiencing problems with Word files freezing up, first intermittantly which progressed to every time I try to open a new or existing file. I can type one or two letters and then it freezes. If I do Control, Alt, Delete and cancel out of it, often it unfreezes and I can type another letter or two, but then it freezes again. I have tried all the fixes that I found listed but nothing helped, including uninstalling both Office and Windows and reinstalling. I then reformatted the hard drive and started fresh, hoping that if it was due to a corrupt Registry, then the problem would be fixed. But exactly the same thing is happening. I have spent so much time on this and I still can't use Word. Now I am wondering whether it is a compatability problem with other software. I have Adobe Acrobat 5, Symantec Antivirus Client, and the All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV installed. Has anyone heard of incompatibility issues with these products? I hope someone can help! Thanks, Sue Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75833
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    - Symbols in Equation Editor do not work Whenever I use Equation Editor, the =, + and - symbols appear correctly when I type, but when I close the Equation Editor box they are covered by strange black symbols, circles and other shapes. It also happens with symbols like alpha and beta. Sometimes symbols in normal text i.e. not in Equation Editor, do not show themselves correctly either, although =, + and - do. Equation Editor works fine in WordPad though. A friend said it may be due to my printer, which I am having problems with, as it may be unable to print the symbols and so they do not show up properly on screen. However, I uninstalled the printer and the problem has not gone away. PLEASE can anyone help? On an unrelated (probably?) note, my Word has a small faint "half open square" made up of two short lines with the point of the half square nearest to the text, in each corner of every page above/below and to the left/right of all the text. This could be due to my printer as well, although the lines do not appear on printouts as far as I am aware. Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75832
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    - Run time error 2147.... Word 2000. Following a crash moving and resizing a graphic I get the above error message each time programme is opened. Cancelling allows entry but standard toolbar has gone and File and Tools buttons on task bar do not operate. Everything else works OK. Any suggestions as to how to overcome? I have done a complete reload of OFFICE but problem still persists Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75829
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    - Locking Documents I am using Microsoft Word 2000 SR-1 on a Windows ME system. My word documents sometimes lock up on me. I am the only user and not on a network. How are these documents locking up, and what can I do to unlock them ? I checked the Microsoft site, and it says to use CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open the Windows Security dialog box, but when I do that, I only have choice to end task. I have done a search on my computer for Windows Security, Task Manager, and Winword.exe and I don't have any of these things. Can someone please help ? Thanks in advance Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75818
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    - Adobe error Word 2002 disabled Adobe. I enabled it, but still can't get the icon to appear within Word. I don't know how to convert my Word documents to pdf. Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75817
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    - Word 2002 Hangs in Open dialog Box In Word 2002 (10.5815.4219) SP-2 when I open the Open Dialog box and click the down arrow on the Look in: field Word hangs for about a minute. It evetually comes back with the diretory listing. If I have switched to another app while waiting, the directory listing window apears in the app I have switched to(Just the directory listing window not the entire Open Dialog). This problem occurs with Excel as well. I am running Windows XP Home 5.1.2600 SP1 Build 2600. Is anyone else seeing this problem? Any solution? Thanks Jay Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75811
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    - msword 2000 file saving problem Hi I am a user of MsWord 2000. When I am saving a file, I am getting following error. This is not a valid filename. Try one or more of the following. *Check the path to make sure it was typed correctly. *Select a file from the list of files & folders(D:\) Could any one help me to get rid of this error. Rest of the Office products are working ok. Thanks pappu kiran WireFree Innovision Tech. Ltd. No.54, Richmond road. Behind Big Kids Kemp Bangalore-560025 karnataka(state) India. Phone:080-5594911 ext 43 e-mail: pkiran@bplitl.com Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75810
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    - MS word help 2000 When I try and open MS word help, nothing happens, but when I click on ctrlaltdelete it says I have anywhere from two to six mshelp's open. Can anyone explain this Thanks sally Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75809
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    - Microsoft Word Crashes I have Microsoft Word 2000 installed on my Windows 2000 computer an everything works fine. However there is another computer in the office. Both are connected vi the network but if I shutdown the second computer then Word 200 crashes with a GPF error and does not work again until I turn on th computer. In essense, word does not function without the secon computer being active and connected to the network? I have tried uninstalling office 2000 and re-installing whilst no connected to the network and the problem persists. Does anybody hav any idea how I can get around this? Cheers in advanc ----------------------------------------------- ~~ Message posted from http://www.ExcelTip.com ~~View and post usenet messages directly from http://www.ExcelForum.com Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75804
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    - msword 2002 problem I hope you can help. Installed MSword2002. When I type my page it becomes black and the type is hidden due to the font color also being black. Anything I enter on the page is typed under this black screen. If I hit enter or pg down I see a full page of black as if the page has been selected or highlighted. I cannot see what I type unless I change the font color to white. ( black page white print) or unless I use reveal then clear. I have uninstalled word and then reinstalled but it returned the exact same way. I have tried to change all types of formatting codes to no avail.. please help. Ran a virus ck. program ok It happens on every document I type in word. Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75803
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    - Internal Error 2349 - Detect Repair Word 2000 SR1 Pro Ran a Detect & Repair Option on the above and during repair received the following: "INTERNAL ERROR 2349 Please contact product support for assistance" Followed by: "Setup failed" Was online at the time and had CD installed. Can anyone help with solution to this problem. Graham Page Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75802
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    - Very Weird Problem with Word I have Word 2002 that came shipped with my PC together with Works Suite 2002. Had been running sluggishly so I thought I would Remove then Add using add/remove. Removed and reinstalled but would not work. Now I can't remove even. Get message Patch Pacakge cannot be opened. Verify that patch package exists and you can opend it ..... I also tried intalling word 97 just to see if that would work and have same problem. Can someone please give me an idea of what might be wrong ? Thanks Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75798
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    - MS 97 used with Athlon XP1700 (1.5GH) I used Word 97 OK on old 330MH processor. It worked fine. But my faster new processor is causing Word to overlook text data pasted in from an outside program. Case in point: I send Bible scriptures to the Word 97, using the paste command ^(v) from a 'side by side' running program. Sometimes the send 'appears' to have worked, but no scripture text appears in Word. Maybe another 'send or two' will cause it to be accepted. Also I call for a single spacing between scriptures. This spacing changes, sometimes one, maybe two spaces the next time. Also the text scroll speed gets out of hand, too fast! If you try to select text to highlight, when you hit the bottom of the screen, it goes into overdrive to the end of the text. CAN THE SCROLL SPEED BE SLOWED DOWN? Any solutions? Thank You, Ken Boyer Email PatKen@paonline.com Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75797
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    - Word Not Printing Right All, Im using a Office XP with Service Pack 2 installed with Windows XP Professional as Operating System. Everytime I use the Word application and typed up a document and print, it comes out just on the left side of the paper the whole paragraph is the left side. I check the printing settings and all that, I also check the settings on word but I still get the same result. Any help I would really appreciate it... Here is the error message that Im getting "The margins of section 1 are set outside the printable area of the page. Do you want to continue?" Thanks in advance.... Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75796
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    - error in winword.exe I have Works Suite 2000. This week, when I try to open Word from Works Suite, or a Word document from the History portion of Works, or when I click the File tab on Word, I get a message that says: winword has caused an error in winword.exe winword will now close. Anyone know why and what I can do about it? Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75795
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    - Word Stops Responding with Bullets and Numbering Windows XP with Office 2002 and latest updates. Everytime that I try to use, or edit "outline" Bullets and Numbering the program stops responding. I can format several lines to use simple numbering, but the results are unexpected as text randomly jumps throughout the document. I've tried to repair the installation, uninstall and reinstall, and tried to create new documents with no change in this problem. Please advise. Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75794
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    - Cannot change fonts When I try to change fonts in Wort 97 I started getting an error message saying Cannot load Library "lxaiPRP.DLL. This just started and I can't change fonts at all. Thank you Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75792
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    - Office 2003 - EVAL Hi everyone, I had installed the 30 day Eval copy of office 2003 for myself and the office manager here, to test it out. Everything was working fine for a couple of weeks, and then one morning, we both had latency issues opening up word and excel. I had uninstalled and then reinstalled, still the same problem. This happens whether we're opening an existing document, or if we open just the app and then open the file from there. This also happens whether it be a new doc created in 2003, or one that was created in XP and then opened in 2003. I have gone to http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm but i am not sure if any of these solutions can help out with 2003. I haven't found any latency issues with power point or access as of yet. Any feedback is greatly appreciated in advance. Thanks! Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75785
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    - Saving files in Word 98 Files take forever (3-4 minutes) to save in Word 98 after installing SP4 in Windows 2000. Are there compatibility problems? Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75784
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    - Saving Word 98 files Ever since installing SP4 on Windows 2000, when saving files in Word98, the program hangs and takes 3-4 minutes to save a very small file. Is Word98 not compatible with Windows 2000 SP4? Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75783
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    - can't uninstall word 2002 i have work suite that came with my dell xp. I had to put on a different hard drive and now i can't get word 2002 to uninstall. It says it can't read the patch package. I don't know what that means. I went to knowledge base but didn't know what i was doing. the rest of the suite uninstalled fine. Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75782
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    - Not enough memory or disk space... Hi I'm getting this error when tryinng to print from word using the file>print option. Printing works when i use the icon on the tool bar. Machine has plenty of memory and hdd space, and the temp dir is empty. Also get the same error when trying to save a doc. Also same error when trying to send email in Outlook. I also tried removing Office and reinstalling...Any words of wisdom would be appreciated. Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75781
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    - Formatting I have a user running Word 2000 and who prints to an HP4ML printer. When she prints, some of the letters print on themselves. I've tried a couple of driver changes (PS) and they didn't help. I'm trying to get a PCL driver, but have been unsuccessful. Is this a driver or Word problem? Thanks, John Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75777
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    - Word 2000 Format Changes When I make a format change on one line in my document in Word 2000, it changes the entire document; if I click "Undo", it changes the rest of the document back to how it was, except for the line I wanted to change originally. Any ideas? Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75774
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    - Unable to save: visual basic pop-up After many years of running with no particular problems, the PC woke up and claimed some sort of Registry Error, which is said it could correct. After "correcting" itself most programs required re-installation, Norton anti-virus will not come up and Word will not Save other than as "Document 1". At the start and end of each Word session I get two pop- ups: The header says "Microsoft Visual Basic" The texts are "compiler error in hidden module: autoexec" and "compiler error in hidden module: main" I have reinstalled Office 97 twice, with no change. What do I do now? (Also, I am not in the US now, a further complication.) Franklin Porath frankporath@hotmail.com Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75773
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    - Why is the document messed up after 'Print Preview'? It happened on two of my XP Word files each of which is less than 1MB. After I pressed the 'print preview' button, the document got messy with figures overlapping each other and a lot of messy characters. I closed the file without saving it, and opened it again, but it was still the same. The strange thing is that after I waited for a couple of minutes and opened the file again, it recovered with only a few text boxes shifted from their original locations. Could anyone let me know more about this? It is quite scary! Thanks very much! Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75772
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    - word runtime error 5894 I trying to select a footer or header range in word vba code. error message reads "command only available in print layout mode. the code will process if i change the layout mode on word (toolbar -> view). but if I change the view mode in code using wdPrintView i still get the error any ideas anyone ta Rob Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75766
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    - Date form fields fails to update when opening saved doc I have many letters that are used over and over again and I have set them up with form fields to automatically enter the current date when the letter is opened. However, lately, my Word 2002 has not been updating the field. You have to unprotect the form and then reprotect it to make the field update. Is there a patch that anyone knows of that will fix this? Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75764
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    - Frozen Up I would love to attribute this problem to the cold weather, although it has no connection I installed Office 2000 in my computer and Iâ??m able to open Excel, Access, PowerPoint & Outlook â?? When I open up Word, my computer freezes on the Word splash screen and if I Ctrl+Alt+Delete itâ??s still frozen and I have to shut off the power Has anyone ever had this problem â?? If so what do I do I uninstalled it and reinstalled it â?? I even attempted to repair the problem through the installation â?? Nothing works â?? HELP I have homework to do Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75763
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    - crash after mail merge Hi group, my mail merge is a catalog. In the if-function there is my category and a table header, after the if a table row with other fields. Without seing the fields, only the row is seen, not the if. After merging the main document, it shows all: the first category, the table header and the row. Now Word hangs, but the task manager shows it is responding. Only shutting down the task helps. Microsoft Word 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-3) http://f2.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/milehmann public/klassen.zip Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75759
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    - word 2000 when i try to launch word 2000 it freezes and a window appears alerting of a problem with USER.EXE. onclicking close a window appears allowing me to ignore this which results in the pc freezing completely. I have tried changing the data file in the registry but this only allows word to open once before the problem re occurs any thougts on how to overcome this Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75758
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    - error in saving word file I am trying to save a word file. My PC is showing too many programs are open, disk is full cannot save the file, How to save my file without loosing any information ???? thank u Sabir Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75757
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    - How to Save word file when error occurs I am using MS-WORD 2000, I am trying to save the file ,then PC shows an error " too many files open, No disk space,cannot save the file" How to save my file in this situation... thanks Sabir Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75756
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    - patch package I can't uninstall word and it's not working. I have a xp and word 2002. When I try to repair or uninstall it says it can't read the patch package. I haven't been able to find out what this patch package is or what to do about it. Hope you can help. I want to either take it off or fix it. The works suite can be installed and uninstalled. It's only the word that I'm having trouble with. thanks Tag: Cannot open word files Tag: 75754

I get the message that the file is unavailable when I try
to open a word document. I cannot open Excel workbooks
either. This happened after I installed Office XP SP2.

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Re: Cannot open word files by Beth

Beth
Sun Jan 25 10:41:16 CST 2004

Hi Debra,

This issue is caused by Norton AV. In Norton go to Options and in the
Miscellaneous section turn off "Enable Office Plug-in".

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"DebraG" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:66b301c3e357$1df08df0$7d02280a@phx.gbl...
> I get the message that the file is unavailable when I try
> to open a word document. I cannot open Excel workbooks
> either. This happened after I installed Office XP SP2.

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