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    - Office 2000 problems in XP environment Cannot get Word 2000 to work in my new XP environment. Other Office 2000 Premium applications appear to be ok. Is there a download available to make Word compatible to XP? RLC Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71359
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    - Open File error - Word 2002 and other office 2000 apps. Hi, I operate Windows XP, Word 2002, and other office 2000 component, Power Point Excel. I have just updated it all, using the update wizard in Microsoft web site. Since this update, I can not open any file using the above applications. In Word I get an error message, "The file xxx.doc is not available.". In Power Point the error is "The path or file name for xxx.ppt is invalid. Please check that the path and file name are correct". In Excel, I get "Unable to read file". These error are the same whether I attempt to open the file by double clicking from the explorer window or from within the application. Also, this occurs to file I have worked recently as well as for dummy file I have just now created, saved and tried to open again. Thank you, M Rosen Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71358
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    - Word 2000 using Windows 98 Only lately, when I open Word it only has the white typing area and a blue line at the top with the word w"Word Document 1, There are no tool bars including the Tools with the View. If that was there I could then select a tool bar. Do you have ant suggestions? Dave Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71354
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    - Edit/Find - Screen Blanks Running W2K SP3 and Office Standard 2000 SP3 on several Dell Optiplex GX260. The probelm is in MS Wodd 2000: Using Edit/Find or CTRL F. The Find & Replace box pops up but the entire text in the document disappears; it re-appears if you push Esc and get rid of the Find & Replace box. Tried to load Graphics card drivers from ATI - then changes screen resolution - seemed to fix the problem. Tried the same fix on another PC (exact same spec) and the problem remained. The problem has also returned to the PC we thought we had fixed. CTRL F works in all other apps. All suggestions welcome. Thanks Hamish McLean Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71351
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    - Insert date works but format is changed when printed out! Hi, If I insert the date into a word 2000 document (01/03/03 format) what I see on the screen is just what I need, but when I print out a hard copy the date is corrupt this can be random letters or numbers or both. I am also told the mail merge will not work on this PC. I have been on the office update site and done the updates but still no luck I don't want to have to format the computer so I am looking for any advise please. Oh yes if you type the date in yourself it prints out fine! Thanks for looking. Derek Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71347
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    - compile error in hidden module - aowd Created the .ops file from Office XP. Installed Office 2003 on a new computer. Installed the .ops file. When I open Word I am getting the following VB error message: Compile error in hidden module: aowd What is 'aowd"? and how do I fix it. Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71343
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    - compile error at word The following error show up when i open word "Compile error in hidden module: " PLEASE HELP. Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71330
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    - word2k and dual boot problem Hi, I noticed this problem on at least three machines (all laptop various brands running on win2k pro) with dual boot. When there are two or more word documents open, its not possible to save a document or copy matter from one session to another, word shows an error message. The machines are with dual boot, active partitions are FAT32 and having the minimum possible drive space. The office 2000 is installed on logical parition running on win2k pro. Any help? Thanks pk Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71322
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    - help w/ visual basic although it doesn't occur all the time, sometimes when i open word 2003 i get an error message from micrsoft visual basic that states "the project doe not support the property or method". what does this mean how do i fix it Thanks Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71319
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    - Word and Excel errors The first of two things: 1. I get an error on Excel that tells me that the files is being open by another user. This happens on all Excel files that I open. The directory that the excel files are stored in is on a network shared. I've checked the permissions to make sure that it is not set to read only. The permission on the folder itself has no restrictive permissions. 2. The word problem is similar. I get a read only when I open any word files. Once again the files and folders do not have any restrictive permissions. I've tried reinstalling Office once before. If anyone has cany recommendations on how to fix this, that would be great. . Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71318
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    - Embedded Object Errors I was trying to find out why I get an error when I embed a linked Word doc in a Word doc in Word 2002. It also happens on linked Excel files in Word doc. I get the following error dialog box when I send it to other people and they try to open the embedded linked object: Microsoft Word can't start the application required to open this object. An error occurred and thsi feature is no longer functioning properly. Would you like to repair this feature now? Click Yes or No After clicking No (because I know the app is ok), this is followed by the dialog box: The server application, source file, or item cannot be found. Make sure the application is properly installed, and that it has not been deleted, moved or renamed. Click OK Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71316
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    - blank document I can't get a blank document. It has this letter I typed as a blank or new document. Amanda Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71309
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    - blank document My new document is not blank it has a letter that I typed on it. I can click on blank or new and it always has this document. Amanda Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71307
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    - Word Freezes when working a doc Help - I have one computer that any we try to scroll through the document it locks the entire sytsem up. It does not do this on any other computer. Any ideas? Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71301
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    - Word 2003 template problem/error 1605 I have Mathtype and Adobe PDF plugins, and I just upgraded to Office 2003 from the betas. The beta versions were working just fine with the plugins, but now, upon startup, I will get the error "Microsoft Office Word can't display the template used in this document. Microsoft Office Word cannot install the necessary files due to Windows Installer error 1605. This action is only valid for products taht are currently installed." So I just hold down the ENTER key until the the dialog box disapears, and afterwards, everything works as normal. Any ideas how to fix this? I have no problem running anything else in the Office 2003 suite. Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71299
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    - Can Keep Only One Word Document Opened At A Time I have Microsoft XP Professional Office 2002. Until a few days ago in Word I could keep as many documents opened at the same time as I wanted. Suddenly I can only keep one document open at a time. After opening an initial document and I want to keep it open while I open a second document, either a new one or previously saved one, whatever I am trying to open takes the place of the existing opened document and I can only have one document open at a time. Cheryl bcheryl@verticomp.com Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71297
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    - Run time error While in word, I recieved a run time error message: (red box) Microsoft visual C++ Runtime Error (gray box) Program C:/program files/Microsoft office/office 10/winword.exe I was unable to save work, however, MS word did do an automatic save. this is the first time this has happen since I had the Gateway computer (over a year). Any idea what may have caused this? (Win XP & Office came with PC) Thanks, Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71294
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    - Printing page ranges I have loaded on the XP service pack 1a and my office service pack is on 2. The issue I am having is that some (not all)documents are having issues printing. I can print the entire document, or the current page, but not the page range (ie 66-69). What is really wierd is that the documents that don't work are ones that were created prior to loading on the service packs (which I loaded to solve searching issues). Does anyone know if this is a bug??? Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71293
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    - Word 97 Unable to view JPEG files in 97, however can view them in print preview. Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71269
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    - How to make the button "undo", re-appear again?? Hi there, Indeed, suddenly I've no longer this button showing up on my Word taskbar...so where can I now reactivate it? Thank you very much in advance! Philippe Borel Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71268
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    - Help please? ok, this has confused all of us. We have decomissioned an old server which used to be our file store. We moved all the files to a new server (which has a different name of course). This was fine and everything worked well until we powered down the old server. When this was done about 20 minutes later we started getting calls from users who were unable to open certain word documents. Word would launch but hang, the file never opened and the application would eventually stop responding. We cant identify why it is only some Word doc's and not all. Whenever we restart the server the problem goes away. The documents could be really old or very new, and most are likely to have been created from shared templates. All problem clients are windows XP/office XP with all the latest service packs and patches relavent to each. But, this is where it gets strange. We installed Windows XP fresh on a new PC and tried to open the problem files using Wordpad, they opened fine. Then we install a fresh copy of Office XP and the problem occoured. It appears Wordpad will open the document fine on any machine. Once opened on Wordpad we can save the document as the same name (overwriting the old) and then Word WILL open it successfully. What is going on? It's obviously got something to do with our old server being on but we don't know what. There are no references or links in these documents to other documents. The only connection to this old server is that they were created from templates stored on it. This is a tuffie to explain so please e-mail me if you think you can help but need more info. any helpful suggestions very welcomed. Mike. . Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71264
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    - smart tags My smart tags do not work on date, phone numbers, and e- mail. I checked the settings for the smart tags and had others check them, but they do not work for these applications. Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71262
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    - VB application only fuction with Word97? We have an online databaseon our serverwith the VB application only function with Word97. There few other databases develop in a common folder that uses ofice2000 with all mail merge in Word200. It seems to me that the big database withWod97 functionality can survive with Word2000. Can some-one offer a way out. Lanre Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71261
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    - Black Writing Spaces in Word I can pull up a doc and I can view it fine. When I go to type something in the page, the whole line just turns black on me. It does this on a new doc also. Obviously I can see what is being type since the letters are black also. I tried deleting Word and reinstalling it and the new version gives me the same problem...Black line where I try to type..... Any suggestions? Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71260
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    - Invalid Page Fault in WINWORD Word has been working for months, all of a sudden I get this 'Invalid page fault' and can not open Word. I removed office and reinstalled and still cannot excute Word. Excel works fine. Help!!!!!! Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71259
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    - Word hangs on "Save" to network Drive Hello, I hope someone can help me with this problem. I have several differen clients (on different networks) who, when trying to save a wor document to a network drive, word will hang (displaying "no responding") for up to 3 minutes. All three machines are runnin Windows XP, with all of the latest service packs/critical updates) Also loaded, is Office 2000, also with all of the updates/servic packs. After paying $350 to microsoft tech support (along with 15 Hr into this issue), I am still at a stalemate. Just for adde information: 1)I have stopped the "webclient service", as per instructed b Microsoft, on the client machine. 2)The server is running MS Server 2000, with sp4, Norton Corporat Antivirus, and Veritas Backup Exec. 3)This does not happen with all Win XP machines on the network, onl one on each network Any Help would be GREATLY appreciated.. Ted Neary Network Coverage, In ----------------------------------------------- ~~ Message posted from http://www.ExcelTip.com ~~View and post usenet messages directly from http://www.ExcelForum.com Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71258
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    - Macros Anyone help How do i enable a macro in word The macro is stored within a document itself as oposed to being stored in a template such as normal dot. When i try to run it it says the macro is not enabled .Please any one help. Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71255
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    - Disabling error reporting? When Word2002+ crashes, it asks to send something somewhere ... The prospect of sending off whatever data that might be in the document is not something a large law firm wants to do. How can this be disabled? And if MSFT wants bug reports, thye can set up an instance of BugZilla and collect them ... I personally have given up on reporting the bugs because they never seem to get fixed. Tsu Dho Nimh -- When businesses invoke the "protection of consumers," it's a lot like politicians invoking morality and children - grab your wallet and/or your kid and run for your life. Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71252
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    - [Word97]: (un)protecting forms Hi all This is about forms in Word97 When I created a document using forms (with radio buttons, check boxes, free text and so on), and afterwards I protect the document, the text dissapears! I can't even undo it. When I quit the application, I does ask me if I want to save the changes (No! I want the changes undone, you ... Still I want to protect the form before I can distribute it. How to do this without losing all content? Is it a bug in Word97 Best regards, Nils Vergeer Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71250
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    - error starting MS Word 97 When I start MS Word 2000 as part of Office 2000 prof i get the following errormessage "This application is not installed to run. Please run Setup from the location you originally installed the application from. What causes this and more importent how do I solve this I did remove the software, deleted all office directories and (local machine + current user) software-microsoft-office registry entry. But after reinstalling the software the same problem appeared All order program s (Access, Powerpoint, Excel) work fin Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71249
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    - invalid page fault in module WINWORD.EXE at 0197:300ab7d3 I am getting this annoying error that requires me to restart my computer in order to access the file I was using. The following error comes up when I use the cut function in word. WINWORD caused an invalid page fault in module WINWORD.EXE at 0197:300ab7d3. Does anyone know what I can do to prevent this? Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71248
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    - Word won't open. Word (from Office 2000) won't open. I think the default or startup file for Word needs to be renamed. This has happened before, but I can't remember what I did to fix the problem. I am running Windows 98. Can anyone help? Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71247
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    - Word Tables Word tables are shocking. Does anyone know how to adjust the format in a Powerpoint display. They just go all over the place without any rhyme or reason. Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71246
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    - AUTOTEXT FILENAME AND PATH When I try and insert the filename and path under the header/footer tool bar it does not exist. Filename exists, but not Filename and Path. It did at one time, but I did something to screw up the definition of this and now it is not there under "Autotext." After an unistall and reinstall, "Filename and path" are still not an option on the Header/Footer toolbar. However, when I go to "Autotext" and choose Filename and path, it will insert the following: "{Filename\p]. How do I get the actual path and filename back like it was before. Any help would be wonderful Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71245
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    - Autotext filename and path When I try and insert the filename and path under the header/footer tool bar it does not exist. Filename exists, but not Filename and Path. It did at one time, but I did something to screw up the definition of this and now it is not there under "Autotext." After an unistall and reinstall, "Filename and path" are still not an option on the Header/Footer toolbar. However, when I go to "Autotext" and choose Filename and path, it will insert the following: "{Filename\p]. How do I get the actual path and filename back like it was before. Any help would be wonderful Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71244
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    - Word Freezing Up Out of the blue, when attempting to open WORD (2000)my computer freezes right when it begins process. All other programs are functioning find just WORD. I have to restart the machine. Any ideas? Thanks! Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71243
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    - Selecting text to copy in long document Whenever I try to highlight and copy more than the current page of a document, the highlighter runs to the last page, for example, page 56, when I only want to highlight for copying the first four pages. How can I slow down the highlighter in order to just copy the section, or portion, of the document I want? Thanks in advance for your help! I Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71242
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    - Filter keys I accidently held down the shift key for too long and now it says i have activated the filter keys. I am unable to use my keyboard all together. Please tell me how to take this off and how i can disable it permanently. Feel free to email me. Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71241
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    - this action is only valid for products already installed When I click on a Word or Powerpoint document icon I get a message that "this action is only valid for products already installed". I can "send" the document to WINWORD and it opens, but not for the doubleclick. I've done the winword /r. Uninstalled and re-installed Office and Word separately. I started with an OEM installed Windows ME with Works 2000. Overlayed Office 2000 Pro (no problems). Overlayed XP Professional Operating System (no problems). Overlayed Office XP Pro (this is when the problem manifested). Uninstalled/Reinstalled XP Pro/Word. Uninstalled XP Pro, installed Office 2000. Problem still existed. I've been living with this since Office XP Pro. Help! Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71240
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    - Copying text from Word to OE mail give IE error??? Hi, I'm using Word 2002, OE6, IE6. When copying text from Word doc and pasting into an OE mail message I get an Internet Explorer alert with the following error message: "Your current security setting prohibit running ActiveX controls on this page. As a result the page may not display correctly." The resulting text in OE looks ok to begin with, but when I save it or send it the text in the outgoing message changes from single spaced to double spaced. My IE ActiveX settings are set to "enable". Whats going on???? What has IE got to do with text from Word? Thanks Gay Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71235
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    - formatting disappears the last several times I have saved and closed documents in Word, when I re-open them my formatting is gone. Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71234
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    - Adding Autoshapes into a photo document Since August, 2003, I have not been able to insert an Autoshaoe into my photo documents in Office XP for Small business, (2002). When I try do insert anarrow or try to circle a partiicular item in thephoto for review, the photo either jumps almost off thesheet or drops down below the autoshape I installed. Why? and has all the new updates Microsoft has been sending affected this particular way I use the Autoshape in a photo? Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71225
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    - Word and Microsoft conflict Hi, I just installed Winfax Pro on my computer. I have Windows XP. Since I have installed Winfax Pro, Microsoft no longer opens. I have heard that a certain file can be deleted to solve this problem. Would any of you know which file it is ??? Thanks Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71224
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    - When doing an Open wierd characters and blank file names Hi, Running Word 97 sr2b. When in Word and doing an "Open as" the filenames are either ????? or sometimes blank even though there is a Word icon by the object. Ran update virus scan, Rebooted, powered down, Emptied out the temps, deleted normal.dot, even re-registered Word. It will only do so in Word and only in Open. If doing a Save as in Word the file names are listed normally. Using Windows explorer is fine. Any ideas on what a fix could be would be appreciated. Thanks. Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71223
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    - Word draws window in wrong location I have a machine that on seemingly random occasions draws maximized Word windows about an inch and a half from the top of the monitor. The real problem is that the bottom of the window is "drawn" off the monitor and so you can sometimes not access the scroll bar as it is off screen. Or if your cursor is to low in the window, you can not see what you are typing / trying to edit. Inevitabley once Word is closed and reopened a few times, it figures out where the top of the monitor really is. This is on a XP machine with Office 2003. I have tried reinstalling Office and have also written a macro to position the window at Top:=0 but neither helped. Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71222
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    - MS Word Help, I have lost all the top menus in Word. I went to help to find how to put them back but with no luck. Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71220
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    - Repagination problem I had a very long document with a large contents table. I removed all the contents except the 1st heading, then went to the contents and did an update field. This caused a hang. It says 'word is repaginating document' but nothing happens. Escape doesn't work. If I remove the 1st heading then it's ok (it says Error! No table of contents found, which I guess is ok). I also noticed that in another document, if the 1st heading doesn't have a page break before it, then updating the contents also causes a hang. Seems that if the headings can move as a result of a contents field update, there is a problem. Sorry I can't post the example as it's confidential. Jay. Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71219
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    - Word hangs repeatedly I have MS Office Small Business and on one of my computers, Word hangs every time I try to open, close, or save a shared document on my server. One thing I heard that would help is to add a DWORD value named "cachesize" in the registry under ...Word>Options that is 1024 bytes, and that seemed to help for a while, but after a few days it is still hanging for up to several minutes at a time. A couple other seemingly indentical computers were having the same problem a couple months ago, and once I added the DWORD value, they have worked perfectly. Any suggestions? Thanks. Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71217
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    - Application popup: insinv32.exe - Application Error Hi, Could anyone help me with this error I keep getting when trying to install an application? Application popup: insinv32.exe - Application Error : The instruction at "0x004039b2" referenced memory at "0x004039b2". The required data was not placed into memory because of an I/O error status of "0xc000020c". Thanks Rob Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71216
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    - Print Dialog Opens Behind Microsoft Word Hi Everyone, I am running into an issue when I select Print from the File menu. The print dialog box opens, but it is behind Microsoft Word. If I minimize Microsoft Word and then restore/maximize it, then the print dialog appears in front of Word like it should. The same problem occurs when I select Save As from the File menu. Does anyone know how to correct this problem? Tag: Word crashing when opening Tag: 71213

Problem with opening word, it crashes when it comes to
starting up the program. Anyone know how this can be fixed

Re: Word crashing when opening by Suzanne

Suzanne
Thu Nov 20 08:37:17 CST 2003

See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm

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> Problem with opening word, it crashes when it comes to
> starting up the program. Anyone know how this can be fixed

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