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    - Calendar Wizard macro error Just installed Word 2003, and now Calendar Wizard won't run. I get the following error: "The document contains macros. Macro language support for this application is disabled. Features requiring VBA are not available. Would you like to open this document read-only?" Whether I click OK or Cancel, the calendar wizard does not load. Macro security level is set to low. Under "trusted sources" both boxes "Trust all installed add-ins and templates" and "Trust access to VB Project" are checked. Trusete Sources include Microsoft Corporation and Microsoft Corporation2 (whatever that is). BTW I used the calendar wizard all the time under Office 2000. Help? -- Margaret Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76915
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    - word 2000 Document replaced I'm asking this question on behaf of someone else who is not used to using word on a PC so some of the details might be a bit shaky. They were in the process of copy text from one document to another. While doing this they lost all the text and it was replaced by another file that was already saved in the same folder. Now they are not able to get the old text back. I'm not sure if they saved it but they did mention getting a message about the clip board and they responded no to it. I'm wondering if there is any way to recover the old text or if microsoft word 2000 has any build in recovery points that they could go back to or if there is any other way to recover the text that they might have accidently deleated or overwritting. ANy help would be greatly appreaciated. thanks nik Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76913
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    - Calendar Wizard When I run the Calendar Wizard for Word 2002, I do not get the right Calendar. I select the Calendar that says "Boxes and Borders" but no boxes or borders appear. I have used this same calendar with other systems and it works fine... Any Help? Thanks Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76912
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    - deleting microsoft shared folder Hi All, I would like to know if I delete the microsoft shared folder under common files and I re-install office 97 will that folder be re-written? I am having a problem and want to see if this will help fix it. any help would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Regards, Gary Metzler Outta Sight Travel, Inc. Phone: 772-336-8747 Fax: 772-336-8595 E-mail: gmtravel@bellsouth.net http://www.outtasighttravel.com Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76909
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    - Opening in Word 2000 from other Word sources When I open a Word document from another Word source in my Word 2000, my app is freezing up. I use XP Pro and Office 2000. Problem seems to have started after I installed all the upgrades from the MS upgrade site. Any suggestions other than re-installing original Word 2000 Thanks for any help. Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76899
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    - Word 2003 crashes making bulleted list Word 2003 crasheswhenever I try to make a bulleted or numbered list, or when autoformat tries to do it. This is a clean install of Word 2003 on this computer, with all updates loaded. I have used the Detect and Repair utility and it did not solve the problem. I have completely uninstalled and reinstalled Office 2003 and it did not solve the problem. I used the Microsoft Install CleanUp utility and it did not solve the problem. Does anyone have a suggestion for how to fix Word, or does someone know how to REALLY COMPLETELY uninstall Office (including all the registry entries)? TIA, Mike Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76896
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    - word 2002 document pops up every time I start word, how to delete? save me! Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76895
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    - office word Pat what do I do about that Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76894
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    - Office xp word program When I am working on my word program. It will freeze up when I try to move the scroll bars and arrows. I don't know if something is wrong with the java script. When I was on internet, some Japanese script was downloading. Seems ever since I have had a problem. Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76892
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    - Error in WordApp.Printout Hi, I am using the Word Application and the word object for printing. In my program , I do the following Save an HTML file into a Word document. Print the Word document using the .PrintOut method( here background is set to false). Sleep for 3 secs. The htm is closed previously. Close the word doc. Delete the htm and the word doc. I do this repeatedly in a loop. When the volume for printing is high, I am getting error "There is not enough memory to repaginate or print the document in the method call .PrintOut. My application server has enough memory.I am connecting to a network printer for printing by using the method objWordApp.ActivePrinter = <\\Network machine\Network printer> I am allocating memory in other parts of the program but there is no memory error for that.Only in .Printout this happens. Any suggestions on this is most helpful. Thanks, Ambarish. Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76891
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    - Equation Editor 3 In the past I have used the equation editor with only minor problems. Resently, I had to reload my machine. I have installed some new programs. Now, when I use the equation editor, I can get it inserted and open, but as soon as I type a number or letter it faults the memmory stack and crashes. If I don't close it before doing anything else, it will crash Word also. Any ideas? Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76890
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    - Word 2003 Printing Malfunction? The other day, I installed Office 2003, and all seemed to be working fine. Till one day, I started outlook and it said there was something wrong and kept trying to install some files. This was occuring in all Office2K3 programs and would shut down if I cancelled the installation. So I shell out my MSO 2K3 cd and let it intall "SKU011.cab" file. After that, things seemed to be back to normal. Except when I shut down outlook, it would have it's icon in the tray and when i tried to click it - it would say outlook is not responding. Sooo.... I un-installed Office2K3, restarted, installed it again. Now there's a weird problem. Whenever I open a document in Word 2K3 or Excel 2K3, it keeps trying to print the document. I don't have a printer, so it keeps asking me to find a printer, and I have to cancel it so that I can work on my document. Any ideas on what is wrong? Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76888
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    - microsoft word problem why am I getting the message " not enough memory or disc space " when trying to open a word document? Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76884
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    - Hieroglyphics when I print an envelope in Word 2003 When I print in Word 2003, the envelope prints using characters like this: !#$&#(!) Does anyone know how to solve this? I'd appreciate some advice. Thank you Penny Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76883
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    - OSA9 not responding When attempting to open a Word ducument(now or existing) will not diplay document. Everything else works. Ctrl-Alt- Delete say "OSa9 not responding" "End Task" seems to work but still cannot open document. Only solution is to Restrart Computer. Any ideas?? Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76880
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    - word 2002 excel 2002 both worked fine, now when i try to open any doc or xls i get a message that the file is not available. even if i save a new doc, close it and try to reopen it i get the same message, what did i do??????? Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76871
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    - users in "My Computer" Running win XP Pro with MS Office XP I have 3 users in my workgroup however only 2 users show to share their documents in "My Computer". How can I get the 3rd user to show in "My Computer" TIA Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76869
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    - Word 2003 maximized window dips below bottom of the screen I've a brand new Inspirion with a fresh, clean, spanking new install of Windows XP on it. I've Word 2003 (Office Basic Edition). When I maximize the window - it doesn't fit on the screen. The top of the Word window is about a title bar depth down from what it should be and the bottom of the window, with the status bar there, vanishes below the edge of the screen. Right now, for example, if I maximize Word I can still clearly read "Community Newsgroups" in IE's title bar above the Word title bar. It's a pain. Not only does it look funny and distract me but I do use the bottom status bar! Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76845
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    - Saving Issue hour glass pops up every few seconds as if system is trying to save. This only happens with Word (Office 2002). This started recently. Scanned, defragged, reinstalled XP, etc. -- still have the problem. It annoying Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76842
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    - some text wont print I am tyring to print some address labels but some of the address wont print even though they are on the screen in front of me. These lines that dont print seem to have purple dotted lines under the text that wont print. Can anyboby help? Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76838
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    - Word 2000 won't open I have tried to follow guidance in **/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWordContent.htm but have not been able to get Word 2000 to run. Worked fine several days ago. Apparent corruption as no virus found. Opens using Run>winword.exe /a option. I renamed Normal.dot to Normal.old but this did not fix. Looked for Startup files but nothing below Startup in path. Renamed HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ etc ]Office\9.0\Word\Data by changing to oldData. Did not fix anything If I buy Word 2003 and load, will this override the file corruption or will I still have same problem Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76836
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    - Word won't start When I try to start Word I get a white rectangle which says "the system is dangerously low on resources" and asks me to stop something, offering me Winword to start with. When I delete Winword it offers me the next thing and so on. There is no way out of this and usually I just have to press the restart button. I tried reisntalling Word (using the Office Repair option and then "Reinstall Office"). Seems to work but doesn't do the trick- Word still won't run. I also tried the fix in 305498 (rename possibly corrupted files) and then reinstall Office). Again seemed to work but no joy with Word. I then uninstalled Word. I got a few messages in this asking me if I wanted to delete several files - presumably because they were shared. Didn't delete those files. Maybe they were the problem? I also tried reinstalling Windows 98 SE. This seemed to work until the plug and play discovery when it said it didn't have a series (about 10) of keys of the form enum\root\xxxxxx. I clicked OK for the msg for each key (no other option)and the install seemed to continue, but when it came back up after the restart it said the registry was bad and restored a good one so I am not sure if the W98 install took hold. Can anyone throw any light on this mess. Never had such a tricky one before. Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76833
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    - Address box doesn't appear on Send To I was trying to use the Send to Mail recipient Function in Word XP (trying to mail a document with frames and images). When I select that option from the menu, it creates the document to mail but doesn't show the address box so I can fill in the email addresses. It worked before. I'm using Word XP and Outlook 2003-could the difference be the problem? A pop-up message comes up and asks if I want to send the active document or with frames-If I chose the active document it doesn't do anything. If I choose the frames selection I get this error: "Word could not load the e- mail envelope. This could be caused by a network connection problem or a problem with your Office installation." Anyone have any ideas what the problem could be? Thanks, Van Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76825
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    - Trouble printing linked-to images in Word 2002 In Word 2002 SP2 under XP Professional, I'm having trouble printing linked-to images. It seems that if I don't scroll through the document and let every image come up on the screen, when I go to print, I get the missing-image box instead of the image. I'm not clear yet if this works, as I'm trying to print a 75-page document with 35 linked-to images. When I first opened the document and tried printing, Word didn't print a single iamge. When I scrolled through the document to make sure the images were still there and then started printing, Word printed the first 6 images just fine, and then started printing empty boxes. Seems dumb to me. Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76823
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    - Word 97 Document Protection Being Enabled We have experienced for the last two years (but more frequently within the last few months), a random problem wherein documents that are either newly created or pre- existing will suddenly enable the document protection feature. The cursor will not move within the document and it appears as if the document is frozen or the application is not responding. We have tossed this issue around and have come up with several theories which may be responsible for the document protection feature enabling: (1) the use of macros either in the document or during editing sessions in previous documents; (2) using the form feature with macros either in the document or during an editing session in a previous document; (3) use of a series of unknown shortcut keys; (4) accessing documents from outside the firm that attach this feature to any new or existing in-house documents. We are using iManage, Office XP and Word 97. Our resolution is to have the user within that document select Tools/Unprotect Document. We will continue to investigate this issue but would appreciate any assistance you can give us, as we have seen an increase in this problem with all of our users. Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76819
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    - My macros disappeared. Why? and Where could they have gone? Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76818
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    - Hyperlinking to templates revisited Hello, I read in a previous post that you can't use a hyperlink to create a new document based on a template (thanks to Charles Kenyon for that information). Charles suggested that a macro be created. I'm running into the same problem, with a twist. I am trying to do a hyperlink from MS Project to a Word Template. (When adding a task, I do a hyperlink to the associated Word template.) I'm not sure how I would use a macro in such a case. Are there any other work-arounds I can do in Project? Thanks for any tips! -Kirsten Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76809
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    - Winword error in winword.exe Every time I clidk on the Tools menu I receive an error message that say Winword has caused an error in WINWORD.EXE. WInword will not close. It does not save documents when this happens it just shuts down. HELP Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76803
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    - MS Word will not load To all, We are running Win98 and even after a reload of MSOffice word will not load. It gives us the splash and then hangs the computer. All other Office products (Excell, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook) all load fine. Any clues? I did a full uninstall of office and then a reinstall and Word will not fire up. I even went into Outlook and set Word as my email editor and again it will not fire up. Thanks for any help you folks may be able to provide. Ken Crismon Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76802
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    - document corrupt Have a corrupt file on a cd-rw disk -- word cannot open. Are there any utilities that can try to pick yp as much as possible from the CD? Thanks. Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76801
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    - long saves and rather unstable Hi all, I was asked recently to edit a word 2002 document. It is about 40 pages long and has some pictures as well as some tables. It turnes out that it takes quit long when saving the document (1 minute and more), and, it is rather unstable (one day it stopped responding every 10 minutes). I'm very surprised with this behaviour, considered the computer I'm running word on. It is an IBM ThinkPad portable with a 2 GHZ processor and 512 MB of RAM (new since november). I have turned off allmost every option, but it doesn't improve the performance, but I have noticed that my virus scanner possible plays a role in the whole thing. I have a Norton Antivirus 2004 scanner who apparently scans the document all the time. Is there someone who also has this scanner and doesn't have any problems. I'm really annoyed with this problem and hope that it can be solved in the near future. So, any remarks are welcome.... Thanks in advance W Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76800
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    - WordArt in Office 2000 I have a user is experiencing a problem using wordart in MS WORD. The WordArt style icons are not appearing; they are greyed-out, however, a portion of the icons reappear when "moused-over". The buttons still work, however it is very difficult to see which style you are applying. Has anyone run into this issue? What is the fix for the problem. Any assistance with this issue is greatly appreciated. Joe M. Rocha Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76799
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    - Why only TrueType fonts? I just noticed that the font drop down list in both Word 2000 (on my XP PC) and Word 95 (on my W95 PC) do not include anything but TrueType fonts. Is that as it should be please? If so, why? What about fonts like MS Serif and MS Sans Serif, etc? IOW, those with an 'A' symbol in the \Windows\Fonts folder? -- Terry, West Sussex, UK Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76795
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    - Disabling ClearType in "reading" mode I was trying to disable ClearType in "reading" mode. I looked into Help and tried to do what was written - to add a key into registry. This doesn't apparently work - even when I tried different formats of keys etc. :o( Does anyone know about the solution? Thanks a lot -- Jan Lenoch ICQ: 52398446, http://www.lenoch.wz.cz Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76793
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    - i fada System Label: Inspiron 500m Problem: Keyboard/Mouse Operating System: Windows XP Problem Description: I use Gaelic as default language on my word documents. Some letters in this language have a colan like e,u,a. But nhen I try to put a colan on the letter i, it doesn't work. Is this an office problem or a hardware problem? Trouble Shooting Steps: I have tried changing the defult language to English Ireland and I encounter the same problem Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76792
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    - Word 2002 Insufficient memory error on paste from IE6.0 I'm trying to select all the text and graphics from a web page and paste it into Word. This once worked a year or so back. For the last year or so, when I try to do this, i get an insufficient memory error in Word. Is this a new copy protection scheme or a configuration error? I'm running windows 2000 SP3 and word 2002 SP-2 and IE6.0 SP-1 thanks in advance Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76791
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    - Page View buttons don't work for specific user(s) Hi - I have Word 2000 loaded on my W2K machine and I've noticed and interesting behavior in the application. When I'm using Word on my login, the Page View buttons at the bottom left of the screen are active - clicking on each one changes the page view, as it should. However, when we use Word on my wife's login, the buttons don't work. They're still there, but clicking on them does nothing - the buttons don't even "depress" to acknowledge the click. Changing the page view using the menu, however, works fine. Any ideas? About the only thing that I can think of is that my login has Administrator rights, while my wife's login has Power User rights. Cheers Keith. ------------------------------------------------ ~~ Message posted from http://www.ExcelTip.com/ ~~View and post usenet messages directly from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76787
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    - Word Crashes Word crashes as soon as I press the return key, we think it may be something to do with either the blaster or bugbear virus. We have downloaded lots of patches but still cannot use Microsoft Word. We receive the following error message AppName: winword.exe AppVer: 10.0.5815.0 ModName: mssp3es.dll ModVer: 2.0.26.19 Offset: 0000eb55 Can anyone help? Please! ------------------------------------------------ ~~ Message posted from http://www.ExcelTip.com/ ~~View and post usenet messages directly from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76786
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    - Office ReInstall I've been advised to reinstall MS Office xp Standard for Students and Teachers version 2002 to solve a problem (nothing appears in "File Name" box when I try to open a file). Will I lose any files I currently have in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook if I reinstall MS Office xp Standard for Students and Teachers? Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76783
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    - Word 2000 causing computer to reboot Using Windows XP and Microsoft Word 2000 When closing a word document my computer reboots. When I run Nortons System Utilities it comes up with the following message: C:\WINDOWS\System32\MAPISRVR.EXE - cannot access a necessary file "gapi32.dll". Anyone help?? Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76782
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    - word won't open Been using the word program on this computer since Aug 03. Not used it for a couple of weeks. Tried to get into it today and get a message that it is not installed. It is listed as installed on the list of programs. have not yet tried re-installing it as concerned that it does not explain why it should suddenly do this and may make things worse. The program was registered when installed so I don't think it can be unlicensed with an automatic cut off. Any ideas? Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76780
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    - Winword viewer When I install Winword view I get an error that it could not find C:Windows/temp/install.txt. What can I do? Thanks Linda Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76770
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    - execution error When I go click on Word (2000)icon or even Word document, the software executes but hangs a the title page. I have tried Repair Word Scan Disk Defrag Uninstall Reinstall Scan Disk to no avail. To unlock the computer I push Ctrl, Alt and Del. I get the Window's System Busy (blue back ground--looks like DOS background) error. All other softwares run, Excel, Power Point, all other non- Office softwares, too. What is so bizarre is I printed a Word .doc at 7:15 a.m. then did nothing on the computer until 9:00 a.m. until I tried to open another Word doc and ran into this problem. I have Zone Alarm as a firewall McAfee online subscription as virus protection and all updates on Microsoft and all other softwares are current. Any ideas? Pam Hughes kp-hughes@woh.rr.com Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76767
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    - View is not what prints When I tell some documents to print, it tells me I am printing outside the printers printable margins. I hit fix and the bottom margin jumps to 2.67. If I tell it ignore, it will show the whole document in print preview, but when printing the bottom 2.67 does not show up. I can tell it again, and it will print, but only on occassion. The defaults are set to 1", the document margins are set to .5 on all four sides. So there should not be anything for it to "fix". What is happening?? Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76764
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    - User preferences How can I copy the user preferences for MS Word from one user to another in the same work group. Where are the user preferences located? Running Windows xp, and MS Office xp. Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76763
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    - flashing title bar frequently, when i open an existing doc, the title bars (both at top & bottom) begin flashing and my only option is to 3-finger out of the doc. it doesn't always happen in the same docs, so i don't think it's a problem with a particular doc. sometimes it happens when i attempt to print. what is this??????? Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76760
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    - word 2000 error When I go into a saved document to print the file. I click on file, then on print. At that time the blue title bar around my document starts blinking and I am unable to print the document. Any ideas of what might be causing this?? Any help would be appreciated. Joann Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76754
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    - keyboard problems My keyboard won't type in documents (on powerpoint, word or excel) but will work elswhere, even elswhere in the program. It had been working fine and I can't think of anything I've done since then for it to stop working. Any ideas? Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76753
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    - Word 97 uninstall I have MSWord 97 installed on my present computer with XP OS and Works 2002. The 97 came from my old W98 OS computer in the transfer of files. I would like to uninstall it, but I gave away the original MSWord 97 disc with the old computer, and I can't find a way to uninstall without the disc. I don't have the original ID number, unfortunately. Any suggestions? Thanks Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76743
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    - Weird pie symbol showing up in all my word files? Yesterday, I noticed a weird pie symbol showed up in a word doc I received from an email. Now I've noticed all my word docs have the pie symbol, at the end of every sentence. I did a virus scan nothing came up...... Even my new docs have the pie symbol. What did I do? Can it be fixed. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks..... Tag: Word will not open Tag: 76740

I've never had a problem with Word 2000 until today. I
normally go to My Documents and click on any given word
file to open. However, today I get a warning about my
resources being dangerously low. All of the start menu
selections disappear. I have no option but to turn the
power off and restart the system. I have discovered that
I can open Word via the Microsoft Works Task Launcher and
then open the files I want in My Documents. But the other
way around (clicking on the file in My Documents first)
drains my resources. The problems also arises if I
select "Open Office Document" from the start menu. Is
there a fix for this problem?

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Re: Word will not open by Suzanne

Suzanne
Sat Feb 07 22:06:50 CST 2004

If you're running Word freestanding, you'll be better off uninstalling the
Microsoft Works Suite Add-in for Word (which may be at least part of the
problem). Also, if you have Norton AntiVirus, disable the Office Plug-in.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Rick" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:c0c601c3edf2$d1717c90$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I've never had a problem with Word 2000 until today. I
> normally go to My Documents and click on any given word
> file to open. However, today I get a warning about my
> resources being dangerously low. All of the start menu
> selections disappear. I have no option but to turn the
> power off and restart the system. I have discovered that
> I can open Word via the Microsoft Works Task Launcher and
> then open the files I want in My Documents. But the other
> way around (clicking on the file in My Documents first)
> drains my resources. The problems also arises if I
> select "Open Office Document" from the start menu. Is
> there a fix for this problem?

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