All of a sudden my Word program wilkl not open any
saved .DOC. When I try to open anything it says "DOC not
available" evne when it shows a preview in the window.
Also when I writ a new word doc and save it it will not
open afterwards either. I have un installed Word and re-
installed it that didn't help. I also tried updating my
office and that didn't help.

The other thing that is happening is when I close word I
get a message "that file NORMAL.DOT already exists. Do I
want to replace it?" I have to replace it each time to
get WORD to close ? What is going wrong ??

Ken

Re: Word won't open documents by Beth

Beth
Mon Sep 29 10:48:47 CDT 2003

Hi Ken,

It sounds like you have encountered a conflict in Norton AV. Go to
Norton Options, select Miscellaneous, and turn of the "Office Plug-in"
option.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/


"Ken Heinemann" <kheinemann@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:0d0b01c38639$ee4cbc10$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> All of a sudden my Word program wilkl not open any
> saved .DOC. When I try to open anything it says "DOC not
> available" evne when it shows a preview in the window.
> Also when I writ a new word doc and save it it will not
> open afterwards either. I have un installed Word and re-
> installed it that didn't help. I also tried updating my
> office and that didn't help.
>
> The other thing that is happening is when I close word I
> get a message "that file NORMAL.DOT already exists. Do I
> want to replace it?" I have to replace it each time to
> get WORD to close ? What is going wrong ??
>
> Ken



Re: Word won't open documents by Beth

Beth
Mon Sep 29 13:48:16 CDT 2003

Hi Denise,

Is it possible Norton AV was installed on the computer at one time?
We've had may instances were Norton AV was uninstalled but the DLL for
the Office Plug-in was still registered and causing the conflict.

Search for "officeav.dll" and if found:

- Go to Start/Run
- Click the "Browse" command and locate OfficeAV.dll
- Back on the Run command add regsvr32 /u to the beginning

It will look something like:
regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\OfficeAV.dll"

Note that there is a space before and after /u

You should see the message: "DllUnregisterServer in C:\Program
Files\Norton AntiVirus\OfficeAV.dll succeeded."

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/


"Denise" <denisealvar@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:053801c386a3$7d12a130$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I'm having the same exact problem and I'm not running
> Nortons AV? Any suggestions??
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi Ken,
> >
> >It sounds like you have encountered a conflict in Norton
> AV. Go to
> >Norton Options, select Miscellaneous, and turn of
> the "Office Plug-in"
> >option.
> >
> >Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup.
> Requests for
> >assistance by email can not be acknowledged.
> >
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >Beth Melton
> >
> >Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
> >TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
> >MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
> >
> >
> >"Ken Heinemann" <kheinemann@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
> message
> >news:0d0b01c38639$ee4cbc10$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> >> All of a sudden my Word program wilkl not open any
> >> saved .DOC. When I try to open anything it says "DOC
> not
> >> available" evne when it shows a preview in the window.
> >> Also when I writ a new word doc and save it it will not
> >> open afterwards either. I have un installed Word and
> re-
> >> installed it that didn't help. I also tried updating my
> >> office and that didn't help.
> >>
> >> The other thing that is happening is when I close word
> I
> >> get a message "that file NORMAL.DOT already exists. Do
> I
> >> want to replace it?" I have to replace it each time to
> >> get WORD to close ? What is going wrong ??
> >>
> >> Ken
> >
> >
> >.
> >



Re: Word won't open documents by Denise

Denise
Tue Sep 30 07:26:06 CDT 2003

THANK YOU SO MUCH BETH!! You were right and your
solution worked! Thanks again!

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Denise,
>
>Is it possible Norton AV was installed on the computer
at one time?
>We've had may instances were Norton AV was uninstalled
but the DLL for
>the Office Plug-in was still registered and causing the
conflict.
>
>Search for "officeav.dll" and if found:
>
>- Go to Start/Run
>- Click the "Browse" command and locate OfficeAV.dll
>- Back on the Run command add regsvr32 /u to the
beginning
>
>It will look something like:
>regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Norton
AntiVirus\OfficeAV.dll"
>
>Note that there is a space before and after /u
>
>You should see the message: "DllUnregisterServer in
C:\Program
>Files\Norton AntiVirus\OfficeAV.dll succeeded."
>
>Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup.
Requests for
>assistance by email can not be acknowledged.
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Beth Melton
>
>Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
>TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
>MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
>
>
>"Denise" <denisealvar@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:053801c386a3$7d12a130$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> I'm having the same exact problem and I'm not running
>> Nortons AV? Any suggestions??
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Hi Ken,
>> >
>> >It sounds like you have encountered a conflict in
Norton
>> AV. Go to
>> >Norton Options, select Miscellaneous, and turn of
>> the "Office Plug-in"
>> >option.
>> >
>> >Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup.
>> Requests for
>> >assistance by email can not be acknowledged.
>> >
>> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >Beth Melton
>> >
>> >Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
>> >TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
>> >MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
>> >
>> >
>> >"Ken Heinemann" <kheinemann@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
>> message
>> >news:0d0b01c38639$ee4cbc10$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> >> All of a sudden my Word program wilkl not open any
>> >> saved .DOC. When I try to open anything it says "DOC
>> not
>> >> available" evne when it shows a preview in the
window.
>> >> Also when I writ a new word doc and save it it will
not
>> >> open afterwards either. I have un installed Word and
>> re-
>> >> installed it that didn't help. I also tried
updating my
>> >> office and that didn't help.
>> >>
>> >> The other thing that is happening is when I close
word
>> I
>> >> get a message "that file NORMAL.DOT already exists.
Do
>> I
>> >> want to replace it?" I have to replace it each time
to
>> >> get WORD to close ? What is going wrong ??
>> >>
>> >> Ken
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>
>.
>

Re: Word won't open documents by Beth

Beth
Tue Sep 30 08:03:59 CDT 2003

Hi Denise,

Glad to hear you are back up and running again! :-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/


"Denise A." <denisealvar@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:078701c3874e$058b7410$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> THANK YOU SO MUCH BETH!! You were right and your
> solution worked! Thanks again!