microsoft stopped working starts in safe mode

I am on Vista, and use MSW 2003. Without any obvious reason, while trying to
open MS word one morning, I got the message "MS Word stopped working etc..
When trying again, I got the suggestion to try to start in Safe Mode, which
does work. But I can't get it to open normally. I have done diagnose and
repair, and reinstallation, but no avail.
I read the FAQ, got some suggestion about template corruption, but could not
find a simple pathway to a solution.
Thanks for any help

Jay
Fri Mar 14 10:23:25 PDT 2008

Leonzz wrote:
> I am on Vista, and use MSW 2003. Without any obvious reason, while
> trying to open MS word one morning, I got the message "MS Word
> stopped working etc.. When trying again, I got the suggestion to try
> to start in Safe Mode, which does work. But I can't get it to open
> normally. I have done diagnose and repair, and reinstallation, but no
> avail.
> I read the FAQ, got some suggestion about template corruption, but
> could not find a simple pathway to a solution.
> Thanks for any help

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProblemsStartingWord.htm. You may
need to delete or rename the Normal.dot template, or remove an add-in, or
rebuild a registry entry. The article has instructions for all of that.

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Terry
Fri Mar 14 10:26:59 PDT 2008

By 'The FAQ, did you mean
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm

Did you rename normal.dot? Did you check your printer driver? Did you look
for add-ins?

Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Leonzz" <Leonzz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:091A20CC-C811-4ABE-8735-53E2D3544C4F@microsoft.com...
>I am on Vista, and use MSW 2003. Without any obvious reason, while trying
>to
> open MS word one morning, I got the message "MS Word stopped working etc..
> When trying again, I got the suggestion to try to start in Safe Mode,
> which
> does work. But I can't get it to open normally. I have done diagnose and
> repair, and reinstallation, but no avail.
> I read the FAQ, got some suggestion about template corruption, but could
> not
> find a simple pathway to a solution.
> Thanks for any help

Buckland
Sat Mar 15 04:19:32 PDT 2008

Hi Terry,

I'm not sure why there hasn't been a redirect page put into place for the link you posted to get to the new version of that FAQ at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProblemsStartingWord.htm ,
but at present the link you mentioned will give a 404 (page not found) error.

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<<"Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message news:0306A8E4-0113-4BD7-A30A-D547BD824016@microsoft.com...
By 'The FAQ, did you mean
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm

Did you rename normal.dot? Did you check your printer driver? Did you look
for add-ins?

Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP <<
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Terry
Sat Mar 15 09:47:04 PDT 2008

Drat, I updated that the other day but it seems to have reverted. Thanks for
pointing this out.

I'll have another go now.

Terry

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote
in message news:Ole$F6ohIHA.6092@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hi Terry,
>
> I'm not sure why there hasn't been a redirect page put into place for the
> link you posted to get to the new version of that FAQ at
> http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProblemsStartingWord.htm ,
> but at present the link you mentioned will give a 404 (page not found)
> error.
>
> =============
> <<"Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:0306A8E4-0113-4BD7-A30A-D547BD824016@microsoft.com...
> By 'The FAQ, did you mean
> http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm
>
> Did you rename normal.dot? Did you check your printer driver? Did you look
> for add-ins?
>
> Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP <<
> --
>
> Bob Buckland ?:-)
> MS Office System Products MVP
>
> *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
>
>

Terry
Sat Mar 15 09:48:53 PDT 2008

Test - please ignore.


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See the following FAQ for help diagnosing this problem.

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProblemsStartingWord.htm

Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP