Anyone haviong problems with Word not working after SP2 install?

[dickweber]

I just installed SP2 for Office 2003 and now I am having a problem with
opening old word documents but not all of the old docs. I haven't been able
to determine what the common denominator is but is locks up then wants to go
into safe mode and tries to open the doc. It still has a problem and wants to
send an error report. I have tried the repair function through Add/Remove
programs and that did nothing to fix the problem. I really don't want to have
to try to reinstall Office 2003. Is anyone else having this problem or does
anyone have any other suggestions?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dick,

If you start Word in Office safe mode (hold ctrl key while
starting Word do you get the same error)?

Check in Help=>About in Word to see if there are any disabled items
and use Start=>Search to delete all files found with the search string
~*.*;*.tmp
before starting Word.

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I just installed SP2 for Office 2003 and now I am having a problem with
opening old word documents but not all of the old docs. I haven't been able
to determine what the common denominator is but is locks up then wants to go
into safe mode and tries to open the doc. It still has a problem and wants to
send an error report. I have tried the repair function through Add/Remove
programs and that did nothing to fix the problem. I really don't want to have
to try to reinstall Office 2003. Is anyone else having this problem or does
anyone have any other suggestions? <<
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[dickweber]

Bob, thank you very much for the quick reply but I got frustrated enough that
I had our PC group load a new image on my machine. Th enew image came with XP
Sp2 so I gained something in the process besides just having Word working
again