Microsoft Office won't start up

[samintokyo]

Hi,

I've had Microsoft Office 2004 (on my PowerBook G4 for a few months now
with no major dramas. A few days ago I started having issues with Word,
Excel and Powerpoint in that they don't start up, just displaying an
"unexpetedly quit" message. Entourage is running relatively fine. I'm
running on Mac OS 10.4.2, and I have the latest updated version of
Office (11.2.0) and have all the latest updates available. I've since
tried to re-install Office twice as well as repair Disk Permissions
from disk utility but to no avail.

Around the time Office stopped working I had done some automatic
updates one of which I think was for iTunes. I've been told that
apparently there are conflicts with Office and iTunes, but haven't yet
been able to restore the issues.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
sam

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

It sounds to me that there is something wrong with your computer, not
Office.

Run Apple's Disk Utility (in the Applications > Utilities folder) and
repair disk permissions.

If things are not better then run Alsoft DiskWarrior, TechTools Pro,
Drive Genius or some other disk utility to fix things.

-Jim