microsoft stopped working starts in safe mode

[Leonzz]

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 Freedman]

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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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Terry Farrell]

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 ?:-\)]

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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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 Farrell]

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

 

[Terry Farrell]

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