Outlook freezes when replying to a email

[Prasad]

Iam using outlook 2003
Its freezes up when i click on new button or reply to a mail.
shows "starting MS Word as YOur E-mail Editor" and not able to do anything
after that...
When i unchecked the "use ms office word 2003 to edit e-mail messages" it
works fine...

Plz help
Thanks in advance

 

[Roady [MVP]]

That would indicate an issue with Word.
Does Word still work correctly?
Try starting Word in Safe Mode once and then try again.
Start-> Run; winword.exe /safe

 

[Prasad]

Word is working perfectly.
Even i tried detect and repair and still not working