Word 2003 crashes - novice question

[db]

i can understand your problem.

however, if there is non microsoft programs
that are unable to read my information,
then i am not concerned that my replies
are not readiable by them....

similarly, if i cannot read their postings
because my microsoft products can't translate their data for me, then i doesn't bother me as well....

- db
"db" <databaseben.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
stick to the subject at hand....


I am - it's NOT good usenet "netiquette" to post in HTML - as I said, there
are MANY news readers (and most regulars USE news readers not the web
interface that you use) that can't read HTML.....

 

[db]

Everything to do with Microsoft.......


"db" <databaseben.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

if Microsoft wants to implement a text
format limitation for their newsgroup, then
they can make an update.


Nothing to do with Microsoft - just stop posting in HTML and use PLAIN
TEXT.....apart from anything else, it buggers up the quoting....

 

[Gordon]

"db" <databaseben.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
i can understand your problem.

however, if there is non microsoft programs
that are unable to read my information,
then i am not concerned that my replies
are not readiable by them....


Then Ii am going to arrange it so that my news reader DELETES all your
arrogant posts and I will never see them. Good Riddance to bad rubbish.

 

[db]

lol....!

whatever makes you happy, thanks...!
"db" <databaseben.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
i can understand your problem.

however, if there is non microsoft programs
that are unable to read my information,
then i am not concerned that my replies
are not readiable by them....


Then Ii am going to arrange it so that my news reader DELETES all your
arrogant posts and I will never see them. Good Riddance to bad rubbish.

 

[Golyz]

My boss is in the habit of leaving her thumb drive inserted with her work
open on it. Someone shut the PC down with the drive in and turned it on
again the next day with the drive still in. Don't know what, if anything,
was open on it at the the time of shut down. (See original post in this
thread on the 22nd.) If anything was open, it was almost certainly an MS
Office app.

 

[Bob I]

Sorry I read it as you could only start Word in "Word" safe mode. I see
that it is Windows in safe mode. The problem would likely be related to
some drivers in Windows that are the issue. I would suspect the video
driver as a guess, or the USB thumb drive and USB drivers. Uninstall and
reinstall should reset the drivers.

 

[Golyz]

Tried but no luck. Thanks.

set you pagefile/virtual memory
to custom size of min 2 and max 1152
reboot and retry....


First, let me say I'm sorry for the delayed response. I'm at the mercy of
the office staff as to when I'm able to access the PCs.

I disabled the startups in Safe Mode. I couldn't find any clear way to stop
Word from accessing the internet automatically but I took the PC off the
network and also unchecked "update automatic links at open" in
Tools|Options|General.

The page file was already set to intial 744 max 1488 so I left it there.

Still closes shortly after opening in Normal Mode.

Besides Word, Access, Publisher, and PowerPoint all crash shortly after
opening, either when clicking on something or before anything is attempted.
Only Excel seems stable. To my inexperienced mind, the Safe Mode success
implies a conflict from outside Office(?) but might there be a way to more
thoroughly remove any corrupted elements associated with Office?. I
uninstalled and reinstalled using the CD; maybe Add/Remove might be better?
Or some other method or utility?

Thanks for your patience,
Larry

 

[Golyz]

Sorry to sound dense or naive - uninstall and reinstall the drivers?

 

[Golyz]

IE crashed when I tried to print a map. Hmmm. . . Deleted all the printers
and Office is stable so far! Woo hoo!

Not sure if it was MS Office Document Image Writer or one or all of the
Okidata printers because I deleted them all at once because it's late.
Tomorrow I'll reinstall some and keep my fingers crossed.

 

[Bob I]

Congratulations on uncovering the culprit!

IE crashed when I tried to print a map. Hmmm. . . Deleted all the printers
and Office is stable so far! Woo hoo!

Not sure if it was MS Office Document Image Writer or one or all of the
Okidata printers because I deleted them all at once because it's late.
Tomorrow I'll reinstall some and keep my fingers crossed.


:

 

[bschilz]

I had the identical problem and did everything posted in MS tech forum
to no avail. I spent 1/2 hr with MS Engineer and we discovered th
problem was caused by one of my printers. By setting the default printe
to another printer I had on the network, the problem vanished. I haven'
sorted the problem out with my HP printer yet, but now I have
direction to follow and Word is working