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Message: [QUOTE="rjoslin414, post: 7432703, member: 6094"] Yeah, I know its 2019, but word 2003 has worked well for me for a long time. Just recently, when I click on the "x" on the current word document it will close (after a time), but when I click on the "x" in the window in which Word is running (red x top right) it does NOT quit, and I have to go to Task manager to close the program. Even then it goes through several spasms, telling me that it's looking for a solution to a problem, etc. But finally, sometimes after the second order to end task in task manager, it will close. This all started after a daily journal that I keep suddenly caused problems everytime I tried to load it. Finally Word would ask "(so and so filename) caused a major problem last time it was loaded--do you still want to try to load it." Eventually this behavior stopped (after I copied the file to WordPerfact and back again:)), but the problem closing the program has persisted. Typing into the file and saving it does not seem to cause any issues, but trying to exit word itself does. I've tried a lot of things to remedy this, including a lot of Microsoft articles KBsuch and such, etc. but am wondering if others have had the same issue (perhaps with Word 07 or even word 10. BTW, if it helps at all, I tried starting winword.exe with the /a switch and the problem disappears. I am told that this probably means a problem with the normal.dot file. Can anyone confirm that this is true? Thanks for any help. [/QUOTE]

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