Word 2003 won't open

[Sara]

I have the same problem that David has on 5/10/07.

I cannot open Word or any Word docs. The Word box opens then goes to the
bottom task bar but will not open. A file goes to the task bar and will not
open.

I have deleted my Microsoft Office files and reloaded them from the disk,
but that didn't help.

I ran winword.exe \a and Word opened up. I think that means that the
templates are corruped, but I don't know how to fix that.

Does anyone have explicit instructions on how to fix it? I am not computer
savy so will need a detailed walk through.

Thanks,

Sara

 

[Terry Farrell]

Yes. Word is opening up off screen. Open TWO Word documents and then
right-click on the Taskbar and choose one of the Tile options. This will
bring both back into the main screen: close one of them. Size the other to
get the windows central and close it. It should reopen in the same position.

Alternatively, open up one document and right-click in the Taskbar and
choose MOVE. Use the arrow keys to bring the windows back into view,
position and size correctly and close.

 

[Sara]

Thanks Terry,

I did everything up to the "size" part. I clicked on the size line and I
got a + icon for my pointer. What do I do with it? I didn't see a box to
size the file - - just "size" along with "move" "minimize" etc. in the same
drop box.

I have been struggling with this for a few days now and want to take a
hammer to my computer at this point. Bear with me please.

Also, I ran dxdiag and there seems to be a problem with the 3D part of
DirectX9.0c. Are these things related maybe?

Thank you for any help,

Sara

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You size the window by dragging the top, bottom, or sides with your mouse.