Word 2004 Always Crashes

J

JPenSuisse

Hi there,

I'm having quite a bad problem here with word 2004. Here in my
company we have serveral form letters with logos that I had been
editing and using flawlessly in Word X.

Since Word 2004, I have been unable to edit any of these documents.
As soon as I erase even one character Word crashes. Otherwise, if I
start from a blank document, Word works fine. But unfrotunately, I
require the letter heads for official correspondance.

Anybody have any ideas what's causing this?

John
MAC OS 10.3.5
Powerbook G4 15" 1.25Ghz
 
M

matt neuburg

JPenSuisse said:
Hi there,

I'm having quite a bad problem here with word 2004. Here in my
company we have serveral form letters with logos that I had been
editing and using flawlessly in Word X.

Since Word 2004, I have been unable to edit any of these documents.
As soon as I erase even one character Word crashes. Otherwise, if I
start from a blank document, Word works fine. But unfrotunately, I
require the letter heads for official correspondance.

Anybody have any ideas what's causing this?

I'm just guessing here, but it sounds like these documents are corrupt.
Can you try the time-honored fix of copying pieces of the document into
another document and working there? Do NOT copy the last paragraph mark
in the document, since this is usually where the corruption lurks. m.
 
J

JPenSuisse

Hi Matt,

yes, there was some truth in what you said. Part of a table was
causing Word to crash. It sent lots of messages to Micorsoft so maybe
they wil do something about it! :)

The strange thing was that the same documents work in Word 2003, Word
2000 and Word X flawlessly. I don't get it. It's some kind of deep
compatibility problem with that table.

But it doesn't matter, because after I write documents I save them
most always as PDF so that they look right when I need them... So
with my remade templates I'm good to go. The few remaining documents I
can just read and edit on the Wintel machine.

Thanks lots, JP
 

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