Word won't launch

[Lars Olsson]

HELP! I've got less than a week to get some invitations out, and Word, which
was working fine earlier today, isn't now. I'm not sure why. Every time I
launch it, I see the splash screen, then a message appears which just says
"The application Microsoft Word has unexpectedly quit. Would you like to
submit a bug report to Apple?"

I've recently upgraded to Panther, and am using the v.X 10.1.5 update of
office. I recently re-installed this update (maybe today, can't remember). I
HAVE loaded some other software on the machine in the last couple of days
(some of it today), but like I say, Word was working earlier today.

Should I just re-install, or what? In OS9 and before, I'd just go in and trash
the preferences to start with, but I don't think that's going to work now.
Can anyone help with this? Thanks in advance.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

In fact, trashing the preferences often still helps in OS X. Reinstalling is
unlikely to, unless you remove the program with the Office Remover Tool
first. You can follow this link to some other general troubleshooting
information for Word X--there are many things you can try short of remove
and reinstall.

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm

DM