Cannot Launch MS Word.

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frankmcbride

Hello All,
For reasons which are now frustrating me beyond measure, I cannot get
MS Word to Open. I beleive it is tied to the old OS9 system as the
two icons W &9 appear and seemingly attemp to open, only vanish or, if
the status bar says it is loading, there is no application to find
it.

Since I am more than confident that this is operator error, allow me
to state right now that I am delierous from the heat!!!
Signed melting in Denver
 
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Elliott Roper

Hello All,
For reasons which are now frustrating me beyond measure, I cannot get
MS Word to Open. I beleive it is tied to the old OS9 system as the
two icons W &9 appear and seemingly attemp to open, only vanish or, if
the status bar says it is loading, there is no application to find
it.

Since I am more than confident that this is operator error, allow me
to state right now that I am delierous from the heat!!!
Signed melting in Denver
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I'm not sure I understand your description. Are you trying to start
Word by double-clicking on its icon in the Applications folder, the
Dock, or by double-clicking on a Word document?
Answers to the following will aid diagnosis:
What version of Word do you have?
What version of Mac OS X?
Do you still have Classic on your machine?
Have you recently updated to Quicktime 7.2, and if yes, Do you have in
Intel Mac?
 
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frankmcbride

I'm not sure I understand your description. Are you trying to start
Word by double-clicking on its icon in the Applications folder, the
Dock, or by double-clicking on a Word document?
Answers to the following will aid diagnosis:
What version of Word do you have?
What version of Mac OS X?
Do you still have Classic on your machine?
Have you recently updated to Quicktime 7.2, and if yes, Do you have in
Intel Mac?
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Elliott,
So sorry for the delay.
I hope these are more conscice descriptions.
Word is actually within Office 2001 and I imagine it is word2001, and
that is on the desktop.
I am running OS X version 10.4.10
Yes I believe I still have classic on the machine
Yes, I did upgrade to Quicktime 7.2
No, I do not have an Intel based MAC (someday)
 
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Elliott Roper

Elliott,
So sorry for the delay.
I hope these are more conscice descriptions.
Word is actually within Office 2001 and I imagine it is word2001, and
that is on the desktop.
I am running OS X version 10.4.10
Yes I believe I still have classic on the machine
Yes, I did upgrade to Quicktime 7.2
No, I do not have an Intel based MAC (someday)
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OK, we can zero in a bit more:
You should not need to worry about Quicktime 7.2 since that mess only
seems to affect Intel hardware. It broke Rosetta ‹ that which lets
Intel Macs pretend they can run PPC code ‹ on some machines.

I'm sorry. I don't know much about Word 2001, but it certainly needs
Classic to run. Since you saw Word and Classic trying to start, but
failing, you could chop your problem in half by attempting to run
another Classic application. It is ages since I ran Classic, so I could
be suffering from a failing memory cell or two, but is there not a way
to start Classic at login/restart or something? Perhaps you could
confirm that Classic can get going by itself? Which would be an
equivalent test to failing to start up another Classic application.

You will come out of that knowing whether it was Classic or Word that
is broken. My money is on Classic dying, and that something went wrong
when you updated to 10.4.10

If so, one relatively painless thing to try is applying the 10.4.10
combo updater. You /might/ need to re-install Classic afterward from a
neolithic software distro.
See http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/classic for a stack of possibly
relevant troubleshooting recipes for getting Classic to run again under
Tiger.
 
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frankmcbride

I agree with your assesment of Classic. It may just be me, but I've found that MAC's constantly need updates just to operate as opposed to windows (at least older versions) which will run without constant updates from the evil empire.
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I should just get Office 04 but the mere thought of forking over hard-
earned-multiply-taxed-money to MS pains me no end.
Thanks for your time and consideration.
 
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