There should NOT be a normal.dot in Office/Word/Startup. Having 2
normal.dots would really confuse Word and if one of them was corrupt, it
would explain the crashes. Normal.dot should only be in the User Profile.
Terry
: Thanks, had tried most of these but not all of them - here's the steps
that
: paid off!
: I renamed registry entries:
: I found & renamed old Office 2000 Word Data registry entries (Word 09)
: I renamed Office 2003 Word Data registry entries (Word 11)
:
: I moved normal.doc from both Office/Word/Startup & the user Documents &
: Settings/application Data/Microsoft/Templates folders
:
: Rebooted the system and it worked!
:
: Thanks so much for your response.
:
: "TF" wrote:
:
: > See:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm
: > --
: > Terry Farrell - Word MVP
:
: >
: > : > : Word 2003 slow load - crashes on every exit. Running on XP Home -
disabled
: > : then just unistalled Norton Antivirus & Adobe Acrobat 6 prior to
office
: > : re-install also relocated all templates except normal.dot - No
change -
: > slow
: > : load and crash on every exit. Safe mode works right.
: > :
: > : Any more ideas.
: >
: >
: >