Hi Walt
You have a macro in one of your templates -- probably one named
AutoClose -- that contains a syntax error. To get rid of it, see
section 4 of
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm.
Note that unless you manually remove the templates from your machine
first, neither uninstalling/reinstalling nor upgrading will replace
the problem template. This is a deliberate design -- the assumption is
that if a template has been changed after installation, you want to
keep the customization -- but it makes it hard to get rid of buggy
macros.