Office 2007 word will not start just hangs

[knnrepp]

I am having problems getting word 2007 to start. Running vista and the app
just hangs. Sometimes it will start in safe mode sometimes it won't. Does
anyone have knowledge relating this to McAfee removing a file that is needed.
I have seen some posts relating to that

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

The usual causes are:

1. Misbehaving add-in.

2. Corrupted Normal.dotm.

3. Corrupted registry entry (usually the Data key).

This article describes how to troubleshoot the problem:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProblemsStartingWord.htm

I haven't heard about McAfee causing this problem. It's more often one of
the problems mentioned above.