Word 2003 Crashing - Documents Corrupt?

[Nancy Lorieau]

Word is crashing on me and it appears to have something to do with my
document links. The phenomenon appears to generalize through ALL my word
documents.

Circumstances -- I work with long documents (300 - 500 pp) and I use styles
to build a TOC and Table of Figures. I also build extensive indexes
(indices). When a document is finished, I compile it in Acrobat using the
macros available in Word.

This phenomenon appeared - disappeared briefly - and is back.

Recent system events:

- Applied most recent XP Pro Service Pack.

- Applied recent Office 2003 Service Pack.

- Updated my McAfee Internet Suite.

- Outlook 2003 spell checker stopped working at about the same time.

Any and all help will be appreciated. I'm really desperate. Thousands of
finished pages are at stake.

Nancy

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Nancy

The first thing I would do is follow Graham Mayor's article on "What to do
when Word crashes"
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

If problems persist after following his instructions and re-booting, then
see:
Problems opening Word
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm

If none of that helps, post back and let us know exactly what symptoms
you're seeing. Does Word crash when it starts? When it loads a document?
When you try to do something specific?

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word