Word 2003 keeps shutting down

[Prester John]

I have a problem with my Word 2003. This same problem happened with the beta edition and now with the edition I purchased and updated from the MS office update site. When I open word and start typing then tab to another screen to cut and paste or just to view then tab back to type the Word 2003 I receiver a message that word has to shut down and will save my work. It then restarts
It does this so frequently that I cannot get any work done on word. I have had to take MS Word off as my email editior in outlook. the signature of the error message the gets sent is
AppName: winword.exe AppVer:11.0.6113.0 AppStamp:40077019 ModName: unknown ModVer 0.0.0 ModStamp: 000000000 fDebug: 0 Offset: 73dd1b8
I have tried using the AppName and Offset to look for a solution but none could be found. I have deleted all my printers and still to no avail. Any ideas of the genesisi of this problem and possilbe solutions? Thank you.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Word on its own is inherently quite stable, though there are a few issue
that can provoke it to crash. The problem is almost certainly external to
Word, either attributable to a corrupt normal.dot file or more probably to
an errant add-in - see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm
and http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

If you are running Norton AV, disable its office plug-in.

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