Word doesn't come up

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Guest

I am currently running microsoft office 2000. Everything
in there works except for word. The microsoft word thing
flashes when I click on it but doesn't bring me up to the
typing place. It was working fine before but now it just
flashes the word box then nothing happens. Anybody got
any advice?? thanx
 
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Guest

It sounds like we're having the same problem. I can only
open previously saved documents but when I try to open
Word from either the shortcut or
Start>Programs>Office>Word it just flashes and nothing
happens! I don't know what changed to cause this but it's
very frustrating because basically I cannot create a new
document. Hopefully somebody will be able to help us both!
 
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Guest

-----Original Message-----
I am currently running microsoft office 2000. Everything
in there works except for word. The microsoft word thing
flashes when I click on it but doesn't bring me up to the
typing place. It was working fine before but now it just
flashes the word box then nothing happens. Anybody got
any advice?? thanx
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It's possible that your normal template has been
corrupted. On WIN2k open My Computer and go into your C
drive>Documents and Settings>your user name>Application
Data>Microsoft>Templates and look for a file
called "Normal" and rename it to "Normal.old" Try to open
Word and if it does then close it and it will give you a
dialog window with some blahblahblah about the Global
Template and say yes or Save and then save this
new "Normal" template in that same folder. Hope this works
for you as it did me.
 
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