Word won't open ( Office XP )

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All other Office apps open fine, but when attempting to open Word or a Word
doc the following messages appear: "Visual C++ Runtime Library - Runtime
error ! This application has requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusual
way. Please contact the application's support team for more information."
(or the Send Error Report message) "Microsoft Word has encountered a problem
and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." Repairing and
uninstalling/deleting folders/ & reinstalling Office from scratch failed to
resolve the problem. Not sure what else to try short of formatting the
drive. Tia for any help on this one ...