MS Word 2000 glitched

When I try to bring up any document I get the error box that starts off with "Microsoft Word for Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

I ran setup to correct errors. No better.
I reinstalled Word2000. No better.
I uninstalled it, ran MBAM and Avast, reinstalled it. No better.

I haven't installed any new programs lately.
Have been using XP for several years now with no problems.

Have you seen this one:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326510

Thanks, I've gotten hung up on that darned normal.dot before, but I forgot about it. Is there some reason it goes whacko?

Dorothy

Goodness knows - seen this one?

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009...icle.asp?ID=151

Instead of waiting patiently for a reply, I messed around, installed open office, then reinstalled Word after I found out what the problem was. Then I uninstalled O.O. Now my Word docs come up in Word Pad instead of Word.

Hesitate to mention system restore.

How about right clicking on a .doc file and instead of 'open with'
select 'choose program', find and select Word and then tick the box that says
'always use the selected program to open this kind of file'.

See what happens.

That worked for that particular document, but there is no choice to apply it to all docs.

OK I got it. I have to choose the browse option rather than Word right off, then I can choose the global change.

Thanks. I learned something. I hope I can remember it now.

Excellent. Sorry, my fault, I dashed off a reply; I should have explained more clearly, such as:

"How to open your files, with the program of your choice, (in this case , Word):

right click on any .doc file;
put mouse pointer on 'open with' to open up the next menu; select 'choose program'
at the bottom of the next menu, which gives you a list, in which Word should appear;
select Word, then tick the box 'always use the selected program to open this kind of file'
and click OK.

You only need to use 'browse', if your program, Word, is not already in the list
of Programs / Recommended Programs."

You'd have got it first time, that way, but you worked it out, anyway. Sorry, I'd gone.

That's the trouble with these time differences; I'm logging off, generally at 8pm,
3pm your time; having spent all day on the computer, I've had enough by then.

Btw, I've discovered that Wordpad is a pretty good basic processor;
if I didn't have Office 2003, I could live with it.

No reply necessary.

Pete