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MSWord 2000

Discussion in 'Other PC Software' started by oldbear, 2003/12/21.

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  1. 2003/12/21
    oldbear

    oldbear Inactive Thread Starter

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    Word 2000 on Win98 is now hanging up my machine when ever I try to open it. I have run AV, scan disk, SFC to no avail. The mesage I get is "Resources Extremely Low" but before I try to open I have 80% available. Can anyone tell me what I may look for before I have to reinstall MS Word 2000, it is part of MS Office 2000. I removed MS Word97. The Word section of MSWorks is OK. Thank you
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    Search out and destroy the file called Normal.dot

    It's the defualt template that is prone to corruption. It'll get recreated next time you open Word.
     
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    goddez1

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    Normal.dot delete/rename/recreate does seem to take care of the most common fussiness out of word but additionally....

    Word does a lot of working in the *\windows\temp folder. You may want to have a look in there and make sure it is empty also.

    I would also try using the "repair" function of office before resorting to a unistall/reinstall.
     
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  5. 2003/12/22
    oldbear

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    Thank you all. Renaming the normal.dot did the trick. Now in Windows\temp I have a bunch of files ending in .TMP can I get rid of them? Also in MSOffice\ recent I also have a long list of short cuts. Can I get rid of them since they seem to be programs I have used or pics.
     
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    Yes and Yes.
     
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