Visual Basic Problem in Word 2000

When I was working normally in Word 2000 under Windows 98SE, the program closed for some not-obvious reason. When I opened it again, all toolbars were missing, and I had the following error message:

Microsoft Visual Basic
Run-time error '2147024809 (80070057)':
Can't move focus to the control because it's invisible, not enabled or of a type that does not accept the focus.

(End of error message)

I can use Word as long as I remember keyboard shortcuts. There is nothing I can do to get the menus back.

I have used the Office 2000 setup program to repair my installation and to uninstall and reinstall. Still with no success. I have reverted to the registry of this morning, before the problem occurred. Also no help. I also renamed Normal.dot, so that Word created a new file by that name; to no avail.

I have searched the Microsoft KB with no help. I did find reference to several error messages with this error code, but they referred to different problems and not mine.

What can I do, short of formatting and starting all over, which is an unacceptable solution for me?

 

Do a search on Google using: Run-time error '2147024809 (80070057)'. There's some stuff there regarding this error, don't know if it will be of help, but maybe a place to start.

 

There's a new developemnt. No improvement, but the number of the error has changed.

The rror message is now:

Microsoft Visual Basic
Run-time error '2147352565 (8002000b)':
Can't move focus to the control because it's invisible, not enabled or of a type that does not accept the focus.

I've come to the conclusion that the problem is in the operating system and not in any Offic ecompoenets.

Any ideas?