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Word 2007 Crash on Startup
Whenever I try to run Word 2007 (part of Enterprise suite), I receive the
Microsoft Office Word has stopped working message. I am running in Vista Ultimate. I have tried winword /a and it runs then. I'd like to get around this problem. I have tried deleting/renaming the normal.dot template and I have deleted the data key. Is there a FAQ or reference I can use to address this problem that is customized for Vista. I tried the old one build around XP, but maybe I am missing the location of the critical template. Sorry if the answer is obvious, but I have looked around quite a bit. |
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Word 2007 Crash on Startup
The normal template in Word 2007 is normal.dotm. If you're deleting
normal.dot, it likely is leftover from Word 2003 or earlier. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "MAS-013" wrote in message ... Whenever I try to run Word 2007 (part of Enterprise suite), I receive the Microsoft Office Word has stopped working message. I am running in Vista Ultimate. I have tried winword /a and it runs then. I'd like to get around this problem. I have tried deleting/renaming the normal.dot template and I have deleted the data key. Is there a FAQ or reference I can use to address this problem that is customized for Vista. I tried the old one build around XP, but maybe I am missing the location of the critical template. Sorry if the answer is obvious, but I have looked around quite a bit. |
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Word 2007 Crash on Startup
Herb--
Thanks for getting back to me. I had deleted the *.dotm files in my VISTA User\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates folder, but it got me to thinking, so I did a search for *.dotm (I'm saving in 2003 format because my employer is not on 2007 yet) and found another normal.dotm in the Windows.old folder under my old XP document structure. Even though all my Word 2007 settings are for the new framework (I migrated when I still had Office 2003), it was apparently pointing there for some reason. I deleted the normal.dotm there and it opened without a problem. I'm not sure why or how word found and attached to this file, but it might be one more area to point people whien this happens. Thanks for your help and your service to the user community--my Word appears to be alive again! "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: The normal template in Word 2007 is normal.dotm. If you're deleting normal.dot, it likely is leftover from Word 2003 or earlier. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "MAS-013" wrote in message ... Whenever I try to run Word 2007 (part of Enterprise suite), I receive the Microsoft Office Word has stopped working message. I am running in Vista Ultimate. I have tried winword /a and it runs then. I'd like to get around this problem. I have tried deleting/renaming the normal.dot template and I have deleted the data key. Is there a FAQ or reference I can use to address this problem that is customized for Vista. I tried the old one build around XP, but maybe I am missing the location of the critical template. Sorry if the answer is obvious, but I have looked around quite a bit. |
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Word 2007 Crash on Startup
Word can be extremely good at finding and using things you don't want it
using. ;-) I'm glad you were able to find the real culprit. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "MAS-013" wrote in message ... Herb-- Thanks for getting back to me. I had deleted the *.dotm files in my VISTA User\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates folder, but it got me to thinking, so I did a search for *.dotm (I'm saving in 2003 format because my employer is not on 2007 yet) and found another normal.dotm in the Windows.old folder under my old XP document structure. Even though all my Word 2007 settings are for the new framework (I migrated when I still had Office 2003), it was apparently pointing there for some reason. I deleted the normal.dotm there and it opened without a problem. I'm not sure why or how word found and attached to this file, but it might be one more area to point people whien this happens. Thanks for your help and your service to the user community--my Word appears to be alive again! "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: The normal template in Word 2007 is normal.dotm. If you're deleting normal.dot, it likely is leftover from Word 2003 or earlier. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "MAS-013" wrote in message ... Whenever I try to run Word 2007 (part of Enterprise suite), I receive the Microsoft Office Word has stopped working message. I am running in Vista Ultimate. I have tried winword /a and it runs then. I'd like to get around this problem. I have tried deleting/renaming the normal.dot template and I have deleted the data key. Is there a FAQ or reference I can use to address this problem that is customized for Vista. I tried the old one build around XP, but maybe I am missing the location of the critical template. Sorry if the answer is obvious, but I have looked around quite a bit. |
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Word 2007 Crash on CLOSE ALSO
I just wanted to thank you for your post and for the answers others gave and
post an additional note to this problem... I have been having this problem on CLOSE since I loaded Office 2003 on Vista machine only with WORD. It would save the file but I would get "Microsoft has stopped working" which was annoying. THE FIX IS: I went to User\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates folder and found ~$Normal.dot in the same file . Deleted it and now the error is gone! There is a Normal.dot file there still. Hopefully I won't be posting on this subject again! Thanks! |
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Word 2007 Crash on CLOSE ALSO
Spoke too soon... problem still there...
uggggggg "lmv" wrote: I just wanted to thank you for your post and for the answers others gave and post an additional note to this problem... I have been having this problem on CLOSE since I loaded Office 2003 on Vista machine only with WORD. It would save the file but I would get "Microsoft has stopped working" which was annoying. THE FIX IS: I went to User\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates folder and found ~$Normal.dot in the same file . Deleted it and now the error is gone! There is a Normal.dot file there still. Hopefully I won't be posting on this subject again! Thanks! |
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