Shoutbox

So I've had this problem for about a month or two now... My Microsoft Word is being really stupid. Everytime I go to open it I have to do so through start-programs-etc... and it says it needs to install every time... and since about amonth ago it didn't need to do that. But okay, it does that then it works just fine...

Another thing is that I need to open word first to open documents... whenever I try to open something through recent documents or my documents... I get an error message...

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Originally posted by error message
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner.GROESSL\My Documents\activity sheet.doc is not a valid Win32 application.

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... the only thing I can do is hit okay...

So if anybody can help me with either of these problems... It would be greatly appreciated!

Oh.. and it's Word 2002

did you try to reinstall the entire Office packet?

Seems like something fuxored the registry entires and stuff from word.

Well... I was going to... but I don't think I have the disks for it... which is a bit of a problem...

I've had the same sort of problems....When i go to open any of the Office program i get a box saying, please wait while windows gathers requierd info,or summit like that .  If i click cancel it then does open it with no problems but it's still anoying.

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Originally posted by Ptoye
If i click cancel it then does open it with no problems but it's still anoying

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The ones at my school do that too... just like that... but the one here at home if I hit cancel word never opens.

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Originally posted by UTI

Well... I was going to... but I don't think I have the disks for it... which is

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If you don't have a valid Office License or CD's I can recommend Open Office, a free Office pack which supports reading and creating word documents.

Pretty sure we have a valid license... we either lost the disks or when we got the computer never recieved them.

I'm trying to repair again...  This time I did it with the option out of word's help part... Last time I tried through add/remove programs.

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Originally posted by Ezra

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Originally posted by UTI

Well... I was going to... but I don't think I have the disks for it... which is

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If you don't have a valid Office License or CD's I can recommend Open Office, a free Office pack which supports reading and creating word documents.

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Yeh you should be able to get them from download.com

They atually not bad for being free!

i agree with Ezra, I reccomend them to you

I would recommend 2007, but posting a link about that would be against the rules...

2007 really works well, I had 2002 I hated it ..

One question before I download this... Will I be able to use the .doc documents in it?... Or will I have to convert all of my word files to something else?

Posting a link would be against the rules... but not in a private message