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31485 2002-01-16 20:26:00 Hi & Greetings. I have Win98 SE, Works2000, 20Gb Hd, 256 Ram. When I now try to open a Word file I get a message 'There is insufficient memory or disc space. etc'. Olso 'Winword caused a general protection fault in Module USER.EXE at 000b:0000231d.
Have Uninstalled then re-installed Word 2000 and still have the problem. I can open & use other Utilities eg Spreadsheets & DV editing, Internet Explorer. I recently tried to instal a 'security update' Word2k sec.exe but it told me I needed Office2000 so I cancelled the update. Can't think of anything else I have done to cause this problem. Can any kind Mastermind please help me?
Best regards from Peter.
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31486 2002-01-16 23:11:00 Hello Peter,

You have a corrupted, word normal.dot, this is the template word uses by default, if it becomes corrupted word cannot open, leading to the type of error messages such as yours.

The fix run a search for all normal.dot files, delete them all then reboot your PC, word will then recreate a new normal.dot template and your problems will be over.

Alan
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31487 2002-01-17 07:07:00 Hi Alan

Thank you very much for your suggestion. Word is now up and 'processing'.

Best regards from Peter.
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