Office XP 2002 on Vista Home Premium, a whole lot of problems

[ITRiver]

I have a new PC with Vista. I had office 2002 already, and installed it.
Everything seemed fine. Then I tried to print a particular 440 page document,
and every time I tried to, Word stops responding. I sent the file to a XP PC
with word 2002 and it printed fine (same printer).

After the crash though, evry time I try and print anything now, Word
crashes. Some files wont even open - word crashes as soon as I try to open
the document. About half my documents will open OK, the other half crash
word. No error, just vista's unhelpful prompt telling me it will try and find
a solution, which naturally, it doesnt.

I'm in big trouble here. Half my business's files cannot be opened on my new
PC now, and even the ones I can open, I cannot print. Where do I even start
to troubleshoot this?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm .

 

[SG]

Hi,

Open Word, click on Help then Detect & Repair.

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[ray]

I have a new PC with Vista. I had office 2002 already, and installed it.
Everything seemed fine. Then I tried to print a particular 440 page document,
and every time I tried to, Word stops responding. I sent the file to a XP PC
with word 2002 and it printed fine (same printer).

After the crash though, evry time I try and print anything now, Word
crashes. Some files wont even open - word crashes as soon as I try to open
the document. About half my documents will open OK, the other half crash
word. No error, just vista's unhelpful prompt telling me it will try and find
a solution, which naturally, it doesnt.

I'm in big trouble here. Half my business's files cannot be opened on my new
PC now, and even the ones I can open, I cannot print. Where do I even start
to troubleshoot this?

Until you can resolve those issues, you might consider installing
OpenOffice.org - for free. It will probably meet your needs until you can
sort it out.