Red/Green Wavy Lines for editing

[Guest]

When I right-click on the red/green wavy lines (as I have always done), my
program shuts down! I now have office 2003 Professional. This didn't happen
with Office 98 or Office 2000. Any ideas why it's happening?

THANKS!

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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When I right-click on the red/green wavy lines (as I have always done), my
program shuts down! I now have office 2003 Professional. This didn't happen
with Office 98 or Office 2000. Any ideas why it's happening?

Something, somewhere, is damaged. You might try going to Control Panel/Add
Remove Software, select the entry for Office 2003, then choose to "repair" the
current installation.

If that doesn't help, try renaming Normal.dot to NormalOLD.dot. If you've
upgraded from a previous installation, this could be damaged and causing
problems.

If that still doesn't solve the problem, try uninstalling/reinstalling Office.
(I had a problem the other day with Access, and that's the only thing that
helped.)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

Thanks so much, Cindy. I have already uninstalled and reinstalled the
program, and that DID solve the problem. Your answer provided other useful
info for me, though. I didn't know about the"repair" option in the control
panel.

This is almost funny, too. Since I reinstalled the program, it now takes
FOREVER to to load! And, I have a pretty fast PC! Now, I may try your
repair suggestion. If it's not one thing, it's another, right?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Note that Detect and Repair is also available from the Help menu in Word
2003.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Yas, I had already done that one. Didn't work so I uninstalled
andreinstalled. I thought maybe you were talking about another one inthe
control panel.

Maybe you know something about this: Only since I reinstalled office 2003
(though it could just be coincidence) I am now getting an error message when
I'mon AOL. It says that there is a script error, and do I want to debug.
When I go to debug it sends me to a microsoft script error debugger, but
nothing seems to change when I click OK to debug.