WORD 2003 ERROR MUST CLOSE MESSAGE

[hthrweight]

I have MS Office Small Business 2003 and since the middle of December I'll be
typing and at any given time (and often several times) I will recieve this
message:

Microsoft Word has encountered an error and must close. We apologize for
this inconvenience.

Well, when it "closes" it does an automatic recovery of what I had
previously typed...most of the time. Sometimes I lose information and have
to go back.

I have removed MSO SB 2003 and reloaded it. Used a NEW disc of MSO SB 2003
and loaded that on instead thinking there might be a corrupt Word program
file. AND I've even downloaded the MS updates and 2003 Service Pack but this
is still occurring.

Can anyone help me this? I am a transcriptionist and this is a HUGE
hinderance with regards to time.

Thank you.

 

[grammatim]

Do you have enough free space on your hard drive? I recently
discovered more than 3 Gb of Temp and Backup Word files in a folder
called "Work" on my old hard drive, which is now an external hard
drive partly because of this undetected logjam, and I haven't had that
message since.