Word Croaking on File Open

[mcp6453]

As of a few minutes ago, when I try to open a new document with Word
2000, if the document is in My Documents, all is well. However, if I
click the Up button to get to My Computer and then double click on My
Computer, Word closes immediately with no warning or error message. I
just did a Detect and Repair, to no avail. If I locate a file in Windows
Explorer and double click on it, Word opens the document correctly. I
tried starting Word with the /a switch, and the problem is still there
(indicating that the problem is not a corrupt normal.dot.) I've found
posts with similar problems, but I have not found a solution. The OS is
Windows XP Pro, and both Word and XP are up to date.

(Reposted from another newsgroup since there was no response there.)

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Please visit the Microsoft Word experts in the Word newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.application.errors

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| As of a few minutes ago, when I try to open a new document with Word
| 2000, if the document is in My Documents, all is well. However, if I
| click the Up button to get to My Computer and then double click on My
| Computer, Word closes immediately with no warning or error message. I
| just did a Detect and Repair, to no avail. If I locate a file in Windows
| Explorer and double click on it, Word opens the document correctly. I
| tried starting Word with the /a switch, and the problem is still there
| (indicating that the problem is not a corrupt normal.dot.) I've found
| posts with similar problems, but I have not found a solution. The OS is
| Windows XP Pro, and both Word and XP are up to date.
|
| (Reposted from another newsgroup since there was no response there.)