Did you remove the winfax add-in? It is usually the add-in that causes
problems rather than the application itself. Even without the add-in you can
still print to fax.
What other add-ins do you have?
Are you running Norton AV? If so uncheck its Office plug-in.

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> Word 2000 stops responding when I try to save a long
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