The error is coming from a macro. If it appears when you open a document
(not when you create a new document?) look for a macro called AutoOpen or a
macro called Main in a module called AutoOpen. The quick fix is simply to
delete it; but you should ask why it's there in the first place -- it's not
part of Word itself: it's been added, either explicitly by you or another
user, or indirectly when you loaded some add-in or other code.
> Each time now I open a Word 2000 document I get a box
> reading 'MS Visual Basic Runtime error 429 Active X
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> Using Windows 98SE & MS Word 2000