We have Office 2000 Pro installed and when we use word,
with the spell-checker on, it refers to the french
dictionary, which we have never asked it to do.
When we change the default settings back to english, it

After installing Office XP, the horizontal and vertical
rulers in MS WORD display in ch units (not inches, etc.).  
This behavior cannot be changed from the Tools - Options
menus.  Additionally, the TAB and Paragraph formatting

If I change my word document background color to blue, my mouse cursor
color stays black. Is there anyway to change my mouse cursor color to a
lighter color in word only ?

Using Office 97 Professional.
All applications will open but not Word.
When click on word - the screen will come up then nothing
happens after that.

System 9.2.1, Word 2001. For some reason, I can use the
regular pulldown menus in word, but when I try to use the
expanded menus, nothing expands. For instance, under Tools,
I can't use Track Changes, or Macros. Under Insert I can't

I think I am in Word hell. My preferences keep changing unexpectedly
(e.g., my spellcheck favored British spelling, suddenly Word tracked
changes to the document onscreen, overwrite turned on without
warning, etc.). But the most frustrating thing right now is that the

I've tried all Microsoft help--to no avail. I want Quick
View installed in my new computer. I have MS Office 2000
which worked fine in my Windows 98. I cannot find a way
to add it to Word in my XP. Can anyone help? Microsoft

When I try and open a new word doc it is not blank. It
contains information I pasted into a documents a couple
days ago. How would I fix this?
Thanks

When exiting from Word 2002, I get a splash screen
showing:-
Microsoft Visual Basic
Run-time error '13':

under Word 2000 SR1 I get the following error
message: "WINWORD.EXE Application Error. The instruction
at 0x30553700 referenced memory at 0x0a777062. The memory
could not be read". Click [OK] to terminate or [cancel] to

Wod 97 has started adding jibberish to my documents.  For
example:
bjbjt+t+
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