every time i open word i get fatal error "pure virtual
device called" with  "hpbf3220.drv" and then it closes
word i've tried scanning for viruses and re-installing
word but no joy I would really appreciate any help or

When I open WORD 2003 I get a message "The global
template normal.dot is already open as an add-in program."
I have no idea what this means nor what to do  to get rid
of it.

Hi All
Can you help me. i have office 2k and have a documnet
that i have added some word art to but every time that i
go to print the document the word art is gone. this also

I move data files to several computers in my house using a
cd.  My primary computer is a laptop running Win2000 and
Office 2000.  I recently upgraded 2 other boxes to Win2000
& Office 2000.  Since then I have been having problems

I am unable to run MS Word at all with Works 6.0 (on
Windows XP), I have heard of this happening before but the
only solution I know of is to buy MS Office--are there any
other options?  Could it be just a problem with Word 2000

I'm getting an error on one of my computers (but not the others) when
opening an existing Word document in the Word 2003 version.  The message
says "This command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open. Click
OK and then close open dialog boxes to continue."

We I launch Word, I see the large blue "W" graphic and an
hour glass, but the application never opens.  The computer
then freezes.   I am running ME.   Thanks for any help.  
Kim

That's the problem. I never use mail merge, but the tools menu now has about
thirty "mail merge" entries on it. I did once delete them all (though I
can't remember how I did it), but they all crept back again. Is there a
simple answer?

I wonder if anyone can help, when using microsoft word (version 2002) I am
getting an error message as follows:
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime Error

Documents written on Word 2002 opened in Word 2000 SP3
have garbage characters like code instead of text. Not the
whole document (from a template previously used with no
problems) but just the bottom section where daily

Scenario:  Windows XP Prof, MS Word 2002, multiple
documents (say 3) open and minimized to taskbar.
Problem:  Word terminates without warning when I try to
select from taskbar to restore to desktop.  Recover files

Whenever I get ready to save a document or to insert a
word document into an email, and I reach up into the pull
down window to select the location to save to, the program
stops running. It has autorecovered each document so far,

Message comes up when I try to open word.  Windword has
caused an error in USER.EXE. Winword will now close.  Then
my computer locks up.  Any ideas?

When I view any Word document, it displays the text in
only one font (looks like Courier), even if the document
was originally prepared in another font, or a mixture of
fonts.  When I display the available fonts from the

Each time I open and close Word, I get a window that states
Microsoft Visual Basic The macros in this project are
disabled. Please refer to help... blah blah blah to
determine how to enable macros.  I click ok and I can open