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by trumery

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Every time working in word get message: An error has occurred in your program. To keep working anyway, click ignore and save your work in a new file. To quit this program, click close, you will lose information you entered since your last save. When I choose ignore nothing happens.

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by dklippert

We'll probably need more information to find a specific cause, but here are a couple of thoughts.
That alert box is vexing. You really have very little choice and the outcome will be pretty much the same which ever option you choose.
To ?fix? it, close Word. Delete any temporary files on your system. A search for _ ?~*.*? - will usually clean them out. (Ignore the quote marks.
Next search for and rename any files called ?Normal.DOT?. There should be only one. Word will generate a new one when it restarts.
Those two actions will fix 90% of Word problems.

by joel.rahn

Had a friend with a similar problem. It ended up being a printer driver that was causing it. Read the details carefully and more info here. please.

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