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word2000 will not run

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Running office2ksp1 on win2ksp2. all other
programs run except for word. The first
message says "can't open library"
only choice is ok. After that I get a
runtime error and closes word. I have
reinstalled several times with no luck.
Any ideas?

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by dklippert

Locate the Word startup directory.

(C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP on my machine.)

Move everything out to another folder.
Wipe out or rename any Normal.dot files (you may find more than one).Was this a mention of a Visual C++ Runtime Library?

by neal1lb

This is exactly the message.
I do not have C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\ directory. Also I have no
normal.dot files on the machine anywhere.
any other ideas
Thanks

by mahdeekus

Try uninstalling office completely, first and then re-installing all components - this could be a problem with a shared library.

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