I'm having a problem with my microsoft word

**NeoSioType** · 12-05-2008 01:00 AM

The program suddenly terminates and doesn't recover any of the work like it normally would. This terrifies me to say the least...

This comes up:

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Program C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\WINWORD.EXE

abnormal program termination

-Please help, would reinstalling help?

**ninja9578** · 12-05-2008 01:42 AM

The new office uses Visual C++, not VB? Did you upgrade from an older version of Office? The old ones used VB as their scripting language, not C++, you might just have to install Visual C++.

**Ynot** · 12-05-2008 01:56 AM

nothing to do with scripting languages
Word (as all components of office) is written in C++
specifically, MS's Visual C++

Word is crashing on an unhandled exception
hence the reference to the VC++ runtime library

yeah, try reinstalling

**ninja9578** · 12-05-2008 02:10 AM

Ohh

**arby** · 12-05-2008 06:27 AM

If that doesn't solve it, I'd suggest using open office as a suitable substitute.

**Marvo** · 12-05-2008 02:16 PM

If that doesn't fix it, something is severely broken, as in a virus or corrupted Windows files.

**NeoSioType** · 12-06-2008 02:31 AM

As a matter of fact it didn't get fixed. I uninstalled and reinstalled it...

**Grod** · 12-06-2008 06:02 PM

Get Open Office, it's free. I know that's a bit of a cop-out, but it works just as well as Microsoft Word and it doesn't fail as hard.

**Ynot** · 12-07-2008 03:09 PM

why a cop-out?

best tool for the job

**ninja9578** · 12-07-2008 04:48 PM

I always found that OOo was terrible when it came to editing and saving PDF files. Maybe they've fixed it, but that was always the biggest beef with it that I had. I also found it very slow (probably due to tons of Java code) and hated the fact that it didn't use the universal spell/grammar checker. It has it's own so if you add a word in your web browser, it doesn't show up in OOo's database.