Thread: I'm having a problem with my microsoft word

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?

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++.

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

Ohh

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

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

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

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.

why a cop-out?

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