Argh. Everytime I open Word or Wordperfect, they close with an error msg!

[Lex]

Both give me an error message like "Sorry, this program has encountered and error and must close now." Then boom, they close.

I ran a virus scan and everything is okay.
I ran a disk defrag. Doesn't make any difference.
I ran AdAware. No spyware trouble.
I reset my computer back to 2 weeks ago. No effect.

All my other programs seem to be working okay, but why are my 2 word processing programs acting like this?

Has this ever happened to you?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. Did you just do a Java update?

I will never do THAT again. Screwed up my Word program - turned everything italic, removed fonts from my Fonts folder, jesus, what a mess it was.

[Lex]

4. Wait, yes I think I did.

What did you end up doing to fix the problem?

Word will not even stay open for me--it just shuts itself down as soon as it gets open. It opens, and 3 or 4 seconds later, it gives me the error message and says it has to close.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

6. I used GoBack, which helped,

but I still had to download a bunch of fonts and reinstall them.

Never again.

See if you can uninstall the update. I don't honestly know if you can, though.

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Odd...

I just updated Java, and Word works fine for me...

[MisterP]

2. the document is likely corrupted: mass copy-and-paste might work

is it with all documents

[Lex]

3. I just open the program and it closes--not with any particular document.

Just opening the program itself, without choosing any particular document, it shuts itself down (both Word and Wordperfect).

[WilliamPitt]

7. Shut down, turn on

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Have you cleared out your TEMP files...

because that's the problem I had with WordPerfect a while ago.

Other than that, who knows...