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From: kanderso@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU (Kenneth Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Fun Problem with Microsoft Word 4.0
Message-ID: <9104060051.aa28855@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: 6 Apr 91 08:52:22 GMT
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I'm having one of those really fun problems in which an application that has
worked for me perfectly since I bought it 2-3 years ago, has decided to
go bad when I wasn't looking...

Every time I start Word, I get to the part where it has opened a new file
and is sitting there waiting for me to do something.  If I start typing I'm
fine, but if I try to select the menu bar or even try to close the
Untitled1 window, I get the following cheerful message...

The application "Microsoft Word" has unexpectedly quit.(2)

Anyone have this problem and fix it?  Where can I go to find out what the
(2) means I have all of the Inside Macintosh books but I couldn't find
anything in them to help.

If I run using the finder, instead of multifinder, I get the message

address error


and a button that allows me to restart my Mac.

The frustrating part of all this is that I used Word just last Wednesday and
it worked fine, and I don't remember having changed a thing on my system, so
I can't for the life of me figure out what is going wrong.

I used Disinfectant 2.4, but there are no viruses that it finds on my disk.
I tried increasing the application's memory size using the Get Info dialogue,
but that didn't work.

The most recent thing on my system that I changed was Suitcase II.  I updated
it from version 1.2.8, to 1.2.9., so I changed back to 1.2.8 but Word still
dies with the same message.

Any ideas????????  I need some help.

Thanks in advance,

Ken