Thanks Peter, appreciate you pointing me in the right direction

"Peter Foldes" wrote:
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> Tim
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> MS Office issues has nothing to do with Vista . Please post the complete error message (s) including any error numbers if any to the MS Office newsgroups for a more comprehensive answer. Many Office experts are there to give you answers.
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> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.office.misc[/url]
> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.office.setup[/url]
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> Peter
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> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
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> "Tim" <Tim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BC014A89-C279-42D4-A81C-13292C6E09AB@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > Scenario: I have a folder on the desktop that contains numerous Word files.
> > When I open the folder and try and open any of the Word files I get the
> > following error messages, in the following order. No other applications are
> > open at the time.
> >
> > First message: "MS Office is trying to recover your information. Windows is
> > checking for a solution to this problem"
> >
> > Second message: "MS Office is trying to recover you information. This may
> > take several minutes".
> >
> > Third and final message: MS Office Word has stopped working. A problem
> > caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program
> > and notify you of a solution" - which never does take place...
> >
> > Has anyone else had experience with this issues, thoughts on what may be
> > potentially causing the problem, remedies etc. Thanks in advance.[/color]
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