Answer Re: Office 10 \ winword.exe runtime error
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I found a solution that worked for me! You can try it if you'd like...
First, just try start and then run and then type in winword /a. That should make Word run nornally. Then close out of word.
What's going on here is that word goes to the registry to look for what to do when word starts. When you hit /a it just starts word period. However when you run winword without the /a other things may try to start as well.
When it is just Word everything is fine however, some program you loaded messed up the system. Word trys to start that junk as well. The registry tells Word to run various "add-on's" some of which are not working (my issue was some .pdf maker). Thus you get the error telling you that word cannot run such and such - runtime error.
The solution - eliminate the add-on's in the registry under local machine. You can also try current user if Word still acts strange. It took me a few days to figure it out and that's why I'm posting here. It worked for me under cleaning out the add ons under local machine, what a relief!
Here it is:
Go to run
Type: regedit and hit enter
That gets you to the registry.
Click on HKey_Local Machine
Click on software
Click on Microsoft
Click on Office or on Word if you do not have office as a selection
If you had office click on that and then click on word.
You should see Add on's or Add in's as an addtional folder under word.
Click on that and delete it. DON'T DELETE THE WORD FOLDER! JUST THE ADD-ON'S.
Go to run - type winword - it should start up now without problems.
If that doesn't work do the same thing under current user to see if any add-on's are listed there.
Best of luck!!
Alan