Typing winword /a starts Word without addins so in earlier versions of word
one goes to Tools - Templates and Addins and disables addins one by one.

It can also be caused by a corrupt normal.dot. Delete normal.dot and a new
one will be created.
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"Mary C" wrote in message
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Regardless of the age of the original post - this fix came up as 3rd on
the list for Word 2007 not responding in Google.

I purchased Office 2007 about 3 months ago and have had nothing but
trouble with opening Word since. I downloaded patches and fixes that I
found months ago and nothing has worked until now.

typing "winword /a" worked!

Thank you!


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Mary C