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MS Word 2003 not opening word files

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Name: calven
Date: May 18, 2004 at 04:49:36 Pacific
OS: Windows XP SP2
CPU/Ram: Intel 3Gh/512
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Word 2003 not opening files via Windows Explorer.
When opening a word doc from Explorer, Word starts up and gets to the 'running virus scan' step, then hangs and blinks. It also seems to freezeup/tie up my laptop. When I can eventually try to close Word, I get the popup msg 'command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open'. However there are no dialog boxes visible anywhere. It also then pops up a msg saying my normal.dot already exists and do I want to replace the existing file. I can open Word first ok then open a file from the file -open menu without any problems. Have tried and created a new normal.dot file but did not make any difference. Any suggestions.
thanks if can help,



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Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: May 18, 2004 at 07:06:41 Pacific
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What level of macro protection do you have configured in Word?


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Response Number 2
Name: calven
Date: May 18, 2004 at 08:00:27 Pacific
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Hi, I have Word macro protection set to 'High' with microsoft as my trusted publisher.
cheers,
Calven


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Response Number 3
Name: SSkafar
Date: May 31, 2004 at 13:14:41 Pacific
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Did you ever find the solution to this problem? I am experiencing the exact same thing.

Thanks

Scott


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