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Gee, I'm gonna keep starting the WTF threads....

Okay, my Microsoft Word is acting like crap. It keeps freezing up and won't acknowledge when I type any letters. Occasionally the whole program just crashes and shuts inself down. I'm trying to write up a resume and its not going too well.... Any help is always appreciated.

didi you just install a service pack for word ?

Try running the uninstaller of Office which should have a Repair option.

Check for background apps & spyware. Word's prone to problems from 3rd party plugins and macros. Have you installed anything recently that provides either?

smb- Yeah, I have a Purdue University service pack of Word, gives me all the Office applications.

FP- Well, I had that earlier post about stuff getting installed into my IE, so my guess would be yes. I'm gonna try the uninstaller and pray it has good results.

Sounds like some kind of virus. My father-in-law had a problem with his where it would not allow you to save any documents. It was a viurs (can't remember the exact name).

I had problems like that quiet a while ago, I was running Win ME and Office XP. Whenever i used Office and had Internent Explorer also open, "word" would start acting up. If i closed IE everything was fine.