kanderso@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU (Kenneth Anderson) (04/06/91)
I'm having one of those really fun problems in which an application that has worked for me perfectly since I bought it 2-3 years ago, has decided to go bad when I wasn't looking... Every time I start Word, I get to the part where it has opened a new file and is sitting there waiting for me to do something. If I start typing I'm fine, but if I try to select the menu bar or even try to close the Untitled1 window, I get the following cheerful message... The application "Microsoft Word" has unexpectedly quit.(2) Anyone have this problem and fix it? Where can I go to find out what the (2) means I have all of the Inside Macintosh books but I couldn't find anything in them to help. If I run using the finder, instead of multifinder, I get the message address error and a button that allows me to restart my Mac. The frustrating part of all this is that I used Word just last Wednesday and it worked fine, and I don't remember having changed a thing on my system, so I can't for the life of me figure out what is going wrong. I used Disinfectant 2.4, but there are no viruses that it finds on my disk. I tried increasing the application's memory size using the Get Info dialogue, but that didn't work. The most recent thing on my system that I changed was Suitcase II. I updated it from version 1.2.8, to 1.2.9., so I changed back to 1.2.8 but Word still dies with the same message. Any ideas???????? I need some help. Thanks in advance, Ken
vanover@bcsaic.UUCP (Jann VanOver) (04/09/91)
In article <9104060051.aa28855@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU> kanderso@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU (Kenneth Anderson) writes: >I'm having one of those really fun problems in which an application that has >worked for me perfectly since I bought it 2-3 years ago, has decided to >go bad when I wasn't looking... > >... I get the following cheerful message... > >The application "Microsoft Word" has unexpectedly quit.(2) > >Anyone have this problem and fix it? Where can I go to find out what the >(2) means I have all of the Inside Macintosh books but I couldn't find >anything in them to help. > Yeah, I know what to do. Trash it. Get out your distribution disk and reinstall it. Sometimes applications just get mixed up and need to be put out of their misery. Get a fresh copy and see if it helps. Good Luck! Jann VanOver vanover@atc.boeing.com