Particularly if this is an upgrade, it could be that your video driver can't handle the newer version. Try this... First...make sure your TEMP directory is empty. Locked files from previous crashes can stall it even more. If on a 9x OS system...kick your graphics accelerator down two clicks. If on NT+ systems, it's the application boost, kick it down one. You'll find it under the control panel/system/performance...(graphics button if 9x)... See this article for detailed instructions: www.mousetrax.com/maintain.html Good luck. Dian Chapman Technical Consultant, Instructor, Microsoft MVP & TechTrax Editor Word AutoForm/VBA eBook: http://www.mousetrax.com/books.html Tutorial web site: http://www.mousetrax.com/techpage.html TechTrax Ezine: http://www.mousetrax.com/techtrax/ -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robin Kiser Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 3:48 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Trouble closing office programs - please help Hello. I am new to this group and I'm hoping someone here can help me. I have MS Office 2000 Pro version SR-1a on my computer. From the time it was installed I have been unable to close Word or Excel without the program freezing and giving me a message like this: "WINWORD.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program." I checked the Micosoft website which tells me that the fix for this problem was included with version SR-1a and suggests I download the update. Since this is the version I already have, the advice does me no good. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can fix this problem? I am getting really tired of waiting for stalled programs to close. Thanks in advance for any help you could offer. It will be greatly appreciated. -Robin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************