Word 97

Not sure if I'll be muc

h help, but...Now, lets say Word works fine most of the time but in one particular document, every time you try to print or browse past a certain point, Word locks up or crashes. This is an indicator that there may be corruption within one of the paragraph markers or in the final paragraph marker of the document. To display your paragraph markers, look for the icon on your Standard toolbar that looks like a paragraph marker (or a backwards P) and click on it. This will show the paragraph markers at the end of each paragraph or wherever you hit the Enter key to drop down a line. Highlight the paragraph marker at the end of whatever paragraph you suspect to be corrupt and delete it. This will remove any special paragraph formatting that was applied to that paragraph and remove the corruption with it. If your entire document appears to be corrupt (fonts are all screwy or graphics are displaying strangely or it is giving you sporadic error messages), the best way to try to save the data is to highlight all of the document EXCEPT the final paragraph marker and copy it and paste it into a new blank document. A large percentage of document corruption is stored in the final paragraph marker in a document and sometimes just putting it into a new document and leaving that paragraph marker behind fixes it.

That's from Troubleshooting Word

It's also suggested to uninstall/reinstall since Wored 97 doesn't have the detect/repair. After uninstalling, MS recommends this utility:

Eraser utilities for both Office 97 and Office 2000

Can you see the Word file in Print Preview? Have you tried selecting the Print operation from Print Preview?

Major Payne,

I have uninstalled/reinstalled Office 97 to no avail. I have tried your suggestions. I can see the document in Print Preview but it does not print. Eraser 97 does not support my program. It is Office 97 Small Business Edition.

Dumb question.

When I use the Office Removal Tool, will it also remove Outlook Express? I use Outlook Express 6.