[B.McLaughlin]

A while ago Word kept giving "not enough memory" error messages. If I threw out the word preference and opened Word again, it would open docs. Starting a few days ago this would not help. Could not open anything. Would just get that message.
I just tried throwing out Word and reinstalling it. NOw I get "The application Word has unexpectedly quit."
I am affraid to use the "uninstall" from the disc because I have a ton of stuff in Entourage. From what I can tell if I use the uninstall from the disc it will take out everything from Office.
Here is what I have-
OS 10.2.8
Office X v10.1.1
Here is what I have done/tried-
Threw out Word from MS apps folder
Veriied and repaired permissions
Dragged Word off of CD-did not work,got error message
Did a custom instal off cd-did not work, got error message
Any ideas?
Thanks
Brian

[d00d]

Why don't you upgrade to the latest version of Office v.X?

[B.McLaughlin]

Money. Or lack of.

[d00d]

All updates to Office v.X are free. The new (for pay) version of Office is Office:2004. Office v.X updates (again, free) are up to Office v.x 10.1.5. Microsoft has the updaters on their site.

[gemstonesetter]

Can one still get Word X as a stand alone application without buying the entire Office suite? Is it compatable with Panther?
Thanks,
Gem

[Randy_B_Singer]

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A while ago Word kept giving "not enough memory" error messages. If I threw out the word preference and opened Word again, it would open docs. Starting a few days ago this would not help. Could not open anything. Would just get that message.
I just tried throwing out Word and reinstalling it. NOw I get "The application Word has unexpectedly quit."

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Under OS X, when an application often suddenly quits, especially when first launched, the problem is usually a corrupted user preferences file for that application.
I would first try:
Preferential Treatment (free)
http://homepage.mac.com/jonn8/as/

If that doesn't help, I would try manually uninstalling the file:

com.microsoft.Word.plist

Getting the error message:

"not enough memory"

in OS X usually either means that you don't have enough RAM installed in your Mac to run OS X reliably in general, or, more commonly, it means that you are running out of contiguous hard drive space. See:
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
Item # 5, and Note #2
for suggestions on how to fix this. (Note that you may have several gigabytes of free drive space available, but if your drive is around 80% full, or if that space isn't contiguous space, that free space isn't available for use.)