do you have any addins installed in word? does it work if word is already
open? if yes to either, disable the addins.

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"Rick Macken" Rick wrote in message
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After several months of working properly my Office Pro 2003 Outlook won't
allow me to write e-mail messages. When I select, reply or new, for an
e-mail
message it gives me the window that it is starting WORD 2003 as my e-mail
editor but it doesn't open Word. It just freezes up and doesn;t do
anything.
I attempted "detect and repair" but this hasn't helped. Whay can I do?