Imagine a situation, wherein, you try to open or print a Word 2002 document, and the following error messages start bothering you one after the other:
"This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.
If the problem persists, contact the program vendor."
On checking Details, another message appears which goes like the following:
"WINWORD caused an invalid page fault in WINWORD.EXE at address."
You might get the following error message as well:
"System is dangerously low on resources."
Cause
The above error messages can be encountered when the Normal.dot (default Word template or global template) template becomes corrupt. The corruption can adversely affect all the Word documents created using Normal.dot.
Resolution
In order to perform Word recovery, you must follow the below-mentioned steps which guide you on how to rename the Normal.dot template:
- Close MS Word and Outlook, if Word is your default e-mail editor
- Go to Start>Search and click For Files and Folders
- In What do you want to search for box, click All files and folders
- Select your hard drive in the Look in dialog box
- In All or part of the file name box, type Normal.dot
- Click Search
- Rename the Normal.dot file for each occurrence
- Go to File and click Close
Copy all the personalized settings including macros etc to your newly-built Normal.dot file.
And, if any of your Word documents has become corrupt, you must download a Word repair software to initiate immediate repairing.
For successful Word recovery in case of corruption, you must trust Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery. Results-oriented in all Word document corruption scenarios, the application supports MS Word 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000 versions. You can use this easy-to-use application to recover corrupt or damaged DOC or DOCX files along with their various components.