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Word 2008 will not open in Lion

I upgraded to Lion last night and had no problems with Word 2008 opening. Now, after a few restarts, Word 2008 will not open. When I click the icon on the dock, I get the following error message:


Microsoft Word.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Word

0x8fe53000 - 0x8fe859c7 dyld (195.5 - ???) <134323A7-49DC-3A9D-ACFD-32FAD0FD6BA2> /usr/lib/dyld


Model: MacBookPro7,1, BootROM MBP71.0039.B0B, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.62f6

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M, NVIDIA GeForce 320M, PCI, 256 MB

Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x80CE, 0x4D34373142353637334648302D4346382020

Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x80CE, 0x4D34373142353637334648302D4346382020

AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8D), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.100.98.75.6)

Bluetooth: Version 2.5.0f17, 2 service, 12 devices, 1 incoming serial ports

Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1

Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HTS545025B9SA02, 250.06 GB

Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898

USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader, apple_vendor_id, 0x8403, 0x26100000 / 2

USB Device: Built-in iSight, apple_vendor_id, 0x8507, 0x24600000 / 2

USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x06600000 / 4

USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8213, 0x06610000 / 5

USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, apple_vendor_id, 0x0236, 0x06300000 / 3

USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0x06500000 / 2


Can anyone help explain what's going on?


Thanks!!

Posted on Jul 26, 2011 8:30 AM

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User profile for user: Monty1945
Monty1945
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Jul 26, 2011 8:59 AM in response to The hatter

Hi,


No, no problems here with Office 2008, or 2011. Some people seem to think that 2008 had to be installed before the Lion OS was installed. I have reinstalled in on one of our machines that had issue with 2008, and I have installed after the Lion install was done. I had to install it twice as the first time didn't take.


You might try to reinstall Office 2008 - when I did it, the machine seemed to respond faster to opening Office documents, and we have had no glitches, so far, and that has been a couple of days.


I feel there are some possible issues, adn that Mickey Soft is working on it - I would expect an update from Mickey Soft, soon. It's not an Apple problem, as I see it, as over two dozen machines were updated that had Office 2008 on them, and ony one machine had issues.


Cheers,

M.

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Jul 26, 2011 9:16 AM in response to Ramses Moya

Thanks everyone. I think the problem started when, in Finder, I moved the icons for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint from the Microsoft Office subfolder to the main Applications folder so that those three programs would appear in Launchpad. I moved them back to the Office subfolder and they are all opening properly now. Seems like a weird bug to me.

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Word 2008 will not open in Lion

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