

Some of the older saved word docs on the laptop, show there properties to be Microsoft Office Word. Yet the very same word docs on the desktop show the properties to be Microsoft Word for Windows. If I immediately X out at the start of the config. If I click OK, the doc immediately appears in the Word 2007 window[compatibility 'are you sure you want to cancel setup' and if I click YES, I get 'preparing to install' which I cancel and then get a Microsoft Word 12 error occurred - please run 'set up' and select repair. I have searched through the answers forum and most of the trouble shooting involves regedit - an area I will not enter alone, and most advice does not seem to solve the issue. attached to emails forwarded from a web mail account. Even if I save them to the desktop, open them and then save them as 'Word 97-2003 Document and open them again, I still get the config. If I forward the same messages with word attachments from both the laptop and web mail. to any of my email clients on the desktop, they open immediately. I also get a few Event Viwer errors in Application only - if you would like the details then let me know.

I have no problems with Excel, unlike some who have posted with a similar problem.
