For some reason, every time I try to use Word, I need to do a search to find the program. When I open Microsoft Office, everything is there except Word.
Anyone have any idea how to fix this? Why it's happening?
It's Office 2003.
Thanks!
Create a short cut to winword.exe and your good.. Just type winword in the run line that will launch it too. :)
I think from Control Panel, you can do the Add/Remove routine and select 'Repair' - that might also help.
And if you run any non-Microsoft cleanup programs like CCleaner or others, they will often remove temp files that MS Office uses when it starts up. I have found that Office uses temp files that begin with a tilde "~" in the file name. If you remove these files, trying to open Word will cause a short reinstallation routine to run. It takes about 5 seconds to run, but it will give you a hear attack the first time it happens.