May 7, 2007, 04:06 PM
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Phantom MS Word
Last night I downloaded several PowerPoint presentations from my computer professor's site to study for this morning's final exam, and every time I tried using ctrl+F to find stuff in one of them my computer would glitch out after a few minutes. Everything would freeze up (except WinAmp, which continued to play) and my laptop's screen flashed off and on. This happened three times. The first time I managed to get PP closed, the second time I had to turn off the computer and it corrupted the MS Word document I had open, and the third time I managed to close PP again and gave up. All was fine even after rebooting a few times during all that, and MS Word still worked normally.
However, this morning when I booted up Word XP seems to be almost gone. The shortcut is a blank symbol and nothing happens when I click on it, and Word is gone from my programs list in the Start menu. All of my Word documents work though, and I can create new documents from there.
My question is, what can I do to restore Word without reinstalling? I got Office XP free using a friend's account with a different university, so I don't have a disc. Also, could this problem potentially get worse if I shut down my computer again? I have a research paper due on Thursday, so I can't really afford to lose Word right now.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
Last edited by The Plane Is A Tiger; May 7, 2007 at 04:10 PM.
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