After installing my copy of Office 2003(Student & Teacher Edition) on a second COMPUTER I get a window with the message:

"WINWORD EXE - APPLICATION ERROR
The application failed to initialze properly(0xc0150002). Click on OK to terminate the application."

I've tried uninstalling, then reinstalling, but continue getting this same error message. It seems like Office is installing OK, just won't open. Hints?
tnx,
fcrUninstall Office.
After you're done, make sure you delete Microsoft Office folder from C:\Program Files.
Reinstall.
Make sure, you apply all Office updates.Broni to the RESCUE again! THANKS, I'll give this a try.
tnx,
fcr

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http://forrestrosaire.com
Bring me good news Did a full uninstall, including any traces in the program files, reinstalled and got the same error message. Not sure why, so I installed an old ver. of MSworks and it did ok. I needed a word processor on this other PC and I guess MSworks will have to be it, for now.
tnx again,
Forrest

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Nighttrain Entertainment
http://forrestrosaire.comYou can also try OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org). It's free, and it does exactly what M$ Office does. Any M$ documents will open in OpenOffice.From Microsoft: You receive a "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002)" error message when you start an Office 2003 program on a Windows XP Professional-based computer. Apparently, this article was WRITTEN before SP2 for Win XP was released, since it advises reinstalling Windows XP SP1a. That would make me wonder whether you substitute SP2 for SP1a; in other words, reinstall SP2.

Are you running Win XP with SP2 now?

Another word processor option, if you can't get Office working, is AbiWord. It will read Word documents. After the MSOffice 2003 install I was running SP2 with XP, then I downloaded SP3, still got the same error msg. Thanks for the tips re. word processors, OpenOffice looks pretty good.
tnx,
Forrest
I use Open Office, as well, and I'm happy with it.