word xp and windows 98se

[scroce]

Have a strange problem that only seems to affect windows 98 machines running office xp. Win2k machines don't seem to experience this.

Seems whenever you start up word and try to type something, the whole screen turns black and you can't see what you've typed. It's very very strange. I tried setting the background colors and the font colors, but to no avail. Is there some kind of known bug with win98se and office xp?

It also does the same thing in outlook, but excel does not seem to be affected.

Has anyone else had this problem? I had to uninstall it and put back office97 on this machine. So far this is the second win98se machine I've installed xp on and the problem is 2 for 2. How much more water would there be in the ocean if it weren't for sponges?

 

[Dreamboat]

Check out this FAQ:

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?spid=68&sfid=646&CFID=17466514&CFTOKEN=19301259

Most of the stuff should be the same, except that XP's registry will have 10.0 instead of 8.0 or 9.0.
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[scroce]

thanks for your response.

i tried fooling around with normal.dot, as I am not yet convinced that it isn't some wierd formatting setting gone haywire in word itself. It's just that I can't find what setting that may be if it is, and it only occurs in win98. I did try reinstalling, but that didn't work. I have not yet tried the registry edit, but I am skeptical of that.

I've checked around, and I have not seen this documented anywhere else. I was just hoping to find someone who had this problem already and knew what was the deal.

The FAQ you referred me to is good, and i had indeed tried many of those suggestions (except the one mentioned above) to no avail.

I will post back after I try the registry edit. How much more water would there be in the ocean if it weren't for sponges?