Microsoft KB Archive/896146

= The program stops responding when the spelling and the grammar are checked in an Office 2003 document =

Article ID: 896146

Article Last Modified on 2/13/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003
 * Microsoft Office Excel 2003
 * Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
 * Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
 * Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
 * Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
 * Microsoft Office Publisher 2003
 * Microsoft Office Word 2003
 * Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
 * Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003
 * Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003
 * Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003
 * Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003
 * Microsoft Office Access 2003

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Thank you for your help!
Microsoft thanks you for taking the time to send us information about the program error that you just experienced. After investigating error reports provided by users like you, our engineers devised a workaround for this problem. This article contains information that may help you to avoid this problem in the future.

Error signature
This article describes a program error that can have an error signature that is similar to one of the following error signatures:  Application name Application version  Module name  Module version  Offset --

Excel.exe      11.0.5612.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Excel.exe      11.0.6113.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Excel.exe      11.0.6400.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Excel.exe      11.0.6355.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Mspub.exe      11.0.5525.0          Mssp3es.dll  1.0.0.54        0000e02e

Mspub.exe      11.0.5525.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Mspub.exe      11.0.6255.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Onenote.exe    11.0.5510.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Onenote.exe    11.0.6360.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Onenote.exe    11.0.6360.0          Ntdll.dll    5.1.2600.2180   0000eddd

Onenote.exe    11.0.6360.0          Ntdll.dll    5.1.2600.2180   000379d1

Onenote.exe    11.0.6360.0          Unknown      0.0.0.0         99883e86

Onenote.exe    11.0.6360.0          Unknown      0.0.0.0         57b1b618

Outlook.exe    11.0.5510.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Outlook.exe    11.0.6353.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Powerpnt.exe   11.0.5529.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Powerpnt.exe   11.0.6361.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Visio.exe      11.0.3216.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Winword.exe    11.0.5604.0          Mssp3es.dll  2.0.26.10       0000f614

Winword.exe    11.0.5604.0          Mssp3es.dll  2.0.28.15       00012a5b

Winword.exe    11.0.5604.0          Mssp3es.dll  2.0.28.15       00012347

Winword.exe    11.0.5604.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Winword.exe    11.0.6113.0          Mssp3es.dll  2.0.26.10       0000f614

Winword.exe    11.0.6113.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Winword.exe    11.0.6359.0          Mssp3es.dll  2.0.26.10       0000f614

Winword.exe    11.0.6359.0          Mssp3es.dll  2.0.28.15       0000e000

Winword.exe    11.0.6359.0          Mssp3es.dll  2.0.28.15       00012a5b

Winword.exe    11.0.6359.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Winword.exe    11.0.6415.0          Msth3es.dll  1.0.0.87        00014ab9

Additionally, other offsets are possible.



SYMPTOMS
When the spelling and the grammar are checked in a document in one of the programs that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section, the program may stop responding (hang). Additionally, you may receive an error message that is similar to the following error message. Note that in the error message,  is one of the programs that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.

Microsoft  has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Please tell Microsoft about this problem.

We have created an error report that you can send to help us improve. We will treat this report as confidential and anonymous.

To see what data this error report contains, click here.

Note To view the details of the error signature, click the link in the following text of the error message:

To see what data this error report contains, click here.



CAUSE
This issue may occur if you do the following:
 * First you install Microsoft Office 2003 together with the Spanish proofing tools.
 * Then you install a Microsoft Office 2000 program together with the Spanish proofing tools.



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, reinstall Office 2003. To do this, follow these steps.

Note Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer. If they are, see your product documentation to complete these steps.
 * 1) Close all Office programs that are open.
 * 2) Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs.
 * 3) In the Currently installed programs list, click Microsoft Office 2003 or another installed Office 2003 program, and then click Change.
 * 4) On the Maintenance Mode Options page, click Reinstall or Repair, and then click Next.
 * 5) On the Reinstall or Repair Office page, click Detect and Repair errors in my Office installation.
 * 6) Click to select the Restore my Start Menu Shortcuts check box, and then click Install.
 * 7) If you are prompted to restart your computer to finish the installation, click Yes.



MORE INFORMATION
The Office Error Reporting dialog box appears when an error occurs that causes a fatal event in the program. The dialog box includes a button to send the information about the fatal event to Microsoft. Microsoft gathers information about these types of events in a database to try to identify the cause. For more information about the Microsoft Data Collection Policy, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/dcp20.asp

For more information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

283768 Description of the end user privacy policy in application error reporting when you are using Office

289508 How to view error signatures if an Office program experiences a serious error and quits

Additional query words: office2003 off2003 off2k3 excel2003 xl2003 xl2k3 onenote2003 on2003 on2k3 outlook2003 ol2003 ol2k3 powerpoint2003 ppt2003 ppt2k3 publisher2003 pub2003 pub2k3 word2003 wd2003 wd2k3

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