Article ID: 224055
Article Last Modified on 12/2/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q224055
ERROR MESSAGE
When you run a macro or try to start the Visual Basic Editor, the following error message may appear:
The Visual Basic Environment could not be initialized. Please run Setup to install it correctly.
NOTE: Microsoft Office 2000 has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to enable this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office 2000, please download the Microsoft Office 2000 Customizable Alerts file from the Microsoft Office Update Web site at the following address:
NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking the Web Info button in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts enabled.
THINGS TO TRY
For All Causes
For additional information about resolving and troubleshooting this error, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
212669 WD2000: Errors Starting the Visual Basic Editor
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