Outlook Reply to Yahoo Locks Up

bk8 · 09-12-2005, 08:16 AM

Whenever I reply to a Yahoo (free Yahoo) email in Outlook, (I use Word as my email editor in Outlook), there is about a two minute delay, and then an error box comes up telling me WORD is having difficulty, so Outlook will use the standard editor to compose the email. It also takes the checkmark out of the box that selected WORD as my editor in the options panel, and I can then reply to the email. If I CTL/ALT/DEL during the two minute delay, the processes window shows WINWORD.EXE running and using 99% of the CPU resources. This only happens replying to free Yahoo emails. If I reply to a Yahoo Plus email, no problems! I also tried forwarding instead of replying, and the same thing happens. There is a link on Experts Exchange that came up when I searched on Google for "winword.exe locks up yahoo reply" that might have the answer, but I don't belong to that service. Any ideas out there?

**Terrister** · 09-12-2005, 08:21 AM

Go to add/remove program. Choose Office and the change button. Now choose repair. On the next option you can choose to reinstall or search and repair. With most versions, you will need your Office cd for this.

bk8 · 09-12-2005, 12:28 PM

I did try this, but it had no effect.

09-12-2005, 08:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
bk8 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: NY Posts: 2 OS: XP	Outlook Reply to Yahoo Locks Up Whenever I reply to a Yahoo (free Yahoo) email in Outlook, (I use Word as my email editor in Outlook), there is about a two minute delay, and then an error box comes up telling me WORD is having difficulty, so Outlook will use the standard editor to compose the email. It also takes the checkmark out of the box that selected WORD as my editor in the options panel, and I can then reply to the email. If I CTL/ALT/DEL during the two minute delay, the processes window shows WINWORD.EXE running and using 99% of the CPU resources. This only happens replying to free Yahoo emails. If I reply to a Yahoo Plus email, no problems! I also tried forwarding instead of replying, and the same thing happens. There is a link on Experts Exchange that came up when I searched on Google for "winword.exe locks up yahoo reply" that might have the answer, but I don't belong to that service. Any ideas out there?

09-12-2005, 08:21 AM	#2 (permalink)
Terrister Moderator Hardware Forum Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: West Georgia, USA Posts: 7,098 OS: Xp	Go to add/remove program. Choose Office and the change button. Now choose repair. On the next option you can choose to reinstall or search and repair. With most versions, you will need your Office cd for this. __________________

09-12-2005, 12:28 PM	#3 (permalink)
bk8 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: NY Posts: 2 OS: XP	I did try this, but it had no effect.