I doubt SP2's to blame.  You might try removing SP3 if that's an option under add/remove ...  or you could try uninstalling/reinstalling office.

Just fyi, XP SP2, and Office XP SP3 are working fine for me

Thanks. Does not look like office SP3 got installed as removable option. Removing/installing it again is something I want to avoid if possible. I may lose something in the process, I am prone to do that.

Do U think Norton Anti-virus Corp edition (2000) Version 7.61.939 can be blamed? Again I do not want to lose that either.

BTW, the problem is only with Word and Excel. Outlook works fine after I changed the settings to use internal editor and not the Word.

The XP SP 2 help chat told me to defragment disk. That did not help either. Now they are off for the day!!!

Any help is appreciated.

There have been problems reported with SP2 and NAV. You might try disabling that. You may need an upgrade or to switch to a different AV program.

When you say you got them working together, do you have NAV running? Which AV software do you have?

I heard that Norton has fixes posted. I use McAfee and have had no problems with SP2 from that software.

Thanks both of you. The trick of Un-registering OfficeAV.dll from registry did it.

Regsvr32 -U " \OfficeAV.dll"

And that is it!!!!

Good Luck with your XP SP2 and Office SP3!!!!

 

There is also a new (11 September) security update for Office XP SP3. Go to Office dowmloads, check for updates.

http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/default.aspx