how to repair/replace (normal.dot) or VBE6.LL files

[magnogreato]

I've been using MS Office Pro 2003 since '03 and have been using it on my new desktop with Win 8.1 for the last 18 months. Now all of a sudden when I start using MS Word I get these error boxes saying: "The Visual Basic environment could not be initialized" and help says it's either too little RAM or the (normal.dot) or VBE6.DLL file is corrupt and should be renamed/repaired. It's not the first 'cause I've got 10GB of RAM and I suppose it's the second...problem is I can't find that file to rename or how to repair the dll file. Can someone help??

 

[danny2000]

First you should try Help inside Word and then choose Detect and Repair.
If that doesn't work, you can go to C:\program files\Microsoft Office and I believe that normal.dot is stored there.
C:\users\(your user name)\appdata\roaming\microsoft\templates is another place to check.

 

[magnogreato]

Help in Word does not provide ‘anything’ for that…
when I try ‘Detect and Repair’ I get this error box:
Error 1

Error 1919 configuring ODBC data source; Visual FoxPro Database.
ODBC error 6 component not found in the registry. Verify that the file,
Visual foxPro Database exists and that you can access it.


When I type in run, C:\program files\Microsoft Office I get error saying:
Error 2

Windows cannot find ‘C:\program.’ Make sure you typed the name correctly.

So then I typed in C:\users\(my name)\appdata\roaming\microsoft\templates
and got this error box:

Error 3

Location is not available
C:\programfiles\ is unavailable. If the location is on this PC, make sure the device or drive is connected or the disc is inserted, and then try again. If the location is on a network, make sure you’re connected to the network or Internet, and then try again. If the location still can’t be found, it might have been moved or deleted.

I thought a reinstall/repair of Office would work, but it gives me Error 1
so now I’m stuck good. All of Office works except for the Visual Basic error that keeps
popping up when I’m in Outlook and/or Word.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

....When I type in run, C:\program files\Microsoft Office I get error saying:
Error 2....

Whenever you use a path that contains spaces you must enclose it in quotes "".