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Word allows more than one instance to be running at the same time. I don't think that it should. This is different from having several documents open at once in the single instance. Normally a user cannot cause this.<br />
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However rogue ad-ins and macros can lead to this situation.<br />
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You may need to examine your current environment to see what has caused such a situation
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Word allows more than one instance to be running at the same time. I don't think that it should. This is different from having several documents open at once in the single instance. Normally a user cannot cause this.

However rogue ad-ins and macros can lead to this situation.

You may need to examine your current environment to see what has caused such a situation

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Thanks for the extra advice. I build add-ins for a living so errors caused by incorrect user info also cause this.<br />
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The same message started up again and I stopped it by doing the following:<br />
Go to File - Options - Add-Ins, in the COM Add-ins uncheck the Send to Bluetooth
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Thanks for the extra advice. I build add-ins for a living so errors caused by incorrect user info also cause this.

The same message started up again and I stopped it by doing the following:
Go to File - Options - Add-Ins, in the COM Add-ins uncheck the Send to Bluetooth

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Then you probably know all of this:<br />
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Make sure that any code only creates a new instance if if there isn't one already running. Remember to quit (wordApp.Quit) if a new instance has been created. If code aborts before the Quit it can leave an orphan instance running.<br />
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You can check in Task manager to see if there are several instances of Winword running.
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Then you probably know all of this:

Make sure that any code only creates a new instance if if there isn't one already running. Remember to quit (wordApp.Quit) if a new instance has been created. If code aborts before the Quit it can leave an orphan instance running.

You can check in Task manager to see if there are several instances of Winword running.

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Hi<br />
I get the following error when closing Word<br />
How do I stop it?<br />
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Hi
I get the following error when closing Word
How do I stop it?



Word strange message on closing

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.