MSOffice 2003 problem

I recently installed MOffice 2003. Everything seemed to be okay. But when I clicked on help in The Word program, a message came up stating "Microsoft Word has stopped working". Here's the details I get:

Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: WINWORD.EXE
Application Version: 11.0.6568.0
Application Timestamp: 42e178a5
Fault Module Name: unknown
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Offset: 0063f0f8
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 00000008
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
LCID: 1033
Brand: Office11Crash
skulcid: 1033

So I did a repair thru the program, a re-install and finally an uninstall, then a fresh install. Now no matter which program I click on (word, excel, PP, etc), I get the same msg as above. I know BEX is a buffer over run exception but I do not know about the rest. My os system is Vista 64-bit. But since all programs worked initally (except when I clicked on help), I don't think the 64-bit sys is a problem. Can anyone help??
TIA

Hi,

Turn off DEP TEMPORERILY and see if word now works. If it does, turn DEP on again and (try word again?) disable DEP for Word (and other affected apps) ONLY.

Here is a tutorial on how to turn DEP on and off:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/120778-dep-enable-disable.html

Here is a tutorial on how to turn DEP on and off for a single app:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/65790-dep-turn-off-programs.html

Hope this helps.

Richard

Hi,
A couple of weeks ago I looked into DEP and that's what the problem was. So you were right on! Thanks.