Word 2007 crashes due to corrupt normal.dotm

[stevebond001]

Hi
Hopefully someone can help me. I am running Office 2007. When I open Word it hangs at the splashscreen so I have to kill it off in the task manager. When it is killed off, if I then go and delete the normal.dotm file and restart Word, it loads fine. However, when I quit Word and try and restart it, the same error occurs and it hangs again.
The same symptom is being seen with Outlook as well, but using the normalemail.dotm instead. when I delete this template I can then successfully start Outlook - however when I restart it Outlook hangs.

I can start Word with the/a option successfully.



I can only assume that the two templates (nornal.dotm and normalemail.dotm) are becomming corrupt in some way when they are created, thereby affecting subsequent launches of Word and Outlook.

Has anyone got any idea of how to fix this issue? It's driving me mad at the moment. I've even had to create a script to delete the .dotm files after Word and Outlook have been closed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.