Hi,

I am getting the exact same errors in VSTO trying to create a word project as Yaroslav. It works fine with eXcel.

A new word project creates VSTO error "The project cannot be created". An existing word document produces a ...document may be corrupted" error. Has there been any updates to this thread offering a potential solution? My installation of Office 2003 are all fine according to the troubleshooter tool.

Hi beegee

Search your system (including hidden folder and files) for the Normal.dot template. Rename it to NormalOLD.dot. Start Word normally. Quit Word. This will generate a "clean" copy of Normal.dot.

Now see if you can create a Word project in VSTO?

Cindy,

I did this and got rid of all Normal.dot templates. Re-ran word and it created a new Normal.dot template in my documents and settings folder. However, I am still getting the same "Project cannot be created error" out of VSTO. I noticed that it creates a set of folders for WordDocument1 .....bin, myproj, obj and the sln file. I need to delete them otherwise the next create will be WordDocument2 and so on. I was part of the beta test for the new office 12, would it be affecting Office 2003 in any way?

Cindy,

some additional information on this. I had created a word project out of VSTO some time ago before getting this error. I opened it in Visual Studio 2005. I was able to view the code, I tried to view it in designer and got the ...."word document is corrupted message". I ran a build on this project and it failed with 1 error. It used to build successfully. The error was the following:

"An error occurred while attempting to persist the data. The message returned is: Failed to start Word. Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040403. "

Hi BeeGee

I'm going to split your question off into a new thread to make sure it gets better visibility. If we'd had a "quick fix", I wouldn't take the trouble, but it looks like this may take more heads than just mine :-)

I have one more idea you can try: Open Word, then run Detect and Repair from the Help menu. If something in Word is broken (corrupted *.exe file, for example) this should fix it.

And yes, you could conceivably be running into issues if you had Office 2007 installed "over" Office 2003. The current version of VSTO can't work with 2007 (although projects you develop with it should work with Office 2007, you can't develop with 2007 in the current Designer). This may, indeed, be the problem. If Detect and Repair doesn't rectify it, try uninstalling first Office 2007, then Office 2003, then VSTO. Then reinstall Office 2003, followed by VSTO.