Anyone have an idea of why Quickword would cause a fatal exception when starting. Other Quickoffice apps work fine. I tried to delete it and reinstall it and still having the same result. It does it EVERY time.

Had a similar situation with QuickSheet some time ago. Turns out that the categories contained a bunch of gibberish. I use a Mac. Look for folders on your system that start with qw or qs. If these folders contain subfolders that have gibberish in them, could be your problem.

Try deleting those category folders and re-installing. When you go to save a new document, it will ask you to create categories.

This fixed the problem for me. Hope it helps.

Thanks for your help. I did fix the problem by completely removing the app and reinstalling it. I renamed the backup and then uninstalled the app from the pc and reinstalled it. When starting up Quickword, I was asked if I wanted Quickword to be the Memo handler. I think the first time I said "Yes" and that is what caused the problem. When I selected "NO" the app worked fine (and continues to work fine).