A friend of mine has encountered a very strange problem in that when in Word 97, if she presses the enter key twice word comes up with an illegal operation in winword.exe and the program is shut down.

I'm not talking of two rapid presses but more the sort of thing you might do to end a paragraph and then leave a blank line.

Press any key in between the CRs and all is well.

There is also a suspicion that restarting Word then causes a single enter to crash the system until the system is rebooted.

I believe she's running Win98SE and when I asked what had been changed since it worked last, I got the inevitable reply of "nothing really"! She did admit possibly to having changed the way the desktop looked.

I've suggested uninstalling Word and reinstalling it ... at least it keeps her busy until I can get a chance to look at it, but has anyone come across this behaviour before?