Does the problem machine have or had Norton/Symantec AV on it? Thats very similar to a problem i had w/ Outlook. Check out thread #1059064. Nigel Gomm's suggestion worked for me. Granted its not Word in the mentioned thread.

>Hi.
>I have two XP machines on a network, both with Word installed locally, one of which does Word automation fine, the other gives an error:
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>ole error code 0x8007007e The specifid module could not be found.
>The offending code is: oWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
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>Both Word and VFP run fine on both machines.
>Any ideas on what might be casusing this ?
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>Regards,
>Gerard