>We have one workstation (actually a laptop)from which we get the following error:
>OLE Error Code 0x80080005 Server Execution failed.
>
>When issuing oWord = createobject('word.basic')
>
>It is as if Word is not installed on the machine, but it is. INstanciating Excel works fine. Does anybody know what is causing this?

I would try GETOBJECT(), maybe it will work?