While I've never heard of that error, I want to let you know about other steps to take to "fix" Word without complete uninstall/reinstall. You'll find all the troubleshooting steps at www.theofficeexperts.com/word, written by yours truly.

Perhaps it's just your normal.dot, perhaps Word just needs to be re-registered with Windows. If those don't work, then likely reinstalling won't either. It's very rare that it would.

I've also reworded the title to your question. Hopefully, we'll get a solution. Then, someday, when somebody searches like you did, they'll actually find the error in our archives, and the title will be meaningful to them.