Why won't MS Word '98 open?

Hello to everyone..
My problem is this ... every time I go near Word, the screen freezes with the opening logo ie. "Word '98 for Macintosh" .. the watch icon comes up as if it's going to open it and can still be moved over the screen, but cannot be clicked with any effect. I am truly illiterate when it comes to the whys and wherefores, but I would appreciate some help with this. As far as I know I have not done anything differently.
Kind Regards ... Sue.
G3 Mac OS 9.2.x

Disk First Aid was the first thing I tried when the problem arose .. I meant that Word was initialising .. not the hard drive .. is that what it does? Well, I thought when it began doing that, it was about to open .. that was after I removed all the MS, Office and MS office prefs like you suggested, but then it crashed .. Word that is! So I did Disk First Aid again .. and have rebuilt the desktop several times .. First Aid says that everything seems to be ok. GRRRRR!! How can I find a corrupted file if Disk Aid tells me that everything is ok?
Oh .. thanks for your patience ..

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