thanks for your help, but its not so much the questions
that I need answering. I just enjoyed haveing the little
dog bouncing about. You can see I don't use my computer
for any serious use.

Thanks for your interest.
Word 2000 was included and installed by the manufactures
P.Bell i.e. no disk supplied. With the four disks that
were supplied I had to do a re-install of the operating
system C:\window . This was needed as an activated  
partition image had failed to allow a normal bootup. At
this point the office assistant failed to appear.  'Smart
restore' allows word 2000 to be added or removed in
conjuction with the supplied disks, which I used, still
no joy, hence the query

Yes I did try to use Help and show office assistant, this
is when the installing bar reach 50% and then errored to
could not find DAT1.MSI, and neither can I.