We had a power surge last weekend, and I had to reinstall Windows 98.  I used a boot disk.  Now all my Word documents appear as Winpad documents, and give me errors if I try to open them directly.  If I open Word first, they seem to be O
Anyone ever had this happen and know how to ...

I went into the toolbar on Word 2003 today to insert a
symbol into a document and it was no longer listed as an
option. What's up with that? Any ideas on how to fix the
problem? I really need my en-dash.

Has anyone tried the "support from a professional" link on
the MS help site for $35?  I'm desperate!  It would be
worth it to me, as broke as I am, if it works- but I don't
know how reliable it is.

Word opens and closes slowly only on the administrators
account with XP home.  Norton Antivirus is not installed
and there are no networked drives.  It opens and closes
normally on all other accounts on the same system.  I

Hi
I am using Word 2000 and upon opening my documents this
morning all of my drop down menus have disappeared. The
only thing that I can think has happened is that my

I worked on a business plan (large file, over 4MB) and
everything seemed fine, but when I wanted to open it today
I got the message "The document name or path is not valid.
Try these suggestions: check document permissions for the

Everytime I start word on one particular PC I get the
message: "Visual Basic - Compile error in hidden module:
menu code".
I can cancel past this and use word but the error is so

I would like to enquie regarding selecting paper size. I just reinstall my microsoft office, but when I am trying to select the correct paper size, there isn't any other options for me. Only custom is availble. How or what should I do inorder to get the rest of the paper size, ...

My brother has a laptop computer.  It is not connected to the Interne
and not infected with a virus.  He has made no changes to his computin
environment recently.
All of the sudden, Microsoft Word will not open. It consumes all of hi

My Word program, part of Office 2000, freezes up when I
try to open it.  I'm assumming the file has been corrupted.
My original disk has been lost or misplaced in a recent
office move.  

I was trying to open some old documents but got this error
instead:
The document name or path is not valid. Try these
suggestions.

I installed Symantec NAV (with add-ins).  Tried to open a
word document but I'm getting a "The file ____.doc is not
available." error.  When I try to close Word I get a "The
file Normal.dot already exists.  Do you want to replace

I want to do a "clean install" of Word 2003--after a format and reinstall of
Windows.
Would my OEM Works Suite CD qualify for the upgrade version?
Also, I notice that there is an edition "For Students and Teachers." Is this

When I start up Word and try to open any file I get the following
message.
-The File is Not Available- (this message also has a yellow caution
sign with a black exclamation mark). My only option is to click "OK".

How do i change the normal document in word from
normal.doc to normal.old