I use Word 2000 with .doc extensions.  I can't open XP
Word documents with .wps extensions.  What's the solution?

I have tried for ages to find a newsgroup to answer this query, and I'm
hoping it's you. Sorry if it's not, and could someone direct me to the
correct link?
      Problem:   Frequently, and most often when closing (esp. after

I have noticed that when I am writing a document the
spellcheck doesn't work at all. I can write anything,
without generating an error recognized by the dictionary.
Could I get a copy of the custom.dic file, in order to

I am trying to either paste or insert a word document into
another word document, and upon doing so, all of the
formatting changes of the document I insert. How do I get
it to stop doing this???

MS office 2000 premium, using Windows XP home.
When opening a document from 'file-open then 'save as' it
works OK.
If you open a document direct then 'save as' word starts

When using Save As it takes as long as 45 secondes to
browse to a new location. This is true with any microsoft
but if using adobe(pdf) it only takes about 3 seconds

I want to use Word's Find utility to find two words, but not more than a certain number of characters apart. For instance, i'd assume that
"THIS?{1,9}THAT"
finds the words THIS and THAT separated by up to 9 other characters.
However, Find also marks both words when they are ...

When I open word and right click on a file and then
choose either open or print I get the error message that
"The command you selected is not available from this
shortcut menu"

I have a PC running Office Professional 2000 on Windows
XP home
Although I can open any document in Word whenever I try
to print them I have problems with the newer files on my

On a PC with XP home and Office 2000 the Word application
will not open, hangs the PC with CPU activity at 100%
Excel will open but when trying to open a file hangs
system with 100% CPU activity.  Powerpoint and Access are

I copied and pasted a bank statement into a word document
and there are 127 pages to it.  It was a long report.  
Anyway, now when I open my word program this always comes
up on each new document.  I have tried every thing I know

I am running Word 2000 as part of Office 2000 Standard,
which upgraded the Works Suite loaded on the computer from
purchase. After a number of boots of Word, the program
then fails to open again. I was told to delete the

Word XP: I was working on a rather big document and having
problems with stylesheets and TOC. As I had not applied a
servicepack yet, I decided to download and install SP3. It
asked me to choose between a client and public version(?).

I have a problem with some Windows XP PC's running Office2000, NAV Corp Edt
v8.1 and Novell Client v4.9. When you open up Word from a network drive and
try a Save As to another network drive Word will crash and the PC will
restart. When we try the same action on PC's with the same ...

On one of my computers, I have Microsoft Word 1997
version.  In the process of learning this software,
somehow, I had inadvertently changed word.  As you are
typing a document in word, the whole page is blackened out