not have my ME recovery  disks, I let someone borrow them.  I still have
file winword.exe on hard disk.  As far as associating it with Word-are you
talkng about which program  used to open winword, et. al.? By the way- Point
Taken from above. I apologize.  Thanks any further would greatly be
appreciated; as I will post from here on out to the appropiate site. Again,
thanks.

Presuming you will see this - and given that Mike may or may not be back
today - what Mike is saying is that winword.exe *is* Word.

"Word" is what it's called for the purposes of easy recognition by all -
especially non-technically-minded users. "Winword.exe" is what Word is
*actually* called. Kind of like the difference between a person's full name
and their nickname.

The point about having winword.exe is it proves that Word is still present.
Thus the fact it does not appear to work implies that it's because it's no
longer associated with .DOC files.

The usual way to fix Word problems - after the deleting or renaming all
copies of 'normal.dot' found - is to pop the Office CD back in and run
Repair.

But another and possibly faster way - if there are no other problems - is to
re-associate a .DOC document with Word by right clicking the relevent
document, either select 'Open With', or select 'Properties' then 'Opens
With', and choose Word from the list that comes up.

However, it may be listed as Winword - or it may not be listed at all in
which case you have to click 'Browse' then navigate to (probably) C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office in which Winword.exe resides, and select it.

Either way it will then appear in the 'Open With' box, either as 'Word' or
'Winword.exe', and the checkbox about *always use this program to open this
type of file* may or may not be greyed out. If not, then put a check in it
and click OK. Said document should then open in Word, along with all other
.DOC documents in future.

Shane