Disable the Office Plugin that comes with Symantec/Norton AntiVirus. See
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=329820 "How to use Office programs
with the Norton AntiVirus Office plug-in" for more info.

ejag72 wrote:

After using speech to dictate letters I started getting the fkollowing msg
whenever I try to open a Word file. "The file *** is not available". The only
way I can open is to start a new document and insert the file and then when I
save the newfile I also get the same msg when I try to open it.