I figured it out. I had MS Office loaded in another directory where it was
getting the normal.dot template. changed extension and problem resolved.

Thanks for your help

"RAD" wrote:

Tried your suggestion but still get the VBA message.

There is nothing in the startup folder for word. The 'normal.dot' is in the
templates folder. I can't see any macro in this file. Renamed it to
normal.old Nothing seems to work. Any more suggestions would be appreciate

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

See item 4 in http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...peningWord.htm .

"RAD" wrote:

When I open MS Word 2003 I get the following message:

Complie error in hidden module: Module1

Does anyone have any idea what this is and how to correct it?
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Rich Dolny
Microsoft Master Instructor