Try installing a default printer driver for your printer (to your local
computer).
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"chwindelheuser" wrote in message
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MS Office 2000. Windows XP. Our home computers are connected to a
network
and direct on line. If my printer is not connected to the network, word
documents (created and saved on my computer) will not open. Get fatal
error
message loop. Same if (lap top) computer itself is not connected to the
network. Would appreciate any ideas on how to fix this.