Try resetting your menus, Dewey.
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"dewey" wrote in message
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Yes, I can edit files when I open them by double clicking them.

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

When you open a document by double-clicking on it, can you edit it?
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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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"dewey" wrote in message
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Hi,
I cannot access anything on my file menu when Word is open but I do not
have
a document open. When I scroll over the options, they are highlighted,
but
nothng happens when I click on them. This includes the "open" command,
and
any of the buttons for the files I recently modified. I am using Word
2003.
Thanks in advance.