See the article "Why is my "Blank Document" not blank?" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm


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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"shirley" wrote in message
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System crashed during a word document. Now everytime I open word 97 the
same
document opens. How do I make this stop? We have uninstalled word and
reinstalled it several times. Needless to say we have rebooted. Thank you
Shirley