I'm no PC pro and this morning when I attempted to open my first Word
document I got an error message saying that a dialog box was open and that I
would have to close it in order to continue. I have looked in the Index and
the information shown there isn't very helpful. Where is this "dialog box"
located and what do I have to do to get to my Word documents. This is not
happening when I access my Excel files.

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PC Newbie wrote:

I'm no PC pro and this morning when I attempted to open my first Word
document I got an error message saying that a dialog box was open and that I
would have to close it in order to continue. I have looked in the Index and
the information shown there isn't very helpful. Where is this "dialog box"
located and what do I have to do to get to my Word documents. This is not
happening when I access my Excel files.