Thanks so much - that was my problem. I have no idea how I got into the
normal.dot file. But I do remember it asking me if I wanted to save it at one
point. Thanks for your help.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:19:03 -0800, "Oregon Old Guy"
wrote:

I was attempting to add a word to the dictionary. After all my attempts I
ended up with text that appears at the beginning of each new document. It's
like there is an automatic header. Here is the text I am getting "Can cna
cna crs can cna ". This is also appearing on every new email messages as
well as new documents (Word is my editor). I checked autoformat and can't
find it anywhere. I really don't need to add the CNA to my dictionary, but
would like to remove the trash that is automatically appearing on each new
document. I can delete the text and then everything is okay for that
document, but it appears at the next new document.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...ocNotBlank.htm

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org