It sounds like a corrupted Shortcut. When you did the reinstall,
did you also wipe out the shortcut for that file? A reinstall
wouldn't necessarily have gotten rid of it.

Can you create a new shortcut to the doc you want, and will that
open it?

You really need to provide more information; describe step by
step what/where/how you do each step of the process when it does
not work.

HTH,
Pop



"Gary" wrote in message
news : Symptom: When I click on a MS Word 2003 file icon (either .doc
or .rtf), or
: attempt to open an MS Word attachment on Outlook, MS Word opens
properly, but
: will not open the file that I selected and that properly
started the
: application. MS word is part of an Office 2003 Professional
package. All
: other Office applications start properly and open the selected
file. When I
: open MS Word directly from its application icon, there are no
problems. It
: opens to a blank page, and not no page at all. I have done the
following
: without success:
:
: 1. Removed Office completely and run the MS clean up utility,
reinstalled,
: added all the Services Packs and updates for Office.
:
: 2. Installed all Windows XP Home Edition updates.
:
: 3. Checked the file properties for property settings for DOC,
DOT, RTF, etc.
: All check OK
:
: 4. Check the knowledge base and there seems to be other
occurrances of this
: problem, but no concrete solution other than the items that I
have preformed
: already, other than wipe the drive and start over.
:
: Any ideas?
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: g