Thank you Suzanne,
It worked, but for some reason I had to copy and create a new shortcut icon
on my desktop from the new Normal.dot file in the Explorer/Find window. The
old Word icon still brings up the old document. Should I just delete the old
icon?
Rich44

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

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

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"Rich44" wrote in message
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When I start Word 2000, instead of getting a blank page I keep getting a
previous document always opening up. How do I correct this?
Thank you,
Rich44