I just tried that and the problem is still there. Argh! I have already
reinstalled it twice, too. Any other doomsday solutions I can try, or do I
need to invest in new word processing program?

"Anne Troy" wrote:

Probably time to dump Word's registry key, Kevin. See:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/s...osoft_word.htm
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"kevin" wrote in message
...
All my documents default to .txt. If I go in 'save as' and select .doc, I
get
the "Word has generated errors and needs to close" message. I have removed
&
reinstalled. I have addressed normal.dot. All other programs in Office
2000
work ok.