[Gary Gary]

Don't know where the Status Bar is...guess I have it disabled.
There is a bar at the bottom but I thought that was called the Message
Bar. I'd love to know how to get rid of it. It displays nothing...yet I
can't
just right click it, Remove! No can do.

The bar at the bottom is the status bar. (There's a thing called the
"Message Bar", but it appears only if you open a document that
contains macros or was downloaded from the Internet, or something else
Word isn't happy about.)
If you right-click the blank area of the status bar, you should see a
popup menu that lets you choose from about 20 items it can display.
The only way to make it disappear, though, is to use Full Screen
Reading view.

Well maybe that's something we can look forward to in Word 2010. Thanks
for the info.