Thank you for the information. I rather suspect that it's another
little feature of SP2 which I installed a while ago!

David

See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=198374 "WD97: Error Message:
'This Document Cannot Be Registered'".

David wrote:

I recently re-installed Word 97 after updating and Xp Home machine
with SP2. Now every time I open a new document I get a warning :-

"This document could not be registered. It will not be possible to
create links from this document to other documents"

I don't ever want to create ;links from or to any other documents. How
can I convince Word of this?

David