I need to delete a Word document that always appears (is it a default?) as
soon as I open Microsoft Word. When I need to write a new document, I need
to highlight and delete this existing (old) document, everytime. The
document, a letter, was created and used with "Mail Merge" over a year ago.
If this is a default, please advise on how to reset this so that I get a
blank screen whenever I open Microsoft Word please.
Thanks!

Your normal.dot has gotten overwritten. See:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/a...osoft_word.htm
Just rename it as per the instructions.
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Anne Troy
VBA Project Manager
www.OfficeArticles.com

"AJM" wrote in message
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I need to delete a Word document that always appears (is it a default?) as
soon as I open Microsoft Word. When I need to write a new document, I
need
to highlight and delete this existing (old) document, everytime. The
document, a letter, was created and used with "Mail Merge" over a year
ago.
If this is a default, please advise on how to reset this so that I get a
blank screen whenever I open Microsoft Word please.
Thanks!

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

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Words into Type
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"AJM" wrote in message
...
I need to delete a Word document that always appears (is it a default?) as
soon as I open Microsoft Word. When I need to write a new document, I
need
to highlight and delete this existing (old) document, everytime. The
document, a letter, was created and used with "Mail Merge" over a year
ago.
If this is a default, please advise on how to reset this so that I get a
blank screen whenever I open Microsoft Word please.
Thanks!