I recently re-installed Microsoft Office 2003, now every time I launch Word
or Outlook I get a pop up window that says," The global template, NORMAL.DOT,
is already open as an add-in program." I have to close the pop up before
proceeding.

Your Word Startup folder must be a different folder than your user templates
folder! If both are set for the same folder you will get this (and possibly
other bizarre) message. For more on the different kinds of templates, tabs
on the file new dialog, and locations of templates folders see
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Muffin" wrote in message
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I recently re-installed Microsoft Office 2003, now every time I launch Word
or Outlook I get a pop up window that says," The global template,
NORMAL.DOT,
is already open as an add-in program." I have to close the pop up before
proceeding.