Kiwi2000, in order to find out where the problem you're experiencing actually lies, please do the following:
1. Locate
Winword.exe. Its default location is
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office, but this could be different in your case.
2. Click
Start, and then click
Run.
3. In the
Open box, type the path for Winword.exe as you found it in step 1.
4. Enclose the path in quotation marks that are similar to the following:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword.exe" (this example uses the default path)
5. In the Open box, move the insertion point to after the quotation marks at the end of the path statement.
6. Type a
space, and then type
/a. The path statement now looks similar to the following:
Code:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword.exe" /a
7. Click
OK.
8. From within Word, go to the
File menu, and select
Open....
9. In the dialog box that opens, navigate to a document and click
Open.
10. Attempt to reproduce the behavior you've reported in your original posting, and post back how it went.