Hi Colin In views/tool bars check to see if the *Tables and borders* tool bar is checked. If it is, press enter to uncheck it. Barry H ----- Original Message ----- From: <chairman@xxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:07 AM Subject: [access-uk] A Word2000 problem. Greetings, Please, before making any kind of reply, read this message to the end - thanks. I am not familiar with many aspects of Word, I basically use very elementary functions; so long as what I type is presentable, correctly typed and at least passibly good English, in general that is all about which I am concerned, meaning, I do not use all the bells and whistles. I now have the need to create a simple table, three columns, set to "best fit" the text; I want about 250 rows. I have achieved this successfully and saved the document seemingly without problems. I have two machines, one a desktop with Windows98S.E the other an Evesham laptop with WindowsM.E; both machines have exactly the same installation of Office2000 Pro and exactly the same installation of Jaws v4.50. I created a much smaller table on the desktop and played about with sorts and the like, deleted the document and all is fine. On both machines I set up the table in exactly the same way, i.e going to insert on the tables menu, from which I specified columns Etc., setting the same parameters in both cases but on the desktop the resulting table was much less as I wanted to "play" around to see how sorts would work and found the sort will act as I wish, i.e sorting into ascending order on column 1 and no others. Having finished messing around, I find on going into Word documents, whether existing or new on the desktop, all seems ok, the document is clear, no pop-up windows, but on going into either new or existing documents on the laptop, I keep getting messages about print preview and tables and borders and keep getting given odd characters such as one half and the like. I wonder, can anybody suggest what I may have inadvertently changed in Word to make this happen? Please note that essentially, both systems have the same Office and Jaws installations. I at first suspected Jaws but then realized it must be some kind of pop-up window. On both systems, Office Assistant is correctly and permanently disabled. I wonder, is there any file or something I could pick up from the desktop and overwrite on the laptop and it would put matters right? I do still have the disks so can reinstall (hope that will not be necessary) or do some kind of repair. Thanks for any help / suggestions. All the best from: Colin R. Howard. ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq