Hi Denny, are you, by any chance, trying to open it through the list that appears on the lower part of the "Open" menu? If so, it may be because you have moved the document to another folder since the last time you opened it. That list stores the location of the document when you opened it the last time, if you change its location it will not be able to find it. Wilson At 01:32 15/6/2004, Denny wrote: >All of a sudden, when I try to open a word document, it says the document= > is not available. this happens if the doc. is on my hard drive or a dis= >k. I have tried to uninstall and re-install program, but nothing helps!!= > HELP!! ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************