Hello, Everyone: Thanks to all that helped me try to figure out why two files were not opening in word. I do not know why but it is now working fine and I can press control f6 between the documents. I do not know what I did to fix it, but I played around in the settings and checked a box that seemed to fix the problem. Thanks again for everyone who tried hard to help me figure out my problem and sorry I was so vague with the questions and did not give important information such as version of word and operating system from the start. Have a great day! Alicia "The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of >seeing people towards them." >- Helen Keller, 1925