You are confusing me Charles. If the problem is only happening in Word, why are you doing an IE repair and reinstalling Windows? And when you run the Office Eraser, if it tells you to remove XP, I assume it's referring to Office XP and not Windows XP. What version of Office are you using? Are you sure you had the right eraser? There are different ones for different versions. Has this always happened in Word? Is this an upgraded version from a previous version? Do you have a lot of customized settings in Word (special toolbars, macros, etc)? If not, why don't you try searching your hard drive for a file named normal.dot and rename it (if you find more than one, rename them all) Make sure Word is closed before you do this. Then reopen Word and it will make a new clean normal.dot and see if you still have the problem. Report back. LOL Linda Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com FREE MS Office eBook Tutorial http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles R. Buchanan Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 9:02 PM To: MS Office Mailing List Subject: [mso] Office Question (from someone else) I have a machine that will allow you to open an existing Word document, click around and scroll around that document w/the mouse, but the minute you touch the keyboard, the whole machine freezes. I've tried uninstalling and using the eraser, but when you run the eraser tool it says you have to remove XP. Uhhhh...this is a Win98 machine...no XP on it anywhere...did IE repair, reinstalled Windows...tried going from Pro to Small Business...same thing...This behavior isn't exhibited in any other program on this machine. Everything else is working just fine. Anybody got any suggestions? ************************************************************* 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?Subject=unsubscribe 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 *************************************************************