Sorry, Ken...I can't tell you why the data key in the registry gets corrupt so often (nor why normal.dot gets corrupt so often either)....personally, neither of them have ever gotten corrupt on me, but well over half the troubleshooting I do with Word involves corrupt data keys and normal.dot, so I know it happens a LOT...but unfortunately, I've never really seen any similarities in the cases where it becomes corrupt so I can't even guess as to why. Possibly becuz corruption is generally involved with formatting, but that's just a guess. I must say that I use a lot of programs that handle a lot more formatting than Word and none of their parts get corrupt as often as Word's parts. Glad it fixed it for you, though. Linda Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com ABC Free Ezine ~ Free Ebooks and Tutorials *all outgoing mail scanned by Norton AV. If you got a bug that looks like it came from me, it did NOT! -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken ( DESCO) Ramsey Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 8:04 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Word2000 The registry edit did the trick. If you have an explanation on why the data key file was corrupt I would be interested. Many thanks for the info. ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************