Did you try "Detect and Repair" in Word's Help menu? Since it's happening on all new AND old documents, I don't think it's normal.dot since that wouldn't affect old docs, so it's gotta be something messed up in Word itself, so I would *try* detect and repair...if that doesn't fix it, I guess I would uninstall Word, then reinstall it...but I don't know if that would fix it either...I'm just guessing...if it was only on certain docs, the docs could be corrupt, and if it was only on new docs, then it would be normal.dot that's messed up...but since it's ALL docs, old and new, the only thing I can think of is Word itself is corrupt. OR....you could check Word's startup folder and see if something is loading on Startup that is causing the split (depending on your operating system, the startup folder is located in different places)..if you don't know where your startup folder is or how to remove stuff from there, read my Word Troubleshooting page here: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/NNTWord.htm And, I guess it *could* be a problem with your Data key in the registry....that one can cause all kinds of problems..info on how to fix the Data key is here..this article refers to Toolbar problems, but it's possible the split window setting is also stored in the Data key, so this might fix it: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/wordtoolbars.htm Good luck. 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 Jamshed F. Mehta Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:06 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] mso] MS OFFICE 2003 - WORD SPLIT WINDOW No luck with advice on this. Someone on a Google group suggested a VBA etc. But that's way out or ordinary WORD users. J. ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************