What version of Word are you using?  What version of Word was used to
create the files?

I saw this same problem on one document recently.  It was created with Word
95 and I saw the problem after upgrading to Word 97.

At 07:54 PM 6/27/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Whenever I open an existing Word document, about two pages of formatting
>information gets added to the bottom of it.  The problem sounds like a