Hello Marybeth, Thursday, May 16, 2002, 10:49:13 PM, you wrote: MB> Help! All of a sudden, I am unable to open up Word (I have Windows 98 SE). MB> I click on the Word icon, there is a brief flash of the Word opening screen, MB> then the icon appears on the bar at the bottom of the page. If I click on MB> that bar, the Word opening screen flashes on the screen, but the previous MB> screen stays up. MB> This happened overnight--I was at a seminar, taking notes on my laptop. The MB> first day everything was normal. The second day everything went haywire. MB> I was able to open Notepad, but that is not a satisfactory word processing MB> package. Any help you can give me would be appreciated! MB> Marybeth Buchele-Moseman First, you should use WordPad /not NoePad! It is more powefull then NotePad. Second, you should reinstall Word processor. -- Best regards, Yakymakha The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along with our NOSPIN Power Linux CD... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml