Hello John, Tuesday, July 5, 2005, 3:54:24 AM, you wrote: JW> You say --"Now open up Word again and start a new blank document, JW> which should still show your document, then delete all the content JW> before saving it again. When you open a new blank document it JW> should now be blank :-)" But it ain't !!! it still shows the old JW> document. yes if I go to "New" and click on "Blank Doc" I get a JW> blank page which is OK but I would like to see a blank page when I JW> first open "Word " In which case I read your original question wrongly, sorry about that but you did say 'When I try to bring up a new blank page..' which threw me off the scent :-) Courtney and Wayne have hit it right though, so follow their advice and you should be back to normal. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 2.0 Deluxe