Marty; Hopefully what I am about to say will help you. When this happens to me, what I do is this. I will go to the document and try to save it. The reason why is that, I will get a dialogue box saying that the document is in protected mode and I would have to take it out of protected mode in order to save it. And something like enter to take tit out of protected mode. Do that and then you should be able to continue as normal. Additionally, you can go to the word option menu and take off protected mode that way, that is assuming that you are using word 2007 or 2010. Like I said, hopefully this will help you. If this doesn't help, I can pose the question to another list serve and see what they say, just let me know off list at dornetta@xxxxxxxxx Netta "Just because you are blind does not mean you lack vision"-Stevie Wonder