Hi Paul and All You touched on a little problem i have when logging off from Windows i get the message something like Do you want to save the changes you made to the file Normal and itakes a bit of time to sort it out so would you think deleting this template would solve my problem, I did a scan and found some issues but this little irritation is still with me . Tony You can also delete the "Normal.dot" template which by itself may be corrupted within MS Word but after you have completed your scans I will tell you how to do this.