Microsoft Word document won't open

thanks for replying. but i did what you said and it still didn't open, and it gave me the same error message. when i searched for normal.dot it only came up with one file and that was a template file. i deleted it and still no luck .any other dieas?

You don't tell if you followed the suggestions in the error message (check the file and folder permissions, and open the file with File>Open). In fact, you don't tell how you try to open the file, and Bob's guess above seems reasonable: the document has been deleted or moved and the shortcut in Recent still points to the original location. Find it, and things will work again, then.

You might like to think about BACKUP. That's saving all important information you don't want to lose somewhere else, just in case something goes wrong with the original. Depending on the amount of data and the frequency you want to do it, and the way you do it, possible ways are copying to a diskette, copying to USB-stick, burning to CD, copying across a home network to a second computer.

Hope this helps.


Kees