Re: Word cannot open this document template

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From: Charles Kenyon (msnewsgroup_at_remove.no.spam.addbalance.com)
Date: 04/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:10:47 -0500

With Word closed, find A20MSW10.dot on your computer. It is in a folder
named "StartUp." Move it from that folder. I don't know what it is supposed
to do, but it probably isn't doing it. It isn't part of Word but was added
by someone else.

Start Word again. 

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Charles Kenyon
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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"radhika" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C7588030-F050-43D8-B8F9-17E71F92F14A@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> Help ! I have problem when I open word application. The error is "Word
cannot open this document template c:\Program files\..\A20MSW10.dot" and
again "Word cannot open this document template c:\..\startup\A20MSW10.dot".
Also I couldn't open any word file, the error is "The file .doc is not
available.
> Thanks in advance
> Radhika

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