Hi, If those suggestions fail to help then, Regarding this error only: Windows keeps telling me Microsoft Word is open In some cases with Windows 7 and Vista. When you try to delete a word document.,you can get a pop up that says, unable to delete because word is open, when in fact it's not. Possible issue / cause: Windows Preview Pane locks files for extended period Vista has a Hotfix for this problem, windows 7 has a work around. That being: Open Explorer, click Organize --> Layout and deselect "Preview Pane" on the view options. Then delete the file or document. Restarting may help the situation too.

I have been working at finding away to change the default font on all documents since this thread started. No matter what I clicked on the starter version came up so I thought that might be my problem. I finally uninstalled MS Office Starter and MS Office Student and Home, then just reinstalled the student and home. I still could not get the font style to stay at what I set it. I thought about what was said about the 2003 version and opened a blank page, set the font and single space, went to file and chose "save as". A menu came up and I chose to saveto my desktop as MS Word 97-2003 Template (.dot) and made a shortcut, so far it has held. In case some else is still having this problem I am posting my results. None of the other ways worked for me, a new document always came up with Office's default settings.

bg - I followed your instructions, but ran into a problem at: "On the tools tab, select Check Now" I don't see that option anywhere. Should I have been in safe mode? Nevertheless - I think I may have figured something out. Let's see if I can explain this. I only have one floppy with Word documents on it. Luckily I have copies on my C drive. I went back to the beginning and started over. First I went into Word, inserted that floppy and tried to access the documents I know I have saved there. Got the Access Denied message as stated in my original post. Next I went into My Computer with that disk still in the drive, clicked on A: and got a message that the disk was not formatted. What? It was at one point since I have lots of documents saved on it. I also label my floppies, so I know I didn't have the wrong one. Went back into Word, inserted a different floppy, opened a document on my C drive and tried saving it to the new floppy. IT WORKED!! I could save it and then I could open it. Didn't get the Access Denied message at all. So I guess it was a floppy disk problem. I still don't know why I got that: You do not have access to the folder 'A:\'. See you system administrator for access to this folder. message if the disk was bad.

If you get thoroughly fed up, try this. Various editions of Word have a problem with carriage returns, so to speak, and both Outlook and webmail. Open your document, hit ctrl-H, and replace paragraph marks (^p) with line returns (^l). Now send it to yourself and see if it fixes the formatting. This is not an OS problem, it's Word's. I do agree, however, that a resume is a document in itself and should be sent as a formatted attachment.