Thanks Mikie, what I need is Word 07 itself, the Program. I saw this download, but don't think it will do what I need. I need the program itself. I was hoping they offered an upgrade to 03 instead of buying the whole suite. I have Office 03 basic on that machine. I don't use Excel, but do use Outlook and Word. I was looking for a note taking program and MS has one called OneNote, but it needs Word 07 to work. I think it is ridiculous that I purchased 03 a year before they released 07 and I can't upgrade without buying the whole thing. I'll keep looking, Thanks as always, Jane

The Mouse Training Company is providing all of their Microsoft Office training manuals available to download for free. The files are in PDF format. The Office 2010 materials are quick reference guides. For Office 2007, in addition to the quick reference guides, the Mouse Training Company has additionally made their complete training manuals available for download. Materials for earlier versions of MS Office area also available. The complete training materials provide both mouse and keyboard instructions for completing tasks. For example, the 158 page Word 2007 Advanced Training Manual, provides the following information on "Splitting a Table": Splitting A Table Sometimes you need to split a table between rows to add text in-between. To split a table in two at the current cursor position: Mouse i. Select the cell(s) you wish to split ii. Go to the MERGE group on the LAYOUT ribbon and click the SPLIT TABLE button. Or Keyboard i. Press CTRL SHIFT ENTER The PDF files are available for download from the link below. Hope this helps you in the future. Paddy.. Here is a link that might be useful: The PDF files are available here.

Thanks for the thoughts, I think it is not resource overload, and I'm using only the XP home firewall, pretty transparent I understand. I'm running on a recent Gateway Notebook, in this case and on a recent Dell Desk Top in the other, the DT has no problems. I will admit my Gateway does have some difficulties on Com1 (simulated via USB, of course). I'm still using dial-up and it uses Com1, as does my Palm Z22 sync connection. I can not run both at the same time for that reason. Further, and Gateway did send me a prepaid shipping carton to send the Notebook back for repair as the dial-up will establish only one connection per boot. When I hang up the phone line, I have to reboot to get it to work again. I'm about to go DSL here and decided not to send the Notebook in, loss of data and a lot of other concerns being top of my reason for living with the Com1/Dial-up problem. I suppose this could reflect back into my new MS Office problem The installation of MS Office was a purchase DVD. The Notebook did come with Office 2007 ready to install, but I uninstalled that some time back as I was using Open Office, need commercial use. So, Gateway believes the machine has enough resources to run Office 2007. I can take a look to see what's going on with the resources when in the stuck-state. As noted, Control/Alt/Del will not allow me to kill Word, for example, also I note Work knows it is in trouble and tries to send an error report to MS, I think it sometimes succeeds sometimes doesn't. The only way I can get Work (or PP, or Excel) to release is to hang up the Dial up. I may try a reinstall, but am reluctant as I have still to update Office via the Dial-up, about two hours of download time.

no but bob is right on with the thunderbird suggestion, that is an excellent option for replacement of OE or Outlook, I use it on several of my computers and like it a lot. It is by mozilla the same that give us firefox. There are lots of good add-ons for thunderbird too and there is a good calendar add on for it called sunbird. You can find it at the mozilla.com site.