The primary cause of this problem is that a dialog box associated with Microsoft Word is open. It might not be visible upfront if many windows are open on your computer. Please try the following ...

Some users have reported that when they attempt to open a Word document, it fails to open. Instead, they see a Word cannot open the existing file (Normal.dotm) error ...

Here's the problem:<BR>I was fiddling with the Group policy editor (gpedit.msc) in Windows 2000 Pro and I must have pressed "OK" instead of "Cancel" for the Disable Windows Programs option or ...