I'm within spitting distance of my wit's end. I can *almost* 
trigger the file handles problem on demand.
         
         "The disk is full or too many files are open"
         (OK/Help) "Routine not found"
         "Word cannot save or create this file. Make sure the 
          disk is not write-protected" 
          (OK/Help) "Word cannot open the Word help file because 
          Wordhelp.DLL was not found". 
That last message is particularly galling, sugggesting as it does 
that the programmer just couldn't be bothered to test the status 
after calling the DLL file open routine to open the WordHelp.DLL 
that it had found!
In all cases, I notice that if I carefully close the one file 
that is open apart from my document file - it's a file with a 
table of filenames, and I'm working my way through the table - 
there is a pause of about five seconds, presumably while the 
release-file-handles routine does what it should have been doing 
all along - releasing file handles. THEN I can save the document.
Word is not freezing the system anymore. I just have to step in 
and crowbar the mess apart for the files to start flowing again.
From      christopher.greaves@ablelink.org
          christopher.greaves@pro-mail.com
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