Dale:
DS>   I have recently started using Microsoft Office, including
DS> Microsoft   Word 6.0 for windows.    Everytime I open it up
DS> I get an error   message.   First it asks me what I want to
DS> convert from, then it tells   me that the document template
DS> is not valid.   Once I hit ok (or so   what) to those two
DS> messages, everything works fine.
I would check to see if there are any startup switches appended to the 
inword
command line: Open the properties dialogue box for the Word6 icon (ALT+ENTER 
in
Win311) tab down to the command line text box. For a straight vanilla Word
startup, the command line should be "C:\WINWORD\WINWORD.EXE" (drive and
directory may be different for you).
There are a plethora of switches which can be added to WINWORD command to
control the way in which is starts, eg the "/N" switch causes word to start
without an open document.
Regards,
Adrian
E-Mail: adrian.oldacres@saudi.org
Fido Net-Mail:Adrian Oldacres@2:542/100
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