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I am trying to re open the Windows program and this keeps appearing???? Not happened before ???

Save everything and do a cold reboot* as the puter is thinking (rightly or wrongly) that something is still open and preventing your intended operation. Remember Dot, it is only a machine and similar to most males, capable of only doing onesies**, but very good at that.

dawg (*shut down and restart your computer. **multitasking is just doing many onesies quickly. )

PS go online and run housecall free virus detection to see if you are infected.

It could mean you talk too much - only trying to help

The Word document you are trying to open is already open some where on your computer. if you left click on the word icon in the toolbar it will give a preview of all the Word documents already open, mouse over the preview and it will give a full screen display, when you find the one you are looking for, left click will bring it up as the page you are working on.
if you are trying to open a document you have saved but not yet closed, to see if it was all saved, the system will not let you do it as there would be 2 folders with the same address open and confusion would cause a system crash. Instead, highlight the page you wish to be sure is saved, open a new word document and right click/save to the new document, give it a different name, even if it's v1 at the end of the name, then save that. Now close the original, check if the saved version is good, if it is, delete the v1 version.
Next time, to save the issues reoccurring, save the changes the "save as" the same name and v1 or 2 or what ever number updates you had made, then each version will be there for future reference and as a fall back should anything go astray with the current document. all the older saved versions can be deleted when no longer required.

T1 Terry

Wow thank you fellas shall away now and untangle the mess I am in again xxx

How did you go then???

I did the re clean thing you know go back to before it went weird, it went ok for a while then back to the same rubbish but I can't be bothered with it right now as peeeeed offff with stupid old frustrated women but thanks for asking he he

Dot,

In word, there is an action that hasn't completed.

It could be a print request, or spell checker with a correction suggestion that needs to be completed.

There will be an open 'action' window/pane that needs to be closed.

Ok tomorrow is a bugger but should get to it in the evening. Thanks all x