Dear Nattasiray and Macropod:

Nattasiray: I have an Intel Pentium 4 processor (3.80 GHz, 3.50 GB RAM) and a 465 GB hard drive of which 35 GB are used.

The disk is not fracmented and I keep up with updates.

Macropod: I agree. FYI, in another Forum someone suggested two possible problem sources: macros or the global template. I'll try to repair Word following the path you suggested..

Thank you both.

Doctor T.