Editing problems in WORD 2003

[MarcieB]

In both new documents and existing documents, I cannot access Cut, Copy,
Paste, Undo and Redo. Both these buttons and the commands under Edit are
greyed out and cannot be accessed. However, I can go into an existing
document and type in new language or make deletions, just cannot use these
commands.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Your description isn't very clear. The first sentence and the second
sentence are mutually inclusive, exclusive or what? Can you not type in
existing documents?

It sounds like a bad third party add-in. Test by running in Safe Mode. From
Start, Run (Winkey+R), type in

winword /a

and press enter. Open a document and test for editing and closing now. If it
is OK now, then you have installed something that has placed an incompatible
add-in in Word/Office.

See how to find add-ins

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CheckIfAddinsInstalled.htm

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011514521033.aspx