Hi Slk,
In the Help menu in Word use the Customer Feedback
choice to turn off the selections that connect online.
You may also ned to to disable Smart Tags in Tools=>Autocorrect options and check to see if you are running any 3rd party add-ins
with Word that may be using Word to connect as well. The Customer Feedback choices don't usually 'lock' things.
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Each time Word 2003 starts, Winword.exe insists on going online. If not
allowed, the entire computer locks up. >>
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Let us know if this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?

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