open document limit

[Lalit Sharma]

Hi:

Wondering if anyone knows the solution?

In Office 2000 - Word, when I click on 'open file' and
select say 20 files, only 13 of them open.
Why?

In Office XP - Word, I can even open 50 at the same time.

Did one more step in Office 2000 - Word, I renamed
the 'Normal.dot' and now I can only open 7. I renamed it
back and still can only open 7.

I know I can always goto Microsoft Explorer and then
select 50 Word files BUT we have a requirement to open
within Word.

Thanks