It sounds to me as if you may have some sort of infection even although
Norton cannot find anything. Try posting your problem in the
microsoft.public.security.virus newsgroup.

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"nofiles" wrote in message
...
I am suddenly unable to open files in any Office program. The programs
open
but none of the files. I can see my email but not open it. In Word, I
can
create a file and save it but when I try to re-open it, it just locks up.
I
have removed and re-installed the whole suite from my legal CD, run a
registry fix software, run Norton, and re-booted a dozer times. Nothing
is
working. I even have to use a different computer to do this. Anyone ever
have these problems? Oh, yeah, and I have Vista