On Friday, Jan 23, 2004, at 09:41 Canada/Eastern, Gail Brown wrote: > Now everytime I try to open a Word .doc, the Word app icon opens, > appears in the dock and tells me it has expired and do I want to buy > it, which I do not. How can I rid myself , or rather my iBook from > this annoying message? Remove the Microsoft Office applications. You will then need to find another application which can handle MS Word documents. f