Just an update. I got this problem fixed now with the help of everyone that posted. Just to let anyone else know that may have this issue in the future, the problem I'm assuming was a setting was screwed up. I logged on another account on the computer and opened word. I typed some stuff and found that everything was working fine. So what I did then was I copying the "Normal.dot" file from the new account and copied it over the "Normal.dot" file in the old account's documents and settings folder. Everything seems to be in order now. Just thought I would post this as an FYI.