Hey Folks, After wasting much of a nice sunday evening, I found the cause of the trouble. It is not fonts, it is not applescript, it is M$ Orifice (what a surprise).
The entire problem appears to be caused by the file ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office Registration Cache X Deleting this one file and restarting M$ Word allows scripting, recording, and everything else. The file only gets written when M$ Word quits, so it can't interfere with anything during a session. What a friggin' pain. Bill The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
