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So I now have a user called John whose Users folder is called JohnNew. Not very elegant, but I'm leaving it at that. Seems to be what WIndows 11 does if you change the name of a user. Everything is now working as it should. Thanks for all the suggestions.

Well, I created a new user (JohnNew) and copied things across or set them up again. No problems with Word now. I renamed the original user John as JohnOld, and then renamed JohnNew as John, presuming that the Users folder names would be correspondingly changed. Not so in Windows 11! I am now...

That also sounded hopeful, but when checked, I had already disabled Microsoft OneDrive in my main user account in the STARTUP menu (via Task Manager) as also in Apps. For good measure I also did the Unlink this PC in its properties window. Restarted, and no luck. Looked at my test user account...

That sounded like the right kind of solution, but all the relevant DDE messages are the same. Will investigate further tomorrow, but this may not be it.

Thanks so much. I'll give it a whirl and post back. For this project, I'm using Word 2003 / Office 11. (Lots of VBA with toobars etc. and it runs much faster than 2007 onwards when opening and searching thousands of files in a database.)

Thanks.