Tony - Thanks very much for posting some suggestions. I'd really like to
solve this. The problem probably doesn't sound important to most people, but
I'm a professional writer and use this feature a lot.

Word is definitely *not* remembering that the Clipboard toolbar was floating
when Word closes. I've tried many times to impress this on its memory, but no
luck!

None of the other Word toolbars has any problems. I'm not in a corporate
environment and am the only user of this computer.

Could you tell me how to check to see if the data key is corrupted, or how
to force Word to create a new one? I'm not experienced *at all* with regedit!

Many thanks for your help!