I'm not sure whether I can join this thread but there was a quote from rankhornjp on 10.18.2013 which is relevant to my problem - "On the new computer, when I click a button it acts like its going to work (i get the "O" new to the mouse pointer) but the word doc never opens." I too have got a new computer running Windows 8.1 and am using Office 2013. I have a button which is to open a Mail Merge document in MS Word. This worked on my old PC using Office 2007 but now when the button is clicked I get a bleep and the cursor becomes a blue revolving circle! And does nothing! I have discovered that if I already have MS Word open it will work OK. The following is my VB code but how can I get it to open MS Word if it is not already open?
Private Sub Command61_Click()
Dim stDocName As String
DoCmd.SetWarnings False
stDocName = "March Donors with Standing Instructions (Email)"
DoCmd.OpenQuery stDocName, acNormal, acEdit
DoCmd.SetWarnings True
FollowHyperlink "C:\Our Folders\BWMC\March Donors with Standing Instructions (Email).docx"
End Sub


Any guidance would be appreciated - I am not very proficient with VB!