My microsoft word seems to have a virus .  when I open it says happy birthday shankar.  everything else seems to be working

anybody have a way to fix this

(Come on Richard, you know he meant malware or an infection of some kind. Telling people there are no OS X viruses is really beside the point and misleading.)
Which Word is this? Office 2004 or older is no longer supported by Microsoft and there is malware spread by malicious  .doc files sent as attachments. It's possible these attacks are now occuring in different forms. Just some examples:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225662/Malware_infects_Macs_through_Micr osoft_Office_vulnerability
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225662/Malware_infects_Macs_through_Micr osoft_Office_vulnerability
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57405503-263/new-exploit-uses-old-office-vu lnerability-for-os-x-malware-delivery/
I don't know if ClamXav has defintions for this or not, but wouldn't hurt to run a full scan of your drive. Will take a long time.
http://www.clamxav.com/download.php
And probably a good idea to post in the Microsoft forums, since they may know more about this.
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