2011 Word for Mac problems

When I open a file  in my Word for Mac program that was created in Word and is on a portable drive it opens fine.  If I first save the file to the Mac desktop and then try to open I get the message " This is not a valid file name".  This problem is on my IMac but it doesn't happen on my Macbook .  Both are running Lion and both have the sane version of Word for Mac. (2011).  Has anyone run into this problem and did you resolve it?

"This is not a valid file name.  Try one of the following:
Check the path to make sure it was typed correctly
Select a file from the list of files and folders
(letterhead.doc)"

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