Word 2001 for MAC won't save files

Suddenly, for no reason apparently, I cannot save Word 2001 files. It dings, but nothing comes up. I've tried saving and saving as...nothing works. This happened overnight. I've tried it on both Power book G-3 and networked G-s Power Mac. Neither one will save the files.
What do I do?

really sorry for asking the obvious,
have you also tried Save As ... I know you will have, but I've got to ask.
and, is it a Word document that you are trying to save, rather than a template or another type of document that word has opened for you ?
Do you open documents "read-only" ?, this is unlikely if it's happened overnight and affected two Macs, but have to ask.
Where do the original documents come from ? Are they on an internal hard disk ? or a disk image (on the internal hard disk), or the internet ? Are the documents "protected" - an option in Word to require a password to make changes to a document.
Can you create and save new documents ?
were there any other changes to the Macs that might have caused this to happen ? anything at all ? any other software installed ? or memory installed ? (I had untold issues with Word v5 menus after upping the RAM to 1.25GB - this automatically turns off VM in OS9, Word 5 didn't like that at all, for some reason it needed VM on).

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