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Word 2007 I have turned off the straight to smart quotes in Proofing Options but I am still getting slanting ". How do I get rid of these please? I just...

When I bring up the Find dialog box in Word 2007, it often shows "Outline" after "Format" (right under the "Find What" box). I cannot figure out what makes...

I have a new computer with Vista. I installed word 2002 on it and it works fine, except my autosave files turn out to be in a stange file extension, namely ...

Hi In Word, when using Print Layout View, the page is having this background - looking like a net with small squares. I just don't know how it got there, and...

A strange thing just happened in Word 2003. I copied a canvas from the main doc to a New doc. Not all the pieces of the figure I drew copied over. I deleted...

I cut and pasted text from a web page to Word 2007 document and now every time I open a new document the setting that display spaces and end of line are...

Hi everyone, I have a number of documents created and saved in Word 2007 (docx), and I need to open and work with them in Word 2003. A number of weird things...

Hello! I encountered a very strange behavior. I writing text in standard style formatting outside and inside a table in 11pt size. When I change the font...

A quick outline of the what I've done and what problem it has led to: (Using MS Word 2003 (11.8026.8028) SP2) I have a series of documents, not of them are...

When I change the format on one paragraph, such as indenting or centering, the entire document changes. When I click "Undo" it will undo the change to the...

Hello folks, I have a document with horizontal lines I can't explain, and sometimes can't remove. Each seems to be associated with a paragraph mark, and...

I have footers in a document. They are made up of a horiontal border with the pagenumber underneath. On one page an additional line is present but greyed out....

Everytime I want to open a "New Blank Document", the document resembles a square rather than the rectangle we're all used to. I've checked Page Layout, and...

As yet, no real solution to my little problem and nothing on the Microsoft website that addresses it. So I'll have another go: Word 2000 with Sr1 and SP3, XP...

Hi all and hope you are keeping safe. I have a weird issue here that is really doing my head in! My partner works as a teacher and she has to save docs...

Help! I am used to Numbering but I now have a specification to type with the number format: 1:00 (Heading 1) 1:01 1:02 etc 1:10 1.

Ever since I installed a new computer I have had trouble with direct faxing. I have isolated the problem in that fresh documents will fax directly but...

I'm going nuts trying to make a nice PDF file of a reference manual. In Word 2002, my TOC is hyperlinked, and with the control key held down I can click...

Do I take it that *no-one* has the answer to my previous post (qv) on this subject. I can't believe no-one else has experienced this or is not able to identify...

As u newby (veteran) I installed Word 2007 Pro. Each time I opened Outlook 2003, Word installes itself and also configures my Nuance PaperPort 11 program;...