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Suzanne (or anyone else): Have you ever come across the word 'dinkum' in the context of Word/editing/book production? (Not the Australian term 'fair dinkum')

Word 2003 Using Tools | Options | View, I can display or suppress certain items: tabs, paragraph markers etc. But this is a global setting. My global...

The IT guy just redid my computer, sigh. When I hit control "O" all I get is access to one drive -- I do not get the "side bar" or "tree" allowing me to...

Hi, Is there any way of listing all the files in a directory and importing the list into a word doc. TIA Tony

I am on a laptop and I am trying to print a doc. from my laptop to a printer on my home network. When I go to "Find Printer" I keep getting an error...

Hi, When I insert a table of contents, it is creating entries for Heading 1, Heading 2, etc., and also including "Title". I know that I can prevent Word from...

Assume I have have a Word 2003 document. "Track Changes" is enabled. Some text was changed and displayed with red color and vertical lines on the left...

Is there a way to disable the caplock key? I keep hitting it with my clumsy fingers.

Win 2002 SP3 Win XP HE Hi, is it possible to disable the "format warning message"--for example: "filename.txt may contain features that are not compatible...

My biggest use of Word is to file recipes. I copy recipes from the internet and use paste special unformatted text, but lately some documents have an...

When I open some Word 2003 documents occasionally a popup message appears: "Cannot find proofing tools for german". If you have the proofing tools, try...

Is there any way to disable typesetting quotes in a template rather than globally? I have some templates where I would like there to only be straight quotes...

I'm not finding what I'm looking for when I search. I have a document, that when I open it has the Macro options grayed out. It also has forms on it that I...

Probably an easy one, but please help... I write a lot of letters and use the 'today's date' inserted field. My problem is when I open a letter at a later...

Hi I am relatively new to Word 2003 and some automatic formatting features are driving me nuts!!!! I am trying to type a contents page and every time I put...

Microsoft Windows XP (Home) Microsoft Word 2003 SP2 Every time I launch a Word Document, or choose File New to create a new Word document, Word runs a virus...

Hi everyone. This is my first time here, so I hope I'm asking this right. We are in a panic. We have a nice "add in file" someone made for us long ago that...

I am experiencing some very frustrating problems when using Word and/or Windows Mail. When I tap the Caps Lock button the cursor disappears, which means that...

my document has over 50 cells in a table. I mostly have no problem using the TAB or the up/down/left/right keys to move from cell to cell to type something in....

I have a laptop with an additional mouse attached. When I work in MS Word 2003 and I hover my mouse cursor over the page my mouse disappears. However when I...