Everytime I bring up word or any other office product..I
get that "Preparing to Install..." message for about 15
seconds..then i get the program...I have activated office
with ms....what is word intalling...?  happens every time..

I'm on Word 2000 (soon to upgrade to 2003).
How do I add in the French Dictionary?
I take it that Word will support two languages (English and French)
side-by-side?

I was given a new machine just over two weeks ago. It's running XP
Home. My dealer installed my MIcrosoft Office 2000, and updated XP
Home and Office 2000 for me.
I've lost my old configuration for Word (the only Office program I

It would appear this group poses questions, but not answers.
Does anyone know a word newsgroup that actually shares answers?

    Assuming I have a long list of names. Does Word 2000 have a feature
which will find double entries even if they are not next to each other? If
not, is there another Program that can do this? Thanks for any Information,
Helmut

I recently got a new computer with Word 2002 - somewhat different than 97 on
my old one.
My question - I am having trouble copying from another application into
Word - unless I have already launched Word, I can't paste text that I have

I'm editing a huge MS Word doc that has over 85,000 text hyperlinks,
each of which has its own unique URL. My task is to: 1) remove each
URL from the text link, and 2) then insert a new URL into each text
link.

I have been using Word 97 for three years now and attended two course in the
use of the Word programme.
Recently I purchased a new computer with Word 2003.
I have noticed that when I copy a paragraph from a document or webpage, open

Anyone know of a Portuguese dictionary add on for MS Word (Office
2003).  My old computer had one from ALKI software in Seattle. But it
won't work on my new XP. Tried contacting ALKI, they don't answer
there phone and the web site  does not help.

how to embed word in web?

Hi folks: Here's a strange problem.
I created a series of documents in MSWord for my employer.
On Friday they swapped out my desktop computer for a laptop computer.
They transferred all my files by copying them over a network to a server,

When opening Microsoft Word documents created by clients it?s extremel
important that the text does not reflow to the next page. Their printe
version must duplicate their electronic version that I open on m
system.

I have a problem with MS Word that?s driving me crazy. Some time ago m
wife saved a web page to MS Word 2K and ever since then when I open
blank document in Word this saved web page is displayed so I figure al
I have to do is find the file name and delete it and the problem wil

First of all, thank you ahead of time for any help you can
give me.  I use MS Word 2000 and Internet Explorer.  In
the Subject, I put quotes around watemark but I am not
actually sure my problem is a watermark.  When I use my

My product key does not work, and I tried calling but
they keep me on hold forever.  How do I get a working
product key so that I can start using my Microsoft office
product.  The key that is on the computer is invalid.