Hi.  I am using MS WORD XP.  Whenever I type three hyphens
in a row and press ENTER, WORD automatically creates a
full line across the page, which is not what I need.  I
went to options to turn this off, but I can't find the

I wrote the little macro (shown below) to increase the paragraph
"spacing before" setting by 6 points.
It works just fine except when the line spacing is set to "Auto". In
that case, the Selection.ParagraphFormat.SpaceBefore value is "5".

I am running MS Word 2002. I want to save a document such that when it is
viewed on another persons computer, there is none of the green or red
underlining of words (it doesnt have errors its just the way its layed
out!). Is there a setting that allows one to turn off all such ...

I am using Word from Office XP.  Obviously the dictionary is in English.  Is
there a way to obtain a free French dictionary for use within Word?  From
where?
Thank you.

I'm trying to make up an Organizational Chart using WORD 2002, but I'm
having a problem with the text boxes.
I want the size of the box to expand, but Word automatically wraps the text
and the option to switch that behavior is grayed out.

I just installed Word 2003. I have been using Word 97 for
several years. 2003 really can't be called an upgrade.
Word used to be a convenient, quick, easy to use word
processing program. Now, it is slow to open, what use to

In some Word (XP/2002) documents, I have some Custom properties set up.
What I need to do seems simple, but I'm unable to figure out how to do it
automatically.
I want to add a display of the Custom Property in question to my document,

Both MS Word and Excel apparently operate fine except
when I'm connected to Wi-Fi. The problem is that then it
takes about a minute and a half to open a file. I don't
know what it's doing with Wi-Fi connections that it

what the heck is the file extension for a Microsoft Word
file.  I need to do a *.___ search for all word files and
all I see is the word icon.

Ok, I have a Word (2000/2003) document with a couple of paragraphs and headlines. I want to replace the text style
of the "normal" text in the paragraphs so that e.g. the line spacing will be reduced from currently
before 6pt and after 12pt and atleast 18pt to
before 0pt and after ...

for some reason my signature in word 2003 is my email address and I want to change this to my name. How do I do that?

Can someone please tell me if I can, and if so how, get
an exact printout of a simple document, say a letter,
that PRINTS ALL the formatting marks I see on my screen,
for example: spaces, paragraph indicators, etc.? Thanks

i've been passed a document which was created in Word 2000 and had around
700+ footnotes .. these were converted (prior to my seeing the document) to
endnotes.
However, the numbering is fine up to 359 then it starts at 59 again, goes to

What is the best Picture's ( Bitmaps ) DPI so it looks about the same size
on Word 2003
when embedded on the page?
I don't know what DPI Resolution Word uses for the pictures.

I need help, please. My company just put Office 2003 on my
PC, and by default, Word is displaying the rulers in units
of picas. I have gone to Tools/Options/General and changed
the default measurement to inches. Several times. However,