I have Office 2000 and Windows XP.  When I use Microsoft Word and I modify a
document, it creates a hidden file that has ~$ in the first 2 characters of
the file name such as: "myfile.doc" becomes "~$file.doc".  I am just
wondering if this is a "normal" occurance or something to ...

I am trying to disable the reading view, but I cannot open TOOLS>OPTIONS (the
customize feature is also not working on the TOOLS tab).

Hi, I’m running XP pro with latest service packs and office 2002 sp3 and
every time I delete and remap a new network I must reboot to get it to appear
when accessing it through MS word.  If I browse to the network drive using
explorer it appears on the list but if I open MS word ...

Good day all,
I have a word document with a header and footer, and a top margin of 7".  
Inside the header I need to enter exactly 27 carriage returns in the header
to line up the text and image correctly.  As soon as I hit the 24th carriage

When I open some  of my text documents which were saved about a year ago in
Word, they come up with all squares.  How do I fix this?

I have a field which say has XX/06/234567, I want to be able to have another
field which just picks up the XX.
Is this achievable? and if so can someone assist me with the mergefield
coding, please.

I have a big document saved in notepad (.txt) where I've lined up all 5
collumns of information so it's easy to read. I've been using the document as
a database of information but I need to move it all over to Word now so that
I can password protect the information.

How do bookmarks that are seemingly automatically named 'OLE_LINK1' and
'OLE_LINK2' get into a document if I haven't deliberately put them there?
This is not just happening in one document but several.

Virtually every new Word file I try to save tries to save as MS Word NORMAL
Template.doc by default.  I thought new files should save to the document's
title by default.  Why is "MS Word NORMAL Template.doc" being selected as the
default save filename?  Have noticed this ...

I've created a template that is sitting on a network with about 6 users.  
The default font on each user's machine is Palatino Linotype and the font in
the template is Palatino Linotype.  
When a user copys text from any other document and pastes it into the

I need to print a label that has a chronological numbering format that
increases by changing the first number. EX:   (it all has to be right aligned)
                             -11450     -11453   -11456  -11459
                             -11451     -11454   -11457  -11460

I am trying to convert a number of old works documents into word... so far
all I have been doing is opening them one by one and saving them one at a
time...there has to be an easier way to do this... can anyone help me?

Every time I open Outlook, my toolbars are all over the place, and they don't
stay put when I close and open again.  It's driving me crazy.  Also, I keep
getting the PDF Complete toolbar coming up in all my programs (Word, Excel,
Outlook), and I don't want it there.  I tried ...

I have a master file fro example named - X1Master. It is linked to the
55 different files which are password protected. When I open my Master
file it does not update the info from all the files unless they are
alsready open. Is there a way to write a macro whcih helps update the

I have edited a word document, accepted all track changes and resaved the
document.  However, when I open it in a different system (via PDF file), the
track changes are still showing in the PDF file.