Is there a keyboard shortcut to close the Research Panel in Word & Outlook
(new message window); if so what?

Each time i save a word document, i get a fresh icon on my desktop.WHy is
that? they only vanish when i close the document that i am working with, so
my desktop is covered with about 20 icons if i am writing an essay and saving
as i go

Strangest thing-
When using word 2003 and typing my document in print layout view when I
reach the end of the first page the second page does not show, but if I then
go to normal view the rest of the document is there...

Please help. On this one letter a dotted line prnts on the right side of the
paper no matter what I do I can not get it to go away. This is only on the HP
1020 not on the HP 1023.

I wrote a eulogy for my brother last Saturday. I thought I saved it.
Instead of a file named Toms eulogy it shows Tom%27s%20eulogy[1].doc
Can you help me find and open and properly save the file?

I have alread posted this but it ended up on a mac group.
I have many old Word 2 files and am using Office 2007 so can't acess them.
I'm looking for how to open n individual file and how to bulk convert them to
a later format.

How do I import my Autotext from Word 2003 to Word 2007?

Word 2003 had a nifty batch conversion wizard for converting a whole bunch of
docs to HTML. Is there something comparable in Word 2007? I know that you can
use "Save As" to save a single document, but I have a whole bunch to be
converted.

I would like to print checks using MS Word.  The check blanks would be fed
individually through the by-pass of the printer at right angles like an
envelope.  Thus the printing would be typed on the screen in portrait but
would print in landscape.

I've set a value in a Word Doc's "Standard" document properties for "Status".
The document is in the 97-2003 format.
Because the doc is in the 97-2003 .doc format, when I go to Insert / Quick
Parts, the "Document Property" option is not available in the drop-down (it's

I'm using MS Word 2000 on an XP with Norton. I'm trying to terminate
Norton, but MS word gets hung up because Norton is not available
to do virus scanning on files that I try to open up with Word.
How do I get MS Word 2000 to stop trying to look for Norton

I'm running MS Word 2002 (SP3) and Windows XP Professional.
A couple of time I've accidentally issued some special key combination
(e.g, maybe alt- or ctrl- with another key) that has caused Word to
launch a speech-synthesis reading of the document text.  That is, an

I have Vista with Word 2007. With this same computer & program I would be
able to copy an article with links in blue and they would copy the same. One
day the copy no longer showed the word in blue but ({HYPERLINK "the link"}).
How can I change it back to the "blue word" only? ...

I started editing a document and forgot to turn on track changes.  I tried
undoing all my edits (ctrl-z), turning on track changes, and then redoing the
edits (ctrl-y). But, of course this didn't work.  Is there any solution?  
Thanks.