Someone said there are a couple of professional non-Microsoft word
processing softwares used in book publishing that don't suffer from the long
doc frailty that MS Word does.  Can anyone tell me the names of any such
software?

I want to number pages of a large document in my unique way. I like
numbering my documents in chapter-page format. For instance, chapter 1 has 4
pages so my numbering sequence would go 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, then 2-1 ...
I've figured out how to include the chapter but the page numbers ...

  Is there anyway I can change a page break into a
section break? Say that Word has automatically created a
page break because a table row has expanded onto the next
page, but I don't want a page break but a section break

If I have a word doc in which I want to lik#nk an excell file this is OK.
But where the data in the Excell file is to be included as a appendix, I
have a problem.  The listy on dat on the excell work sheet is more than the
size of 1 word page.  I cannot find a way to llink to the ...

Hi! I can't find anywhere where it tells you how to edit
a footnote you've already made (e.g. to remove an extra
blank line you accidentally stuck at the end so the
footnotes are suddenly double-spaced instead of single-

I have text that I would like to roate 180 degrees in
Word. I tried using a text box. I can rotate sideways
only. Help?

All of a sudden I cannot change fonts.  When I try to
change font from the toolbar, there is no drop down menu
of fonts, although when I check my Fonts folder under
Control Panel, all the fonts are there.  Should I reload

I am preparing a manuscript and I want end chapter to
contain its own endnotes. But you can't insert a section
break after the endnote - "this is not a valid operation
for endnotes" - and when I put the break at the end of

Hi, I need help, my formatting palette disapeared. When I turn it on, it
goes away from the screen, to the bottom, an unreacheable place for
the mouse. What I have to do in order to get it back?
Thanks, Jorge

I have a document that has a footer with two small tables
in it.  I have to have one page in the middle of this
document that has a different footer.  I am having
trouble with this.  Any help you could give me would be

My boss would like us to be able to take our 100+ page
documents and create subdocuments, which I understand how
to do, however, he would also like me to be able to
hyperlink our excel spreadsheets to the word docs so that

When I paste special a linked Excel object in Word 2002
some of the columns and rows are not showinig up on the
screen but print out properly.  This happens on some
machines with Word 2002 and on others its ok.  Any ideas?

Hello.  I have a mail merge running from Access 97 to Word
97.  It is an automated merge, and my problem is that the
letters that are created do not stay in focus on the
screen.  Instead, after the merge, the focus goes back to

Using Office 2002, how do you get a dialog box to pop up
when the mouse pointer was placed over a word in a word
document?  For instance...if I have the word "FDA" in my
document and you place the mouse pointer over it, a dialog

I'm trying to create a Table of Contents but the problem is that the
200 page document is showing almost every page a "heading 1".  I
checked the Table of Contents options to see if there is a way to
ignore "heading 1" when updating the Table of Contents. I also tried