One of the most frustrating aspects of Word (and
PowerPoint) is the inability to display all fractions.
Only the very basic, such as 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, are
available. Many, many times I need fractions such as 1/3,

This is my first foray into Word newsgroup and I need some help.
I was creating a brochure in Word 2000 whereby I've created three vertical
frames so to mimic a folded 8.5x11" piece of landscaped paper.  I want to
see what it would look like printed on a piece of same sized paper, ...

I would like to know why every time I open a document in
Word, I get a toolbar that looks like Microsoft Outlook.  
I must have inadvertently checked something. Does anyone
know how to get rid of this!!!!

I am working on a long document (54 pages at the present
time) and am having trouble with Word inserting automatic
pagebreaks well short of the end of the page. I end up in
some cases with 1/2 or sometimes less of text on a page.

I need to change the default font on normal style in the normal.dot template
to Arial. The little box to the left
(Format/Style/Modify/Font ) bottom for Default is greyed out. How do I
ungrey it?

My manual is printing front and back page.  Am I able to alternate page
number in the footer from right to left, every other page?  (looks nice in
sample manuals I've seen).
Using Word 2002/XP

I have a document with pages that layouts differently (landscape and
portrait) each page in template consist page autonumberring as action field
{PAGE_NUMBER}, but each time the layout changes the numbering starts from
the beggining. How to prevent it

I am working on my final thesis, and I need help for
Footnotes.
I have 5 or 6 documents (in order to be able to save my
whole work in diskettes). I have created over 100

I am finding bold square brackets appearing in  some text.
It does not appear  to be part of an amendment monitoring
device and I can't get rid  of  them.
Any suggestions, please?

I am using Word 2002, and XP Professional.
I have a document that is over 400 pages long, 9 subdocs in a master doc. It
is heavily indexed and has many reference fields and bookmarks. Problem --
how can I quickly tell whether a particular word has already been indexed? I

Dear Microsoft,
Please can you tell me how I do letterheadings on Windows
98 and Windows 2000 (on the word pad).  
Please can you tell me how to put the spell checker on?

Hi I have posted this once before but weren't sure where I
placed it.  So forgive me, if this happens to be posted
twice on the same news group.
I am using Word 2000.

Another question that doesn't really fit "longdocs," but doesn't
really fit anywhere else either.
I have about a dozen autotext entries which I tend to use in every
type of document I write. I'm accustomed to insert one by pressing

Product: MS Word 2002 (English version)
How can I set the custom default of table properties?
[Please tell me step-by-step if possible, thanks !!]
Thank you very much for your attention and answers.

I keep getting a "One or more margins are set outside of
the printable area of the page choose the fix button to
increase the appropriate margins" warning message when I
try to close the page setup screen in Word Office XP.