On several of my documents, I am unable to set tab stops
at certain intervals.  For instance, I try to click on
the .5" mark to place a tab and it actually puts it in
at .58".  I am unable to drag it back over to the half

I have a long document (and it's continuing to grow).  To keep
different headings, bulleted lists, and things universal, I've been
using different Styles for these.
However, I'm having some problems now.  

I often cut and paste word files into an online application thst does not
accept slanted qoutes (straight only), is there a setting that will just
produce straight qoutes?
Cory

I'm not sure this is the proper newsgroup so point me in
the right direction if I'm wrong.  I've had this happen
two or three times now and it's driving us nuts.  
Sometimes, the footnote notation will not superscript.  It

I have a long document but it's size must be 250-350kb but
one of my file shows 10.7 mb. Don't understand why... When
I tried to delete everytext etc from it the size didn't
not decresed. At one point I deleted everything and it has

I am using Word 2002 with Windows XP. I finish a document
and save it, then when I go back I find a paragraph or
two changed to a much smaller font.  Line spacing may
change from double to 1.5 or to single space on some

I'm not sure that this is the place to ask this question
but nothing else matches.
My Medical Records department uses Word 2000 for
transcription.  They often have "canned" text that needs

I am an reasonably advanced Word user, but a friend of
mine is about to write a book and he wants some help with
formatting etc.
I would like to be able to give him some helpful tips, but

Is there a way to turn this widow/orphan control off
unless I want it?  I have to click it almost every time I
reach the bottom of a page.

i have a document and iwant to make some changes on it
but i want the other people that are going to receive it
by e mail as an attachment the changes on that document.
IE. i have a sentance and i want to make another one.

paragraph A and paragraph B:
if B is used it will ALWAYS follow A, but A could be followed by several
other types so the "keep with next" is not viable for the style.
Is there a way to format BE so it will always be kept with the preceding A?

I am doing a mail merge between word and a .txt file where
depending on the shoppers details their date due could be
any day of the month they specify.  Is there a was to add
a superscripted st, nd, rd, th depending on the date in

I would like to know how to automate part of the
documentto be inserted into new document.
pleas advise.
thsnks,

I have a Word checklist template that I open every day,
make my checklist changes and save it as a doc ... I would
like a macro that will prompt me to save he document with
the date  eg checklist_2004-06-23.doc

First off this is a first post to this group, so I
apologize if this is old ground.  Secondly, I've been
working this for over two weeks, so I am bit frustrated and
it may show.