I'm running XP Pro, and Word 2002.
My publisher needs me to convert my field results to hard text. Isn't there
a macro that does this? (I don't mean just F9 switching between viewing the
field and viewing the result -- I need to eliminate all the fields,

One of our users is having trouble with automatic numbering.
They work in the legal team and have to pass documents within and outside of
the company with track changes turned on. These documents are fairly large
in size and number is used.

I am doing a mail merge from an Excel document.  The
field in the document is an hourly salary amount, so it
is formatted as a number with 2 decimals.  When I set up
the merge to Word, however, it shows the field as having

I am currently looking for a Word expert. This would be to
produce style sheets as templates for a number of
documents in a large UK teaching hospital. These would be
letters, fax headers, memos etc.

Thanks Robert for your prompt answer!
it was a good ideea to set Word2000 compatiblity! That solved more
problems than I have seen. (I did not see this feature!).
My cross-references:

In MS Word document when I type "=rand(200, 99)" without the double quotes it
produces 235 pages where in "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. "
is repeated in all the pages. Why do this happen...?
Plz, reply me for my question.

I had to change the computer so my document that I developed in Word
2000 I have to continue with Word 2003.
My problem: I want to make cross-references to figures and tables, but
when I use: Insert->Reference->Cross-Reference->Tabell then the "table

When adjusting the column widths using the mouse cursor,
sometimes the boundary lines move to where you want it to;
sometimes it jumps around and reformats the entire table.
How can I adjust table width without this problem?

Hi, can you please confirm my thoughts on the following.
We have several agenda item templates. The layout is
different from template to template. However, formatting
is the same. For example, Heading 1 has the same

I open my word documents and discovered that they all lost their default
settings.  All the tables I had created in word and font settings all went
away and everything is now in text format.  How do I return everything to its
original settings/format?

MS Word 2000;  when I am working in a document and select a portion of the
text to change font or colour or bold etc, the entire document picks up the
change - not just the part that I have selected.  How do I stop this ??

I copy and paste a lot of data from websites and place them in several WORD
documents. Invariably, I end up with some items appearing double space which
turn out to be - when I shade them with the cursor - one broad line despite
the fact the type is the same size as the majority ...

I have a long document and I have a questionnaire (with textboxes, multipple
choices etc) that has an own header that I would like also to import to the
long document.
I tried:

I have a User Defined Style I cannot get rid of. When I
got into my styles to delete it, it says it deleted, but
the next time I open Microsoft Word, it is back again.  I
am trying to get rid of the whole thing because it is

From an earlier post, I learned about unbreakable space. Is there a
similar way to have an unbreakable dash "-" Like in "the room number
3-14".
Looking at the Figures fields I have seen that the dash in "Figure 3-15"