After some time working on a document in Word 2002 and, in particular, after
inserting graphics -- mainly .tif files (and that could be another
question!) -- all my drop caps revert to the font for the paragraph + a
carriage return, thus:

Good day. This request was originally posted in the Page
Layout newsgroup, but so far I have not received any
response.
I am using Word 2002 in Windows ME.  I received

I'm helping a colleague to put his wartime experiences into book form.
It's not really my field of experience, but we seem to be getting along
quite well.
However, he has written an Introduction; Acknowledgements; a Prologue and

   In Word 2003, the "Heading 1" style (modified to include chapter
numbers) behaves very strangely.  When set to centre, it centres the number
(i. e. with words CHAPTER 1, the digit 1 will be cantered).  Additionally,
there is an "empty" tab-like space after the number that ...

IN using Word 2002, 2 people are seeing the changes marked
differently but in the same document stored on our
intranet: one sees the balloons and the other sees the
changes on the bottom. Can anyone clue me in on how this

Is there a way to create new symbols for MS Word?  I use the 1/2 and 1/4
symbols often, but would like to use one for 5/8.  Is there any way to create
a 5/8 symbol?

I am at a new firm and things are done a bit differently. Novell/Win XP
clients/ Office 2003.
I have a user who scans a document, cuts the text out, then uses Paste
Special to paste as Plain Text into a fresh doc. When she tries to say Bold,

  Another question.   I was wondering if there is an easy way to format
Word 2003 document so certain pages would be skipped in the page numbering
(I mean not counted, like 3,4,page without number,5,6,...)
Thanks

I have a doc of 700+ pages (a book indeed).
A long time ago hardly recovered from a master doc nightmare.
My conf is Word 2003, Windows XP, 660 Mb RAM
Although stable, I face the following issues :

winXP sp2, office word 2003 sp1
When inserting subdocs into a master doc, certain subdoc format settings
(justification, widow/orphan control) are lost. Regardless of subdoc or
master doc settings for these parameters, they may change, and the same

I support computers in a public library and we have
enabled most languages for our users. From time to time we
get the report that as a user is typing in Word, the text
will automatically change into Arabic characters. A few

how do you set page numbers (in footer) to be on your 3 page as page 1.  

All of a sudden I have a three inch column on the left side of my Word
documents when in Normal or Outline View. In the column are the words
"Normal" and "Normal (Web) and "HTML Preformatted"
I can't get rid of it. Any help?

I have created a Master Document that has several subdocuments with the end
result of an approximately 1000 page document.  I cannot get it to create a
Table of Contents.  I keep getting the message: Error! No table of contents
entries found.  Has anyone encountered this before?  ...

Hi,  I'm using Word2002 and have a page with a table in it that has 21 rows
(and would fit easily into one page).  The table shows a range of costs with
a totals line so i want to be able to display it on 1 page.
Now the catch... I have nearly 20 footnotes in the table which mean ...