I've assigned several keys as shortcuts for symbols I use
frequently and suddenly they are no longer working to
insert the symbols but simply put periods in the place.
What is the problem?

Company just switched to Windows XP and Office 2002. I
can't seem to get word or excel to start in the
directories I have setup on my machine.
They both seem to want to start in My Documents regardless

We would like to prevent more than one word/excel viewer
opening at a time.  In other words, re-use any viewer that
is already open.  Is this possible with an .ini file
modification?

I'm having a major problem setting tabs and margins using
the sliding ruler.  Instead of moving in increments
of .25 or something practical, the ruler moves in
increments of decimals and such.  I just want to change

Anyone who has cats knows they love to step on
keyboards... one day, my cat did so while I had
the "insert symbol" window open, which maximized that
window.  Now, when I try to insert a symbol, that list of

How can I add a web link to a custom menu I have created.
The idea is that the user can go to the menu, click on the
menu entry and the appropriate web site will open in their
default browser.

In MS Word, when you click on tools and then the expand
key, on the drop down menu, mailmerge appears several
dozen times.  How do you delete these excess 'mail merges'?

Does anybody know if there is a chance to set
printing  "current page" as a default setting instead
of "all".
Thanx

Using Office XP, when opening a document, I would like to
start typing in the name of the document I would like to
open and have it give me suggestions of which document to
open and use AutoComplete

I copied some info from an explorer screen
to a word document and lost the menu ( File Edit
View Favorites tools help) forever more.
Whenever I open word ( before opening a document)

When merging dates (in a UK format) from Excel, Word mail
merge changes the format to American during the process of
using the 'Merge Recipient List'.
Is there a way to stop this?

I have written some macros for a particular document, and
I have created toolbar buttons to execute them. But now
whenever I open ANY word document, I see those toolbar
buttons. I want to confine these buttons to only that

I opened the drawing toolbar in Word, however when I
click on various command buttons such as; line style,
arrow style,dash style they are "greyed out". How do I
activate these buttons? I have tried removing command

How do I get Word 2002 to display the full path and
filename on the Title bar?

How can I make changes as the admiistrator under
tools\options and have those changes take effect for
anyone signing on to a computer? I am using office xp pro
and windows 2000. I would like word to start with some