I don't know what I done but now my page numbers, captions, and index
all have a grey background. Even if I start a new document it does
this now. I've done everything I can think of to try to fix it to no
avail.

Does anyone have an ytips on setting up numbering in Word to make
building dichotomous keys easier? These are basically outline-like
lists used for identifying organisms in biology and have other various
uses in science and elsewhere. Here is a simple example:

I am using Word 2003. I am using auto numbering. When I
select Customise Numbering, Number style option is there.
There i have on of the option as "01, 02, 03,.....". In
my document i need to have some thing like "00001, 00002,

Using Word 2002 on WinXP Pro
I've created a style to be applied at the beginning of a
new section. There is a number format within the created
style.

I created a template that suits me for an outline.  However, when a line
that I am writing wraps to the next line, it aligns left under the
number above, rather than being lined up under the indented line above.
Can someone tell me what settings to check to change this?

Is there a way to hide/suppress page numbers in a
document?
For example, I have page 1 (which should be numbered),
pages 2 and 3 I DO NOT want page numbers on - then I want

I've got a problem with bullets that I can't figure out.  I'm copying text
from a document and am pasting it into the new text using Paste
Special/Unformatted text.  Then, I want to bullet the text such that they
look something like this:

When typing a list using bullets you would press the tab
key and the symbol would change and indent -- this is
longer working since I installed an Office update.
This is horrible.  The only way to get the symbol to

Using Word 2003.  Can the NumPages field be set to only count a portion of a
document?  Here's my problem.  I have a document with a titlke page and a
couple of pages of frontmatter, TOC, etc.  Then the text itself begins for,
say, 10 pages so the documents has a total page count of ...

Hope someone can help, trying to find a way to have a
footnote number in the body of a document automatically
superscript.  Anyone have a clue?  Thanks so much.

I'm writing a medium-sized report in Word 2002 (SP3),
which contains many tables and figures. I use Insert ->
Captions for the Table and Figure captions and then
insert the associated cross references in the text.

Hi!  Please help!  I need to align text as in the
following example, but I cannot for the life of me get my
hanging indents to be truly aligned.  I'm probably missing
something simple, but I've gone through the help screens

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to remove the "."
after the number that is presented when the Autonum field
is used?
Instead of: 1.

When creating a new template, why would Bullets &
Numbering NOT be active in the Format menu?
How do I activate it?

I'm in Microsoft Word, revising an original document that
contains bullets and numbers.  Each time I make any change
in a numbered item, the numbers immediately following that
one restart the numbering process.  Say I'm revising item