Aside from ease of editing and maintaining individual documents, are there arguments for the use of styles in Microsoft Word? [more inside]
posted by chocolate_butch on Sep 1, 2009 - 6 answers

MS Word insists on keeping lines of paragraphs together even after I turn off Widow/Orphan control. How can I stop this? [more inside]
posted by MasonDixon on May 2, 2009 - 6 answers

No matter what I do, the US-ENGLISH setting on my spellcheck keeps returning from the dead like a bad guy in a horror movie. [more inside]
posted by the latin mouse on Mar 14, 2009 - 8 answers

Can you help me view and print background colors in Word? I'm trying to reproduce a form that has a purple background. This form will be completed on screen, but may also be printed. For reasons that we won't go into, it has to be in Word. I'm having trouble getting a purple background that shows up when viewing it on the screen and also when printing. Is there a way to get both? [more inside]
posted by willnot on Jul 8, 2008 - 6 answers

How can I make Microsoft Word's Find-and-Replace feature work properly with regular expressions when Track Changes is on? [more inside]
posted by Partial Law on Oct 31, 2007 - 6 answers

Is it possible to export pictures from Microsoft Word documents? I need to re-color a graphic that's been inserted into a Microsoft Word 2003 document. Unfortunately, that is the only copy I have of the graphic. Word doesn't seem to provide a way to color over graphics. Even getting it into Paint would work fine--but first I need to get it there. Am I screwed?
posted by schroedinger on Jul 27, 2007 - 7 answers

How do I disable one-touch printing in Word? [more inside]
posted by Wet Spot on Sep 25, 2005 - 7 answers

How can I get the cells in my MS Word table to "stick together"? It keeps putting page breaks in weird places, leaving a single cell stranded at the top of a page. [more inside]
posted by exceptinsects on Jul 15, 2005 - 7 answers