Looking for a universally compatible word processing program that can I download for free off the internet. [more inside]
posted by crazylegs on Oct 21, 2009 - 18 answers

I prepare a monthly English-Spanish glossary list for a magazine and I have to avoid repeating the same glossary items from month to month. I'd like some software which identifies repetitions across multiple MS Word documents. Does such software exist?
posted by Holly on Sep 12, 2007 - 3 answers

How do i turn off Markup once and for all in Word 2007, for real? [more inside]
posted by yeara on Jul 18, 2007 - 4 answers

Need help with foreign language spellcheck dictionaries in wordperfectx3 [more inside]
posted by keeblerte6 on Jul 4, 2007 - 0 answers

My scrollbar has disppeared and won't come back! I'm sure this is a stupid question with a simple answer, but I can't seem to get google to work for me to help answer it. I'm running MS Word on OS X, and my vertical scrollbar on the right hand side disappeared a few weeks ago. I nosed through pretty much every menu looking for a way to bring it back, but I can't seem to find it. It's becoming more than just a minor nuisance. The horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the window appears just fine, it's only vertical that has gone missing. What do I need to do to bring it back?
posted by booknerd on Feb 19, 2007 - 2 answers

I'm having a problem with footnotes on Word 2004 (Mac). . . [more inside]
posted by dshargel on Nov 11, 2006 - 2 answers

How do I stop Outlook from double spacing? [more inside]
posted by miles1972 on Sep 16, 2005 - 8 answers

One of the Dumber Microsoft Word Questions Ever. When I try to scroll up or down a document in MS Word to highlight a select amount of text, Word whips through at lightning speed and highlights everything in the document before or after my cursor. [more inside]
posted by foxy_hedgehog on Aug 22, 2005 - 16 answers

I have a collection of illustrations that a client wants to use in MS Word. I have them in their original Illustrator 9 format, as well as .psd and low-res jpgs.

Is the best option to convert them to Windows metafiles? (They'll need to be resized depending on newsletter content.) How do I do that?
posted by Mayor Curley on Jul 27, 2004 - 5 answers

Bah! I'm working on a Word doc and this program is driving me just batty. It's too clever by half all over the place -- wanting to add hyperlinks, format this way and that-- all kinds of stupidity that are keeping me from controlling the layout the way I want. Any suggestions for a nice, simple word processing program that will just give me the basics of font and tab control and without all of these M$ bloaty gewgaws that get in my way? Stop me before I fire up Illustrator!
posted by mimi on Apr 2, 2004 - 24 answers