Several months ago I chose Microsoft Outlook ‘Contacts’ to use as a database for my personal addresses because it was recommended to me on the basis of it being an easier program to use than Microsoft Access. While it is true that I haven’t had to start from scratch and have been able to enter my personal data, it hasn’t been all plain sailing. I am now having problems printing the data as some entries appear to be over printing onto the entry headings/titles. The country and interstate codes for telephone numbers are also overprinting. Can you please help me with this problem? (more…)

I am using Word 97 and being a researcher, I keep documents to use as bibliographies of books, articles and law cases. The simplest method that I have found to do this is to just paste the new entries as a block at the end of the bibliography file. Over the years the files has grown pretty big (300-600k each) and Word is behaving strangely. Things that have been occurring are the breaks in the paragraphs have disappeared (even though the text looks the same) so it is treating the whole document as one big paragraph. I can re-insert the breaks manually but this is laborious (ie. I can’t simply do it by using SEARCH/REPLACE). I know this isn’t a problem with the file being corrupt because it is happening to all my documents of that size. Any tips on how I could remedy, and/or prevent this annoying problem? (more…)

When numbering items in a list in Microsoft Word 97, how do I restart the numbering again from 1 for different levels or subsets embedded in the original list, how do I return to the previous level and continue the
numbering from where I left off ,and when I have finished my numbered list, how do I turn off the numbering when it annoyingly persists some lines later, apart from clicking on the numbered list icon?
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In Microsoft Word 97, how do I have bullets with different levels? I need to have bulleted points that have sub-bullets of a different type. I want to have a bulleted list that can have sub-bullets too, but they must use a different symbol. How do I do that? (more…)

I can’t work out how to delete outdated documents from Word. How do I do it? (more…)