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Almali del Benian
Dear All,
I'm sitting here scratching my head. I recently got a new computer;
it's running Windows XP Home, fully updated. My dealer installed my
Microsoft Office 2000, and kindly updated that as well. I also checked
for updates about a week ago (a week after getting the machine).
I used Word 2000 for a time last year, using these newsgroups to help
me out; however, I hadn't known about them at first, and may have set
myself up for various corruptions in Word when I first used it.
Now that I have a fresh, clean, pristine (? <haha>) opportunity to
start from scratch, but have forgotten what I learned last summer, I
think I'd be wise to configure Word 2000 just as cleanly as I
possibly can, making use of all you people have to offer.
Yet here I sit, wondering just where I should begin!
Maybe it will help if I tell you my proposed use of Word.
I write a lot using a text editor (NoteTab), and/or my email client
(Eudora). I save this material in text files and email messages; I do
a lot of resarch for my book this way.
I'm working on a book, size unpredictable, but it will certainly be a
long document,and I'm subscribed to the long documents newsgroup and
several others as well.
My formatting needs are probably quite simple. If/when I submit to a
publisher, my formatting should be clean, clean, clean, and as simple
as possible.
Last summer, I learned (sort of) how to do the outline numbering,
using Shauna Kelly's site. I see from my recent reading here that
there could be various ways to use those same principles, each with a
twist that might affect a Table Of Contents. I guess it doesn't matter
which twist I use, as long as I keep things fairly simple, and don't
try to mix things up together. - just be consistent.
Despite my simple needs, I forsee that I'll need to specify Header
formatting at each of, what, 9? levels, that I'll need to select fonts
and paragraph styles for:
Headers
Body Text
Footnotes (and/or end notes)
(I'll worry about Table of Contents later; same for index.)
Maybe for comments.
There might be some others; seems to me I had quite a long list of
Styles on my previous, crashy, Windows 98 SE machine.
I will be bringing in text from NoteTab, and email text (all in plain
text) from Eudora, and may also quote email message headers, to which
I could apply styles, fonts, and so forth. I did experiment with that
last summer, with some success. I didn't like the default "headers"
that came with Word 2000, so modified the style to suit myself. That
also seemed to work fine.
One of my concerns is that I can't remember how to start a new
Document so that I don't start right away with corruption. I know not
to save to nor import from a floppy disk, but only copy files
(presumably, outside Word, perhaps using Windows Explorer; however, my
normal procedure, since I have two physical hard drives, is to copy
from one drive to the other in order to back up files).
Document Templates confuse me. I need also to relearn how to put
toolbar buttons in (customize), and I'm subscribed to that newsgroup.
I suppose I'm asking, in what order should I begin configuring Word
2000, to keep everything squeaky clean on my system?
By the way, I use AVG antivirus (Single Professional), AdAware and
Spybot, and keep them all updated, and scan regularly. And I'm running
chkdsk /f regularly (about once a week), and also defrag; same
thing.I've learned in the past that behaving in slightly paranoid
fashion can help keep a computer running well and safely <G>
Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
Almali del Benian
I'm sitting here scratching my head. I recently got a new computer;
it's running Windows XP Home, fully updated. My dealer installed my
Microsoft Office 2000, and kindly updated that as well. I also checked
for updates about a week ago (a week after getting the machine).
I used Word 2000 for a time last year, using these newsgroups to help
me out; however, I hadn't known about them at first, and may have set
myself up for various corruptions in Word when I first used it.
Now that I have a fresh, clean, pristine (? <haha>) opportunity to
start from scratch, but have forgotten what I learned last summer, I
think I'd be wise to configure Word 2000 just as cleanly as I
possibly can, making use of all you people have to offer.
Yet here I sit, wondering just where I should begin!
Maybe it will help if I tell you my proposed use of Word.
I write a lot using a text editor (NoteTab), and/or my email client
(Eudora). I save this material in text files and email messages; I do
a lot of resarch for my book this way.
I'm working on a book, size unpredictable, but it will certainly be a
long document,and I'm subscribed to the long documents newsgroup and
several others as well.
My formatting needs are probably quite simple. If/when I submit to a
publisher, my formatting should be clean, clean, clean, and as simple
as possible.
Last summer, I learned (sort of) how to do the outline numbering,
using Shauna Kelly's site. I see from my recent reading here that
there could be various ways to use those same principles, each with a
twist that might affect a Table Of Contents. I guess it doesn't matter
which twist I use, as long as I keep things fairly simple, and don't
try to mix things up together. - just be consistent.
Despite my simple needs, I forsee that I'll need to specify Header
formatting at each of, what, 9? levels, that I'll need to select fonts
and paragraph styles for:
Headers
Body Text
Footnotes (and/or end notes)
(I'll worry about Table of Contents later; same for index.)
Maybe for comments.
There might be some others; seems to me I had quite a long list of
Styles on my previous, crashy, Windows 98 SE machine.
I will be bringing in text from NoteTab, and email text (all in plain
text) from Eudora, and may also quote email message headers, to which
I could apply styles, fonts, and so forth. I did experiment with that
last summer, with some success. I didn't like the default "headers"
that came with Word 2000, so modified the style to suit myself. That
also seemed to work fine.
One of my concerns is that I can't remember how to start a new
Document so that I don't start right away with corruption. I know not
to save to nor import from a floppy disk, but only copy files
(presumably, outside Word, perhaps using Windows Explorer; however, my
normal procedure, since I have two physical hard drives, is to copy
from one drive to the other in order to back up files).
Document Templates confuse me. I need also to relearn how to put
toolbar buttons in (customize), and I'm subscribed to that newsgroup.
I suppose I'm asking, in what order should I begin configuring Word
2000, to keep everything squeaky clean on my system?
By the way, I use AVG antivirus (Single Professional), AdAware and
Spybot, and keep them all updated, and scan regularly. And I'm running
chkdsk /f regularly (about once a week), and also defrag; same
thing.I've learned in the past that behaving in slightly paranoid
fashion can help keep a computer running well and safely <G>
Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
Almali del Benian
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