If you plan to come here often, the news reader approach advocated by Dian
earlier is the way forwards http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




jeff wrote:
Dian,
Yes the link takes me right to the thread but to reply you have to
sign in and that takes you to the start. But heck most things on the
computer take me too long to do anyway.
And why would I look any where else if you read and answer these
questions!


"Dian D. Chapman, MVP" wrote:

Well...I use a newsreader (Agent) to get here. But I believe if you
get here through the web interface at
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups that there is an option to
get an email notification if anyone answers you. Then you SHOULD be
able to click the link in the email to get back to this thread.

And...although these are great newsgroups...there ARE other groups
like Yahoo email groups.

You can find other types of support groups as well as further info
about newsreaders in this article...as well as links to other groups
(including my groups) on the resource page.

Get Help
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=124

Support Resources
http://www.mousetrax.com/resources.html

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On Sun, 1 May 2005 18:20:02 -0700, "jeff"
wrote:

Well, uh, I guess it would be Dian spelled improperly. Kinda
lets you know what you are dealing with huh? Like to get a message
back on here I follow the email notification link and then get
directed to the sign-in and then have to go to english, then
Office, then Word, then Word General Questions and then search down
to find the one I wrote, then reply. I am sure there is an easier
way but like most things, I don't know it.
Thanks again.

"Dian D. Chapman, MVP" wrote:

No problem...glad it helped.

(By the way...who is "Dean?"smile)

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On Sun, 1 May 2005 13:32:07 -0700, "jeff"
wrote:

Dear Dean,
Thank you so very much for solving the problem that has been
plaguing us for a long time. I know I have been through the view
menu many times. I even looked at the draw toolbar and never
thought to click on "draw" to see more. Since the draw toolbar
was never checked (or visible) I did not suspect it. I make it a
habit not to change things. My son I suppose did that at some
time and forgot how he did it. These programs are much too
complicated for me. I would think that if the draw was doing
something it would show as running when the program starts. I am
wrong again, as usual.
Thank you again.
Jeff.

"Dian D. Chapman, MVP" wrote:

Sounds like maybe someone turned on the grid lines?

To check, click View Toolbar Drawing to turn on the drawing
toolbar. Locate the Draw icon on it and click to see a menu.
Choose Grid and uncheck the option if that is turned on.

Otherwise...could be you'd loaded an image or something into the
default Normal.dot template. This TechTrax article will tell you
more about fixing that issue, if that appears to be the case...

Normal.dot Template-Explained
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=151

Good luck...

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On Sun, 1 May 2005 10:40:02 -0700, "jeff"
wrote:

My sons laptop with Word for some reason now has documents
starting with blue lines like a piece notebook paper. They do
not match font size and are irritating to us all. How did they
get started? How do I get rid of them?