Hi, Suzanne.

Okay. I went back to the instructions in CyberTaz's reply. This time,
however, I used the suggestion for previous versions of Word (even though I'm
using 2003). At first blush, it now seems to be working as I'd like. Here's
hoping it lasts.

Thank you, Suzanne, and CyberTaz, thanks again.

-Tim

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I'd be very surprised if CyberTaz's solution to (2) didn't work, as it has
provided the answer to this identical problem for hundreds (perhaps
thousands) of users.

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Words into Type
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"Tim" wrote in message
...
Mornin', CyberTaz.

Thanks for taking the time. Neither suggestion works, but I do appreciate
the effort. To save myself some time when prepping documents, I'll go back
to
using OpenOffice's Writer, and then copy it to Word for distribution. This
approach always works. I was just hoping that when I installed Office
2003,
these 'features' would have been corrected.

Thanks again,
Tim

"CyberTaz" wrote:

Hi Tim -

re 1- I haven't experienced this myself, but if you go to
ToolsOptionsView
& put a check in the box for 'Windows in Taskbar' it may prove more
effective.

re 2- See if this helps
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tedContent.htm

Regards |:)

"Tim" wrote:

Although I'm not exactly new to Word, I'm sure my questions would come
from
the beginner's box.

I'm running XP Pro with Office 2003.

Question 1:
If I have one or more Word docs open and minimized, and then open yet
another document, the last doc I was working with will be restored
before the
one just launched opens. Is there a way to stop this behaviour?

Question 2:
Sometimes, but not always, when I select text with the cursor and then
change the font or bold or change font color for the selected text,
Word will
apply those changes to the entire document. I can press Ctrl+Z, and
the
document returns to the 'correct' state and I have the results I
wanted.
Later, if I make a similar change in the document, Word applies not
only the
new change to the entire document, but also the edits I made earlier
are
applied.

For example: Say I select a group of text and bold it. The entire
document
changes to bold text. Ctrl+Z, and the document goes back to 'normal'
and my
selected text is indeed bolded. Then I select more text, and I want to
change
font color and font size. I change the color, and the entire document
is that
color and bolded. Ctrl+Z again. I then change the font size, and the
entire
document changes to the above mentioned color, is bold, and is the
font size
I wanted for the selected text.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Tim