There are irritating and time-consuming formatting errors that I woudl like
to remove and correct without having to check every line.

I don't understand your question. If you open a Word 97 document in Word
2003 and make changes, when you save, it will be a Word 2003 document
(though the file format will be the same). But this will not give you Word
2003 functionality in Word 97, if that's what you're looking for.

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"AistonN" wrote in message
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There are irritating and time-consuming formatting errors that I woudl
like
to remove and correct without having to check every line.

If you want to remove the formatting, copy the entire document and then use
Edit | Paste | Paste Special | Unformatted Text.
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Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"AistonN" wrote:

There are irritating and time-consuming formatting errors that I woudl like
to remove and correct without having to check every line.