John,

I didn't describe those four little switches in the bottom left corner of a Word document. I usually work in either the Normal View or the Print Layout View, never the Web View or the Outline view.

If you work in the Print Layout View then you see all of that formatting stuff and your headers and footers are ghosted into the page you're working on.

I haven't bothered to tell the program to leave all of those icons in place because I'm more likely to add things with keystrokes as I am to stop what I'm typing and use the mouse to highlight something then click on the icon. (If you're typing and want bold face, at the beginning of the segment type "control-B" and add what will be bold and at the end type "control-B" and it turns off the Bold feature).

I always forget about that "paste as unformatted text" bit you've spoken of before, but I should check it out. First thing I do when I am using a new instalation of Word (on a computer that won't mess up someone else, of course!) is to go into the preferences and turn off a whole bunch of shit that Microsoft sets as default in the program.

SRS