A low-tech tip, for those who don't fool with templates (I find it easy enough to format pages in a few keystrokes that I don't often fool with templates, beyond how I set up "normal" to look the way I usually use it). If you have text that seems to be fouled up with Word commands, or if you want to take a word document (saved as .doc) to use in something like Frontpage (boo, hiss, but I'm stuck using it at work) then do the ctl-A, ctl-C to select all and copy, then open Notepad (under Programs--Accessories--Notepad) and ctl-v (or open the edit menu and "paste") to drop it into there. This simple little text program strips out all of the non-essentials and essentially purges the problem. Then if you drop it back into a new word document and format from there, you'll have unpoluted text to work with. I use Notepad a lot, at least on a daily basis, as a place to drop text I want to keep track of, or to format for html, etc.

SRS