Don, Have you tried Format> Reveal Formatting. A box pops out on the right and at the very bottom there are two options: "Distinguish style source" and "show all formatting marks" If you select the first option it gives you a bunch of choices all in one place. Probably not what you're looking for, but just a thought. ~Glo ----- Original Message ----- From: dswabc To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 7:08 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: M$ Word help Let me clarify... There are at least lebenty-gazillion settings in MS Word. Finding them all in the menu tree is sometimes impossible. If I could open normal.dot in a text editor and find say... show formatting codes=ON and change it to OFF it could save a lot of frustration. I hate MS Word because everytime I create a document it wants to format it the way it wants to. By gawd, if I want a bullet I'll put where *I* want it. If I want something indented, I'll use the TAB key. Where is the menu option to tell MS Word... "All I want is a bare-a$$ naked document, when I want some formatting I will tell you, and if that d#$% paperclip or any other stupid animated distraction shows it face again I'm gonna shoot it full of buckshot"? Don -- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/