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Description of the January 2010 update for Office Word

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Overview of fonts and troubleshooting for fonts in Word 2003, Word 2002 and Word 2000
Discusses the use of fonts and provides troubleshooting procedures for fonts in Word 2003, Word 2002 and Word 2000.
How to copy text and graphics from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files
Describes how to copy text and graphics from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. You cannot convert documents directly from Adobe PDF format to a Word document file. This article contains a link to the Adobe Support site.
Blue wavy lines that appear under text indicate Format Consistency Checker is working in Word
Describes the fact that blue wavy lines that appear under text indicate that the Format Consistency Checker is working in Word.

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Issues that are fixed in the update to the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
Describes several issues that are resolved after you install the updated Office Compatibility Pack. Describes how to obtain and install the update for the Compatibility Pack.
Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: February 12, 2007
Describes the Word 2003 issues that are fixed in the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package that is dated February 12, 2007.
Carriage returns in a document variable are lost after you save a Word 2003 document in the Open XML (.docx) file format
Fixes an issue in which carriage returns in a document variable are lost after you save a Word 2003 document in Open XML (.docx) file format

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Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 3 issues hotfix package: December 17, 2007
Resolves the two issues in which you modify a table, and the changes take longer than expected to appear, and in which you cannot set .DOCX as the default file save-as format for World 2003 documents.
Keyboard customizations are not preserved when you reopen an RTF document in Word 2007 or in Word 2003
Explains that keyboard customizations are not preserved when you create the keyboard customization by using Word 2007 or Word 2003 using one format, such as .doc, and then reopen the same document in the Rich Text Format.
Date, Phone Number, and Currency fields are merged incorrectly when you use an Access or Excel data source in Word
Discusses a problem that occurs where the Date, Phone Number, and Currency fields are not merged correctly when you use OLEDB with a Microsoft Access or with a Microsoft Excel data source to perform a mail merge.

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WebCast: How to use Microsoft Office Word 2003 as your XML editor

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