[X Newbies] MS Word Problems [Was: Alternatives to Word/MS Office]

[marina]

 >[This is already a different issue. Perhaps it might make things
 >easier, marina, if you broke down your posts in separate chunks dealing
 >with specific issues.]

You are perfectly right, Alex. This conversation has (naturally) shifted
and progressed along interweaving paths, and has now ended up moving quite
far from the original question I asked.

I am not sure it would be any help for anybody if we followed yet another
bend in the road - and this is basically because Word users who are happy
with Word will keep using it, and those who are not happy will [probably
keep fighting with it, and also] continue looking for alternatives... or
hoping that the "next version of Word" will fix the many bugs and
idiosyncrasies they find particularly annoying.

I would appreciate it very much if someone could offer advice on how to
tame Word, of course, but because this has very little to do with Mac OSX,
I believe it'd be more appropriate if I asked this Word-centric type of
questions on a different forum.

Apologies for taking up so much bandwidth and time, and thank you for the
valuable help many of you have offered,

Cheers :-)

marina