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Looking at the list in Control Panel Add/Remove, I don’t see a Works Add-in for Word. MS Works is there. I am not prompted to save normal.dot on exiting Word. It just does it everytime. If it is not harming anything, maybe I’ll just let things be are they are.

Hurray, that did it. Many thanks for the tip.

You can’t just select just the bullet to change just the bullet font size.

I had never looked at this tool bar and I am not familiar with how it work. I tried it and the check box appears to be a field, which is not what I want. I just want a simple shadow box. I have since created the shadow boxes by formatting bullets as a shadow box. That works, but I would like to have the shadow box a bit larger.

The only add-in is palmapp.dot. This is on my other machines which does not save normal.dot on exit. However, the copy of Word 2000 on the machine that is saving normal.dot was installed with Works Suite 2000, but I don’t see any add-in that could be causing this save.

I don’t want to remove the MRU list of fonts completely, just one font that I accidently used, and probably won’t use again. Will the registry change you suggest clean up all my MRU fonts and let me start a new MRU list? If so, that is OK.

Steve,
I think you are wrong. The “Like Current Folder” button in the Folder Options View tab does not hold the sort placing the most recent file first. Try this and I think you will agree: Open any folder in MS Explorer. Go to Tools | View and select Details. Then click on the column heading “Modified”. This will sort the files with the most recent first. Then go back to the View menu and select List. You now have the List view with the most recent file first. Now go to Tools | Folder Options and select the View tab. Click on the “Like Current Folder” button. Then close the Explorer folder. Now reopen the folder or any other folder. You will find the sort back with the oldest file first.

If anyone is drafting “Windows 2000 Annoyances”, in my opinion this should be the first chapter.

Yes, that can be done, but it takes at least 4 clicks of the mouse, and the sort doesn’t stick. The next time you open the folder in List view it’s back in the sort by oldest file first. I like List view as it enables me to see the maximum number of files in the window. Details view limits the Window to about 25. It would seem logical that if MS wanted to have it only one way, it should have been most recent first. All other MRU lists are that way, fonts in Word for example. Woody are you listening?

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Sounds like a carbon copy of my system. I have been reading MS Windows 2000 Professional, Published by Microsoft, by Stinson & Siechert. What would be the advantage of the dual boot capability, once I upgrade to W2K?

It has been a long time (years) since I have booted to a DOS prompt and I am struggling to think of a reason or a situation that I would need to. I am running a small home office network with 3 computers. I plan to leave the other 2 computers on Windows 98 for at least the near term, but the one I use for the “heavy lifting” I plan to upgrade to W2K. From what I have been reading it seems NTFS should be the file system of choice. The advantages being: Security, Compression, Recovery, Encryption, Capacity, etc. On the other hand, FAT is compatible with Win 9x, but I don’t plan to dual boot with Win 9x, and I plan to leave all my other drives running FAT32. Unless there is a compelling reason, I plan to use NTFS on the drive that I will install Windows 2000.