Word drives me crazy. The first thing I hate is the 'auto' features - auto bulleting, auto spelling, auto typing...to turn off all that stuff, go under 'Tools,' 'Autocorrect.' Go to all the tabs and de-select all those features.

Next thing I hate is when I am trying to tab the second line of a sentence to line up with the tabbed-in first line, and the first line jumps back a tab! How annoying! But you can get around this by hitting a carriage return at the beginning of the wrapped second line. Notice how the second line does not move down a line like you would expect it to. Now you can tab to your heart's content.

Tip - insert a page break by hitting shift and the enter key that is on the numeric keypad part of the keyboard.

One thing that took me forever to figure out is how to apply formatting to mail merge codes. The only way I found out was by turning on balloon help while mail merging. To format the fields, after you input them in the merge window but before you hit the merge button, highlight the field in question and then control-click it to get font/paragraph menus. Another tip - if you are using an Excel spreadsheet for your merge data, open the spreadsheet in Word. If you just tell it to use the closed spreadsheet file, it will try to launch Excel and, in my experience, it hangs up every time.

Here is the general process for using a spreadsheet to create a merge file:

Open your data doc in excel, remove extra lines, put in header lines.
Save, close
Open doc in word, save as word doc, close
Go to Tools---envelopes and labels--set up proper template
Go to Tools---mail merge
Create mailing labels using active doc set up above, hit merge