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I hate to use columns as I always find them quirky. What I have recently done is to use tables (with the grid lines hidden) instead of columns. With tables I can tweak all sorts of things that I can not do with columns and do not get all the problems that I inevitably get when using columns.

Bingo! It seems that Acrobat 5.0 was the culprit. When I removed it Word went away from startup. I have no idea why, but it is gone. I have chosen to only have the reader installed on this machine now as the whole program is really clunky and has serious memory leaks – we will just use it on the big Micron (700+mgs of RAM!) where we run autoCAD and need it for drawing export.

Another question –
I just was reading an old Langa List on XP
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2001/2001-10-29.htm#5
where I learned that HP has a custom boot loader. (The new machine that Phillips Magnavox is sending me is an HP 900mhz). Might I be best served if the first thing I do, before installing anything else, is to reformat the C drive and then install Windows ME? Will that get rid of the custom boot loader? I guess an HP 900 with a 30 GIG hard drive is better than the Quantex 600 with a 20 GIG they are replacing, but I used to buy Quantex (before they went soooo sour) because there were no hassles with any proprietary stuff.

We are using Windows 98 SE on a Pentium III 600 system

What would happen if you removed all the “Times” fonts from you system by going onto setting ->fonts and highlighting them and hitting “delete”? I just tired it on my system and then when I opened word Georgia came up as the default font . I have since restored Times from my recycle bin and Times now comes up again when I open Word, but I think this will at least leave you free of Times (of course if you don’t like Georgia then you might have to remove that, etc. until there is nothing left in Microsoft’s line of font choices for us. Perhaps then you will be able to set your own font for default. Or perhaps not.

I have tried to place a large washed out picture (our logo) behind text in a table on a number of pages in my web site. I clicked on the picture and used the send to the back button. The automatically changed to the absolute position button which was OK with me. I previewed it (I used IE) and although I didn’t quite like the position I published it anyway (after trying to change the position unsuccessfully). I now find out that in Netscape it is NOT behind the text, etc. making the site unreadable and unnavigatable. I am not a happy camper . See http://www.thenationalcoalition.org to see what I mean.

Is there anything I can do make this work? I do not want to use the pix as a watermark as I don’t want it tiling, I use it in frames pages, etc.[

Thanks so much!

What I would do (and this might not be the way to do it but it works for me) is to put a text box in the spot where you want the formatted fraction.
I would first make the text box large and type the fraction (with the top number underlined), hit enter and then type the bottom number. I would then format the text box to have no fill, no line and have internal margins of .00 top, bottom, left and right. I would then select all the text, and hit Control+[ until I got the font to be adequately small (using Control+[ permits one to make the font smaller than the 6-8 point minimum that one can do via the formatting toolbar). Then drag a corner of the text box so that it just fits around the fraction and make sure that the text box will move with the text, etc.