My Microsoft Word program has become just about useless.  I copy some text 
to the clipboard from my browser and try to paste it into Word and although 
my "normal" text is Trebuchet 12, Word pastes it in Constantina 12, which, 
so far as I know, I haven't chosen for anything at all (doesn't matter if I 
put the choicebox with the paste or not.  I can choose "match destination" 
and Word just ignores it).

When I select all or part of what I pasted and choose another font (or 
another point size) Word claims to have changed it in the text box on the 
toolbar, but it looks exactly the same in the document.  I have tried 
changing any settings that might be relevant, all to no avail.

Templates have always seemed erratic and poorly thought out to me, but now 
it's just unusable.  Word also takes a very long time to close.  When I try 
to select a draft font, the only choices are a few heading fonts, "normal" 
not being in the list.  I'm about ready to toss this in the garbage and get 
some non-M$ solution.  There must be something that doesn't keep falling 
apart like Word does.  I've always had problems with it, thru 4 different 
machines, although I do have to say, Word 2000 was not as bad as Word 2003. 
What is a good Word processor?  OpenOffice? WordPerfect?    Thanks guys.... 
AnnaSummers 

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