Almost everything is fixed.  

Well I am not near completion, but will continue to manuelly correct it and hope it straightens out, thanks kayla..:)

Oh bless you loverbear, are you sure you don't need them? That would help a lot, since I am using word more now than ever since I started writing. What can I do to help you with expenses?

That is why loverbear is offering me her manuels, but thanks for the info. I never changed from my first story or what I did on my first ten pages of my second one, so I may have accidentally done something without knowing what..

It is always a good idea, especially when doing a great deal of editing in a document, to save the document periodically. Until you save the file, Word holds all of the edits in RAM and can sometimes behave unpredictably when the document is large with a lot of unsaved edits. I have had occasions when Word became unworkably slow and even gave out of memory messages with a large document and a PC with very little RAM. The solution was always to save the document, wait until the memory was cleared (or even to close Word, restart it and re-open the document) and continue. Ctrl-S is one of the most useful hot keys in Word. Use it routinely about every 10 or 15 minutes (depending on how fast you type).

I'd accept Loverbear's offer gratefully! It is a pain, I know, to have to relearn some things about a package which you have been using quite happily for ages. Stylesheets are not, I have found, the easiest thing to get one's head around but, believe me, once you do you will wonder why you didn't use them before!

Most people who are self-taught in Word have no idea that they exist (or that everyone uses them without realising). Nearly all new documents are based on the default stylesheet, normal.dot, and if you start typing a letter, change some formatting and hit that 'Default' button on the Format dialog, you have changed something in normal.dot and when you go back to a previous document you suddenly find that something has changed!

I not only save it every few lines, but I save it on my flash drive so whatever happens, it is safe. As for taking loverbear up on her offer, oh yes, I will, thanks owlwings..

Making frequent backups on a flash drive is very good practice however, you should NOT open the file from the flash drive because (a) a flash drive can be slower than a hard disk, (b) Word uses the folder that the file is stored in to create temporary files so is constantly writing to disk as you edit and (c) flash drives have a limited life defined by the number of write operations (several million usually but each write operation done by Word as you edit the file counts and can significantly shorten the life of a flash drive).

The best practice is to create the file on the hard disk and, at the end of a writing or editing session, to copy the file to your flash drive (overwriting any previous versions if you wish, though some people like to keep previous versions by giving each version its own file name according to some system). When you want to use the file again, copy the latest version from the flash drive to your working area on the hard disk and open it from there.

I have found that, although flash drives are far more reliable (and store much more data) than the old floppy disk, when they do fail, they do so without warning and dramatically. Whereas a floppy will often give indications that it is about to turn its toes to the sky and, when it does, it is nearly always possible to retrieve at least some of the data, a flash drive simply dies without warning and all the data on it becomes inaccessible. The moral is: Treat your media with respect; understand the limitations and NEVER trust any one media type implicitly!

Thanks Hatley, I'll try that but usually when I do, that feature doesn't really work for me..