I have been working at finding away to change the default font on all documents since this thread started. No matter what I clicked on the starter version came up so I thought that might be my problem. I finally uninstalled MS Office Starter and MS Office Student and Home, then just reinstalled the student and home. I still could not get the font style to stay at what I set it. I thought about what was said about the 2003 version and opened a blank page, set the font and single space, went to file and chose "save as". A menu came up and I chose to saveto my desktop as MS Word 97-2003 Template (.dot) and made a shortcut, so far it has held. In case some else is still having this problem I am posting my results. None of the other ways worked for me, a new document always came up with Office's default settings.

I have to disagree here. Finalizing is what is done on CD-R disks, I don't recall ever finalizing a CD-RW disk since the purpose of CD-RWs are to be reusable. Finalizing will render the disk unwritable in the future. CD-RWs can be tricky. They're not always compatible between cd drives. Also, CD-R disks don't always have to be finalized. It depends on the hardware being used. Once a disk is finalized, you cannot add any more to it. However before that you can and in a sense use it like a CD-RW. Again, it's not a clear issue. Sue, I'm a little unclear on what you're trying to do. Saving it to a disk certainly isn't just because you ran out of ink, at least I HOPE not! Are you trying to have someone else print it for you? If so, you could use a USB "flash" type drive if you or they have one. I think everyone should have a couple of those around anyway. They're the modern day "diskette". Another option is to email the file to get it printed. Also, if you're looking to have another person print it for you, be sure they have WordPerfect or a conversion program. Or you could print it to a .PDF and then they could open that if they have a program that will open .PDFs. Back to saving it onto CD. If you have XP or Vista, you should be able to just drag and drop it onto the icon for your CD writer drive, or click the save and save it to that drive. It should walk you through writing it to the disk. Once written, I'd suggest you rename the file on the drive, for instance rename it from "document.wpd" to "document1.wpd", then try to open the document on the CD. The reason for renaming the original file is if it was just a link, it would open the file on the drive rather than on the disk and this would be a double check. You could then name the original file back to the original name if you desired. HOWEVER, again, this does not guarantee that the disk will be readable on another machine. Things have improved over the years, but right now, CDRW is a relatively "old" technology and not being developed. BTW, jemdandy's comments are good to help make it more likely to be read on different machines. Hope I haven't thoroughly confused you!

" if I had school age kids in today's world, they would not be going to a public school. it isn't that they have more important things to teach kids today, it's that they have ridiculous things to indoctrinate the kids with, instead of the basics.." Please share your public school conspiracy theory with us. It's funny, because if anything, the many private schools run by religious extremist groups serve up plenty of propaganda. What school parents send kids to is a choice, if private tuition can be afforded, but that doesn't negate the tremendous importance of public schools to all of us. Having the best possible public schools is essential, they educate the majority of tomorrow's members of our communities and our society. It's a serious responsibility and one that private schools will never fill. AND, in my opinion, learning cursive writing just isn't an essential skill. olychick, cursive writing and its appearance and patterns are quite different in Europe than here. It may be that what you wrote wasn't legible for them. Or, it hit someone on the wrong day and they didn't want to try. Just as with speaking slowly using simple words for a foreign audience, block letters (which are also somewhat different) are the best choice when you know the writing will be read by a non-American.

I've scanned from a Canon pixma MP495 to the computer. Wish I could help more but I was feeling my way, too. The two things I can say is: my printer has a SCAN button and I may have just pushed that instead of black/color. AND I got the printer from a friend with no instructions and no disc, so I don't think that is what is stopping you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just did it again. Opened printer from desktop, selected scan on that screen. It scanned and sent to "my pictures" . HTH