Glad you got it figured out.
Start here (even if it seems like it is stuff you already know or don't need). It should take less than half a day to go through all of her articles and you will save yourself untold grief.
Basic Concepts of Microsoft Word - from Shauna Kelly
It isn't the things we don't know that cause problems, it is the things we don't know that we don't know - our assumptions - that cause problems.