thanks. sorry, but I was a little irritated my last post...absolutely nothing personal. I adjusted to FrameMaker when I had a seminal paper to produce, a six-month full-time process after long periods of frustration because everything I did was eventually ported to PDF for distribution and Adobe just made those transitions complete and seamless...never a boobytrap.

working with Word now and having all my output ported to PDF it just seems to be a minefield, one mystifying setback after another. in my heart I know that I'm approaching retirement and need to prepare for obsolescence but, shit, I stayed on top of things for 40 years.

Thanks for your inputs. I sincerely appreciate the help. I guess my time is just up. my degree in computer science required semesters of slide rule and typing for punched cards. ha, I begged, borrowed, and would've stolen to get my HP-35, $400 in 1972, a veritable fortune and worth every penny. every time I find myself in Walgreens I take a moment to veer by the battery section where I see 3$ pocket calculators that can run circles around my old HP-35 without getting winded.

I'm signing off...God bless you all.