Thank you very much for the reply! Yes, I totally agree. There ARE better tools, and maybe I should just opt for them but I don't feel like what I'm doing is particularly complex. (Is it?) So I'm hopeful of figuring it out.

About documentation...do you have any good suggestions? I have read (and even bought!) several books on typesetting in Word, and have looked at a number of web pages and have enough of a sense of it to think that I SHOULD know what they're doing...but obviously that's not the case.

Part of it is not knowing the right terminology for searching, too.

Do you know if I make a test document (I'm working with a Save As version, so I'm not concerned about messing up my real one) can I save it somehow and use it as a template for the real one? Or do I just learn the steps and such with it, then chuck it and do everything over again?

Thank you for the suggestions! Ideally, I'll have some replies with more info/answers, too...but...this is a start! :-)