Word can't break in to them to add text, but this doesn't mean you've got to settle with how they appear on the Word page. Use Word's text boxes to layer your documents, adding text to scanned files.

An alternative to using VBA would be to open the doc in Word 2003 or 2007, and save in the 2003 xml format. <BR><BR>The Word 2003 xml format is a single document (unlike the 2007 docx), so you ...

In this month's Q&A, Susan Harkins shows a reader two simple techniques for repeating text in Word.

When you need to select all the footnotes in a document, these two manual methods--or one VBA procedure--will get the job done.