I prefer manual selection

This message is to TechRepublic, more than to the author. The presentation format of this article (and many of those like it) of showing each screen shot per page is terrible and is a drag. Many times, I find it takes a while to load and format each separate page. The wait is just ridiculous, sometimes, up to a minute. Not only do I wait for the page to load, depending on the network usage, but then the page needs to format itself. At some point, the frustration is too much and I quit without finishing the article.

Can you get all of the screen shots and explanations into one single web page? Yes, it may be long and we readers may need to scroll it down. But, at least we do not need to wait (and have our browsers stall) while it is loading. An alternative is to add a button to the web page that automatically opens the article into new tabs on the browser.

You have a great topic worth reading and the content is great, but the presentation is terrible.

Does Ctrl+Shift+8 still toggle formatting marks? I haven't seen any need to upgrade since Office 2K, so I can't test it.

Don't forget to turn off "Automatically use suggestions from the spelling checker." There's a reason they don't call it a "spelling fixer." It does a great job of identifying strings that aren't English words, but a lousy job of reading the writer's mind to figure out what word he or she had in mind in the first place. The right word will usually be on the suggestion list, but it often won't be at the top!