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"before 2002 if you wanted to change the format of 10 chapter headings scattered throughout your document, you would have to find and change each one individually. "

Not correct. Back in Word 6 you could update styles across a document and in 97 and 2000 you can do search and replaces of styles.

Word X.1.4, Mac G4, OS X.2.6, Very experienced user.
Discovered that the wildcard function in Find & Replace is
severely limited relative to Word 2001. The curly brackets {}
are not recognized, i.e. "a{2,12}" should find and highlight
strings of "a" where there are between 2 and 12 a's in a
row. But the search finds each individual "a" and highlights
one "a" at a time.
QUESTION: is it only me, or is it a bug?

In old version of excel if you had a macro or any links the values would be display if the link was not there. In Excel XP the expression shows up. How do I get the values to show.

Go to Tools -> Options -> Calculation -> select Save External Linked Values for your worksheet. When you open your file, click "No" when asked if you want to update the workbook with changes made to the other workbook.

Check the formulas box to view formulas - as far as macros, you can see the list if you choose "run macros"

I have an access form where I need to insert the current date and time into two text boxes (restime & resdate)when a command button (cmdres)is clicked. I know this can be done with VB but I have no idea where to begin any ideas?

Create an "On Click" event.
Then set resdate equal to Date and restime equal to Time:

Private Sub cmdres_Click()
Me!restime = Time
Me!resdate = Date
End Sub

Each time the command button is clicked, the current date and time will appear.