Nonnie, please don't take offense but I think the problem is more with you being a novice than with Wordperfect. I say that based on a couple clues you give me in your post. One thing is WordPerfect will accept any universal graphics format. Those do not include graphics generated in program-specific formats like Print Shop or Master Prints and other such programs. Universal formats include bmp, jpg, tif, wmf, eps, pcx, png, and there are many others, but these are the most common. WordPerfect will accept all of these and most (if not all) of the others. And, of course, it accepts its own format wpg. To find out what it will accept, go to Insert Picture as if you are going to insert one. Click on the Files of Type arrow at the bottom and scroll to see what all is in there. Files of any other type will not be compatible, which means you might have to tell it to accept more if it isn't already programmed to do that. This is part of setup and is located on your WordPerfect installation disk. Concerning the article you are trying to put into your document, I don't know what that is. Is it type-written words or is it a graphic image? Is it a WordPerfect document? A Word document? A document created in some other program? Or a graphic clip that someone sent you? And how are you trying to insert it? If it is type written, is it possible to copy and paste it in? Please give a little more information? Increasing memory, as Owbist suggested, is always a good. I do know Word is the more popular word processing program used these days, but WordPerfect is also powerful and nothing snuff at LOL. I can understand the documents you receive from people are usually written in Word and having Word will make like a lot easier for you. So, to answer your question, yes you can install and run Word without having to uninstall WordPerfect. Installing Word is simple enough. The installation Wizard will walk you through it. You just follow the instructions on the screen and answer the questions it asks. You may want to instruct submissions to limit file types and size. If I were you, I'd make that only bmp formats because they don't blur or distort as readily as jpg formatted images. Also, people will send 10mg files because they don't know any better. You may want to tell them to limit file size to 1mg or 2 or 3 so you are able to manage the size and functionability of your newsletter pages(s). If you ever have to take your newsletter to a service bureau for printing, they will require jpg images only, so you will need to know that when instructing submissions.

"Shut down" any program means to make that window active and then click the x at the upper right hand margin. Then shut down your PC, start it up again once it's fully off, and restart Word. I think what you're experiencing is sometimes when you open a file that has settings that are different from your own personal defaults, they stay active until you open one of the preset templates that have been established for your own Word installation. I'm a Word novice, and I could be using the wrong words, but if you go out and come back in again, I think you're find it back it's gone back to "normal".

My hubby was using a router for a wood project I had. He slipped somehow and routed one of his fingers. After we got him to the hospital, I thought I'd be brave and stay in the room while they stitched him up. First injection to numb, the needle went deep into his finger and they were picking me up off the floor and taking me out of the room. Fortunately, they didn't need my help in there. Moni, I hope you're feeling better!

Most likely the problem you're having with Preview, is that you've enlarged the pdf so large that parts of it are now on new pages - pg2, pg3, etc - which is why it doesn't look right. But since it doesn't look right, then you can decide not to print and try a diff scale - saving some ink and paper. I don't think you can enlarge the text separate from the whole page - like in a word processing program - it all enlarges as a whole. The trick is to enlarge/zoom as much as possible, but still have it print on to one page. I don't know what pdf viewer you're using. But with Foxit Reader that I'm using, there is a "Snapshot" function on the Home tab, where you can outline a selection of the pdf, and print just that. But that's probably not a great solution either, although it's an easier way to do your print screen idea. Also . . . There is the print dialog box that pops up upon Print, and then on that dialog box, there is the printer's own driver dialog box that you get when you click "Properties" next to the selected printer (up at the top). Some of those Properties have features where you can print as a poster, banner, etc., but that would probably be unwieldy and take a lot of experimentation. The idea would be to try and print a page of a pdf - but enlarged, and over a number of pages in some kind of orderly fashion.