You're welcome, Theresa. The way MS Word handles headers and footers-especially the way they're related to sections-is dreadful. The vast majority of formatting questions I get from the (very smart) analysts at work have to do with them. I prefer to do my own writing in Word now, but only because I had to learn to make it do my bidding for my job. Otherwise, I'd run away screaming.
If you select the bulleted text and then go to Format, Bullets & Numbering, and select None, the bullet formatting should disappear, leaving you with list items separated only by carriage returns. If that doesn't work, but you can make other formatting changes, then you may have a virus.
The strikethrough text: go to View, and click Markup to turn it off. Depending on your version, you may also have a drop-down box on your toolbar that will say something like Final Showing Markup or Original Showing Markup. Select Final or Original instead. Your text should go back to normal.
Teresa:
There's a button on the Header and Footer toolbar (the one that comes up when you click View/Header and Footer). It's got a little hand holding a page with a # sign on it. Click that to bring up the Page Number Format box. There you can set the page numbering to Start at: the page of your choice.
Check whether your document has sections, and whether the Different First Page option is checked on the Layout page in Page Setup-those options can play havoc with your page numbering.
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