In the December 2005 item “How to Fix a Scrambled Registry,” a reader asked how to repair a Word file that refused to open in Word. Since I assumed a worst-case situation, in which the registry was scrambled and thus all the Word files were similarly afflicted, I offered a

Stanley Zarowin, a former JofA senior editor, is now a contributing editor. His e-mail address is zarowin@mindspring.com . Do you have technology questions for this column? Or, after reading an answer, do you have a better solution? Send them to contributing editor Stanley Zarowin via e-mail at zarowin@mindspring.com or regular

I often receive documents that contain many hyperlinks—links to Web sites and e-mail addresses. I have to go through the entire document and convert the hyperlinks to regular text one at a time. Is there a faster way to do that? For those who aren’t familiar with hyperlink elimination, here’s

I can copy a word or a group of contiguous words and paste it in another location in a document. But is there a way to copy a bunch of words in different parts of the document and then selectively paste them in different places? Say hello to the Office

Here’s a tip sent by reader Mike Hendricks, CPA, cost accounting manager of Yarnell Ice Cream Co., Searcy, Ark.: If you have a range of data you need to keep together—for instance, a lookup table—you can anchor it without using dollar signs, such as in $A$1:$Z$50 . Do this instead: