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Forgive me if this is not the right newsgroup to post or if the questions
have been asked before.  Please direct me to the proper source.

I ran into a couple situation where I could not make MS Word work as it
was supposed to.  I am using Word 5.1a (same problems with 4.x).

1) I have a 37-page document that consists of text and graphics drawn with
MacDraft intermix throughout the document.  Each page ends by a manually
inserted page break (for transparency generation purpose).  I also have a
footer holding a *thick* line (created under border option), date, and page
number.  When I print the document out, the line in footer of the pages that
follow (MacDraft) figures always turns into *thin* line.  The footer-line on
figure page itself comes out fine.  A few pages later, it switches back to
thick again.  The *only* way I could fix it is to individually edit the
thin-line footer page by adding some text before page break, and immediately
delete the added text.  Print *that* page all by itself to get the thick
line back.

What must I do to get the thick-line footer I want without going through
the trouble of manually editing each page? 

2) This is a similar scenario that keeps me baffled for a long time.  Again
I pasted a number of (MacDraft) figures in my MS Word document.  For unknown
reasons, *some* of the thick lines in the figures came out thin.  One very
frustrated scenario is a couple of rectangular drawings using line size=1
(sometimes 2).  On some occasions, the top rectangle (closest to the text)
comes out thin, whereas the bottom rectangle comes out correctly.  The
reverse is true on other occasions.  This is shown in the figure below:

			lots of text
		+-------------------------------+
		|	top drawing		|
		+-------------------------------+
		+-------------------------------+
		|	bottom drawing		|
		+-------------------------------+
			more text

What must I do to rectify the problem?  Is this an MS Word bug?  Even the
experts in our school could not help me, how can I contact Microsoft for
technical support?  (preferably email, I cannot afford long distance phone:-()

Any help or pointers would be very much appreciated.

	Regards,
	  Peraphon