If you haven't already noticed, your toolbars and menus in Office 2000 have a different appearance than those in Office 97. The new Office applications have toolbars sharing one row and menus showing recently used commands first.
Word provides paragraph and font information.
When the pointer changes to a question mark, click the paragraph or character you want information about. Nonbreaking spaces offer a dependable way to ensure that your document doesn't contain confusing text breaks. Or, when you type a date such as January 25, you want to make sure Word doesn't place January and 25 on different lines. Word displays this space with a degree symbol. Occasionally you'll have data in a range of cells that you'd like split apart into separate worksheet columns.