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Darwin is an open source POSIX compliant computer operating system released by Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NEXTSTEP, FreeBSD, and other free software projects.

MirOS is available as a BSD flavour which originated as an OpenBSD patchkit, but has grown very much on its own, though still being synchronised with the ongoing development of OpenBSD, thus inheriting most of its good security history.

DragonFly BSD was forked from FreeBSD 4.8 in June of 2003, by Matthew Dillon. The project is "the logical continuation of the FreeBSD 4.x series", as quoted in Matthew Dillon's announcement.

Word automatically converts text you type into fraction characters. Unless you have disabled the feature in Tools | AutoCorrect (Options) | AutoFormat As You Type, whenever you type 1/4, 1/2, or 3/4, Word substitutes the ¼, ½, or ¾ font character. These three characters are found in virtually all fonts, so this feature works reliably. Users often ask whether it is possible to get Word to “create” other fractions in a similar format. Well, yes and no.

Versions of Word prior to Word 2002 don't provide any built-in way to do booklets, although Word 2000 does allow you to print more than one logical page on a physical page. The good news is that Word 2002 has the built-in ability to print booklets with automatically numbered pages.

The Microsoft Word Help suggests that you can automatically generate an index. Sorry, but you can't (the "result" looks like an index, but the reader can't use it). You can automatically mark index entries: however, the amount of work required to edit the result into a useable index is usually double the effort required to manually mark the index entries one-by-one.

When you open a new blank document in Word, you begin typing at the left side of the screen/page and continue typing to the right margin, where Word wraps your text back to the left so you can start again. All your lines of text are full width. But sometimes you need to divide your text into two or more columns.