Thursday; computer troubles...

[ozarque]

One of the things that happened when we moved was the discovery that there was no way my antique Macintosh could be made to work in our new apartment. Which means that I now have an iMac with many bells and whistles. That's good -- except when it gets in the way of getting my work done

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try it with non-important things first?

[tkil]

It might be worth "losing" a day just playing around with the software. That's how I learned most of the packages I used. (And working with "junk documents" means that I never had to worry about losing real work, etc.)

I also sympathize with fighting against Word; I've been using it on both Mac and PC for almost 20 years, and the new "ribbon" interface does nothing but get in my way. As far as I'm concerned, Word 4 on the Mac was just about the perfect WYSIWYG word processor; everything since then has been bells and whistles.

Regarding your specifics, assuming you're using a fairly recent version of Word (I've got 2008):

Headers and Footers:
1. View -> Print Layout
2. View -> Header and Footer
You can insert page numbers and other things using Insert -> AutoText. If you have the formatting palette open, you can also control whether you have different odd/even headers, or whether the header should appear on the first page of each section.

Pagination: Not sure exactly what you mean here. Word continuously auto-paginates; you shouldn't have to do it yourself. If you want to force a page break, you can use Insert -> Breaks -> Page Break.

(If you're doing each chapter as a separate document, then there are other techniques for having Word automatically run page numbers through them. Honestly, on modern hardware, there shouldn't be nearly as much need to do that. Using a single document with sections for chapters is much easier to manage.)

Italicize and Underline: These are pretty universal across all Mac applications. Select the text you want to modify, and then hold down the Command key (Apple key, four-leaf-clover key) and press I (for italics), B (for bold), or U (for underline). You can also use the formatting palette, or even Format -> Font... for full details.

(Aside: if you have many separate parts of your manuscript that you want to have in a consistent format, you might consider using named styles instead of doing manual formatting on a case-by-case basis. E.g., if I were writing a paper that had many code samples in it, I would set up a separate style for the code. In addition to ensuring consistency, I can also change all the instances of that style at once.)

Hope this helps. If you're using 2011, the instructions are probably different; if so, please let me know, and I'll see if I can try to help you further.

Good luck!