Thank you for your prompt reply, elk! Unfortunately, this had no effect. As a matter of fact, a new problem developed. Now occasionally when I'm correcting the problem, it is changing the text/paragraph formatting after I delete the word. This is really a problem, and a bug I'd expect to find in a free program. I wouldn't have purchased if it happened during trial. Any other ideas? Thanks again!
ETA: I am now unable to get through 2-3 pages without this happening. Restarting Word seems to fix it, but this isn't really acceptable to do this frequently in my line of work. Ty!