I have what might be seen as an extreme view, because I used to work in a print company and would get lots of Word files to deal with and get to a state where they can be printed upon a press, perhaps as a book, booklet or magazine or whatever.
....Don't use Word at all for anything!
For word processing use Notepad or if you're really fussy use Wordpad. For DTP use a DTP program. Optimally use Quark Xpress which was given away FREE here in the UK last year several times with several magazines (v5, very nice, I registered two copies for future expansion of ebbs studio?!?!). Or else try Serif PagePlus v9 for $9.99 which supports Pantone colours and PDF output. Or make the complete pages in Xara like Angelize suggests.