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I think it's worth considering Libreoffice in addition to or in place of Microsoft Word. Libreoffice is freely available for many platforms, uses open and documented file formats, and has an API for user code.

If only one person (rather than several) does the formatting mentioned in Monica's question, and if that person has Microsoft Word 2010 and prefers using it, then Libreoffice is irrelevant. Otherwise, finding out if it can do the job, and how many persons can or will use it, are relevant concerns.

The balance of this answer provides some feedback on how Isaac Moses's documents look on my system. (Most of the screen captures shown below appeared about 4" high on my screen.)

snap of Isaac Moses's link snap of PDF linked at Isaac Moses's link

The above pictures show the appearances of Isaac Moses's link and its PDF document (129034874-Kiddush-Sample.pdf). [I regard the lightweight sans serif font with oversized capitals as not suitable, although the Hebrew script in that document looks better than the Libreoffice font, below.]

The next picture shows the appearance of the source questionsource question on my screen.

snap of Original question

The two pictures below show the source question cut-and-pasted (with no editing to remove links) into Libreoffice writer, and the result of clicking the PDF button, ie about 3 seconds of work to cut, paste, and click the PDF button. snap of paste into Libreoffice snap of PDF from Libreoffice

I think it's worth considering Libreoffice in addition to or in place of Microsoft Word. Libreoffice is freely available for many platforms, uses open and documented file formats, and has an API for user code.

If only one person (rather than several) does the formatting mentioned in Monica's question, and if that person has Microsoft Word 2010 and prefers using it, then Libreoffice is irrelevant. Otherwise, finding out if it can do the job, and how many persons can or will use it, are relevant concerns.

The balance of this answer provides some feedback on how Isaac Moses's documents look on my system. (Most of the screen captures shown below appeared about 4" high on my screen.)

snap of Isaac Moses's link snap of PDF linked at Isaac Moses's link

The above pictures show the appearances of Isaac Moses's link and its PDF document (129034874-Kiddush-Sample.pdf). [I regard the lightweight sans serif font with oversized capitals as not suitable, although the Hebrew script in that document looks better than the Libreoffice font, below.]

The next picture shows the appearance of the source question on my screen.

snap of Original question

The two pictures below show the source question cut-and-pasted (with no editing to remove links) into Libreoffice writer, and the result of clicking the PDF button, ie about 3 seconds of work to cut, paste, and click the PDF button. snap of paste into Libreoffice snap of PDF from Libreoffice

I think it's worth considering Libreoffice in addition to or in place of Microsoft Word. Libreoffice is freely available for many platforms, uses open and documented file formats, and has an API for user code.

If only one person (rather than several) does the formatting mentioned in Monica's question, and if that person has Microsoft Word 2010 and prefers using it, then Libreoffice is irrelevant. Otherwise, finding out if it can do the job, and how many persons can or will use it, are relevant concerns.

The balance of this answer provides some feedback on how Isaac Moses's documents look on my system. (Most of the screen captures shown below appeared about 4" high on my screen.)

snap of Isaac Moses's link snap of PDF linked at Isaac Moses's link

The above pictures show the appearances of Isaac Moses's link and its PDF document (129034874-Kiddush-Sample.pdf). [I regard the lightweight sans serif font with oversized capitals as not suitable, although the Hebrew script in that document looks better than the Libreoffice font, below.]

The next picture shows the appearance of the source question on my screen.

snap of Original question

The two pictures below show the source question cut-and-pasted (with no editing to remove links) into Libreoffice writer, and the result of clicking the PDF button, ie about 3 seconds of work to cut, paste, and click the PDF button. snap of paste into Libreoffice snap of PDF from Libreoffice

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I think it's worth considering Libreoffice in addition to or in place of Microsoft Word. Libreoffice is freely available for many platforms, uses open and documented file formats, and has an API for user code.

If only one person (rather than several) does the formatting mentioned in Monica's question, and if that person has Microsoft Word 2010 and prefers using it, then Libreoffice is irrelevant. Otherwise, finding out if it can do the job, and how many persons can or will use it, are relevant concerns.

The balance of this answer provides some feedback on how Isaac Moses's documents look on my system. (Most of the screen captures shown below appeared about 4" high on my screen.)

snap of Isaac Moses's link snap of PDF linked at Isaac Moses's link

The above pictures show the appearances of Isaac Moses's link and its PDF document (129034874-Kiddush-Sample.pdf). [I regard the lightweight sans serif font with oversized capitals as not suitable, although the Hebrew script in that document looks better than the Libreoffice font, below.]

The next picture shows the appearance of the source question on my screen.

snap of Original question

The two pictures below show the source question cut-and-pasted (with no editing to remove links) into Libreoffice writer, and the result of clicking the PDF button, ie about 3 seconds of work to cut, paste, and click the PDF button. snap of paste into Libreoffice snap of PDF from Libreoffice