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Microsoft Word - Capital vs. lower case

Capital vs. lower case

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 11:18 AM PST

why does Word automatically capitalize the beginning word of each new line when it's not the beginning of a sentence?

Check boxes

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 10:05 AM PST

Hi Everyone,

 

Is there a way I can add in some check boxes in my form and use keyboard to make it check or uncheck without clocking the form?

 

Thanks

Chi Huynh

2010 Word docs t/f'd to new laptop are now 97-2003--help to t/f these back to 2010

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 06:58 PM PST

Hello,

 

I just purchased a new Lenovo G580 laptop with Windows 8 64-bit and installed MS Office Professional 2010 on it. I stored my 2010 Word docs from my old computer by emailing them to my Yahoo email account.

 

When I downloaded them from Yahoo! and saved them to my Documents folder and my Desktop on my new computer, many of them are now Microsoft Word 97-2003 docs with .doc extension. Some of them are still .docx from 2010; any new doc I create in my new computer is a 2010 .docx file.


Does anyone know what happened and can anyone tell me how to get these 97-2003 docs back to 2010? I tried to Save As to save as file type '.docx' but it wasn't an option in the drop down. As an aside, I don't see '.docx' as an option on any of the docs, and I thought for sure it was there before. I remember choosing Save As from MS Word 2010 on my old computer and the file type drop down being longer, I may be wrong (maybe I haven't downloaded all the MS updates that I had on my old computer??)

 

Thank you for your help.

 

P.S.

Printer locked up.

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 06:35 PM PST

When printing what I thought was a small article, I had to turn off my printer to prevent an entire book from printing.  Since then I have had an "error" light and cannot print anything --even though I cancelled all items in the print queue, etc.  Local friends could not help.

Lost Document, somewhere between Word and Sharepoint...in the Twilight Zone!

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 03:14 PM PST

An Office 2010 user checked out a word 2010.docx from a Sharepoint 2010 document library and proceeded to spend several hours editing it.

Then he saved the document and closed Word without checking the file back in. When he opened the document again from Sharepoint, it was the original version, with none of his work. We explained to him that since he still had the file checked out, it would not be on the server.  So, here's what we tried:

1. We looked in his MyDocs\Sharepoint Drafts folder, but the file wasn't there.

2. We had him check the file in.  THis should have flushed it up from his PC to the Sharepoint server from wherever it was hiding...but this didn't help.

3. We checked is Word/Options/Save settings and found that they were set to save checked out files to the Office Document Cache, not the Server Drafts location on this computer - which was properly defined as C:\Users\username\Documents\Sharepoint Drafts.

4. We figure that his draft should therefore be in the Office document cache.  But ...where is that???

5. After considerable searching, we found the office document cache but the file was not there.

6. We assume that the files in the office document cache, are what appear in the list when we open Word and see the 'recent documents list....but his draft is not in that list, either.

We thought that Word and Sharepoint were engineered in a way that makes it virtually impossible to 'lose' one's work....if we assume that this user is correct in saying emphatically that he saved the document numerous times during his editing session, as well as having saved it just before he closed it, then it appears that it may be possible to 'lose' your work....at least, so far, we have no clue how/where to find his draft!

What are we missing?

when I want to open word or excel file it says I need office 2010 when I have been using Office 2007 happily for the last 2 years. Is it something to do with windows file associations being changed?

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 12:19 PM PST

All my office icons have automatically changed to orange boxes including all the files in their folders. Since yesterday when I try to open a word or excel file it states that I need office 2010 to proceed. I have office 2007 installed and have had no problems since installation over 2 years ago. When I purchased the PC it came with office 2010 pre installed. Please can anyone shed any light on what has happend and how I can resolve the problem. 

Shapes

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 11:38 AM PST

I have a particular shape with specific attributes that I use a lot in documents (rectangle, fill color = orange, transparency = 60%, line color = blue, line dashed = square dot). Is there a way I can make a style, toolbar button, etc. that will format a shape this way without by having to go to Format Auto Shape and change the attributes each time.

Microsoft Word Photo Mail Merging from Hyperlinks

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 09:37 AM PST

I am trying to run a mail merge from a Microsoft Excel workbook into a Microsoft Word document.  I have been able to make all the fields work, but the photo field is giving me a headache.

My data is formatted in Excel as a set of hyperlinks, and the column name is "Photo."  Here is the field I created (using ctrl+f9 to create the field):

{includepicture "{mergefield photo}"}

This returns me the first photo from the Excel sheet, but when I preview the document or create the new document for the completed merge, every photo is the same as the first one; it's as if it doesn't move to the next cell in the spreadsheet.

This might just be an issue where Microsoft Word is a deficient product; I can't imagine why it wouldn't work, other than that.  But maybe I'm doing it wrong.  But it just seems odd to me that the mail merge can read from one data row to the next when it comes to text, but can't read from one data row to the next when it comes to a hyperlink.

How do I change a word in all occurances in a document in Word2003, E.g., change all the "we"s to "I".

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 09:36 AM PST

How do I change a word in all occurances in a document in Word2003, E.g., change all the "we"s to "I".

can I have different tab settings on the top and the lower part of one page

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 07:43 AM PST

need left tabs up here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

need decimal and right tabs down her

Very slow respose and application crashes

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 12:49 AM PST

Since I upgraded from Office 2010 to 2013 I have noticed a massive general performance drop, and Word and Outlook hang for long periods of time. The screen is usually greyed-out and/or with a "waiting" cursor. The only option is either to wait for ten minutes or more, or to kill the application from the task manager.

 The worst aspect of this is if you try to re-index an existing document, what used to take two to three minutes can now take up to ten times as long, and often the application crashes and the document cannot be repaired.

Is anyone else having these issues, or do you have a solution as this is really causing me a lot of grief?