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Microsoft Word - Making Computer the default to open files

Making Computer the default to open files

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 03:09 PM PDT

When I click on File, the Open screen appears with two panes or frames: OPEN and Recent Documents. The OPEN frame has 4 options: Recent Documents, Computer, SkyDrive and Add a Place.

Is there a way to make Computer the default option, and hide the other options? I have just upgraded from Office 2002 which, compared to 2013 was quite friendly and easier to move around in. I don't care about the other three options. I would like to eliminate the necessity for the extra step.

Date picker on word13

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 01:36 PM PDT

I want to add date picker on my document in word 2013

Eliminating CMY colors from images in Microsoft Word 2013

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 01:11 PM PDT

I am preparing a manuscript in Word 2013 for printing to Adobe pdf and then to submit for Print on Demand. I need to eliminate all CMY color content from the images in my manuscript. The images are mostly clip art and jpgs. I thought I had created all of my images in grayscale, but when I examine then after made into pdf form, every image has CMY color content to varying degrees. My Print on Demand vendor does not support Word (only Quark and InDesign), so I need to figure out how to eliminate all CMY color. Suggestions?

How to get trailing dots?

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 10:47 AM PDT

Hello:

Is there any way to get this:


1.         Call to order – Welcome, introduction, declaring meeting open.........................................................5 min.


with a tab between "1." and "Call" and "5 min." in the right margin?


Thank you!


Hans L

Word 7 font won't change to point 12

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 10:42 AM PDT

Word 7 keeps telling me that I am using font point 12 in a document. However it appears to be on a smaller font. I have compared the document to other documents where I used point 12 and they are definitely not the same. I can't get the current document to use point 12. I went to Modify and right clicked, then set it on 12 but it won't change to 12. Any suggestions?

Word 2013 saves documents in .docx but doesn't allow editting unless you re-save them in 97-2003 mode

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 10:02 AM PDT

Hi,

Word 2013 opens in Read Only-compatibilty mode all .docx it creates (it names them Wd000000x). If I place the cursor over these files, they are described as word 2007 documents.

If I want to edit such a document, I have to re-save them as .doc and this means that I may lose formatting. It is really annoying.

Thanks in advance.

Word 13 issue

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 09:12 AM PDT

Downloaded Word document from Gov.uk site but Word 13 won't open it. Error window displays ' Word cannot open the file because file format does not match file extension'. How to resolve?

AUTOCORRECT (MACROS) IN WORD 2010 NOT WORKING IN MY TEXT DOCUMENTS

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 08:22 AM PDT

 Hi!  I work doing  medical transcription from home.  I use a company based platform that interfaces through Word.  I use MS Word 2010.  When I make macros through autocorrect in Word and try to apply them in my document, most of them do not work.  Is there a compatibility issue?  Something I need to enable or turn off or do?  I am very frustrated as I need to increase my productivity as I get paid by the line and when my macros do not work I have to type the entire document.   THANKS!

Adding a footer to the first page of a document

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 08:17 AM PDT

I am using Word 2010, and I am having difficulty in adding a footer to the first page.  After going to the Insert caption and clicking on Footer, I select the Blank format.  However, at the bottom of the page, where on the left it says Type Text, I am unable to see any text that I type.  But, when I double click anywhere else on the page to get back to my document, what I typed suddenly appears at the bottom of the page.  But, I have lost all of the following pages to my document.  When I scroll down below the first page there is garbage.

 

Obviously, I am doing something wrong!  Word 2000 seemed so much simpler.

 

Gordon

 

Houston, Texas

How to align a scanned document to show the full page across the horizonal axis.

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 07:59 AM PDT

My scanned document shows only 2/3rds of the first line and all other lines down the page.  How can I correct it to show the entire document from one side to the other?

Linking Excel & Word Documents

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 07:59 AM PDT

I have an excel document that I have manually inserted page breaks in that I want to link to Word complete with the same page breaks.  Is this possible?

Word missing from computer

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 07:33 AM PDT

I recently logged on to my computer and was about to type up a paper on Word and all the Word software that I downloaded was gone from my computer. I tried searching for it and nothing came up. I downloaded it for the University use and I am really wondering where it went. The Sky Drive is still on my laptop though. Please help.

How to retrieve a lost file?

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 06:06 AM PDT

I recently lost a SD card while travelling (whoever said the world was a small place evidently never lost an SD card).
The most important file on it was a novel manuscript that I only have about half of on my PC at home. 

When I go on Word the file is still in the recent documents section, but of course it won't open. Is there a back-up file stored on the computer anywhere? 

Thanks in advance

Word creates a space when highlighting

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 05:47 AM PDT

I do a lot of music editing in Word with chords and lyrics and Word does something I cannot figure out how to turn off.  When I highlight a line of music to move it, Word creates a space at the end of the line.  Then when I paste the line in where I want it, there is automatically created a blank line under the line I just pasted into place.  I want only the chords or notes I highlight to be inserted, NOT additional spaces that I then need to carefully delete.  Since I am constantly copying and pasting to rearrange verses and lines, the extra time to delete all these unwanted inserted blank lines is really killing me.  I completely turned off "Use Smart Cut and Paste" but it is still doing it.  When I highlight a line of text, whether I drag right or left, as soon as I highliight that last letter, the extra space appears at the end of the line.  What do I need to turn off to get Word to stop doing this?  Thank you!!  Joe Adams

Microsoft Word 2010 - Form creation

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 05:13 AM PDT

Hello, I hope someone can please help me with this query.  I am using Microsoft Word 2010 and have created a Traning Needs Analysis form with around 50 questions. I have protected the form for a User to complete only the relevant fields without being able to change any other part of the document.  The TNA is made using a Table and each question is in a row - with a possible 4 answers (4 cells within each row).  I have created 4 answers with check boxes for the User to click whichever answer is appropriate, however, I need each check box to be a radio button so that only one answer per row can be answered.

I have tried using the legacy - Active X control, but that will only allow me to select one radio button in the whole document.  I have tried creating multiple frames each containing a question and 4 possible answers, but again only one radio button per document.

I am not techinical, but am hoping there is a way around this, or some suggestion (apart from a drop-down list) that anyone can provide.

Many thanks  Sue

Word 2010 shading of text disappears on save/reload

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 04:57 AM PDT

I have several styles that include shading of different colors.  Every time that I close and reopen the document, I can't see any of the shading until I reapply each style.

This problem is not exclusive to the styles though.  If I apply shading to any specific selection, that shading is lost when I save and reload the document.

I'm referring to shading and not highlighting.  Highlights do remain when I save and reload, but to my knowledge there is no way to set a style to include highlighting on a character level... just shading.

Could anyone tell me what is happening and whether I can do anything to fix this?

Thanks,

Rob

Word 2010 - header on cover/ one page only

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 03:54 AM PDT

Is there an option to have the company details on 1 header page only or possibly the front page if no cover sheet is used? I'm loosing too much workable area on my document to the header but can't seem to have it just on the 1 front page. Thanks for reading

.docx files not opening in Microsoft Word Windows 8 native, why?

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 01:09 AM PDT

Since I bought a new machine with Windows 8 and also purchased Microsoft Office 13 I have this problem.  I cannot open .docx files (same with Excel, but less frequent) that I received from others. It is extremely annoying, I have to use a third party software and very frequent formatting is messed up, even if I open using Microsoft Wordpad.

I cannot understand where the problem is. I first of all save the file, and then try to open and I get the following message:

"Word are experiencing an issue trying to ope this file
*check the file permissions... (which are totally fine)
*make sure there is sufficiente free memory... (which is not the case, brand new computer, very small file)
*open the file with the Text Recovery Converter (which is not clear how to get to this feature anyway).

Is there anyone else experiencing this frequently? Also, senders confirm they are using Microsoft 2010 to generate original files.

Thank you in advance!

Word 2010 Help function

Posted: 26 Jul 2013 01:00 AM PDT

This has been covered in other posts but none of the suggestions fixed the problem for me.

I am using Win 7 Pro and a clean install of Office Pro Plus 2010, with no earlier versions of Office installed.

Problem: When I try to access Help in Word 2010 I get the following message:

'There are no help topics available that match your request.'

Note that for Access 2010 and Excel 2010 the Help function works fine.

Solution 1: Delete all IE Browsing History (I am using IE 10), with the selection 'Preserve Favorites website data' unchecked.

Solution 2:
  • Step 1. Rename all instances of the folder 'Microsoft Help' to 'Microsoft Help.OLD' - I had four of them in the following locations:
C:\ProgramData
C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local
C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local
C:\Users\MSSQLSERVER\AppData\Local
  • Step 2. Under Control Panel, Repair the instance of Office 2010
  • Step 3. Reboot.

Neither solution worked - I still get the same 'no help topics' message.

Does anyone have a 'new' solution that may help?

Caption Labels

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 09:17 PM PDT

I have created my own Heading Styles that are linked to the Outline Levels.  These Headings are formatted with numberings in a Multi-level list. (i.e. 1, 1.1, 1.1.1 as different styles)

After adding in the body text and photographs into the appropriate places I tried to add in captions.  I want the caption numbering to include chapter number.  However I got the following message:

Figure Error! No text of specified style in document..1 – Flower

 

How do I go about correcting this error?

 

Microsoft Translator

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 09:06 PM PDT

I want to translate an article in English to Malayalam language in Microsoft Word 2007. But while I checked the Microsoft Translator list Malayalam is not there! Is this translation (English->Malayalam and vice versa) possible using Microsoft Translator? If not is there any solution?

Cannot edit fonts, highlight text, change font size... in a rich text form field

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 08:06 PM PDT

Hi all,

I have a one question.

I created a table as in picture below.



I chose Rich Text Content Control for the "click here for enter text part", then I restricted the word file.

However I found out with this setting, I cannot edit fonts, highlight text or even leave space between paragraphs in small box like teacher, data & time ect...

Is there a way to fix it?

Thank you so much T^T

office 2000

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 07:59 PM PDT

i installed office 2000 in my Samsung laptop window 8. Every worked except word. it started to lunch but never finished. the program does not respond.

words spelled correctly but not found in the main dictionary

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 07:30 PM PDT

I used the word: "agreement" and the spell checker said that the word was not in the dictionary. What can I do about this problem, which seems to be much bigger than just adding the word to the dictionary, as the word should already be there. I think something may be seriously wrong.

Accept All Changes, text disappears

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 07:16 PM PDT

Hello,

I have a Word document (docx) that exhibits the following behavior.  I open the file in Word 2013.  I see Track Changes is on, and the mode is Simple Markup.  I see a particular line of text that I had added to the file in my editing.  I select Accept All Changes and the line disappears.

I can supply more details if appropriate, but am I right in thinking that this sounds like a bug?  Thank you.

Mark
p.s. I saw the same behavior in Word 2010, so it is not a 2013 issue.

Styles? with mixed hard-coding and numbering

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 05:32 PM PDT

I use numbered styles for Headings and AppHeads 1-9.  However, I also inherited a series of documents that have customized versions of these Headings (using the same default style names).

 

Each document is part of a large document series (let's say denoted "H") and individually numbered by document.  When the Heading 1 Style is applied to plain format-stripped text, this is the result:

 

Introduction ==> H.62.1 Introduction

 

Heading 2 yields:

Subsection ==> H.62.1.1 Subsection

 

and so on.

 

My problem is I can't figure out how to recreate this scheme in new documents.  I can't copy the styles over (because each document has a number, so 62 becomes 63 in the next document) and I've been through every switch and toggle and setting in modify styles and esp. in the numbering controls and cannot find a place to set this value such as "H.62" or "H.79" within each document's Styles (or wherever else it belongs).

 

Can anyone help with this?

2003 Word Template with aligned object & text - help

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 03:36 PM PDT

I nee to create a word template document and use visual basic objects, such as check boxes and text boxes.  These need to align horizontally and the check boxes need to be anchored, so if changes are made to the text boxes, then the objects will  remain in place.  Can anyone tell me how to create a template and align and anchor objects with text boxes?  Please help!