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Microsoft Word - Fix formatting on Reference Source Manager window

Microsoft Word - Fix formatting on Reference Source Manager window

Fix formatting on Reference Source Manager window

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 03:05 PM PDT

I have Office 365 and am using the Reference manager to build my reference list.  When I open the Source Manager, every preview of my references in the bottom window is crammed over to the left (about 7-8 characters per line).   How do I fix this so I can actually see the preview?

Thanks,


mail marge

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 02:29 PM PDT

I have a suit 2010, and I'm using mail merge to link Excel file with word file, my problem is word 2010 support only 249 columns to merge, it's any program or update I may need  that I can use to merge up to 400 columns?

this is junk!

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 01:56 PM PDT

About three times a week, Office is busy and says it will be a short time. Last week it was like this from 6am until 1 am. EST. This made me late for 2 homework assignments and as of today, I again cannot open my paper I started. I put this on my computer, in my skydrive AND saved to a external flash drive and still cannot get access.  All I get is Office is Busy!!

copy / paste into read-only table

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 01:53 PM PDT

I have a read-only form with editable areas which include a six column table.  I have highlighted each row, including end-of-cell markers and made editable.  I cannot copy and paste multiple rows of copy, but if I copy and paste one row at a time the text gets pasted in.

 

Is this the way it is supposed to work?  I don't want to copy in the rows, only the contents.  Am I doing something wrong?

 

Old dog... new tricks

 

Regards - Lenny33

All my office products spell check is not working

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 01:43 PM PDT

If I compose a new e-mail, reply to an e-mail, or forward an e-mail, it opens up the dialog box and suggests a word for the first misspelled word. If I click any of the buttons besides "Cancel", it acts like it is going to do the button's action, but then only gives me the choice to "Resume". If I click that, it keeps me at the same misspelled word and won't move from there. Same exact thing happens when I try to spell check a Word document. I'm running the app from a virtual server environment and the client is having the issue. None of the other clients are having these issues. Any ideas folks?

Branching in a Microsoft Word form

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 01:31 PM PDT

I would like to create a form that allows for branching.  For example: Depending on the answer to question 1, it will allow you to proceed to the next question, and so on.  If the any question does not meet the criteria, the applicant is alerted that they do not meet the criteria, and the form is closed out.

There is a pre-release or Beta version of an Office product on your computer error when installing Office 2013

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 12:32 PM PDT

 

Does anyone know why this message appears?  I never had a beta version of anything on my computer and only released product.  MS Office 2010 was updated to MS Office Pro 2013.   I had been using MS-Word for a couple of weeks without any problems and today when I attempted to run the program the splash screen appeared and nothing else. 

 

After the splash screen did nothing except for the animated dots going across the UI I clicked on the X in the upper right, but not all Services closes so I performed a Cold Boot.  After the cold boot I attempted a Repair.   The Repair performed a partial uninstall instead leaving a generic Office 2013 icon in Control Panel Add/Remove. 

 

After realizing the install was now "toast" I attempted to reinstall www.office.com/setup and received the Beta Version or Pre-Release was on the system, however this is and was not the case.  When researching this problem I ended up running the Fix-It Uninstall which did leave me at a point where I could perform a new installation, but this time I used the CD copy I ordered from Microsoft as part of the first 2013 install.

 

The installation completed and so far uneventful.  I just don't have a real cushy feeling about this and being a former MS Engineer I don't like that feeling at all. 

 

When I was running Office 2010, Word would hang and I would have to perform a Repair every now and then.   This worked so when I installed 2013 I thought these problems of the hangling splash screen would be over, but I was wrong as today and with 2013 the spash screen hung again.

 

Does any of what I said sound familiar to anyone else?

 

Thanks,

 

Eric

Word 2013 Calibri font

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 12:23 PM PDT

Every day I have to reset the default formatting for the Normal template to get rid of the Calibri font.  Each day I modify the font settings, click "new documents based on this template", and it works find until I log off my computer.  When I reboot, that gawd awful Calibri font is back.  What am I doing wrong?

whent i mail marge from excel and i have no data on the cell, it print to the word file "0", how can i do to have a emty cell if is not data on excel

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 11:57 AM PDT

when i mail marge from excel and i have no data on the cell, it print to the word file "0" (the number cero), how can i do to have a emty cell on my word file if is not data on excel

HOW DO I REMOVE TIMES NEW ROMAN AS MY DEFAULT

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 11:00 AM PDT

How do I remove Times New Roman as my default Theme Font in Microsoft Office Word2007.

Conditional statement in text box

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 10:44 AM PDT

Hi all,

Every time I attempt to add a conditional statement to my mergefield that I have placed inside a text box, I get an error saying:

"You cannot include DATA, NEXT, NEXTIF, or SKIPIF fields in comments, headers, footers, footnotes or endnotes."

It gives me this error no matter what rule I apply to the mergefield. Is a text box considered any of those conditions?

I need to apply a NEXTIF or IF,THEN,ELSE to a mergefield, otherwise there will be a LOT of deleting. I use the text box as a way to show the balance due.

Thanks!

Only seeing a partial picture from a picture object

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 10:34 AM PDT

On Word 2007 I have a picture object with a bunch of boxes etc.  When I close that picture, the Word document only shows some of the picture object,  How do I get Word 2007 to show the entire picture object.  There was a way to do this in earlier Word versions; but I cannot find the solution for this version.

 

Having major problems using INCLUDEPICTURE for a mail merge.

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 09:42 AM PDT

I know this is a common question.  I'm using Word 2010 and connecting to a SQL 2012 local Express database for a Mail Merge.  

I have a string field in my table defining a location for an image.  I am certain the path is correct.  I've verified that the string itself is getting through correctly.  (C:\\TEST\\FILENAME.jpg, etc).  

Most of the examples I've looked at talk about inserting a picture with the Link To File option, then doing an Alt F9.  Beyond that I just can't get it to work.  

I have, among other things followed Graham Mayor's advise and unchecked the Update Link on Save option (although I still seem to be getting that //..//..// format.)

Beyond that my attempts have mostly been similar to this,  Alt-F9 then insert variations like this: 

{INCLUDEPICTURE "{ IF TRUE "MERGEFIELD ClientImage" }" \* MERGEFORMAT \d}

(By the way, it's not clear to me from my reading whether all the brackets should be generated by CTRL-F9 or just the outermost.  I've tried it both ways, without success.)

Does anyone have a reliable list of steps they could provide?  This is getting too frustrating.

Links and browsers

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 09:31 AM PDT

Ordinarily when I put a link in a Word document and later click on it the page in question opens in Internet Explorer, my default browser.  But sometimes I want the page to open in another browser, such as Firefox.  Is there a way to direct the link to use that other browser?  I know that I can make another program the default browser, but going back and forth between browsers this way is a bit klutzy.  And I think I can copy a link and paste it into another browser.  It's hardly a big problem but is there a more elegant solution?

Linking Numbered Heading Styles

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 09:04 AM PDT

I have been searching for answers on how to do this, but have so far come up empty.  Also, please note that the links you've been supplying to Shauna Kelly's "How to Create Numbered Headings or Outline Numbering" article no longer work.  The first page discussing the topic is still there, but the links to the actual methods of doing it for either Word 2003 and earlier or Word 2007 and 2010 no longer bring anything up.

What I'm trying to do is set up a Word template that has outline numbered headings that would look like this:

1.0 Heading 1
 1.1 Heading 2
  1.1.1 Heading 3
   1.1.1.1 Heading 4
    1.1.1.1.1 Heading 5

I have successfully created the above headings with all their associated formatting and they work, except for one thing.  I need each list linked to the previous heading level so that I get the following when creating lists:

1.0 Based on Heading 1
 1.1 Based on Heading 2
  1.1.1 Based on Heading 3
   1.1.1.1 Based on Heading 4
    1.1.1.1.1 Based on Heading 5
 1.2 Based on Heading 2
  1.2.1 Based on Heading 3
  1.2.2 Based on Heading 3
   1.2.2.1 Based on Heading 4
    1.2.2.1.1 Based on Heading 5
2.0 Based on Heading 1
 2.1 Based on Heading 2
  2.1.1 Based on Heading 3
   2.1.1.1 Based on Heading 4
   2.1.1.2 Based on Heading 4
    2.1.1.2.1 Based on Heading 5, and so forth.

What I end up getting is either of these two formats by changing some of the numbering options:

1.0 Based on Heading 1
 1.1 Based on Heading 2
  1.1.1 Based on Heading 3
2.0 Based on Heading 1
 1.2 Based on Heading 2
  1.1.2 Based on Heading 3...

or

1.0 Based on Heading 1
 1.1 Based on Heading 2
  1.1.1 Based on Heading 3
2.0 Based on Heading 1
 1.1 Based on Heading 2
  1.1.1 Based on Heading 3...

I have tried every option that I can find to try to link the numbering in levels 2 - 5 to the number used in the previous level, but nothing has worked so far.  

Is it possible to do this?

I'd very much appreciate any help that could be provided.

"save all" does not do anything

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 08:40 AM PDT

Office 2010 - WORD

 

I have done FILE>OPTIONS>QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR>COMMANDS NOT IN THE RIBBON - "SAVE ALL">ADD.

 

The little icon with multiple disks appears.  When I hover - "Save All" text balloon appears.

 

When I click - No Save occurs.

 

Any suggestions?

Word Table Layout Formula calculations - adding up negatives

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 08:32 AM PDT

I am using formulae in a Table Layout using the Formula tab and cell references like =(D10-C10)    I've got the Number Format working and it basically works but

a) the minus does not seem to work e.g I have a formula to calculate e.g. b8-c8, b9-c9, b10-c10 etc.. the results of each are in d8,d9,d10

I'm trying to add this up into a total in d12

This works fine until in the final sum formula using =SUM(ABOVE)   which is summing the results of other sums.  This basically works but ignores any negative numbers

My sense is that word does not allow a sum of formula to include negative numbers, though a sum of cells can work correctly taking account of negatives

Any thoughts very welcome

b)also, F9 only works when cells are covered, not just when I click in a cell ?

Microsoft works

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 08:12 AM PDT

Could somebody give me instructions on how to convert a word processed document into a Word document. Also could somebody give me instructions on how to senf a CV document as an attachment in an email. I try to send it but this message comes up "The connection to the server has failed." The email wont send then.

Word Document Lost

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 08:05 AM PDT

I downloaded a paper from an email and worked on it for several hours hitting SAVE, but not save as. I closed it to attach it to an email and then realized I had not saved it to a specific location. I cannot find it anywhere on my computer, including the recovery files which are set to run every 10 minutes. How can I find it?

Resizing multiple graphics at once

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 05:20 AM PDT

I regularly receive Word files from colleagues which have several images embedded. I can resize them individually, but it would be really great if I could select several of them and apply resizing to them all. Is there a method to do so ?

 

Thanks in advance... :)

 

[Split from another thread: Word version may not be correct]

legal free usage of word for creating resume

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 09:22 PM PDT

Is it there "legal free usage of word for creating resume"?

Is there an option to add tabs and accordions to Microsoft Word?

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 08:18 PM PDT

If not, is there another Microsoft software anyone recommends for this? What I'm looking into doing is to create a list of names, and divide them into different groups. I'm hoping to use perhaps tabs or accordions to divide those groups. That way, I'm not scrolling forever on one page. Is there a feature that allows this in Word or another microsoft product?

MSW 2007 will not repair from its own disc!

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 07:35 PM PDT

My MSW07 keeps crashing.  It posts a message that it has stopped working and that MS will try to find out why _ if they do they never tell me why - and closes.

 

This morning I tried to do a repair on it.  I inserted my disc and got this message:

 

 

Hmmmm!  That's a newie!

 

Has anyone any idea of what I can do?

 

Thanks

Is there any method of indenting/demoting a bullet point in a table in Word 2007?

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 07:17 PM PDT

Just graduated from using Word 2003/Xp to Word 2007

I often need to demote/indent a bullet point/s in a table but rather peculiarly Word 2007 indents the whole table???

Is there any method of indenting/demoting a bullet point in a table in Word 2007?

This works fine and properly in Word 2003/XP

Word 2013 - Cannot edit a template - the modification is not allowed because the selection is locked

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 06:19 PM PDT

I downloaded a Report  Template for Word, saved it and was able to edit most parts of it, but there is a section I want to use that has a text box and when I go to edit it, I get the message ' the modification is not allowed because the selection is locked'

Can someone give me a legitimate reason and HOW to Unlock it. Does this happen because the Template Author locked it - if so, that pretty much defeats the purpose of having a template ;P

I saw some of the other answers, so:

Yes the Version is Activated
No, it is not a Trial Version

I have the full Office 2013 running on Windows 7 Pro

Save a Backup Copy as PDF

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 06:07 PM PDT

I have a Word Doc file that I use/change often and save to my Dropbox....

I was wondering if there was a way that every time I save the file I can have a PDF version, saved each time as well. 

(Without having to "Save As PDF")

Some sort of backup function perhaps?

My goal is to be able to share a link to the pdf version with customers...so they cannot edit the word version...

Any help / advice would be greatly appreciated...

ToyDude

Word 2007: cannot control placement of picture within a Word-created table

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 05:05 PM PDT

Dear All,

I have a document with many tables and figures.  I am inserting tables and figures as picture into tables that I have created in Word 2007.  For instance, if I would like a table with a caption on top, I insert a table with 2 rows and 1 column.  I then paste the tale into the lower row, write the caption in the upper row, and specify the table as not having a visible boundary.  I am doing this so that tables/figures and their captions are "locked" together and moving them around is easier.

This has worked great except in the following modified scenario.  I have a large table that I have rotated 90 degrees to the right so that it is displayed in landscape in a sense, however I do not want the page it is on to be rotated so as to be landscape.  With a page in portrait and the table rotated, then the printed page should be the same as inserting page breaks, making an individual page landscape, and inserting the table as non-rotated.  The reason why I do not want to create a lanscaped page is again because I will be moving things around later and messing with page breaks, etc is a bit clunky.

The problem is when I try to insert this rotated table as a picture into a Word table so that I can caption the top.  I have inserted a Word table that is 1 row by 2 columns.  I have then inserted into the left most column the table and would like to insert a caption in the right most column with text rotated 90 degrees to the right so that it matches the inserted table's orientation.  When I do this this, I cannot get the table (inserted as a picture) to be properly aligned with the Word table's left most column.  It (the picture table) wants to be right justified to the page.  If I try to move it or resize the Word table it just cuts off part of the table and maintains this orientation.  I have played around with various wrapping and other settings and have not gotten the desired result.  I'm sure if I made the text wrapping one of behind text then I could move it where I'd like but then this immediately causes headaches with the body text being over the inserted picture table, etc.

What I am wanting is rather straightforward, insert a picture (table as a picture) into a column of a Word 2007 table and have precise control over where this picture table is shown within the particular cell of the table.  Can anyone help?

-Seth