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Microsoft Word - word 2013 table of content is including page number of the next item as the "topic" name...

word 2013 table of content is including page number of the next item as the "topic" name...

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 03:01 PM PDT

This is such a weird problem, I'll just try to show you want I'm seeing rather than describe it:. Here's a few lines from a Table of Contents:

 

5.5   Topic a ................................................. 17

5.6   Topic b ................................................. 18

        Topic c ................................................. 19

5.7   19

        Topic d ................................................. 21

5.8   21

5.9   Topic e .................................................. 23

 

It's a really large document, and all the topics in the TOC before and after this weird part are formatted correctly.

 

I've tried just about everything I know, but I can't get those particular topics to appear in the TOC correctly.

 

And I've been editing this document for several months (it's documentation for a large dev project), and this problem only appeared today.

 

Ideas?

 

DadCat

 

Word and Excel 2010 crash on exit with files opened from internet locations

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 02:10 PM PDT

I have a windows xp machine with office 2010. Word and Excel are crashing on exit when I open a file from an internet location. If I save the file to the computer and then open it, it opens and closes fine. I have tried a repair installation as well as disabling the add-ins and that did not work. 

Office 2008 for Mac error, "Microsoft Office 2008 cannot start because it is already in use."

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 01:15 PM PDT

I have had Office 2008 for mac installed on my MacBook Pro and Imac for at least three years and run Entourage, Word, etc. simultaneously, that is, Entourage on both systems. The Office 2008 version I have allows you to use Office on two computers. I have just one Product Key. Yesterday, I got the error message" Microsoft Office 2008 cannot start because it is already in use." I have done nothing to change my systems except remove the MacBook Pro battery temporarily while I get a new one. Help! What has happened? What can I do to get Office to run on both systems simultaneously again? Many thanks for help!

Files opening with wrong program

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 01:07 PM PDT

All my files are opening with Word. If it is a PDF file it will open with word it seems that Word might be the default. My question is how do I set up my files to open in the format that they came in. I want it so a word doc. will open in word and a pdf will open with adobe and so on. How do I do this?

Stamps.com Incompatible w/ Office 2013?

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:42 PM PDT

Hi Folks...

 

I wanted to reach out on behalf of a friend who is a business user of Word... I'm a developer and an MS loyalist so he sent me an aggravated email complaining that his Office 365 account, as I understand it, was "upgraded" to 2013 and now he can no longer use his stamps.com subscription.  As I don't use stamps.com or (yet) 2013 I'm at a loss as to what to suggest... 

Anyone out there know anything about this?  I'd like to help him out if I can... thanks in advance for any input.

 

Paul

2 problems with office 2007 in windows 8

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:38 PM PDT

I have installed MS Office 2007 on a Samasung Chronos 7 i7 running Windows 8. I have 2 problems (I suspect unrelated) that I cannot solve via web / help / user forums /google etc. Any help from you guys would be highly appreciated.

1) I cannot use MS Office Help - the toggle button showing me as offline refuses to switch to online. Opening "Windows Help & Support" shows me offline, even tho I have FF open. The msg is "You're not connected to the Internet. To get online Help, which shows you the latest help content, you need to be connected to the Internet. Check your Internet connection. If you still see this message, the online Help service might be temporarily unavailable. Try to connect again later." I can run MS Ofiice Diagnostics - no problems until it wishes to go online & I am told i) my computer is not connected to the internet (it is) or ii) access to server may be blocked.  I SUSPECT it is this latter msg that is relevant - - this is my laptop & I have admin rights: I suspect when I was setting it up when I first received it, that I incorrectly ticked / unticked  a crucial access point/command, thus denying automatic access to eg Word Help online. I have been through allmy settings & cannot find obvious block - but any advice here would be appreciated

2) With straightforward installation of MS Office 2007 Home and Student onto above machine, I find I can no longer click on eg a word.docx in file manager & have it open directly - I get the msg - "There was a problem while sending the command to the programme". Again - any help appreciated

Many thanks

Richard

Word 2013 opening pdf only in picture format???

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:33 PM PDT

I've now scanned several text documents on several different scanners to .pdf.  I want to open the .pdf in Word 2013 and be able to edit the text, which is supposedly a feature of the new MS Office suite.  However, every time that I go to open the .pdf in Word 2013 it opens as a picture and all I can do is move it around the page or resize.  Is there a setting that I am missing?

Word 2013 problem on Windows 7 - screen breaks up

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:21 PM PDT

Hi all,

This is the first time I post here so hope this question hasn't already been asked. I did go through the previous posts on Word '13 but didn't find anything covering my issue.

Here is the thing. I started using Word 2013 a few days ago on my Windows 7, and there was immediately weird stuff happening. Take a look.
 

Below the text, the page just started showing up weird writings in funny locations. I tried Ctrl-Z but the broken screen just stayed there.

Take a look at another example. This happened after I started the same document from scratch. Does anyone know how to fix this? I have updated Office to be up-to-date.

I have a newsletter layout with two asymmetrical columns. I want the smaller column to not be included in the flow of the type in the larger column.

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:12 PM PDT

The smaller column is for unrelated notes and listings.  How do I make that happen?  I have tried to put a text box in the smaller column and anchor it, but as soon as I put text in the larger column it moves the text box and fills in the smaller column, too.

 

How to delete an extra space between lines of text document

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:01 PM PDT

In 2003 Word, an extra space began to be created (I don't know what I did). The cursor jumps over this area, it can not be highlighted, or normally deleted. The problem is not adjusting the line spacing in the format toolbar. That is already set to a single space. Once before I found this problem caused by excessive header hight but this time it seem to be a different problem.

 

Thank for you reply

 

Omar Firoz

Unstable Tables

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 11:53 AM PDT

I've been trying to put tables into a Word 2013 document this week and it's not going well. The table is small & situated in the middle of a page. I set it up with a few rows and columns and start to manually enter text. With no warning (and plenty of room left) the table suddenly jumps off of one side of the page or the other. If I enter another character, it might jump back to its original size, or it might not. I can right-click the table to get to Table Properties and manually set the width of the table. Even if I've already set the width, entry into a random cell may cause the table to jump wide again. Back to properties, change by a 10th of an inch (either way) and the table returns.

 

This is ruining my productivity and it doesn't do much for my temper, either!

 

Is there a bug fix or another way I can set up a table without all the nonsense?

Remove grid from blank pages

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 09:37 AM PDT

Help, I pushed Grid" in themes by mistake.  Now it's on all my blank pages.  I can't get it off.  Am I stuck forever

New Document automatic indent set wrong

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 08:42 AM PDT

When I open a new document in Word, for some reason the indent is set at 1" instead of 0".  I don't know when exactly it changed, or how, but it's been doing it for a very long time.  It started long after I had installed it on my computer and had been using it, though - not upon installation.  How do I change it back permanently so I don't need to keep changing it every time I open a new doc before I can start working?

Word 2007 TOC Hyperlinks

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 08:34 AM PDT

Hello.  I have several manuals that include Table of Contents. The page hyeprlink is there in the TOC, but I would like to make the entrie entry for each TOC line a hyperlink as the documents are for students with little or no computer savy.

 

I cannot do a manual link in the TOC entry becasue ti is discarded whenever the TOC si updated.  There are periodic changes to the documents, so a TOC update is necessary from tiem to time.

 

I also need to embed a link on each page of the document that will return students to the TOC if clicked.  I tried putting a button in the footer but there is no way to click the button without wewntering the footer.  Would appreciate any recommendations.

 

lastly, I generate PDF PRO documents that the students actually use based on the Word 2007 document.  I need the hyperlinks in the Word TOC to transfer as hyperlinks in Adobe PRO.

 

Would appreciate any suggestions you can offer.


Thanks much,

Harold Aaron

MS Word

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 02:43 AM PDT

Wenn ich ein Worddokument öffnen möchte bekomme ich folgendes Fenster:

Bei der Weitergabe des Befehls an das Programm ist ein Fehler aufgetreten.

Woran kann es liegen? Wie kann ich es beheben?

How find and fix broken xrefs?

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 10:56 PM PDT

I have a longish document (100+ pages) with many cross-references in it.  Some of them are clearly broken, where "broken" means they don't generate the text that they should. For example, I currently have some text that refers to sections 2 and 2, but it should refer to sections 2 and 3. Expanding the fields generating the text with the section numbers yields the following:

{ REF _Ref349679295 \# 0 \n \h }

{ REF _Ref361235576 \# 0 \n \h }


It seems clear to me that these xrefs should refer to distinct locations, because the REF values are different.  But they both generate the text "2". 


My general desire is to have a reliable way to ensure that all my xrefs are generating the correct text.  (Yes, I've updated all the fields in my document by selecting all the text and then hitting F9.)  The second xref above is currently generating incorrect text ("2" instead of "3").


I assume that each of those REF values should correspond to some target location. How can I find the target location for each of them?  Can section 2 have two identical target values?


All my xrefs are based on Numbered Items.


Thanks for your help.

How search for text only within a particular style?

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 08:40 PM PDT

I have a long document with many uses of both curly quotes (i.e., "...") and straight quotes ("..."), as well as both curly and straight apostrophes. I now find that I want to replace all the curly quotes with straight quotes, but only when the text is either in a particular paragraph style or a particular character style.  I assume this will require three search/replace commands, one for curly opening quotes, one for curly closing quotes, and one for curly apostrophes.  But I can't figure out how to tell Word to find matches only within text that's in a paragraph with a particular style or within text with a particular character style. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks.

How to open the same Word / Excel file at the same time

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 07:08 PM PDT

I need to open same file at the same time to see the different pages for comparing.

 

Is it possible that ??

 

Thanks

Using ask statements in Word 2010

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 04:23 PM PDT

I'm setting up a mail merge form in Word 2010 and am trying to include text from another file based on the user's response.  Example:   "Do you want to include the list?"   If they say "Y", it will include text from another file.  If the response is "N" then do nothing.  I've tried using the "REF" after the Ask field but my document comes up empty.  This is how I'm doing it:

 

{ASK list "Insert List? (Y or N)" \d "N"}{REF List}{IF REF List} = "Y" "{INCLUDETEXT \\\\kk1\\share\\tw\\forms\\list.doc}

PLEASE HELP. Extremely Slow Processing & Failure to Replace Text in Text Boxes

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 04:08 PM PDT

I am experiencing extreme slowness when using Find & Replace in documents that have a number of text boxes.  While the Find function seems to work fine, when I want to Replace All, only one of the many Finds is fact replaced, and I have to repeat the operation.  In addition, the slowness is excruciating.  I have tried everything suggested in the following post :  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/2ebe1cd0-7b13-4019-b6e2-1ec9909b1eca/word-2010-windows-7-very-slow-editing , and nothing has worked.  Please help.  Thank you.

Endnote hyperlink (to exterior site) has included the paragraph symbol in the hyperlink formatting! Complex endnotes need help!

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 04:00 PM PDT

Hello again Brilliants,

 

Suzanne? I am back.... ....

 

The special (to OneNote page) hyperlink jumps right over an intervening regular hyperlink (to an exterior web page) and is part of the first hyperlink! Help!!! Here is a picture:

 

 

I had been trying to make the Paragraph symbol return to its natural state, just like all the others (over 170 now...), but if I do it removes the formatting of the first (light blue) hyperlink.  Obviously the light blue is continuing in the background... and is affected by my effort at changing Para to normal (and doing many other twisted things) but why?

 

Solve one problem, find another...

 

Thanks for your help!

Liah

 

Sometimes, when I insert a StyleRef field an unwanted return is also inserted

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 03:56 PM PDT

For instance, I'm preparing a business letter template.  I want to have the name of the firm that is typed in the "addressee" block to appear automatically in the body text of the letter.  So I have a field at the top of the page where the writer fills in the name of the firm, and I create a StyleRef of this.  But when I go to insert this field into the body of the letter, I get an unwanted "paragraph return" immediately after the inserted field.  How can I prevent this from happening, please?

Different Headers and Footers for each Chapter

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 03:32 PM PDT

Hello, I would like to use Chapter names as the header on each page of my 700 page document but I am having trouble achieving this.  How do I modify the header for particular sections of the document?  I may wish to do the same for the footer too.
Thank you

Placing Chapter Notes all together at the end of the document?

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 03:28 PM PDT

Hello - I have a very long manuscript with 30+ chapters.  Each chapter has endnotes which currently appear at the end of each Chapter.  I want to place ALL of the Chapter notes in a specific section at a position near the END of the document, but I want to show each Chapter seperately and retain the current numbering system (i.e. each chapters' notes start with 1.)  How can I achieve this?!
Thank you