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Microsoft Word - Drop down menu in Word, select the display option but have the value populate

Drop down menu in Word, select the display option but have the value populate

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 02:09 PM PDT

Hello,

 

I would like to ask if anyone knows how to have a drop down menu in Word populate a secondary value.  Example:  I would like to have a drop down menu of animal names.  When a person selects 'dog' the text that populates is in Spanish, or 'perro').   The idea is that this will be used as a template and someone that does not speak Spanish will be able to customize a letter by selecting the correct English word necessary and it will populate in Spanish for printing. Any help would be appreciated!

 

Thanks!

Mail Merge

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 02:08 PM PDT

I'm using Word 2010 and have a unique situation:  I need to mail merge about 1700 letters using an Excel database.  I've set up the letters already; the unique part is this:  Each customer is identified by a number (1234-08), then a product (ABC-1).  The problem:  Each product is on a different line in Excel.  Example:

 

Cust. #            Prod

1234-08          ABC-1

1234-08          DEF-2

1234-08          GHI-3

 

Anyone know of a way I can tell Word to grab all the products customer 1234-08 has and put them in one letter addressed to customer 1234-08?  Some of them have over 100 products; I really don't want to have to create individual letters.

BUG: Source Manager dialog preview pane word-wraps unnecessarily in narrow column 4 characters wide.

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:29 PM PDT

When looking at sources in source manager, the citation in the preview pane is only 4 characters wide. See image.

This is not a problem in Word 2007.

BUG: Update Citations and Bibliography Crashes - Word in Office 365, same issue as in Word 2007

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:10 PM PDT

I have a large document with approximately 900 references/sources.

Every time I try to update Citations and Bibliography, it crashes.

eventviewer shows:
Faulting application winword.exe, version 15.0.4517.1505, stamp 51bfe4f8, faulting module mso.dll, version 15.0.4517.1508, stamp 51dc5c12, debug? 0, fault address 0x00fedd9a.

Based on my previous research, the problem stems from the way the citations engine generates a HUGE UNDO STACK. You can watch the winword process take up ever more memory, over the course of about 4 hours, until at about 1.6 to 1.8Gb it falls over. Of course it never commits, so when the document is recovered it is as it was before.

I'm running win7 64bit on a i5 processor, 6Gb RAM, approx 240Gb free disk. Word has minimal add-ins and Physical Memory is only about 50% used when it fails. I don't think it's a disk space / RAM amount Issue. Since it fails when there is apparently plenty of free memory and disk, there must be some other internal limit.

This problem has existed since Word 2007 - see my previous discussion here and here.

I paid the money and upgraded to Office 365 in the hope it would alleviate the problem I have been having with Word 2007. But it didn't.

A work-around would be to switch off the Undo function temporarily, but there appears to be no way to do that.

This is a pretty terminal bug - I can't feasibly update my citations manually. Consequently the citations numbers in my document don't necessarily match the citations in the bibliography - rendering the entire citation idea useless. I hope someone at Microsoft will pay attention to Word citations which seems to have been the poor relation of the MS Word project.

Bug in word 2013

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 12:34 PM PDT

Hi, I have found a really annoying bug in word 2013 x64
Consider this:
I have a page full of images, they are all set up with Tight Text wrapping, and their position is fixed on the page.
I want to insert another page, so I double click at the end of page 1 to create a new page.
It creates a new page, but when I click in the new page, Word Crashes.
However, If I use the arrow keys to navigate to the page, word does not crash! 


Dell Inspiron 1545
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
4GB RAM

EDIT: This document has no characters. The word count is empty, (I am on page 1, line 1)

Removing the anchor in word

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 12:13 PM PDT

I have scanned a document (.pdf) and converted it to Word using Expert PDF 7.  I now wish to edit it but find that the text is in a box, which will not allow me to edit the text.  I have searched in help and have found lots of how to lock but nothing on how to remove the lock.   Help!

Problem with Collapsing Headings

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 11:31 AM PDT

Hi,

I am working on a document with a multilevel list; there are 3 levels and each level is based on a heading style so that it is collapsible. I've recently encountered a strange problem that doesn't seem to happen with any regularity: Occasionally, collapsing one heading will cause the following heading of the same level to indent to the next level and collapse as well. For example:

Two sections with the same heading style:

A) Heading name
Content
B) Heading name
Content

Collapsed, it looks like this:

A) Heading name
    B) Heading name


I really can't figure out why it is doing this. As I said, it doesn't do this with any apparent regularity... there are many other parts of my document that have the same format and the headings collapse just fine. Any insight would be appreciated. Hopefully I explained this well enough.

footnotes multiple citations separator

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 11:21 AM PDT

With multiple citations at the same spot in the text, Word 2007 has no separation between the different footnote numbers.  Do I need to manually add a superscripted comma (or other separator)  at each point?  Or is there some easier method to specify the separator that I am overlooking?

how do I type standard text over images

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 09:53 AM PDT

Hey everyone I'm taking notes for my online school, and I copied and pasted an image from my class(a study guide) and I'm trying to type over it(they only provide images of the study guide for some reason), how can I type over an image in Word 2013?

HOW CAN I REPAIR THE SLOW RESPONCE PROBLEM THAT I HAVE WHEN WRITING AND BACKSPACING IN WORD TABLES OF OFFICE 2013?

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 09:51 AM PDT

Hi everyone, I made some tables in Microsoft Word 2013 to write some census data and I have a slow response problem when writing and backspacing. It is time consuming because I have to wait some seconds to see the display of words and the same occurs when eraising a word with backspace. I uninstalled and reinstalled Microsoft Office Professional Plus and activate but the issue was not resolved. I own a new Gateway notebook with 64bits Windows 8 operational system. 

when i click on any microsoft application it says something went wrong we ran into a problem

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 09:16 AM PDT

I have Microsoft 2013, it used to work but all of the sudden when I click on any Microsoft: word, powerpoint ect... it says something went wrong, sorry we have run into a problem, go online to find help

adjust watermark to page width (beyond page margins)

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 07:43 AM PDT

Hi,

I've inserted a watermark into a page, but it's cut by the page margins. But if I set the page margins to 0 in order to make my watermark occupy the whole page width, the text on the page will become wider too. Is there a solution to this problem?

Merging into the Header

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 07:04 AM PDT


 I am doing a Word merge from a Progress program. (Progress is a database

language).  The merge I am doing is a Catalog/Directory.


When I put a merge variable in the heading, the merge does not put a value in it.

The merge variables in the body work fine.

 

It seems that this problem is confined to the Catalog/Directory type of merge.

 Funny thing is, if I bring up the same document and run the merge just from Word,

the variable in the header gets its value just fine. From the Progress program, it

skips the variable in the heading but does the variables in the body.

 

Someone else tried the same thing using the Visual Basic (Visual Studio 2010

Express).  Their results were the same as mine, the header did not get merge

values.

 

I cannot be the only person in the world with this problem.  What can anyone tell

me?  Thanks.

 

Word 2007
Windows 7.

Microsoft Word has stopped working

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:28 AM PDT

Hi,
just got new Win 8 system with Office pre-installed. Worked fine initially but Word will not run now. Starts up OK but any attempt to open a file gives the above message. Since it is a new machine I have been installing various programs (or is it 'apps' these days) but not sure when the problem started.

Event log:

Faulting application name: WINWORD.EXE, version: 15.0.4517.1505, time stamp: 0x51bfe4f8
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0029ca90
Faulting process ID: 0x774
Faulting application start time: 0x01ceadfc2d50ac94
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15\WINWORD.EXE
Faulting module path: unknown
Report ID: 71bd1c6c-19ef-11e3-be8a-94de807b234d
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 


and Windows Error reporting:

Fault bucket -486620166, type 5
Event Name: BEX
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: WINWORD.EXE
P2: 15.0.4517.1505
P3: 51bfe4f8
P4: unknown
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 00000000
P7: 0029ca90
P8: c0000005
P9: 00000008
P10: 

Attached files:
C:\Users\Martin\AppData\Local\Temp\1212127.cvr
C:\Users\Martin\Downloads\Autumn 2013 Rota - version 3.doc
C:\Users\Martin\Documents\My Dropbox\Personal\words.doc
C:\Users\Martin\AppData\Local\Temp\CVR5456.tmp.cvr
C:\Users\Martin\AppData\Local\Temp\WER8065.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml

These files may be available here:
C:\Users\Martin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_WINWORD.EXE_b839ae796beafd3f451f985d64a9481a34cb66f0_18d293c6

Analysis symbol: 
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report ID: 71bd1c6c-19ef-11e3-be8a-94de807b234d
Report Status: 0
Hashed bucket: d108fd387ce881ca76a2ed04e552ecab



Hopefully this may mean something to somebody. Any suggestions gratefully received. I guess System Restore is still available on Win8 - just need to find it :)

Thanks,

Problem with syles not updating (MS Word 2013)

Posted: 09 Sep 2013 11:11 PM PDT

I have a very large document (dissertation) with over 700 footnotes.  Some of the text in the footnotes has been placed into the documents from a citation manager (Zotero) and although they assure me it does not import a font/style it arrives in a different font to the surrounding text.
Even though I have styles defined and applied to a text selection (with 'update automatically' checked), the fonts won't update - perhaps because there is more than one font in the selection?  How can I force the whole selection (all footnotes) to update to the defined style?

Can cross-references be preserved in converting from Word 2010 to PDF?

Posted: 09 Sep 2013 08:47 PM PDT

I run Word 2010 under Windows 7. I often have need to make PDFs from Word documents and find that the Save as PDF function is, to say the very least, not an improvement over using Adobe Acrobat plug-ins in earlier versions of Word. Word's insistence on degrading images, even when it mendaciously claims to be producing a file suited for printing, is widely known and lamented. But I have another problem that is even more significant in many cases: Word's failure to preserve cross-references in converting to PDF. Specifically, (1) the links in the Table of Contents and Table of Figures are lost. (2) The links to footnotes and endnotes are lost. (3) Manually inserted cross-reference links are lost. 

I suppose it's a forlorn hope, but I wonder whether anyone knows of a way to preserve the functionality of cross-references in converting to PDF – something short of manually inserting hundreds of individual links in the PDF file itself.

Multiple horizontal lines in Word 2013

Posted: 09 Sep 2013 08:23 PM PDT

 I have documents that have been created from Nuance PDF convertor to Word 2013. I want to increase the font size but there are lots of horizontal lines in the document and when the font is increased the lines are in the wrong place. How can I easily delete the lines or make sure that when I increase the font size they move in line with the increase?

 

I will need to do this often so your help would be really appreciated.

Margins in Word 2003

Posted: 09 Sep 2013 04:23 PM PDT

I am writing a book for submission to CreateSpace, which requires left and right margins that are a minimum of .75 inches (for a book longer than 150 pages).  As near as I can tell, Word 2003 has only increments of .1 (i.e. .7 or .8.).  Does anyone know if that is correct? 

Office 2010 Save/Save as box comes up solid blue; can't save anything.

Posted: 09 Sep 2013 03:56 PM PDT

Office 2010: Save/Save as box comes up solid blue and blank, so I can save any document to any device.