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Microsoft Word - office 2013 keeps Blinking !!!

Microsoft Word - office 2013 keeps Blinking !!!

office 2013 keeps Blinking !!!

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 02:44 PM PDT




This is how Ms Word looks like when opening it ?
its not just abot Ms Word, all other app do the same ....
i guess it's a bout the Display Card which works good in all Windows apps except MS office 2013!!

anyone has an answer or suggestion how to fix this ??? 

eMail Merge with Multiple Records and No Plug Ins

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 01:40 PM PDT

Hello All!

I'm really hoping for some help on this. I need to use Mail Merge to send a daily email to around 60 employees with a list of their clients and corresponding accounts that have not downloaded correctly in our systems. The current process literally takes hours of copying and pasting. It's enough to make Kim Jong-il weep openly with boredom.

I tried creating an eMail Merge with Word 2010 but it generates a seperate email for each faulty account record rather than creating a single email with all of the records for the particular employee listed. I am aware that there is a plug in (I believe it's called ManyToOne) that should allow me to combine the records but unfortunately we are working with extremely sensitive client information and therefore can not use any external plug ins or downloads.

I have the ability to use Access or Excel to organize the data. I figured out how to group the data by Employee Name in a report in Access, but I can't figure out how to pull the data through to Word eMail Merge based on the Employee Name and Employee Email. I've even tried using mail merge commands I've found elsewhere to make it happen but apparently I'm too much of an idiot to figure it out.

Each record in the system contains the following information:

Employee Name, Employee Email, Client Name, Faulty Account Name, Date Account Was Last Updated, Account Notes

I only need the records in the email body to display Client Name, Account Name, Date Account Was Last Updated and Account Notes

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Seriously. I would easily get 10 hours back each week where I don't just sit there copying and pasting and think about stabbing myself in the eye with a fork. I could browse reddit and look at cute cat pictures for once.

Thanks so much in advance!

Header info

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 01:25 PM PDT

I am having difficulty changing the information on the header of my college paper.  There is a function that will resolve that with Ctrl _____?  I can't find my note on what that is.  Does anyone know what that function is?  Thank you for your help on this!

 

The first page is fine but I'm not able to change the title on the following pages.

Office 2010/2013 freezes when I try to "Save As" only

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 01:20 PM PDT

I've had a problem intermittently for the past several months where any Office software I'm using (specific cases with Excel, Word and Powerpoint recently) freezes whenever I try to save as. Generally it freezes when it tries to pull up the folder browser for me to tell it where to save to. I have never had this problem when trying to simply save an opened document or open a new document. Only when I try to "Save As". In the most recent occurrence, I successfully saved right before I tried to Save As and still had the software freeze on me. I initially was using Office 2010 when it first started happening but thinking that could have been the problem, upgraded to 2013 and am still having the problem. Any thoughts? 
Thank you.

David R. 

How to undo the recent update to M. Office Starter doc conversion.

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 12:40 PM PDT

The recent update to windows converted all my Starter docs to an updated version of Office... How can I undo this? I do not want to have to open all of the docs by opening Starter first. Updates should NOT convert files without asking permission.

Word no longer works

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 12:20 PM PDT

I tried to open a Word document. I keep getting an error message saying a required installation file SKU113.CAB could not be found.  It says original installation source required. I have microsoft basic edition 2003 but I don't have my original disc and I don't know how to locate this file in order to use my program. I am confused since I use this every day and it was working yesterday before an update.

why are my papers that are saved on desk top and drive orange

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 12:06 PM PDT

Was working fine last night now all word papers saved are orange. Why?

Is there a way to Programatically (vba or vb) to clear header/footer

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 11:37 AM PDT

Am trying to set up a macro to clear the header/footer of a newly created page so I can insert a different header/footer.  Is there a way to do so programatically as opposed to trying to highlight tables or text and delete?

 

Regards - Lenny33

Word Template on UNC path

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 11:35 AM PDT

I attached a template to my Word document. the template was on a server that was not mapped to a drive, so I put in the UNC (eg. \\server1\). Now, when I try to attach a template of the same name on any other drive, Word automatically reverts to the version of the template on the UNC server.

 

I can attach templates with different names, but whenever I attach a template in a different location with the same name as the one on the server, it reverts to the server template. The server is in Europe, so I have had to rename the template to use it on my C:\ drive or from another network drive. Otherwise it takes too long to load the template.

 

This happens not only for the document that I was working on when I attached the template from the server, but also for any other document that had that template name (on another drive) attached.

Macro doesn't always work.

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Here's a good challenging question.  I added a quick access toolbar (QAT) icon that invokes a macro I wrote to toggle the "Check spelling as you type" function that is otherwise  accessed through the File tab, Options, Proofing, and checking or un-checking under the heading "When correcting spelling and grammar in Word" the box for Check spelling as you type.  But this QAT icon sometimes does not work.  I also have QAT icons for "Show all formatting marks" and "Final: Show Markup" that always work.  If instead of clicking on the QAT icon I run the macro directly by going to the View tab and clicking on Macros, then clicking on this particular macro and then clicking on Run, it still sometimes doesn't toggle the Check-spelling-as-you-type option.  So, it seems like it's the macro that sometimes doesn't work.  Any suggestions on how to make the macro always work?  Below is the macro script that toggles the spellchecker.  Thanks.

 

________________________________________________________________________________________

 

Sub ShowAll()

With ActiveWindow

    .View.ShowAll = Not .View.ShowAll

End With

Application.ScreenRefresh

End Sub

Sub SpellCheckAsYouType()

With Options

    .CheckSpellingAsYouType = Not .CheckSpellingAsYouType

End With

Application.ScreenRefresh

End Sub

Sub ViewMarkups()

    With ActiveWindow.View

        .ShowRevisionsAndComments = Not .ShowRevisionsAndComments

End With

Application.ScreenRefresh

End Sub

________________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

I have MS Home and Student, but word 2010 wont start, my OS is widows 7

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 11:10 AM PDT

I have this package for a year now and have had no problems before. I have searched forums but to no avail. I dont have a windows starter, which is mentioned a lot and I uninstalled 8-9 MS C++ files 05/08/10  and downloaded one C++ 2010 as someone said they might be corrupted. 

When I click on MS word the screen goes black for a second, it then asks if word can make changes to the computer, I click yes but it does nothing.

When I go to to- Start Button-Control Panel-Programs and Features- and click Change to the MS OFFice Home and Student it does nothing.

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks

can't see all of drop down menu

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 11:02 AM PDT

I'm going crazy. I want to change some of the settings on a word document, but when I click on a drop down menu (such as the font menu), I can't see the entire window. The very bottom is off the screen and I can't mover the window up to get at it or make the window smaller. Thus, I cannot click "okay" or "accept" for anything I change.  FYI - I'm using Surface Pro.

Distributing Quick Parts via network

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 10:55 AM PDT

Sorry but am behind the power curve regarding Quick Parts as we just updated to Sys7 and Office 2010 in March of this year.... so have a lot to catch up on.

 

Was really excited about the concept of 'Quick Parts' at first, but very disappointed when discovering the default location was on individual hard drive.  Have read there is a network option for making available for distribution though.  Pushing out files to over 5,000 employees is not an option.   Can someone direct me to content or explain how I might make the parts available over our network?

 

I read that once created, Quick Parts can be saved to, and stored in a template (.dotm) on a network however, when inserting a 'Quick Part' conventionally from within Word, the only option is 'Building Blocks Organizer' and the listing seems to be those stored in the 'Building Block' file stored on MY hard drive.

 

Our engineering staff create documents comprised of multiple 'forms' saved in a single file.  There is usually a cover sheet, frontis page, special form for toc/lists of figures & tables etc, perhaps one or two additional unique forms, then a form which serves the purpose for the body of the document.  It is usually here that we run into problems as there are requirements change from portrait to landscape and back again throughout the document (including headers/footers) .  I was hoping to be able to set up a horizontal and portrait page with header/footers intact that the user could insert via Quick Parts.  Is this possible?

 

Some additional questions... while articles abound on the internet about all the wonderful things you can do with Quick Parts, there does not seem to be a lot regarding the down and dirty of how to put together these pages.  I tried setting up a portrait and landscape page with appropriate header/footer and highlighting the paragraph marks on the 'text' layer and saving to the Organizer but when inserted back into the document, was missing the header/footer.  Going to the header/footer layer only allows you to highlight and save either the header or the footer, but not both at the same time.  How do you go about creating and saving a page w_header/footer to the gallery???????

 

Any insight would be so very helpful.  Thank you, regards, Lenny33

Linked Formfield Dropdown Lists

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT

I am trying to use Greg Maxey's Linked Formfield Dropdown Lists document (http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/linked_formfield_dropdown_lists.html) to create the linked formfield dropdown lists.  There is an example of how to use the userform to bypass the 25 items for the second dropdown list.  The example uses myArray and not AddItem.  Would anybody know if it is possible to use AddItem in this situation?

Office 365/Word 2013 Enter Key Setting

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT

I just upgraded to Office 365 from Office Starter 2010.  Previously, when using the Enter key with Word I was able to adjust the setting for single space between the lines.  The Enter Key default setting with Word that is included with Office 365 is double space.  How to I reset this to single space?   

I bought Word 2013, that won`t open. Also Microsoft ACCOUNT, also Office that will not open .WHY?

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 10:15 AM PDT

I have gone to no end of agony trying to make this work and I am about to return the computer. WORD 2013, OFFICE activate I refuse to make 1000 passwords. Microsoft Account? I paid on Visa my password not accepted is leslie3657, now you have my personal info.

 

MAKE IT WORK BEFORE I DO SOMETHING ILLEGAL!!!???

 

LESLIE DUGUID

Word 2003 also opens first doc when I open second one

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:25 AM PDT

Every day I open my TO DO list in Word 2003. Then I click to temporarily close the window without closing the document, so I can find it quickly when I need it. If I open another document, the TO DO window opens also. (This happens with any Word document I open "first" and temporarily close -- it pops up when I open another document.) This has been going on for a few years. How can I stop it from happening?

Office on Windows 8: Copy and paste problems

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:22 AM PDT

Hi,

I've been trying to copy and paste some text from one file to another (both Word documents in .docx format), but every time I do so (using hotkeys and clicking) Word 2013 freezes and crashes.  I've disabled all add-ins, and looked elsewhere for answers but I can't seem to find a solution.

Any help offered would be gratefully received.

Thanks

Embedding Documents into WORD

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:19 AM PDT

When we embed adobe and Word documents into a Word document, everything works great on the computer that created the document. However, when we send that document to any other computer and then that user opens the document, opens the embedded documents and closes them, the icons change size creating problems with the wrap of the host document.  In the Format Object field found when right clicking on the icon, Size tab, we have checked the "Lock Absolute Ratio" and "Relative to Original Picture Size" for both icons. The size on the created document is Absolute Height of 0.67" and Absolute Width of 1.05" with the Scale 100% for both.  However, when we look at this field on other computers, the figures for height and width have all increased in size and the Scale has decreased. We have tried everything we can think of to correct this but can't find a solution.

Quick Style not producing correct font

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:10 AM PDT

Hi,

I just produced a new template with new quick styles for various titles and paragraph styles. I'va applied them to an existing document and some of them are fine but many of them give me the wrong font (normally Calibri which is the default body and heading font instead of Times New Roman). However when I look at the details for the style they still say TNR. Tried modifying them to calibri and back - no luck, any ideas?

Thanks, Eubha.

EDIT: it seems to be intermittent strangely, now some of them are giving me TNR where they didn't before but one produces size 12 font instead of 10 and another is italicising text where there's no italics selected in the style. 

2010 Word & Excel Mail Merge - URGENT

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:09 AM PDT

My problem is that when I do a mail merge from my Excel database to a word document the numbers from the spreadsheet do not transfer correctly.  I have the numbers formatted as a number with 2 decimal places and using the (,) separator for the 1000.  I transfer whole numbers from the spreadsheet only to get weird numbers in the word document (i.e., 533.64 - in Excel - then transfers to word as 533.63999999999999997 or 533.6400000000000003).  Also if the number being transferred ends with a zero (5.90) it drops the zero in the word document.

Any advice as a work around or fix to this?  Please advise.

Microsoft Office 2007 Updates

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:05 AM PDT

Hello,

 

There were three Microsoft Office 2007 Updates that I installed a few days ago.  However, these same updates keep showing up as having to be installed.  If they were already installed, why do I keep getting these same updates?

 

The updates are as follows:

 

Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites KB2760411

Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites KB2760588

Security Update for Microsoft Excel 2007 KB2760583

 

I use Windows Vista.

 

I also noticed a change when I went into Microsoft Word.  The cursor was at the very top of the page, even though in Page Layout the margins are showing as 1" top to bottom.

Thanks for your help.

 

how do i add word to the defalt menue

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 08:23 AM PDT

I want to be able to add word 2010 to the menu for default programs. it has wordpad I hate that program I want word to be able to chose as a default.

Arrange by function not working

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 07:38 AM PDT

About a month ago the Arrange By drop down menu stopped working properly.  Now it will only arrange by Folder.  The other options are there but not active.    What happened?  How do fix it?

open a word document

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 06:45 AM PDT

if I have a word document attached to an Outlook email I cant open it.  If I download it to my desk top I still cant open it.  I get a msg stating word has an error opening this document what can I do?

 

This even happens if I send an email from my account and one I wrote in word 13 and using same program to open it.

Content controls losing its formatting when used in a table cell inside a repeating content control in Word 2013

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 06:30 AM PDT

Hi guys,

I'm using content controls since they were introduced in Office 2007 and found them very helpful when it comes to automatic document creation, especially with custom XML data and appropriate data bindings. I handled repeating sections myself through custom code and it worked fine, though it was quite complex in the beginning. It's now the first time that I'm playing with the repeating content control in Word 2013 and it works perfectly regarding the data. However, the formatting is driving me nuts. 

I have a table with two rows and six columns. The first row contains the headers (just text) and the second the data, using six content controls, one per column and all of them being plain text controls. The text in colums 1, 4, 5 and 6 aligns to the right. The font style in column 1 is italic and in column 2 its bold. 

I'm using a repeating content control around the entire second row and bound it to an XML element in a custom XML part. This element can occur multiple times and thus the table may have multiple data rows. The custom XML part is replaced with real business data through a .NET application. Everything works fine except for the formatting. The first colum is properly aligned to the right and uses the italic font style. The second column, however, only displays the first data row in bold. Subsequent rows are usingt a regular font style. And columns 4, 5 and 6 are aligned to the left, instead to the right. 

The same happens when adding a new row to the data bound table in Word itself. After the repeating content control is bound to a repeating XML element, we can click on the plus sign right to the last column to insert a new row, which also adds a new element to the XML stored in the custom XML part. The newly inserted row shows the same behavior (wrong alignment, wrong font style). It makes no difference if I'm using plain text controls or rich text controls. I even marked the entire document and set the text alignment to right, but the text alignment is always wrong as described before. The styles are persisted if the repeating content control does not repeat a table row, but that doesn't help. 

Before trying to fix it programmatically I wanted to know if someone knows a solution or workaround.

Thanks in advance,
Michael

How do i save as PDF any document using a macro when the macro is not in the document. it need not be a macro but i need to be able to save as PDF or print a document by just running a command

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 06:13 AM PDT

How do i save as PDF any document using a macro when the macro is not in the document.
It need not be a macro but i need to be able to save as PDF or print a document by just running a command

MS word HELP!

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 06:11 AM PDT

Several of my saved documents are never listed in the word directory but if I type them in @ FILE NAME -  they are there - Why is this? I need them all to be shown in the directory when I select - OPEN -

After updates, icons for excel and word files are orange and I cannot access them

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 05:56 AM PDT

I have a Samsung RV510 with excel and word starter 2010 as pre installed programs. When my computer updated over night on the 12th sept, the icons for any excel or word files I have, have gone orange and I cannot access them. I can open a new file but if I save it I cannot open it I am directed to microsofts page to buy office 2010, I have spoken to technical and they cannot help. I was told as these are pre installs and not trials there must have been a gliche in the updates. Can anyone help?

 

Moved from feedback

Original title: Excel and word 2010 starter problems?

how to block online image in word document?

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 05:45 AM PDT

I don't want the online images in word to be downloaded directly when i open it.

any method?

Microsoft Office Starter 2010 stopped opening files, ran repair and now I'm getting a notification saying "Microsoft is downloading the required feature"... how can I fix this?

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 05:24 AM PDT

Hi,

I was trying to open a .docx file on MS Word Starter 2010 and it asked me "Are you sure you want to open this file?"... then, when I tried to open it, a prompt came up saying "You do not have the necessary software to view this file. Please activate Office 2010..." (etc.)

Then, I restarted my computer. When I logged in I noticed all the MS Word docx files that I had created were orange. I went to the control panel, ran repair on Microsoft Office Starter and it worked again... sort of. 

After that, I opened one of the MS Word files and it downloaded/processed the required features, and opened the file. Now when I try to use MS Word or MS excel, I get a notification saying "Microsoft is downloading the required feature"... I'm not sure if I'm being impatient but it has been 30 mins now and I'm still getting the same message. 

Any ideas on how to fix this? Apologies if I didn't use the correct jargon (I'm not really versed on this computer stuff). I depend on this programme for my college projects so any help would be gladly welcome! 

All microsoft files cannot be opened

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 05:20 AM PDT

All of a sudden all Microsoft excel and word files have become corrupted and won't open. I don't have any power-point files so they could be effected too. Any file I try, old or new has the same problem.

Trying to open a word document gives the error:
"The File " " cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents."
     Details: The file is corrupt and cannot be opened.

Trying to recover the file achieves nothing.

Attempting to open the file on another computer has the same problem. Trying to open & repair the file does nothing. Trying to open it with word pad just has gibberish everywhere. Tried the open and "Recover Text from Any File" but only got gibberish. There are no equations in the document.

Looking at the documents properties by right-clicking on it has all the origin and content data missing. Files that haven't been accessed or modified for a long period of time are still effected.

For a small period of time, all the files seemed to work again and could be accessed. A short time after the same problem arose again and hasn't disappeared. Nothing special was done to make it work or stop working.

Updating mail merge labels with VBA

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 05:07 AM PDT



Sub LabelMerge()
    'Add MS Word Library
    Dim oWord As Word.Application, oDoc As Word.Document, sPath As String
    sPath = ThisWorkbook.FullName
    Set oWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
    Set oDoc = oWord.Documents.Add
    oWord.Visible = True
    oDoc.MailMerge.MainDocumentType = wdMailingLabels
    oWord.Dialogs(wdDialogLabelOptions).Show
    oDoc.Activate
    With oDoc.MailMerge.Fields
            .Add oWord.Selection.Range, "NAME"
            oWord.Selection.TypeParagraph
            .Add oWord.Selection.Range, "STREET"
            oWord.Selection.TypeParagraph
            .Add oWord.Selection.Range, "CITY"
            oWord.Selection.TypeText "  "
        End With
    oDoc.MailMerge.OpenDataSource sPath
    ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = False
    oDoc.MailMerge.ViewMailMergeFieldCodes = False
    oDoc.MailMerge.Destination = wdSendToNewDocument
    oDoc.MailMerge.Execute Pause:=False
    oWord.Quit False
End Sub

This is the simple code I have in Excel. The problem is that the new document at the end only shows one record in a multi-label list. 

I can fix this in the old document by hitting the "Update Labels" button and/or "Preview Results" button. I have tried all kinds of solutions, including Sendkeys Alt M and then B or P but none of these solutions works.

Do you have the final solution? Thanks

I cannot print some email attachments eg an attachment only prints the email address in the text and with another attachment only prints editable blue coloured text but not the body of the document.

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 04:42 AM PDT

See title

Citations and bibliography missing. It's been saved as DOCX?!

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 04:22 AM PDT

Dear MVPs,

 

My "Citations & Bibliography" section has a "Sub-section" (if you get the gist of my lingo) called "Style"

http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/word-help/apa-mla-chicago-automatically-format-bibliographies-HA102435469.aspx

 

Please follow the link for clarification.

 

My problem is: "There is nothing under 'Styles'". I save Documents as the ".docx" format as suggested to no avail. If someone could please solve my riddle, this would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

I had Office xp installed on my PC - yesterday it changed to Office 2010

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 03:13 AM PDT

I have the Office Standard for Students and Teachers installed on my computer.

Yesterday it changed all my Word Documents to Office 2010.

When I click on a document to open it I am asked to buy or trial Office 2010.

My pc runs on Windows 7

How do I get back to where I was?

 

Word 2013

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 03:01 AM PDT

Unable to install Word 2013 with Win 7. Every attempt ends with an error statement. A solution to my problem would be appreciated.

Word 2010: problem with page numbers not increasing when moving to the next page

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 02:38 AM PDT

Hi everybody,

I hope someone can help me with my problem?

I am using Word 2010 and page numbers don't get updated at all in my one specific document (which is about 30 pages long).

All the pages are showing page number 2 or 3 and my Table of Contents show also that all the information is on pages 2 or 3.

I have a lot of section breaks in the document. In page 3 header is -Section 3- and on page 4 header is -Section 11-. Could this somehow cause the problem?

I've tried to fix the problem by deleting all the headings. And I have removed all the "link to previous" links. 
Then I inserted them again and tried to to add page numbers both from quick parts (Quick Part > Field > Page) and from Insert > Page number > Top of Page etc. 

It does not help. 

I've tried to reboot my laptop and that does not help either.

Any suqqestions what to do next?

TOC dots running of page

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 01:41 AM PDT

Hey all,

I am using Office 2010 word, I decided to create a TOC for my document I just used automatic table one. It generated fine but the dots for my Heading1 words are running of the page.

for example;

Page start |           1. Introduction.................................................................................... |Page stop
                                1.1 Objectives................................................................4           
                                1.2 stuff............................................................................4           
                            2.Scope..................................................................................................

As you can see by my representation the numbers for the heading1's arn't even shown

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Ben

Word, Tables (MS Office 2010)

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 01:37 AM PDT

When in Word, working in a table, and the normal default font is Arial 12, when I insert a row it changes the font to Calibri 11.  Is there a setting I need to change?