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Microsoft Word - Word 2013 will not browse file locations

Word 2013 will not browse file locations

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 02:54 PM PDT

Pretty bizzare problem. I cannot "Open" or "Save As" any document in my installation of Word 2013. 

When I open the "File" menu and select "Open" or "Save As"-- I can select  Computer, I can see recently opened folders-- but when I hit the "Browse" button, absolutely nothing happens. What gives? I've started Word in Safe Mode. Same behavior. 

<ctrl> + "o" brings up the same File/Open menu (not the classic file browsing dialogue box) with the same non-functioning "Browse" button.

Any advice?

Mike

spell check using wrong lanquage

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 02:28 PM PDT

I have tried all the help suggestions I can find.  The spell checker is marking words a mispelled and the alternative is a French word.  The word is correct in English

Microsoft WORKS document files

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 01:59 PM PDT

I have several hundred files that were created in MS WORKS.  I no longer have access to the computer and software that created those files.  My new PC has Office 2013 installed, but it does not recognize WORKS files.  How can I read these files?

trouble converting files fron word 2010 to word 2013 (Office 365)

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 01:48 PM PDT

I have all my word files in word (starter) 2010.  I upgraded to word 365 (I guess it is word 2013), but I cant get my existing files to open in the 2013 settings.  should I uninstall 2013 or 2010, and what will be the consequences of each?

Footer graphic lines not copying-pasting properly

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 01:46 PM PDT

Hi all,

I have a macro that copies the headers and footers from a "base" template into all my other templates.  This was working correctly until some changes to the footer and I have not been able to track down why.

The code basically opens the "source" template and opens the "target" template, goes to the source template, opens the footer and does:

Selection.WholeStory
Selection.Copy

Then goes to the target footer and does this:

With Selection
   .WholeStory
   .Paste
   .Delete (wdCharacter)
End With

That has worked up until now.  The footer contains 2 lines of text and then it has 3 vertical graphic lines and one horizontal graphic line in between the two lines.  The only difference in the source template is that they wanted me to change margins and footer distance a bit and move the lines a small amount.

The problem: when I paste the text back into the target document, the text come in fine but the vertical graphic lines are not in the correct place.  For each of these, I have them anchored to a paragraph.

I have looked at a lot of properties but have run out of ideas.

Albert Gostick

Word documents with network template sent outside the company

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:55 PM PDT

We use a Word template that has some macros to pull in other word documents based on user form selection.  This works great except when we try to send one of these documents to someone outside the company.  It takes several minutes for them to open the file as Word attempts to try and find the template file that is on our system but is obviously unavailable on the clients computer/network.  Is there a way around this?  All solutions I've seen are centered around the premise that you had a central server that held templates, you decommissioned that server and now all your old word documents are pointing to a dead location.  The solution was to manually (or through script) remove the bad template references from each file.  That's not really a solution for this issue.  Are we just trying to use Word in a fashion it wasn't intended?

Thanks,
Todd

Highlight cross reference fields in Word 2007

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:49 PM PDT

I'm using cross-reference fields for internal navigation in my Word 2007 document, and I want future users to update the fields to keep all the pointers right as the document changes.  I need some way to mark or search for the cross-reference fields so they can be updated reliably.  I followed some instructions for adding formatting by adding /* Charformat to the field, but that just resulted in "Error! Unknown switch argument" when I attempted to update the field.  I seem to recall there used to be a simple way to highlight the cross-reference fields but MS seems to have taken that capability away.  Can anybody give me correct instructions or a workaround?

cannot type certain words like ड,उ,ए using ctrl+alt in devanagari unicode (Microsoft Word 2007)

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:17 PM PDT

I'm using MS Word 2007 in my Toshiba Laptop. I wanted to type in Nepali Language and installed Sanskrit font from the Control Panel>Change Keyboard or other input methods>Keyboards and languages tab>change keyboards>Add>Sanskrit (Devanagari). 

I can type characters in a normal keystroke, with shift, with shift+ctrl+alt but not being able to type with ctrl+alt . I used this link (http://www.ubcsanskrit.ca/keyboards.html#howto) as a reference for the keyboard layout that exactly works outside the Microsoft word. I can type any characters in Facebook, Twitter or anywhere using ctrl+alt or anyother keystroke. This problem is only inside Microsoft Word. 

Amazingly Ctrl+Alt works with Microsoft Powerpoint and Microsoft Excel too but don't know what's the problem with Microsoft Word. When I press Ctrl+Alt+T instead of ट it will type TM special character and something else with d and u. 

Please help me to change any settings so that I would be able to type any characters in Nepali/Devanagari language in Microsoft Word. 

Thank You. 

How do you make 2007 Auto-Indent the same as 2003?

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:02 PM PDT

Microsoft, in their infinite stupidity, changed (along with numerous other working functions) the auto-indent settings when they came out with Office 2007.  While this is (yet another) complaint about 2007 and later versions, that's not the purpose of this post. 

I cannot find in the Help, MS Support, or Bing.com that explains where I can adjust the *default* auto-indent settings for *all* lists and *all* list levels.  They do explain how to adjust the current level, but NOT the *default*.

How can I change Word 2007's auto-indent settings so that, like Office 2003, each indent is positioned below the wrap point of the higher level indent?  For instance (using "-" as a space since I can't use >TAB< in this post)
1.--Paragraph 1 level 1
----A.--Level 2 p1
----B.--Level 2 p2
--------i.--Level 3 p1

Word 2007 want to use a format that wastes a huge amount of line space, like
----1.--Level 1 P1
------------A.--Level 2 p1
--------------------i.--Level 3 p1

Not only does that look like you-know-what, it wastes an incredible amount of space on a page!  To add insult to injury, for some reason the indent position for Level 1 number is variable.  A new document it indents the number 0.25 and the paragraph 0.50.  In existing documents, the first level is starts as much as 3.0 or 4.0 into the line, requiring a manual adjustment!

What I want is set Word 2007 to use the (correct) 2003 auto-indent formatting;  I type "1.{space}" and it creates the first level paragraph, with the 1. on the left margin - NOT indented 5, 10, or more spaces.  I type one or more Level 1 paragraphs.  When I'm ready to enter a Level 2 line, from an empty  Level 1 line, I press >TAB<, and a Level 2 line is automatically started with the next level label, with that paragraph label immediately under the first character of the Level 1 paragraph.  Each successive level does the same - it's label is positioned immediately below the 1st character of the prior level's paragraph.

This is an amazingly simple concept, but I cannot get Word 2007 to do it! 

I've been able to get by with manually adjusting each and every indent for single and multilevel lists for several years now, but I haven't had to use auto-numbered lists that much.  Unfortunately, I'm now working on writing an instruction manual that uses paragraph numbering and indenting extensively.  Which means, that I'm adjusting each indent 5 or 6 times a page on every page!  I'm on page 5 now, and I'm over it. 

Arg!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Harry

Auto Text Gallery grayed out not allowing me to save

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 11:56 AM PDT

Was recently upgraded to Office 2013. My autotext information was transferred but the auto text will not allow it to be saved in the gallery. It is grayed out.

How to change background color of input pane in Word (2013)?

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 11:48 AM PDT

Hi,

Sometime about this month (probably around 9/10 after applying this month's security update) I have run into a severe problem -- all of a sudden the input pane's background becomes black. As the result I cannot edit any new/existing documents since I cannot see its contents anymore -- black fonts on black background. I tried to uninstall the Office Pro 2013 and reinstall but no luck. Same thing in a fresh installation (even before apply any patches). I have also removed all office-related folders under AppData but nothing helped. Here is how it looks like:

 

Any idea how to fix this weird problem?

Thanks,
Bruce

What is finereader6.sprint.dot under Templates and Add Ins and can I get rid of it?

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 11:36 AM PDT

Word has been crashing ridiculously lately, so I'm trying to disable any add-ins I don't think I need. (BTW, crashes happen in large documents I'm scrolling through especially when most of the document is in a table structure--driving me crazy as these are SkyDrive docs and I have to go in and delete all *.tmp files created during crash so SkyDrive will behave and not tell me doc is locked by another user!]

Move columns doesn't work in Word 2013

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 11:34 AM PDT

Hi, 

I'm absolutely flustered on why the move columns feature no longer works in Word. In previous versions of Word when you have a document with several columns that you do NOT want to have equally spaced you simply uncheck the Equal Column Width checkbox and can then drag the column to a new position. With Word 2013 you can still drag the column but it instantly snaps back to the default position.

Is this a bug?

Many thanks for any help!

Ras

I have microsoft word starter 2010 and the other day I went to go into a document and all documents were orange in colour and would not let me open it said I had to buy office to access documents

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 11:10 AM PDT

I have microsoft word starter 2010 and the other day I went to go into a document and all documents were orange in colour and would not let me open it said I had to buy office to access documents.  What went wrong?

how to transfer text and drawing from word starter 'across' I.E. and paste (have'both') arrive intact.

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 11:01 AM PDT

how do i copy 1 page of text and a drawing in made in word starter 2010, and click over I.E. into hotmail, and paste the 1 page of text and drawing into 'make' e-mail, to send?  either I.E. 'blocks' and breakes up the picture part, or hotmail does, or both? how do i get the picture part to cross from word, across I.E., and be accepted by hotmail?  i can't use an attachment to send this, some people won't open any attachment, and so the picture part has to be on the same text part of the visible, readable page, from the point where you 'press' send the e-mail (now).
-- so, when try the transfer of the 1 page from out of word, the drawing part breaks up 'into' rectangles, with a white square outlined in black in the upper left corner of each (rectangle), on the hotmail page. I.E. prompts and mentions 'script and active x controls", and if allow blocked content.? trying to allow it apparently make no 'visible' difference. what can be done?  if there is, are a simple instruction, i simply don't know how to find it, where this is. 

Assign a shortcut to a command in the Navigation pane

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:48 AM PDT

Word 2013

When you go to the Navigation pane > Headings tab, right-clicking a heading will display a context menu with several commands: Promote, Demote, New Heading Before, New Heading After...

Is there any way to assign a shortcut key to a command in this context menu?

A related question: By default, all headings in the Navigation pane are expanded. Is there a way to change this default behavior so that they're all collapsed?

Microsoft Office gone from my computer

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:22 AM PDT

When I started school I bought Microsoft office student edition. Today I noticed that all the Microsoft office programs are here except Microsoft word. For some reason my Microsoft word program changed to Microsoft word starter. What the **** happened to the full program.

iteration search

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:18 AM PDT

Drafted a document in Word 2007. After saving, the contents of another word document completely overwrote the document in question.  If the auto-save function is operational and more than ten minutes had elapsed while the document was being edited could the original contents be recovered?  Guidance sought.

Some how, I locked the whole Microsoft word 2010.

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:36 AM PDT

So my whole Word is not working, i cant type on old documents, or even blank new pages.
the bars at the top of the screen won't let me do anything ether.
I have two essays due tomorrow morning, and i can't get Microsoft to work!

Please help quickly!

Word 2010 automatic word count

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 08:23 AM PDT

Every ~5 minutes Microsoft Word 2010 does an automatic word count of my document. I am working on a procedure with review comments which is over 160 pages and over 45,000 words. So every time this word count calculates it takes about 30 seconds and prevents any work from being done in the document. This is extremely frustrating. 
Auto save is set at 10 minutes. 
I have removed the word count from the status bar. 
I have searched high and low for a solution and have not found one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,

Jerry

How do I find the name of an object in a Word Document?

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 07:18 AM PDT

This is a really embarrassing question, but I have been searching for hours to no avail. How do you find the name of an object (whether it be a text box, picture, whatever) in Microsoft Office Products? Shouldn't there be an option in Word (for example) to "view properties" or something like that?

My current problem is that I need to find the name of a picture in my Word Document, but I would really like to know a direct way to learn it for any object, whether I'm in ppt, Word, or Excel. I've only ever worked with ppt doing this kind of VBA, and I just added an animation to whatever object I wanted to know the name of, and it showed the name in the animation list. Not an option for Word. I'm self-taught and just have never learned this basic knowledge. Help?

Cannot copy and paste from Word 2013 to online site...

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 06:58 AM PDT

I use Windows 7 and recently purchased Word 2013. I mainly use it to write my original stories and poems and post them on my online blog or other writers websites. I try to copy the text and paste it online however it gets copied onto the clipboard but when I right click on my blog, the paste option is grayed out. I don't want my copied text to go to the clipboard which I know allows for easier posting within Word but what about outside of Word? This is my major reason for buying Word 2013, if I cannot copy and paste outside of Word then it would be a wasted purchase for me and since I'm on the monthly, I will consider terminating my account. Someone please help.

Word documents not always opening in Sharepoint

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 06:27 AM PDT


Basically I keep getting my login screen coming up when I go to open a Word document in Sharepoint ( not sure if other files are affected t0o)
I have to put my login details in several times before it will open. Sometimes it doesn't open at all and I get messages like this.
Note it works fine at my workplace- just not very well from home. This has been  a problem for a number of years.

Removing the "and" between merge fields?

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 06:18 AM PDT

I have several documents that I have a merge field then "and" followed by another merge field.  Anyone know how to remove the "and" between merge fields if there is nothing in the second field?  It is extremely frustrating when you have to find all of them and delete out the "and" before proceeding.

How to open Word docs that the system has converted into Office docs

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 06:05 AM PDT

My PC was preloaded with Word Starter 2010. I have been using it for a few years to my satisfaction. A few days ago, unable to open a document, a window appeared with three options: asking if I already purchased Office or for purchasing it or for using it temporarily on a trial basis. I marked the third option. However, I got a box saying that Office could not be installed in my PC because of missing or dammaged files. What is surprising is that all docs that I had saved in Word format have now suddenly changed into Office format and my problem is that I cannot open them because they are not Word any more and that I cannot have Office. When I try to open them, the above mentioned window with the three options appears. How can I open my Word files again?

how to count vertically merged cells of a table using VBA

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 06:02 AM PDT

I need to count vertically merged cells and horizontally merged cells using VBA. Any help on this regard.

repair stackhash_a622

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 02:57 AM PDT

how to repair stackhash_a622?

What causes this error?

Save to pdf stopped working

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 01:03 AM PDT

I can no longer save or export a word document to PDF.  I get the message "The export failed due to an unexpected error."  Tried saving old documents, new documents, new blank documents but all failed.  I have been using this function for months but it suddenly stopped working.  Performed a full repair of Office 365 but no joy.  Is it caused by a security update, 3rd party software or something else? I'm running Office 365 on Win8 64bit.

Any suggestions?

Tony

Word 2010 for PC, Header is not continuing past page 3, not sure why... HELP!

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:01 AM PDT

I've copied and pasted the document body text into a new document without any header and yet the problem is still showing up. Not sure where to get rid of it and allow the pages to flow continuously.
 

Word 2010, Windows 7 - Paste Option does not work???

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 11:51 PM PDT

In word, I can "cut" text from another page - but when I click w/mouse to paste or click the paste option on the toolbar - it does not offer me the "Paste" option.  It's shaded out in a grey (color) on the mouse option. On the toolbar option, where there is normally 3 paste options, only one is showing, again "grey-ed out".  The only option that is available to me, is on the toolbar and that is to "Set Paste Default".  When I click on it, there's a ton of settings which might as well be in another lanuage to me, as I am not tech savy, basics, basics is all I know.  This is the 1st time it's happened to me, but it's also the 1st time, I used or tried to use andlear "format painter".  Did I do something wrong, mess up the settings accidentally?  Help

Microsoft Word Deactivated

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 11:17 PM PDT

Hey, I've had my computer for around four to five years with Microsoft Word 2007 working on it since I installed it a few days after my purchase of the computer.

However, recently it seems that my copy of Microsoft Word has deactivated, and my computer seems to believe that I must re-enter a product key, generating the message "This modification is not allowed because the selection is locked." on any documents I open or create.

Of course, it also generates the product key screen on Word start-up as well.

While I believe this is due to my horrendous array of problems with my computer which have stacked up over time, I wish to know if there is anything I can do while I am in the process of getting a new computer.

It would be nice to know if re-entering the product key from the same box would consume another of the three uses, or if all three are used, if it would recognize my computer and/or not recognize the use, as I would prefer not to have to use another copy on the same computer.

Thanks,
Anthony

Insert date in all blank documents

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 10:25 PM PDT

Is there any way to create a Word template with the current date that opens when I click "new", similar to a modified "normal" template in versions of Word prior to 2013?  If there is, it is well hidden...

Microsoft Word 2013: Tracked Changes bug? Comments balloons disappear after deleting text in a document

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 10:04 PM PDT

I have encountered a really annoying bug in Word 2013.

For background, I am an English-language scientific editor and have upgraded to Word 2013 from 2010.

Often, I find that when I (or other editors) delete the text highlighted by a comment, the actual comment disappears from view. Word is set up so all changes are shown in the mark-up margin. If I restore the text, the comment re-appears.

The comments are not visible in All Markup or Simple Markup views. However, if I use the Reviewing pane, I can find the comments if I de-select 'show , if the document doesn't crash because of the sheer number of changes! This has meant I frequently miss some comments from clients or other editors.

If I load the same document in Word 2010, the comment is visible and can be interacted with. Therefore, I oftne need to make all edits in Word 2013 (the ability to switch from simple to all markup is quite handy, as are the larger comment boxes), but then need to re-open in Word 2010 to check I haven't missed anything.

Does anyone have any suggestions or has anyone else encountered this?

All my word legal documents that I wrote are gone? HELP PLEASE

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 09:49 PM PDT

I have been using my old microsoft word and now all my legal documents that I did in word are gone. I was using my old 2000 SR-1 on all my computer for years since 2000 and now I can't get into them. Can someone tell me how I can retrieve these word docs? These are court documents that I need soon. Thank you for any help you can provide.

microsoft office 365

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 09:06 PM PDT

Microsoft word is not working windows says its looking for a solution  will not let me do work in Microsoft word  says its stopped working

latest updates 9-12-13 re-loaded office 2010 and set it as a default which shut down office starter 2010 (English) as mydefault

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 07:36 PM PDT

If I delete the new download datd 9-12-13 would my original default re-activate as office starter (english) or would it delete the whole program
this came with the new updates now I have to go thru five steps just to open a doc from my e-mail which used to automatically open in word
these wont open with adobe either where they used to no I know why all college students use macs

Problems printing pics as a background in 2010

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 07:11 PM PDT

When there is a picture inserted as a background through page layout, or a background is a gradient, they shrink into multiple tiles when printed.  It looks as it should in print preview. How do you fix it so it prints the same as it appears in print preview?  It's either on windows 7 or 8. 

And it doesn't have to be one picture on the page.  For example, I have a page set in landscape with 5 pics going across and 4 rows. 

Document # updated everytime you go into the template

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 05:43 PM PDT

I have a document that needs the document Number updated every time you open the template. How Do i do that????
and will i be able to use this template on my tablet that uses word 2013 on windows 8

need to translate 4 pg.document english to spanish

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 05:02 PM PDT

I am NOT computer literate.  Please keep it simple.  How do I translate a Word document to Spanish from English. Thank you !

Macro to insert row and copy form fields from previous row on exit (protected form document)

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 04:39 PM PDT

I have created a protected form document in Word 2010. It contains various tables with each table requiring an option to add additional rows if required by the user.  I have found a macro that will give the user the option of adding a row which contains the form fields from the previous row.  See below for example.  But I would also to have the macro deleted from the previous row at the same time so that if the user goes back to amend any information they aren't asked if they would like to add a row again.   I have found a number of options to do this on the internet, but both come back with errors.  Does anyone have any other formulas I could try?  I have a number of different tables that this would apply to, all with a differnet number of columns.  Thanks

 

Sub AddARow()
Dim i As Integer
Dim bProtected As Boolean
Dim sNewRow As String
Dim oFld As FormFields

sNewRow = InputBox("Insert New Row", "New Row", "No")
If Left(UCase(sNewRow), 1) <> "N" Then
'Unprotect the file
If ActiveDocument.ProtectionType <> wdNoProtection Then
bProtected = True
ActiveDocument.Unprotect Password:=""
End If

With Selection
.SelectRow
.Copy
.Paste
.SelectRow
Set oFld = Selection.Range.FormFields
For i = 1 To oFld.Count
oFld(i).Result = ""
Next
End With

If bProtected = True Then
ActiveDocument.Protect _
Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields, NoReset:=True, Password:=""
End If
End If
End Sub