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Microsoft Word - autoformat not adding dashes

autoformat not adding dashes

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 03:20 PM PDT

I have the autoformat option to replace a double hyphen (--) with a dash turned on, but Word is not doing it.  I type a double hyphen, and it just stays there as 2 hyphens.  What could cause this?

in 2013 autonumbering reverts to calibri how do we change that

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT

I changed my default font to Times Roman.  If you turn off auto numbering then turn it back on, the font changes to Calibri.  How do I fix this so that it stays as Times Roman.  This only happens in 2013 not 2010.

Why does MS Word 2007 need to reconfigure all of a sudden every time I try to open a doc or create one?

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 01:17 PM PDT

I am using Windows 7.

This issue just started within the past few days.

Macro on single key text entry

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 12:22 PM PDT

Preamble: running windows 7 on a terminal without administrative control.

So here is the deal- I have 2 tables with approx. 15-20 text form fields in each. Each field controls separate IF fields in the document (often times multiple nested IF fields) with 1 being the equivalent of true.

I would like the output to automatically go to the next field if 1, 2, or 0 is input. However, I cannot apparently assign a macro that I have for this to these keys in Word's options.

Is there a way to assign the macro to these keys? Or a macro for the current document that states that any time 1, 2, or 0 is input, run the sub routine of selection.nextfield? Or any other method without using a macro? (Suzanne very practically answered my last question noting that I didn't need a macro ^_^)

Thank you in advance for your time!

- Evan

envelopes

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 11:58 AM PDT

Mircrosoft 2013 - When I cut and paste an address from another software product into the envelope wizard, the bottom line of the address (City,State,Zip) is printing below the return address rather than with the name and street address.  Trying to print on an HP 4250.  Problem just started. Help?

Mail merge problems

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 11:43 AM PDT

Somehow I changed the headings in mail merge from first name last name, etc. to the first person's information from my mailing list.  Is there any way to change it back?  Now the first person on my list is not showing up in my labels.

difficulty converting old word documents to new verson

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 10:12 AM PDT

I have older word documents (2003) that I have trouble converting and saving.  can anyone help?

I can create an index for multiple documents, but the page numbers don't specify which document to use. Can page numbers specify the correct document?

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 09:12 AM PDT

I have a set of user manuals (many hundreds of pages each) that I would like to provide a single index for. I can easily create an index using RD, but the index just shows a list of page numbers and not the particular document the page number comes from. I'd like to be able to specify which document to look in. I'm thinking there must be a way to add an acronym for the document name (or something similar) to the individual documents' page numbers so when the index is generated, the page numbers would include the acronym. Something like this:

 

An index entry.........UG-1, CG-124

Another index entry........CG-5, MLG-238

 

Where UG is the acronym for a document named User Guide, CG is Configuration Guide, etc. and the page number in that document. I could then easily provide a definition for each acronym at the top of the index so a user could find their index entry and see the various manuals with their specific page numbers. Right now, the index looks like this:

 

An index entry.........1, 124

Another index entry........5, 238

 

Which isn't at all helpful for a user of the document set.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Can't find Recent Word Documents when I open Word (Office 2013)

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 09:11 AM PDT

My computer has Windows 8 installed on it.  And the problem I currently experiencing is that I can't display 'Recently opened Word documents'.
Anyone know how to solve this problem?
Thank you!

I have documents in MS 7 which have gone to an orange icon & can't be opened. Can you help me?

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 08:50 AM PDT

Someone recently worked on my laptop, clearing a number of orange-colored-icon Microsoft Word folders, but I am now finding a couple dozen files with the same problem.  That tech is no longer available and I believe this is an issue you folks can help me solve.

Thank you - shannon

Is It Possible To Change The Default View To Draft In The Normal Template? (Word 2010)

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 08:43 AM PDT

I can't find a way to make Draft view my default view in Word 2010 as I have done in all previous versions of Word I've used for 15+ years.


I have no problem changing the default font/size etc in the normal template but for example if I open normal.dotm from %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates and change the view to Draft and then change the font (as a check to see if it changed) and save it, next time I open a document the font changes have remained but it still opens in Print Layout view which I hate! (I'm a minimalist type of guy :) ).


Am I doing something wrong (quite possible) or is there no way to make Draft the default view?


Thanks,

Gary

How do I get a Microsoft license key?

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 08:40 AM PDT

my first and new Pc had been using a temporal office word so now it has expired  and am trying to renew it but it tells me to enter the linces key , now where do I get that lincess?

 

converter for wordperfect 5.1 works on word 2000 but doesn't work for 2003 or 2010

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 08:25 AM PDT

Hello,

 

I noticed that when I convert a wordperfect file (5x) using MS Word 2000, everything convert correctly; but If I try to do the same with MS Word 2003 or 2010 there are some areas that doesn't work.
Particularly if a pharagraph is indented in wordperfect, MS Word 2003 or 2010 will ignore this setting, but works fine in Word 2000.

Anyone had this issue in the past ? anyone knows any patch for this issue ?

Thanks very much in advance.

Paulo

Field Code for StyleRef

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 07:22 AM PDT

What is the correct way to insert a field code based on a style? For example, I have a date and a version # on the cover page of document that  I want to appear in the footer of the pages in that document (so when I update the cover, it will update in the footer). I created a style for the date and created a style for the version #. In the footer, when I Insert_QuickParts_Field_STyleRef (Style name): and select the style, I get the following: Error! No text of specified style in document.

What am I not doing correctly?

Thank you.

 

I think I just figured out what the problem is. The styles on the cover were in a drawn text box. When I took them out of the text box and put them on the page, the field codes appeared in the footer. This doesn't make sense, since the styles are still valid, whether in a box or loose on the page. Maybe a fix patch is needed in Word for this issue.

Word had trouble reading from your file

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 06:31 AM PDT

Hi,
after every time i get the msg:

" Word had trouble reading from your file (~WRS{D2DA6209-EEC2-465F-B858-59F23EC6363B}). Please check you internet connection or removable storage and retry"

so after i colse the msg box, my screan gos black & nothing on the keybord seems to response.
so i press the power bttn intill it shuts down.

i don't get it!, my internet works fine, & i don't use any removable storage device !
i am running Windows 8.1 pro 32bits

thank you.

2 Monitors - split screen MS Word 2010

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 06:16 AM PDT

Argh!  I am literally begging for help!  I opened 2 Word docs on one monitor; decided to try out the split screen feature to compare the documents.  That didn't really work for me, so I dragged one document to my second monitor and completed my task by working with both files maximized.  Problem solved. 

 

BUT, big problem now: no matter how many (including only one!) Word docs I open, if I drag any open doc to a second monitor, that file instantly resizes as if it was split screen.  Happens in both directions, Monitor 1 to Monitor 2 OR Monitor 2 to Monitor 1.  (Closed documents open correctly, maximized.)

 

I cannot stop this behavior and it is driving me nuts.   I have maximized (manually & by clicking upper right icon) and saved the dragged file, but when I drag it to the other monitor, it still resizes.  I've tried adjustments with the little tiny bar above the "view ruler" on the right scroll bar and saving.  Nothing seems to fix the problem.  Thanks so much, Janice (Win 7, MS Word 2010)

Opening mail merge document to edit, office 2013 requests data source for mail merge fields

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 05:40 AM PDT

Hi,

I have a mail merge document that asks for the required data source every time I open it using Word 2013.  The data source ( csv file) contains the merge fields for the mail merge document.

In previous versions of Word, Word would automatically find the csv file if it were in the same directory.  This seems have changed.  Now the only way I can stop the box popping up is to open the mail merge document, point it towards the data source, make a change to the document and save it.

Is there a setting in Word I'm missing?  Can the word document be programmatically updated with the location of the data source without having to go into each one and perform the action above?

Thanks in advance,
Nathan

Printing in Microsoft Office 2013.

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 04:39 AM PDT

I have recently purchased Microsoft Office 2013. When I type Ctrl P the system selects to send the print to OneNote. I then need to indicate that I want it sent to the physical printer. Is there some way that I can make the printer the location of choice?

i installed office 365 university on my Mac and when i try to open word it is asking me for the product key. Why is this?

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 04:30 AM PDT

I got office 365 university and got it verified before installation. The installation went smoothly, however when I want to open word or other programmes it is asking me for the product key. Why is this?

What should I do if the PDF file converted by Word looks different than the original file?

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 02:01 AM PDT

Good afternoon! I have a document created with Word 2010, with about 30 pages and formatted in my own liking. I have converted the original Word document to PDF because I want to print the document at a copy centre and I want its original formatting to be kept. My problem consists in the fact that the PDF file looks different than the original Word document: on a page, a title appears on the previous page instead of the new page where the rest of the text is. How should I change that? Thanks in advance! Have a nice day!

Automatically adding tags & other metadata from document content

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 01:46 AM PDT

I have a number of technical report templates at work and I want to set them up to autoamtically pick up data from the document (author, title, keywords, etc) and populate the Document Properties with the same data.

 

I have done this reasonably succesfully using Quick Parts but there are a couple of issues that I am sure are solvable.

1) If I create a new document from the tempalte (.dotx file) then the Quick Part fileds are not active - e.g. they display the text [Author] but it is not an active field I can edit and ahve update elsewhere in the document.

2) If I insert the Quick Parts into a document file (.docx), open it, add the information to Quick Parts fields, and then do a Save As the Author filed auto-updates based on my user details. This does sound like a good idea, but if we are working collaboratively on a signle document, I don't necessarily want the data auto updating. I can't find a way to stop it doing this.

 

I have got the system working satisfactorily at the moment by saving the tempalte as a .dotx file, the Opening the template file, completing the fields, and then Save AS a .docx file. This fixes both problems, in that the Quick Parts fields are active when I open the template file, and if i subsequnetly close the document, open it again, then do a Save As it doesn't auto update any of the data.

 

This is fine - it works - but it isn't entirely fool proof as I would like it to be before circualting the tempaltes round a large team. Ideally I would like to be able to create a new document from a template and have it all work.

 

Thanks in advance!

MS word Error

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 01:40 AM PDT

Im getting the following error message when trying to open 1 specific word file (all others open fine)"Word experienced an error trying to open the file".
I have tried the text recovery converter method but it gives me the same message.Its word 2003.Please Help

WORD ISSUES

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 12:50 AM PDT

i HAVE TRIED SUGGESTIONS TO FIX MICROSOFT WORD I HAVE EVEN UNINSTALLED AND REINSTALLED IT. I HAVE WINDOWS 8 MICROSOFT 2013 AND ONLY HAVING PROBLEMS WITH WORD. IT KEEPS TELLING ME TO PUT IN PRODUCT KEY WHICH I HAVE DONE SEVERAL TIMES PLEASE I AM DESPERATE.

A problem after installing PDF Complete

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 12:34 AM PDT

I am using word 2010. While writing a document I installed PDF Complete to my pc without closing the document. I failed to notice that in installing PDF other programs should be stopped. PDF is successfully installed and works well. After that I have found  I have a problem typing in THAI. I cannot insert any letter into an existing word or a sentence. I have to back space delete the last letter to the place where I want to insert a new letter. If I want to add a new word/sentence at the end of an existing sentence I have press the space bar many times and come back to the beginning place and type a new word. This is very frustrating. This problem is in typing THAI only, not in English. How can I fix this problem? Is it because of PDF or other problem?

لماذا اجد ملفاتى المحفوظة فى المستندات فى شكل رموز

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 11:44 PM PDT

ملفاتى التى اقوم بحفظها في المستندات عندما اقوم بفتحها لاحقاً اجدها في شكل رموز

How to disable the "Show Repairs" pup-up when opening document using MS Word 2010 64bit, on windows server 2008 64 bit

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 09:24 PM PDT

Yes, editing the Options registry key is the only method to disable the 'show repairs' dialog box. You can refer the following article on how to do it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903740

The article is for Word 2003, but you can follow the same for Word 2007. The only difference is the 12.0 registry key instead of the 11.0 key (as you have mentioned in your post).

 

Note:  Take a backup of the whole registry before you perform the operation. In the Registry Editor, right click on Computer at the top left corner > select Export > give a file name and save it to your desktop.


Hello, I also met this problem in word2010. By adding the registry key BulletProofOnCorruption,  it works in the word 2010 32 bit (windows 7 32 bit). However, when I tried it on the word 2010 64bit(windows server 2008 sp1 64bit), it failed. Also, I had tried to add both 64 bit  DWORD  and 32bit  DWORD. 

       Could you help me? thanks a lot!

high lighting is possessed

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 08:35 PM PDT

I upgraded to Office 365.  Since than, when trying to high light while using a mouse word acts like it possessed.  It does it randomly.  When high lighting a paragraph it will start and half way down the area that was high lighted is suddenly not.   I might be high lighting a blank area to delete and 2 lines into it the same thing happens.  I might high light an entire paragraph and when I get to the end and release the left mouse button all the area I just marked is no longer marked.  I can try to mark just part of a line and when I get to the end and release the button same thing.  T can try to repeat the procedure and it just keeps doing the same thing and than suddenly it works.  It is driving me absolutely crazy.  It is making it impossible to work.  

different colored wording on same page

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 06:50 PM PDT

I have a laptop and word 2010 I typed a letter and in the middle of the letter the font is not black but a light gray and goes back to black I have highlighted the whole page chose black font color and it stays the same it also prints the same as the screen I have windows 7

Taking a e course and cannot open compressed zip file. Says in Mword file has missing or invalid contents? Please advise.

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 05:26 PM PDT

I am taking an e course. It required me to download a file folder ( zip/compressed ) Upon opening this folder with
a Word I received a box message stating that the contents were missing or invalid. It asked me if I wanted to recover
it's content and open anyway. I replied ok. but it said it could not open. 

I really need to get access to this folder please advise.

Aligning a poem

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 05:18 PM PDT

Hi,

I am helping a non-profit organization to format a book. There are hundreds of poetic verses in the book which needs to be formatted.

I am using shift enter to begin a new line in a paragraph and keeping everything justified. The paragraph marker is at the end in its own new line and this nicely aligns the poetic texts. So far so good.

The problem is that there are hundreds of these poetic verses and I cannot have a fixed width for each one as the words will have too much white spaces in it and it does not look nice. Each poetic verse or paragraph will have its own width.

In Word 2013, I then drag the right margin towards left and this shows me how the poetic paragraph will look like and this is a great feature.

But, I have to do this on every poem until line breaks into two and that is the point where I align each poem without breaking a line.

And, I have to do this manually for each one of these.

I was wondering if a macro could be written that will determine the best right margin for the poem paragraph so that line does not wrap and break into two.

I know it is difficult to describe it in words and but if you open this link, you would know what I really mean.

http://www.zinox.com/files/sample.pdf

In above page, there are 4 poetic verses in bold and each has their own width that I had to determine by dragging the right margin towards left. I wish that if there was a macro that would do this for me.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated to help me write a macro to accomplish this.

For example, the macro would determine the best right margin of each line in the paragraph and the maximum right margin of all lines would be the one set for the selected poem. I have a feeling that there are smart people who can write such a macro but I am not that smart so asking for a help.

Thank you so much.


Thank you  

SOME APPLICATIONS OF WORD 2010 CRASHING WITH WINDOWS 8

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 04:13 PM PDT

I'm typing a WORD DOCUMENT & when I go to the "margins" tab the program freezes-up when I try to change the margins to a different default. The program is also freezing-up when I try to "print". Microsoft helped me to install OFFICE 2010 as I was having problems. I fear that other OFFICE programs may experience the same problems. Please tell me that WINDOWS 8 isn't going to be as bad as all the other WINDOWS versions. My laptop is brand new. (SAMSUNG 4) WHAT IS GOING ON????

I highlight one word to change formatting and it changes the entire document

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 02:26 PM PDT

Hi. All of a sudden Word is making three arbitrary changes to a document: 

1) when I highlight one word and either increase the font size or make it bold, it makes my entire document (75,000 words) larger or bold. 

2) Word has also made entire sections of my document lose their indentations with each new paragraph; although, again, this is arbitrary and affects some sections of the doc and not others.

3) Word has also included a space between all paragraphs. This space cannot be eliminated.

Anyone know why and how I can fix this? I'm using Word 2007. Thanks.
Chris