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Microsoft Word - Turn OFF ALL Styles

Turn OFF ALL Styles

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 12:54 PM PST

The threads on this are old.  Has anyone found a way to turn them all OFF once and for all?  Most of my office work is doing complicated layouts that print precisely where I have calculated them to land.  Like making large labels for things that need each line a certain font/size/layout.  When I set my tabs, font, etc for a 2 line section, I need it to retain all of that when I hit the enter key, not change it to some other style.  It takes me 3-4 times longer to do them because of all the stupid auto formatting office does.  I've wasted the last 2+ hours now trying to figure out how to turn it off.  I've never once used styles.  I don't create documents that I would even want styles in.  I HAVE A BRAIN.  I resent office doing what it does.  If I had to create a style for every format layout, I would literally soon have hundreds, if not a thousand, styles that I would have to manage and remember to delete all the time.

I need it to always remember every single aspect of formatting that I did from one carriage return to the next, not change it back to what it was sometime before the moment I hit the enter key.

Please tell me someone has figured out a registry hack or has an add-on that lets us normal people with brains turn off yet another idiot feature.

Thanks.

Atypical bibliography / works cited formatting

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 12:50 PM PST

All,

I'm trying to do something a little different with the built-in bibliography / works cited functionality in Word 2010. Instead of having the work cited follow a paragraph in quotes as is typical, I need it to follow in-line with the text as follows:

lorem ipsum...et al, in accordance with reference 3.

Reference 3 would then be delineated in the Bibliography or Works Cited section, which would need to be retitled References, and would also need to be numbered, so reference 3 would be the third reference.

Is it possible to set this up so I can automatically refer to sources repeatedly throughout the document, or is there a better way to do this? It'd be nice if it were automatic so I could renumber my references, if necessary.

transfering photoshop photos to Office Word.

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 12:36 PM PST

For a long time I wanted to use Photoshop creations in Word documents . but have never been to find a way to do it any where on the web that I could find
Therefore, I decided to devise my own solution.  It may not be the best method or the only, but at least it works.at least on PC ,not tried on Macs

So to help other people achieve that objective thought I would write it up on here

Open a Word document; open the Photoshop photo you want to add to text.
Select the largest layer in the photo you want to
Click ctrl+ A
This puts dotted line around layer.
Click ctrl +C to copy.

Move to Word document, click ctrl V this pastes that layer only on to page.
Double click on layer, and if you have Photoshop, it should open it a new image page.  leaving word with a hatched photo
Click on show as side by side , (the two squares in top bar)
Select all your layers on first photo,(the one you want to add), and drag across.  To the other image.


This will transfer from one image to other, leaving you with two identical images except the one if viewed on office will have a background layer.
Back on word the image will have changed for a hatched picture to the new one
  Close Photoshop and there it is, hopefully on your word document.

To edit at any time double click on the Word photo and it will open Photoshop ready for you to edit.

dont know if this helps anybody who has the same problem

Do I need internet explorer to install Microsoft Office Word?

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 12:22 PM PST

I currently do not have Internet Explorer or Microsoft Word on my PC (Windows 8)  I use Goggle Chrome and Open Office. I have disc created by Microsoft Word in 2009 that I would like to view. I have tried downloading Microsoft View but when I insert the disc and click on the subject name, I get the message that" Internet Explorer has stopped working.  I tried downloading Internet Explorer and making itmy default but i still get the same message. I am willing to pay for the Micorsoft Office Word if it would read the disc. Does nay one have any suggestions.  Keep in mind that I am 79 and  in no way a computer whizz so if you can speak computeridiot language, I would appreciate it.

office 365

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 12:09 PM PST

hi i had office 365 home premium on trial i started to write some stuff  and it as since expired an now i cant get my stuff back its there but cant copy an paste it so cant use it what do i do please help????

lost coedits

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 11:57 AM PST

I am very unhappy.
my guest coauthor edited hundreds of typos in my document but they are gone   all that work wasted
The first time we tried it it worked but the second time nothing

Word 2013 Table margin issues

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 11:53 AM PST

I have a document with mirrored margins, with the inside at .75" and the outside at .5".
Page 132, starts a single cell table containing text that flows across two pages.

On the first page, the part of the table on that page stays within the margins.
On the second page, the second part of the table will not stay in the margin. 

If I try adjusting the size, it re-sizes the whole table, throwing it out of alignment on the first page.
As you can see, the 2nd page is hanging off to the left.
I've tried every adjustment in the table properties and can't find the solution.
Thanks for any help!
Bob J.

Changing "Normal" WORD doc in Windows 7 Home edition

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 11:32 AM PST

This is the second time I am asking the question "How do I change the Fonts and other properties in the NORMAL doc in Windows 7 Home Edition.  I am not a technical person.      It is so inconsiderate for MS to not make it easy for a user to customize their document format to suit their own preferences.  Please help.  My email address is *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

MOS Certification Access Code Denied

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 11:09 AM PST

I recently became certified in MOS Word 2010 (:D). I got the E-Mail stating my Access Code and ID. However, upon putting these codes into the system, it says they do not match what they have in their system. I copied and pasted both codes 3 times. I also reset the codes 3 times to my primary Outlook/Hotmail account. The email never came. It never came into Spam or Inbox. I also tried resetting it to my phone (using AT&T's Email to Text  feature), but it said the Email is not the right one for the Certification ID entered. What can I do? Thanks!

Grimalkin

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 09:36 AM PST

How can I separate the formatting of a lead-in heading (APA level 3 onward) from the text?  The heading looks fine but when I try to create a TOC, the entire paragraph is included in the heading:

 

2.4.1 Individual level factors.  According to Bhana & Petersen (2009) risk and protective factors at the individual level are physical and psychological, which "may be a product of genetic and and/or socio-environmental factors" (p. 58).

 

The heading should just be '2.4.1 Individual level factors.' 14

ms word 2003 error message

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 09:17 AM PST

i have created hundreds of documents over the years in word 2003. all of a sudden, something called open office.org 3.2 appeared on my computer. ever since then, i now get the message "there was a problem sending the command to the program" whenever i try to open one of my word documents.

Multilevel List Linked Styles

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 08:12 AM PST

All,

I followed Shauna Kelly's excellent tutorial on making multilevel lists and linking the lists to preformatted heading styles, though after I reread her article, I realized I didn't apply a heading style to every single level available since I wasn't planning on using all of them (I went down to 3 originally, then down to 6 later in the document). When I go back to make changes to my multilevel list numbering, the styles associated with the levels I did format don't appear to be there anymore. The numbering appears to work correctly, but only down to a certain level (usually 5 deep or so), when it reverts to the default numbering scheme. Was the original failure to connect heading styles to numbering the issue, or is it something else?

If this is unclear, please let me know and I'll explain more clearly.

Problem with VBA to verify number of open documents

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 07:49 AM PST

I'm having a problem with code I'd thought would be dead simple. I'm just trying to confirm that a given number of non-template documents are open. I've tried 3 methods (below) but some docs are unpredictably counted twice or not at all. I'm certain there are no phantom instances of Word. What am I doing wrong?

 

My first attempt was this:

 

Function NDX() As Long

Dim d As Document

For Each d In Documents

    If d.Type <> wdTypeTemplate Then NDX = NDX + 1

Next

End Function

 

Stepping through the code revealed that docs were sometimes counted in the loop twice. I couldn't explain why, but to defeat this oddity I tried adding each doc's name to a throwaway string, which the loop would check before adding to the count:

 

Function NDX() As Long

Dim d As Document, blob As String

For Each d In Documents

    If d.Type <> wdTypeTemplate And InStr(blob, d.Name) = 0 Then

       NDX = NDX + 1

       blob = blob & d.Name

    End If

Next

End Function

 

This solved the overcount, but it would still sometimes skip counting an open document.

 

Then I tried this, taking the total document count and subtracting any open templates. It still overcounted unpredictably:

 

Function NDX() As Long

Dim d As Document

NDX = Documents.Count

For Each d In Documents

    If d.Type = wdTypeTemplate Then NDX = NDX - 1

Next

End Function

 

Finally I tried looping through all active Windows task names and counting only the Word docs:

 

Function NDX() As Long

Dim t As Task, blob As String, x As Long

For Each t In Tasks

    If InStr(blob, t.Name) = 0 Then

        If InStr(t.Name, ".doc ") > 0 Or InStr(t.Name, ".docx ") > 0 Then

            If InStr(t.Name, " - Microsoft Word") > 0 Then

                If InStr(blob, t.Name) = 0 Then

                    NDX = NDX + 1

                    blob = blob & " " & t.Name

                End If

            End If

        End If

    End If

Next

End Function

 

This actually works, but I get the distinct feeling it's a colossal waste of code. Any ideas? TIA.

Does the separator continuation line depend on having a separator line?

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 05:39 AM PST

It seems impossible to combine having no separator line with having a separator continuation line. That is, on pages where no footnote is continued from the previous page, no separator line is needed; and on pages where a footnote is continued from the previous page, a separator line is desirable. And yet as soon as a separator line is specified, a separator continuation line springs into existence.

Can others confirm this anomaly? If so, could there be a way of pretending there's a separator line -- i.e., having one that doesn't print?

how to merge word files into one

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 04:52 AM PST

Hello,

how can I merge a lot of word files into one, so that all pages remain as formated, so that every file starts with new page. 

I tried with http://www.gmayor.com/Boiler.htm  but it seems there is a some format language problem, because my word is not in english.

thanks in advance,

mgmk

Microsoft Word and Onenote

Posted: 09 Nov 2013 08:40 PM PST

Before going on vacation I could print Word documents or anything else straight to my printer. Now, when I try to print it goes to onenote and I not able to print. Searched for the printer I have but it only show Onenote as the default printer. How do I fix this problem?

Word 2010, unable to change page size

Posted: 09 Nov 2013 05:10 PM PST

I was typing in Word 2010 and apparently hit some keystroke that set my page size to a width of 19 inches and pushed the vertical ruler off the left hand side of the window.  It doesn't matter what view I'm in the page size stays the same.  I tried changing the page back to letter and manually set page size to other, selecting 8.5x11, portrait.  This didn't change anything.  I checked the options and it's set correctly.  I deleted normal.dotm.  I deleted the registry keys for margin.  Nothing will change the page size. Any help I can get would be greatly appreciated.  At present, this prevents me from printing anything I work on.

Thanks in advance