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Microsoft Word - Word will not open .doc files downloaded from Dropbox

Word will not open .doc files downloaded from Dropbox

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 01:33 PM PST

Hello, I am having an issue when I try to open .doc files. I download a .doc file from Dropbox and save it on my computer. When I try to open it in Microsoft Word, it attempts to "convert" the document, and opens it with symbols instead of the document. I have tried downloading multiple copies and the issue persists. This has also occurred with other files that are not from Dropbox. However, if I get on another Windows computer, download the same file from Dropbox and email it to myself, I can open it without a problem. The exact same .doc file. Other Windows computers can download and open the same Dropbox .doc file without any issue. I have also verified that Microsoft Word and Windows are completely up to date.

Why can't my computer open these files? Why is it trying to convert a .doc file?

How to create table template with two header rows

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 01:24 PM PST

I would like to create a table template in the table gallery that has two shaded header rows that repeat. In my restricted Word 2010 template, I already have a table template in the table gallery that has one shaded header (that repeats across pages). Initially, I thought that users could use the primary table template (with one shaded table header), and simply use the layout tools to add a second, repeating shaded header (Table Tools > Layout > Repeat Table Header). Unfortunately, when I save, close, and reopen the file, the second header shading is gone! Am I misunderstanding this feature?

I also read in another post ("Word 2010 tables forget multiple header rows upon closing file") that it may be possible to add a "building block" table to the style gallery? Is a "building block" table the same as a table template such as the one I already have? In that other post, it sounds like it may be possible to create a table and then add it to the table gallery instead of doing what I did: Open Table Tools > Create New Table Style.

Not able to save as .PNG or .JPEG

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 12:43 PM PST

Hello,

Sitting here with Office 365 Home Premium.

Created some nice pictures and thought i'd save them as .PNG and use them for some programming.

However I am not able to save as .PNG. Not even as .JPEG.

Any ideas why it doesn't work? All I found searching was that it should work. Sorry about the Swedish by the way...

Home Ribbon

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 12:42 PM PST

When I'm working in a Word 2010 document the default ribbon is File so I have to keep clicking on Home everytime I do something in a document.  I have no clue why it's doing this as Home has always been the default ribbon before.  I read a previous post from someone with the same problem; however, the response was that the ribbon had been minimized which is not the case.  Thanks in advance for any help.

SkyDriver Word Web App error message "The Service is Unavailable"

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 11:42 AM PST

Hello,

I don't know if the Word Web App in SkyDrive is having the problem but when I try to open documents inside my SkyDrive I get a "The Service is Unavailable" message. Has anyone seen a similar message while opening the Word Web App in SkyDrive today?

Thanks for your assistance.

I am using OS X Mavericks 10.7 and running Safari 7.0.

how to change a first pg section in mid-document

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 11:35 AM PST

I have a document with a different first page layout, which is what I want. However, later in the same document, when I insert a next page section break to make a section landscape, the section takes on the layout of the different first page. I can see in the header it shows, "First page header, section 2." How can I make the document have only one different first page header/footer?

 

What I find is if I try changing the header and footer in First page header, section 2, it also changes on my document's first page.

 

This is making me a bit crazy....

Find and Thesaurus not working right

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 11:06 AM PST

Both my Find function and Thesaurus stopped working correctly at the same time and I don't know why.  I am using Word 2010.

 

Normally when you click on Find a rectangular box appears on the left hand side of the screen where you can type in the word you want to find.  Then it tells you that you have XX instances of the word you are looking for and you can search through them to see which one you want.  This box doesn't show up.  I can still click on Find and Replace and do a search that way so the function still works, just not by using the rectangular box.

 

I have a similar problem with the Thesaurus.  Normally when I click on Thesaurus I get a rectangular box on the right hand side of the screen that gives me choices.  Now, the only thing that happens is the word gets highlighted.  I can still get a few suggestions by right clicking on the word and going to Synonyms, but that list is very short and doesn't give me enough options.

 

So, the functions appear to work, but the boxes don't come up to help me.

 

Can anyone help with this?  I have tried doing a Repair on MS Office but that didn't do anything.

 

Thanks.

grids appearing in all word documents

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 10:41 AM PST

I installed office 2013, now all my word documents have these "ugly grids" on every page. the same thing appers when i open any new blank document.. how do i remove the grids???

Office 2013 deployment : Using OCT to deploy custom ribbon & Quick access toolbar

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 10:22 AM PST

Hi,

I am trying to deploy a custom ribbon & quick access toolbar with office OCT for Office 2013 but i can't find anywhere in the documentation saying how to do it.

There is an article for Office 2010 about this... but i'm not to sure if it would work for Office 2013. ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee704589%28v=office.14%29.aspx#odc_office14_DeployCustomRibbon_ExampleofficeUICustomizationFile)

It talks about *.officeUI files or some other articles talk about *.QAT but when i export the configuration that i want to use for Word 2013 i get a *.exportedUI file.  Do i rename manullaly the file to be *.officeUI ?

Is there any unattended way to deploy this file so it is going to be applied for every users using a computer? 

The users profiles are stored locally and they use Windows 7.

Word 2003 - Clipart Error

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 10:10 AM PST

User that I'm trying to support is unable to insert clipart in Word 2003 document.  When searching for clipart, all results show WMP icon adding clipart results in error: word cannot obtain the data for the file ...wmf.lnk categories appear as dglxasset...

Clipart options was the only option checked under Search for clipart pictures.

Please help.

Thank you.

Lontajo

My cursor at the top left opening page of a word doc is no longer showing any white space from the top.

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:50 AM PST

My cursor at the top left opening page of a word doc is no longer showing any white space from the top. It's printing correctly, but looks wrong on the monitor.

 

Any thoughts ???

Repairing Office/ Office is busy

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:39 AM PST

I recently got a new laptop with Office 365 University that includes: Excel, Word, Power Point, and One Note. I only use Word for right now. It was working just fine up until last weekend. Every time I opened Word, that little orange box kept coming up and said to repair it. I've tried repairing it by clicking the options it gave me, but it literally took all day and still nothing was fixed. Please, I need help with this. I am a student in college and I write a lot of essays. Please let me know how I can fix this! Thank you!

Not starting

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:32 AM PST

Why dose Word not start i have the 60 days trail that runs out next mounth

Microsoft Word - how to re-install

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:21 AM PST

MY PC crashed a few weeks ago.  Despite my levels of security, a bug got in and ate HAL.DLL in the Root.  The technician to whom I take my PC when I have big problems, rebuilt the Window XP(SP), and I subsequently successfully update to Windows XP(SP3), which is where I was before the crash. I have had to download various items that didn't make it during the rebuild  One of the was Microsoft Word.  Does anybody know how I can re-install this?  I had it before the crash.  Thanks to all for your time and efforts.  Tim *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

 

Word 2013 - Comments appearing in reviewing pane, but comment bubbles missing from right of text.

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:17 AM PST

I have a document that I'm working on with several other authors, but because not everyone has Word 2013, I'm working in compatibility mode. I've done this with several other clients and have never had an issue. This time, though, the comments by one of the other authors are failing to show up in bubbles to the right of the text. I can view the comments in the review pane, but that's a huge pain since it takes forever to scroll through it (this is a 60,000 word project with a lot of edits). 

Because I've done this numerous times before, I don't think it's a compatibility issue, and I've made sure that all changes from all authors are shown. In-text edits are showing up just fine. Does anyone have any idea what might be going on?

How can I embed the SharePoint 'Version' column value in a Word document?

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:08 AM PST

I'm using SharePoint 2007 and Word 2007.  I want to include the SharePoint 'Version' column value in a Quickpart field in a Word document template, which is published on the SharePoint site as a content type.  By viewing a number of posts, e.g.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/508229/how-can-i-include-value-of-sharepoints-version-column-in-a-word-document
I got to the situation described below:

  1. On the site content type, that I had named 'Project Document', I included the Core Document Column 'Version'.
  2. I created a policy on the site content type, I enabled labels and then specified the label as {Version}
  3. In the document template Project Document.dotx, which resides in the Forms folder of the document library, I inserted the QuickPart document property named 'Label' after which the text {Version} appears in the inserted field.
  4. When I use the New button in the library I can see a blank property box 'Version'.  However when I save the new document into the library there are two columns headed 'Version', one containing the SharePoint version number which increments on each check-in, and the other the showing the value from the document and which can be any value I choose to type into the Version property box.
This is not what the post above described.  So the question remains, how to get the SharePoint version into the policy label?

The baffling thing about this issue is that I would have assumed that many SharePoint users would want to do this to take advantage of SharePoint's document management capability.

Stan

Can't add "Table" caption -- no dialog box opens to select Label type (Word 2010)

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:01 AM PST

Hello,
When I click the "Insert Caption" button on the "References" tab, all it does is insert a "Figure" caption and it changes the paragraph style to caption.  No dialog box opens where I would normally select the label type if I want use "Table" and create a separate List of Tables.  Is there an option to turn this action on and off?  Thanks for any help!

180 Day Free Trial

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 08:55 AM PST

For my CIS 111 Course I had to get the 180 day free trial. I installed it and it was working perfectly until recently and it wont let me do anything in word and says I need to buy the real version even though I haven't had it for 180 days yet. Can someone help me out?

Word 2013 - Your Organization's policieis are preventing us from completing this action for you.

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 08:51 AM PST

New Windows 7 Pro 64Bit Install

Office 2013 Home & Business 2013

Outlook 2003 also installed.

So I installed this new machine today, all is well and working.

However we have a Word (.doc) document with a list of other documents hyperlinked within it.

When the user (who has local admin rights) tries to CTRL+click any link in the document (or any document) he gets the error

Microsoft Word: Your organization's policies are preventing us from completing this action for you.

I have searched and searched and tried so many fixes and suggestions that I am going square eyed:

So far I have tried:

  • Microsoft Fix IT 50388 - Run's but at the end says "Microsoft Fix it failed to process"
  • Registry fixes for doc types
  • Default file associations
  • Reset Internet Explorer settings
  • No alternate browsers have been install (No chrome/firefox/opera)
  • Removed Office 2013, re-installed Office 2013
  • Ran all Windows / Office updates
  • Rebooted about 30 times after each step
  • Given user local admin rights
  • Given user domain admin rights
  • Howled at the waning moon on the 3rd day after all hallow's eve.
  • Spoke to Microsoft Support who were less than supportive.
Please help I am completely out of ideas what to try here. 

Please Note: I have seen lots of things relating to Outlook and fixing .htm/.html file associations.  This is NOT an outlook problem, this is not a problem with .htm or .html files (although they probably dont work either)

Office default save to local folder, NOT Sky Drive?

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 08:50 AM PST

Since installing Windows 8.1, my default save location is now always Sky Drive\Documents.  Changing the save location in any Office program (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook) to the local folder does not cause a new document to default to save to the local hard drive folder, it always defaults to the Sky Drive folder. 

I do not want to save anything to Sky Drive. I want to save locally.  I do not use more than one computer, no one needs to collaborate with me, and I do not want any of my documents in a cloud location for anyone else to potentially access.

So how do I change this default so that when I save a new document in Word or Excel, etc. that the default location is always C:\Users\My Name\Documents and NEVER Sky Drive\Documents?

MS Word - pictures captions HELP!

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 08:50 AM PST

Hello!

So I have a problem. I need to make table of figures (list of my pictures), but it must be name NUMBER and then LABEL.
Now I can only get label and its number.

I would appreciate help.
Please answer me as soon as possible.

word isnt working

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 08:40 AM PST

hi, i want to open a document in word, however, my computer is telling me that i cant use it right now because office is busy. how do i check on what it is that office is busy doing? is there a way to pause whatever its doing so that i can finish up with my word document?

Office Home and Student 2013

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 08:17 AM PST

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help, I have just upgraded to the above and find I can no longer open any document or spreadsheet.

I get the message saying Excel has stopped working or word has stopped working. I have tried a repair as well as uninstall and reinstall but I still end up with the same message.

I have also uninstalled my antivirus  but I still cant open any documents.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. 

Office 365 online version of Microsoft Word vs. Microsoft Word Web App included in SkyDrive.

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 08:09 AM PST

Hi, 

 

Is the online version of Word in Office 365 different than the version of Microsoft Word Web App included in Skydrive or is it the same product? 

 

Look forward to responses. 

 

Best - BostonDan

 

 

microsoft word not working

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 07:47 AM PST

I have just installed microsoft365 home premium and my Microsoft word is not working.

Any help please. thanks

Formatting with Bullets & Captions

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 07:43 AM PST

Did you manage to fix this (see below)? I seem to be having a similar problem in Word 2010 - I have bullets and captions which look fine when in Word but then I click on 'print' (either to printer or PDF) and the formatting goes haywire. Some bullets are missing - extra spaces between paragraphs etc. When I go back to the Word document it has kept this formatting.

Thank You

---------------------------

Hi all -- 

 

When I print from Word 2010, the formatting of the document changes drastically. The spacing between lines expands, so that my 24 page document becomes 32 pages.  My figures are also disrupted in that 1) they are no longer positioned to minimize white space and 2) some of the multi-part figures are torn apart.

 

This happens when I print to a printer, or when I print to PDF.  

 

When I am finished printing, the word document remains in this new format. But then various actions cause the format to revert to its original state - for example this has happened when I closed and reopened.  If helpful, my primary font is Palatino, though I use Calibri for some figure captions, and I am using Windows 7 on a dell Latitude.

 

If I could just keep everything in one format or the other, this would be fine.  But bouncing back and forth is making formatting a nightmare for me!

 

Many thanks in advance for any help.   -P

Word 2010 will not retain the Recent documents list

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 07:37 AM PST

I have Word set to display 25 recent files, but none show up. I have addressed this before by following the online discussions and messing with the Registry, but that solution only lasted a short time before Word returned to its old tricks.  I would rather not go that route again. Can't Microsoft come up with a patch to deal with this issue?

pasting problem

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 07:20 AM PST

When I copy and paste, even a few words, I get a message;  "the information you copied exceeds the size limit for pasting into the word processor.  Try reducing the size of your selection then copy and paste again??"   What is the problem?  This just started a couple of days ago.

Word

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 07:05 AM PST

My Microsoft Word is not working.  A box appeared asking me if I wanted to repair it.  I clicked yes.  It sent me here. 

My free was active for 2 weeks and it expired three weeks before time

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST

who can help me

Font in Word 2007 is too large

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 05:47 AM PST

While editing a document in Word 2007, the font suddenly changed and is way too big. I tried to set it to my normal font - Trebuchet MS 12 - but it now thinks the large font is Trebuchet MS 12. How can I change it?

Microsoft Word 2010 - Problem opening docs

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 05:33 AM PST

I cannot open word docs anymore. I get a msg that the program needed to open to the doc is not available etc. If I move the cursor over the doc name I see "OOBE.doc" without quotes.

How can I fix this problem?

How do you use mail merge?

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 04:13 AM PST

thanks

Unable to open read-only file

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 03:22 AM PST

I have a word 2007 doc which is read only, I have closed the doc although it still shows that I have opened the doc for editing.

I have since shut down and reloaded my pc although the same message appears, how do I disconnect please.

Microsoft word issues

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 03:05 AM PST

MSA word has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for any inconvenience

Formatting Pages Help Needed

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 01:59 AM PST

I am creating a long "living" document that I am adding new pages to all throughout the document.  I would like to know if there is a way to format my document that will keep the pages I already have in the document from moving. 

 

For example, when I add a new page to my document, I have to go through the entire document after that point to put everything back where it is supposed to be on each page.  I would like to be able to add new pages without having to reformat the rest of the document.

 

Thanks!

smarioncp

Unable to open files; files corrupted

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 01:13 AM PST

Computer had a heart attack when I got it back to 2 folders are having problems

When document is opened I get the message

Office open XML file password cannot be opened because there is a problem with content.  Click on detail box to get message  file is corrupt and cannot be opened.

The other word document I am having problem with said I had a problem with MSWRD632 I downloaded this and now the page opens to little boxes arranged neatly across and down the page.

I downloaded converter files,

What can I do?  I am using a legitmate microsoft office.

 

with thanks if any one can solve this as they are the two files I really wanted.

 

Lorelle

have word 2013 but need 2010

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 12:51 AM PST

I have office 365/university with word 2013. One of my classes requires word 2007 or 2010, software is not compatible with 2013. Do I have to buy word 2010?

Dictionary Not Working is Ms office 2013

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 12:38 AM PST

Sir any one Please help me sir my Microsoft office 2013 dictionary is not working Plzzzzzzzz help me !!!! ?????

Change the default bullets in Word 2007

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 12:08 AM PST

We have specific guidelines for creating documents in our organization. One of the specifications is the use of bullets in a document.

In MS Word 2007, I need to know how to change the default bullet used by Word for each level of indentation.

By default, the bullets used by MS Word are at the first level is a black dot, second level is a circle, third level is a filled square, etc. The first can remain a black dot, but the second needs to be an empty square, third level a dash.

I can make a style for each of these, but indenting the text later will not apply my next level of bullet. (at least I don't know how to)

Also, I would like to change the default levels of indentation provided by MS Word.

Each level, by default, is .25" from the previous level. Can this be changed to .2", or .15"?

Thanks