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Microsoft Word - MS word pic help please

MS word pic help please

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 03:14 PM PST

i am using MS word to make Xmas cards , , i have the paper size set ( i think)  and i have the pic on the bottom half ,, now in the main window it looks great , but when i go to print preview i can see a border on the right and left side and the bottom ,, now when i print  the sides are off and there is a wide gap at the bottom ,, what am i doing wrong ?? i have tried  several things

please help 

thanks robbie

Older Office files only open as Read-Only

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 03:06 PM PST

I have created files over the years in Office 2007, Office 2010 and now Office 2013. When I use 2013 and try to open an older .doc or .docx file (from 2010) or any excel file, it wont allow me to edit.  It says that the file is read-only.  Is this a preference or setting somewhere?

Equation Editor Causes Crashing Word 2013

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 03:04 PM PST

Hello all,

I have been having a recurrent problem with the equation editor in Word 2013.  Sometimes, when I am deleting an equation for whatever reason, the screen will freeze with a very thin, empty equation box (as if it is having trouble getting out of this box or something) and then word crashes.  This doesn't happen every time, but frequently.  I should note that this is not the only time that word crashes; the equation editor causes crashes all the time.  Its a real problem.  With this type of crash, the autorecovery never works, and on rare occasional autosave files are also corrupted.  On rarer occasion, I have had the original save file get corrupted.  Needless to say, this bug is extremely, extremely frustrating and completely unacceptable from word.  Has anyone noticed similar problems and or have a solution?

Corrupted Office word files

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 02:59 PM PST

What has happened to my word docs? I cannot open them - the icon for these docs is a plain orange/yellow sheet instead of the the normal whote with blue W logo on - this happens on docs I created and saved myself over the past couple years or with a word doc attachment that looks normal on the email but try open in and it says doesnt recognise programme. I then get a Microsoft pop up asking me to upgrade. This Office package (Word Starter 10) was part of my computer when I bought it and has worked fine for the past couple years since new - suddenly this happens - very important docs I cannot get access to.

Anyone know why this has happened and what I do to get the docs back to normal format so I can open, edit save etc.

Word 2013 - Embed URL into Mail Merge

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 01:51 PM PST

Ok, doing a mail merge to create a document using an Excel sheet.  The excel sheet has a column for URL as this is creating a directory for companies and this is their websites.  Some of them are rather long and when I get them merged in and then convert over to a PDF for publication, any URL that stretches to the next line will only push the first line to the browser.  Instead of creating tinyurl's for each one, is there a way in the merge to just have the word website by have that word hyperlinked to the actual URL?  So right now, my directory looks like this:

Company Name
Address
City, State, Zip
Phone
Fax
http://www.company-website-that_
I_have.html

The only thing gets pushed to the browser when clicked on is http://www.company_website_that and it obviously gives and error.  I would prefer to do it like this:

Company Name
Address
City, State, Zip
Phone
Fax
Website

Where website is the actual link to the URL when the word is clicked on.

Suggestions?

Thanks.

Jayson

Word 2003 quick parts predecessor

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 01:15 PM PST

My employer hasnt upgraded from 2003 yet and I`d like to be able to automate a multi-page document as much as possible but I`m having a blond (grey) moment and I cant work out how to get entries on page 1 to duplicate on selected other pages. I`m looking at name, a reference number, location and maybe racial grouping at the top and my details at the bottom. I`d like to make it a template for others to use so its not specific information for a list but whatever name or detail is entered.

Lost document

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 12:52 PM PST

I installed a Office Word 2013 on my computer last week. My sister had typed 180 pages for me and stored it on a flash drive. Saturday I edit 100 pages and was periodically asked if I wanted to save the changes. I answered "Save".  I closed out and resumed my editing the next day. I was unable to find my documents anywhere. Everything was on my flash drive except the 180 page document. I took my computer to Office Depot as well as Staples. Neither of them could find it. All files were opened, trash bin searched, but nothing found. All we could conclude is that Santa carried it off. Please help. Check around your tree and see if you can find it.

Windows Installer

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 12:42 PM PST

I am running windows 7 on my computer. When I attempt to open Microsoft word, windows installer box pops up telling me it is "preparing to install". I have used word many times on this computer before. This box stays for a long while until a warning message appears saying "fatal error has occurred". I have tried going into the control panel to try to repair Microsoft office but when I click on 'Change' nothing happens, like it is working in the background trying to do something, again this takes a very long while with no end results. I have also tried deactivating then activating word which I was told would fix the problem, unfortunately it didn't which is why I am here!


There is also a windows update that needs to be installed on shutdown. When shutting down this seems to be installed, when the computer is turned back on the update looks like it is still okay but when I attempt to open a word file, the problem explained before happens again and the update appears again on the shutdown button?!?


Can anybody help me??

Automate a template

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 12:14 PM PST

I have a Questionnaire that I created and send to employees based on job criteria.  The Questionnaire has 3 parts. Each employee only needs to complete one part of the Questionnaire.  What I would like to do is have 3 buttons: Plan A, Plan B and Plan C.  When the employee selects the appropriate button the remaining Questionnaire questions will load in the document.  Is this possible to do?  It doesn't have to be a button either.  A hyperlink? 

 

Mailmerge Page numbering not working

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 11:45 AM PST

I've got a mailmerge form that has two merge fields on the first page of the Word Merge file.  There is a hard coded 1 in the footer of the 3rd page (The first 2 pages are not supposed to have page numbers.  When I run the merge, it looks great except that all of the records after the first recipient are showing page 1 on each of the first 2 pages that are supposed to have no page number and then correctly show the rest of the pages.  How do I get rid of the page number one on each of the first two pages that aren't supposed to have any page number on them.

 

Thanks for the help!!!

 

Ken K. - 2191

Word and excel

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 11:34 AM PST

Have home & office 2013 just downloaded Wed.12/4 now when I go too use either I get a message saying "mircosoft has stopped working a problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is found" 

Using form to populate additional fields

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 10:53 AM PST

I need to create a form that begins with a drop-down list of options, and for each option selected, I need text fields to populate for the user to fill out. I have only Microsoft Word and Excel to work with, so I'm limited in my abilities and I'm not sure if and how this can be done.

I know how to create a basic form in Word, but what I don't know is how I could make the drop-down options populate specific fields based on the options. Is this possible?

Individual Christmas Alphabet Letters (clip art)

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 10:42 AM PST

I know this is a Hail Mary and I'm just throwing this out there - every Christmas I've always gone to Microsoft Templates to find the individual alphabet letters to use in our classroom.  They were red with various Christmas details such as poinsettia leaves, hanging ornaments, icicles, etc.  Now I find only the letter "I."  Anybody know of a way to find these again?  Thanks so much and have a Merry Christmas!


Default file name

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 09:50 AM PST

When I save a new document, Word sets the file name as "April 23.docx".  This has persisted through all versions of Word since I started using it a decade ago.  I've looked in the preferences, and find nothing that triggers this.  How can I delete the default?

Office 2010 cover page

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 08:23 AM PST

I have a document with a border  and text that prints everything as it should.  When I save this as a cover page the border does not show up.  Any ideas why?

Using Track Changes in Word 2010

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST

Hi, 

Is the following possible? I want to set track changes so that 3 different people are the same colour always for every document and if anyone else edits it should show up as different colours. Let's say person A, B, C all set their settings in MS Word to be red. When person D opens the document will track changes for A, B, C, show up in red? Or does this colour setting have to be set in person D's computer? And does this have to be done for every document or can it be set up as default?

Fillable Forms Issues

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 07:23 AM PST

I have created a fillable form in Word 2010.  It's perfect except that if I happen o need to print the filled out form, if a particular item has not been filled in, it prints the "Click Here to enter text".  I want it to show up on the fillable form so people will know it's available, but I just want to see blank space if the box isn't used.  How can this be done or can it?

Word Printing Settings

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 06:34 AM PST

Ladies & Gentlemen,

I have an Epson Artisan TX720, which I share with all the other family computers over our home network. I run Windows 8 and Microsoft Office Home & Student 2010.
I've run into a problem with my new laptop to do with printing word files. In the "Print" settings panel there are some missing options, most notably the "Printer Properties" which allows you to control only two settings: Paper Size and Portrait/Landscape Orientation. Furthermore, there are no duplex printing options; there are only two choices, "Print One Sided" and "Manually Print on Both Sides". Our PC (which is connected in to the same printer in an analagous configuration) displays all the normal printing settings. Does anybody know why I can't get the full printing options on my laptop?

Many Thanks,

Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Decorative Christmas Alphabet Letters

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 06:31 AM PST

I know this is a Hail Mary and I'm just throwing this out there - every Christmas I've always gone to Microsoft Templates to find the individual alphabet letters to use in our classroom.  They were red with various Christmas details such as poinsettia leaves, hanging ornaments, icicles, etc.  Now I find only the letter "I."  Anybody know of a way to find these again?  Thanks so much and have a Merry Christmas!


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Word not printing out black characters...

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 06:31 AM PST

Hi, I have searched the only few halfway, but mostly unrelated topics about this and nothing has worked so far. Google searches have come up empty...
First, I have Office 2010 on a stock HP desktop (it is about 3 years old I guess) It had a retail copy of Office 2007 at first, fully activated. It was totally uninstalled and a  retail office 2010 installed, thinking this would fix the problem .. (a huge expense that was obviously unnecessary....) The printer is an older Lexmark X6710. Driver has been checked thru windows update and manufacturer site and is fine. There are no device conflicts showing. The printer ink is almost new, and I know it works 100% fine. 
 I say this because from every other source other than office applications, printing is perfect in black ink or in color. Even from a help topic in windows help and support, no problems. Test pages and web pages, perfect.
But when it comes to printing in Word, it is not going to happen. The documents come out as totally blank pages. The pages dont just roll out thru the printer, it acts like it is printing something on the paper, ...but nothing. Words show up fine in the preview page. I have chased my tail with supposed 'instant fix' 'check this box' dead end, shot in the dark options,... still have blank pages. 
The only way to get anything on paper is to change font color to anything but black. Color fonts, highlighted texts, anything else spits right out on paper just fine. But my business needs are normal black ink documents.

Please help, and soon, as I am on a desperate time crunch here.

Duplex printing in word - even when there's only on page to print?!

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 06:25 AM PST

I've set Word up to print in duplex by default, which is great. Except that when I print a one-page document, it insists on "printing" a blank side first, then I have to manually feed the page back in to print the actual page (basic printer).

 

Is Word not smart enough to realise that a one-sided document doesn't need duplex? Or am I missing a trick?

 

David Wreathall

Remove HyperLink

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 06:24 AM PST

Hi Experts,

I want to remove Hyperlink from my Msword 2010 file but i want to remove hyperlink from only those WORDS which starts from "@" or "#"signs.

Your kind support is required in this regard. Thank you.


Regards \\ Adeel

Tables Disabled in Word 2013

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 06:17 AM PST

I am unable to insert a table into any Word document whether new or old converted to new format.  Can anyone explain how to fix this?

Left-aligning a system of equations

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 05:20 AM PST

Hello everyone,

In the Word 2007 editor of equations, I can't manage to left-align a system of equations. How can it be done?

Thanks in advance,
Marc

Problem typing in Word

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 04:37 AM PST



during typing in ms word when i press dot after a number it comes before it why?

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Recover a Rescue Word Document

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 04:36 AM PST

I was working on a normal Word Document as suddently Word was changed into "Rescue Word".
I saved the document and opening it now everything I wrote earlier is gone. I cannot open the document word saved as "rescue" as Office always tells me that it does not support such a formate.
Is there anything I can try to get back the stuff I wrote earlier or to open the rescue document?
Thanks!

Word 2007: can't send email as attachement (error: logon failed you must log on to Microsoft Exchange) I have no echange (pop) and no live mail either

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 04:16 AM PST

Error
When trying to send a word document as an attachment I get this error: logon failed you must log on to microsoft exchange to access your address book

System
  • Windows 7
  • Office 2007, word, excel outlook installed
  • Email is pop, no exchange accounts are needed or exist(ed) in outlook
  • No windows live mail in use (I find a lot of topics with my error from WLM users but I don't have that)


What have I tried

  • Ran office diagnostcs twice
  • ran repair from office disc
  • Outlook is set as default mail program, reselected it twice just to be sure
  • tried this, though my windows 7 system no longer has a win.in, tried the registry fixes : http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-word/log-on-failed-you-must-log-on-to-microsoft/934d1c2f-85ac-414c-8bb5-1661bf0fcd85
  • Later tried this, my registry is now correct but still the error: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918792/en-gb?fr=1

Not sure what to try next as this should have fixed most issues. Most posts on the internet refer to WLM.

Mail Merge

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 03:17 AM PST

I have used mail merge for years to print out labels for volunteer work I do.  However, I have encountered a glitch in my latest process.

When I get to the step of "Update all Labels" the information is not transferred from my Excel worksheet.  It only shows the name of the two headers - Name and Address.  The appropriate information for the labels has not moved.

Also, the alphas across the file are not in abc order.  Here's what is showing for my 10 vertical columns - A, B, C, D, E, F, X, Y, Z, AA.  Could this be causing the problem and if so, how do I correct it?

Frustrating morning for *** Email address is removed for privacy ***!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Microsoft Word 2007

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 02:29 AM PST

Good Day .. can you please help me Guys .. i want to write some words on my Picture on Microsoft word , so can yo please advice me on how i could do that. i am using Microsoft Word 2007  your urgent respond would be highly appreciated

Office 2013 RT, Encryption and Password-Protected Documents

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 02:15 AM PST

Does the RT version of Office 2013 (like on the Surface 2 RT) have the encryption and password-protect options that the regular Office 2013 has?

I use this option quite frequently in Office 365: I sync my password-protected documents to my SkyDrive and access them on either my home, work, or laptop PCs. Whenever I want to access documents from my SkyDrive, I have to enter the file's specific password to gain access. However, when I try to access the document through a mobile apps, like the Android app for Office 365, the files cannot be accessed if they are password-protected or encrypted.

I was curious if Office RT followed the same trend (i.e., you can't save or access SkyDrive password-protected files on the RT version of Office), or if it had the full functionality of encryption/passwords like regular Office?

Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.

Is there any connection between the linked styles and the list level ?

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 01:38 AM PST

I happen on a webpage writen by you "The Why Behind Our Styles and Lists Designs" in the office blog. It strike on me! 


Here is a question, I suspect that the name of "linked Styles" must have some special meaning. As the writer said in that blog post, a linked style is the default of any paragraph style and we could either turn it on or off so that we could apply a certain style to only a range or the full paragraph.

 

Does the word "linked" means that the style of the selected subsets of paragraphs are the same as the the left subsets of paragraphs ? Is it there any likelihood that the designers give this kind of style the name "linked style" because the nine levels in the list could be linked the different styles? The description of setting in the list leads me to suspect that there must be some relationship between the linked style and "link the level to the a style". I am curious about this supposed connection. 



thanks for you answering!

Windows 8.1 and Windows Word

Posted: 08 Dec 2013 11:08 PM PST

I will be buying Windows 8.1 (or will it be 8,2) next year for both myself and my wife.  At the present time we are using Windows XP – yes XP – and "Microsoft Word"

I realize that different people using Windows 8.1 will have different ideas but I would like to know what people would advise to do when when we purchase Windows 8.1 – should we also purchase Windows Word or not

[Mail Merge] Prompt for Record and Field Delimiter breaking automation.

Posted: 08 Dec 2013 10:43 PM PST

I have looked around the internet for the solution to the following problem and came across only a few similar threads, none of which have solved this issue for me.

  • I am using Mail Merge via Macros in my documents to automatically take data from a CSV file (letter.csv) and then call other macros to do processing. This automation was working perfectly for me in previous versions of MS Word.
  • In MS Word 2013 however, when the datasource .CSV file is opened via Mail Merge, I get a prompt from word to specify Field and Record delimiters. This not only breaks my automation, but no matter which delimiters I specify, the Mail Merge command always leads to an exception.

VB Code which causes the prompt and subsequent exception:

ActiveDocument.MailMerge.OpenDataSource Name:=ActiveDocument.Path & "\..\letter.csv", _
        ConfirmConversions:=False, ReadOnly:=False, LinkToSource:=True, _
        AddToRecentFiles:=False, PasswordDocument:="", PasswordTemplate:="", _
        WritePasswordDocument:="", WritePasswordTemplate:="", Revert:=False, _
        Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto, Connection:="", SQLStatement:="", SQLStatement1 _
        :=""

  • My data source is a simple .CSV file named 'letter.csv' with only 1 row and many fields in that row.
  • I have tried saving the .CSV as .txt and replacing the same in my macro. Also tried to seperate each field in the data source with a semi colon ; and identify each field with ""  eg. "field 1";"field 2"; None of it will cause word to take some kind of default delimiters and not give me this prompt.

Can someone suggest a workaround for this or maybe an alternative approach? My only restrictions are I can only use Visual Basic for my Macro code.

Thanks,

Shreeraj.

Dynamically Change the Data Source (in an Excel file with multiple tabs) in a Mail Merge Document

Posted: 08 Dec 2013 08:53 PM PST

Dear Community

I have a spreadhseet with multiple sheets.  Many of the sheets are identical in format.  This file is shared and each tab is used by specific staff (I'm a teacher).

 

We have a single Mail Merge document to 'summarise' and format this data, ready for printing.

 

Desired Outcome

  1. From the Excel file, a teacher updates data from a tab
  2. From Excel, this teacher can choose a 'Print This Summary' option
  3. Excel opens the required Mail Merge Word document, but dynamically connects the active tab as the data source

 

Any ideas?

I have none :(

 

Regards

Darren

 

 

Minion fonts in Microsoft 2013

Posted: 08 Dec 2013 08:29 PM PST

Hello,

I'm doing significant formatting work in Word 2013 to prepare word documents to be published in a journal. Last year, everything was fine in Word 2010. But this year, we upgraded to Word 2013 (because our macro only works with Word 2013), and the minion font (purchased from Adobe) that is essential to our formatting no longer displays in our documents. However, we can take the same document without any changes and open it in Word 2010 and the minion font is visible. So to summarize: for some reason Word 2010 is displaying minion fonts, but Word 2013 is not.

Our tech support people have told us that the problem is a glitch with Word 2013 not yet containing the capability to display Minion fonts, but we were unconvinced. Could you confirm that this is a real problem with Word 2013 (that it can't display minion font yet), or alternatively let us know if this isn't a problem? If it is a recognized issue, could you tell us if a update to fix this is planned?

Thanks for your help!

Can't seem to make mass mailing work properly

Posted: 08 Dec 2013 05:49 PM PST

Hi, Ive got office word 2007 and I'm trying to print a bunch of labels.  I'm using Avery 5162.  Here's a step-by-step of what I do.  First I open a document then I go to mailings select my default printer and label type (Avery 5162) and that creates my sheet of labels.  Here is where everything goes South.  I link to a mailing list that I created with Excel, edit it; then go to address block to select what info I want to appear on the label then click on update labels and what happens is I get two labels on the first row and two labels on the last row and nothing in between.  But here is what is even more bizarre (at least to me).  If I ad a logo to the first label and click on update labels then the logo and addresses print on all the labels which is fine except that I don't really want any logos on my labels.  So what am I doing wrong?  It all seems strange to me LOL.  Thanks for any advice.

Xazos

Multiple (70+) versions of Word document opened at once

Posted: 08 Dec 2013 04:55 PM PST

Hi. 

All kinds of crazy things happened when I tried to open up a Word document for editing today. 

First, I heard an unusual whirring noise when I turned on my computer. 

I then browsed through my files to find the document I wanted to work on, but I noticed that the window I was working in kept shrinking. I expanded it a couple of times, but it shrunk again every time I clicked on a folder. 

Also, instead of having to double-click on folders to open them as usual, the folders and documents opened with a single click. 

Then when I clicked on the document I wanted to open, the pointer turned into a spinning circle which was flashing and moving around in small jerky motions. 

The document finally opened but a box popped up saying "File in use - locked for editing" by me. The box gave me a couple of options which I don't remember exactly. I "saved as" and made my edits, and printed the document.  

I went to shut down, but the "file in use" box kept popping up. I got a message saying that I couldn't shut down while the dialogue box was open. I closed the dialogue box, tried to shut down again, but the box popped up again. 

I hit Control-Alt-Delete and got a message that a program was still running. I forced the log off and then noticed that there were at least 60+ versions of the document open. Each one shut down one at a time before the computer shut down.

I turned the computer back on and tried to access a different document, but the exact same thing happened again. I clicked on the Word icon in the task bar, and a box opened up showing that multiple versions of the same document were open. When I forced the computer to log off, there were 71 versions of the word document open. They each shut down one at a time. 

I'm not sure if this may be a related problem, but for the past 5 days, there has been 1 windows update to install every time I shut the computer down. It turns out that a recent update called "Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 for x64 based systems" has repeatedly failed to install. I'm not sure why, but I did note that there were 3 recommended but not important Internet Explorer updates that have not been installed. 

Also not sure if this is related, but while I was on the internet trying to find a solution to this problem, a Norton high usage box popped up to say "Thunking WIA APIS from 32 to 64 process".  I don't recall seeing this before.  

I am using Windows 7-64 bit and Office 2010 on an HP laptop.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. 

Problem printing envelopes from a label template, Word 2010

Posted: 08 Dec 2013 04:10 PM PST

I have a list of labels that I wish to print selected envelopes from.  When I place the cursor in front of (or highlight the one label I want to print on an envelope), then click Envelopes under the Mailings tab, the window that comes up says Envelope Options.  The regular envelope printing window, where Word normally puts the address I've highlighted and also shows my return address, never comes up.  I can't get it to come up.  When I click OK on the Envelope Options window, it puts my page of labels into #10 envelope-sized partitions.  This has never happened to me before.  I've been printing envelopes from label templates for years with no problems.  It's just this one particular Word file that doesn't work.  What am I doing wrong??