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Microsoft Word - Word/Excel 2013 is saving frequently used files to an unknown location

Word/Excel 2013 is saving frequently used files to an unknown location

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 03:24 PM PST

Good day,

I've been using Office 2013 for a few months now. Only recently (now that I am using it more frequently) it has been behaving strange. When I save some files (not all), it will relocate the file from where it was (C:\Users\{USER}\Desktop\Documents) to some Network Shortcut folder (C:\Users\{USER}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts). The default save location is set to the Documents folder.

Why is it doing this and how do I stop it? The files are being moved out of my automatic backup location.

This is using Office Profession Plus 2013 on Windows 7 Home Premium.

Mail Merge a Letter or Envelope

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 02:56 PM PST

How do I mail merge a letter in Word with a name and address list in Excel?

unwanted AZF FILE registry

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 02:54 PM PST

had an update last September that created problems, got my local techie to fix, but have lost the ability to create a new file in word, its just comes up as file- (when I want to create new) , & says AZF file instead . some sort of invalid registry entry? any advice would be most appreciated, thank you very much for your time in advance. from Robinia

Help please!

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 02:17 PM PST

Have PDF doc with following info

last name, first name..........email address
company                   .............phone number
city, state, zip

question

how can i select just the email addresses (over 20 on one page, 25 pages) without cutting & pasting each individual email to a new doc? 

 
goal is to email each one at a later date

thank for all suggestionsI

Pie chart mail merge

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 01:50 PM PST

Hi,
I need to execute mail merge with excel charts, there are 1,000+ records in excel. 
Based on certain data field I need to create a pie chart. 
Using mail merge I am expected to have a different pie chart and a table of numbers for each record.
I've used the mail merge tool and managed to have both the pie chart and the table of numbers merged, but for some reason, the table of numbers loses the formatting. But when I merge without the pie chart, the numbers are formatted correctly.  Is this tool used strictly for pie charts? If not, how do I merge with the correct formatting?
 
Cindy

Word and Excel 2013 will only run for restricted users

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 01:49 PM PST

The only way to Get Word or Excel 2013 to start up is adding a user to domain administrators or to the local administrator group on the computer. When clicking on the icon, nothing happens. There is nothing in the event logs. Has anyone experienced this before?

gETTING rID OF A dOCUMENT

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 01:46 PM PST

I have been trying for months to get ride of a document in microsoft 2010. Everytime I go to create a new document through NEW--for a blank page  blsnk ---it reappears. It is like a ghost I cannot get ride of it.,. Please pleae help me. I have tried everything and have wasted countless hours trying to get rid of it. Thanks so much.

Legacy Text Form Field Size Limitations

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 01:39 PM PST

Is there a specific amount of space allowed in a Legacy Text Form Field? 

 

I have a user form with a legacy text form field.  The user locks the form and keys the information into the text box.  The user has keyed 1,349 words with 8,073 characters with spaces. 

 

Now when you open the document, the document receives error messages indicating there are table property errors, table cell margin errors and advises to close the document. Re-open with the Open and Repair. 

 

I've taken a blank version of the form, replaced the data and Word quits responding and has to be closed.  Then my form with the information is not there.

 

Placing One Jpeg Over Another With One Being Transparent

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 01:24 PM PST

I am creating a template in which I want to put our Agency seal over my signature. I have both the seal and the signature in .jpeg. I spent the better part of an hour checking around Office.com, this group, and the web in an attempt to:

a) Place the seal and the signature together; one on top of the other.
b) Make the seal transparent so it sits atop the signature with both being seen

Can this be done in Word 2010 (I'm sure it can) but I haven't been able to do it. Well, I actually did it once for a fleeting second but I could not get the transparency correct, then I forgot how I did it, and tried the Format Menu, text wrapping and whatever else I could try but it didn't work.

I know you can make parts of a picture transparent but that was not what I was looking for.

I hope I have explained this sufficiently but if you think of a signed agreement with a company seal stamped over the signature, you've got the idea. Any help gratefully appreciated!

Thank you.

Neal Lavon
Office of Strategy and Development
U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors
Washington, D.C.
USA

How to install additional fonts in Office Web Apps???

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 01:16 PM PST

Hi, can this be done?

Word 2007

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:36 PM PST

Wondering if Word 2007 has a bitmap editor?  I'm trying to change the background color for a few counties on a map created in WordPerfect.

WP Presentations X5 has a bitmap editor with zooming which makes me think Word would have the same.

 

Already did a Save-As of the WP document to Word 2007 format.

 

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

 

 

microsoft word

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:25 PM PST

I have to write a paper and Microsoft word says that it is an unlicensed product and when I try to type it says that this selection is locked.

Formula function stopped working in Word table

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:25 PM PST

I am using an invoice template and have been using this for several months.  For some reason, the function =PRODUCT(LEFT) will no longer calculate and only shows $0.00 when I'm adding new lines.    The previous lines calculation is still working.

In a different invoice, I am getting an error message "!D19 Is Not In Table" and I can't figure out why.  The table doesn't have 19 rows...

Alt+F9 shows the formula is the same and F9 resets to $0.00 and even those calculations that were previously working will not work after I press F9.


Please help.


Thanks!

Messages sent from word 2013 in office 365 are not saved in my local "sent" folder but only in my outlook.com "sent folder.

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:19 PM PST

How can I get messages originating in word 2013 (office 365) to save in my local sent folder rather than the outlook.com sent folder in my EAS account?

Custom Properties in Word 2010

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 11:44 AM PST

I need to create a document that has Custom Properties that I can link. I knew how to do this in earlier versions of Word but this is my first attempt in 2010 and I am having no success.

 

I would like to use a .doc or docx file as I cannot use a .dot or .dotx file when combining documents using Adobe Acrobat. [Another step in the process]

 

When all is said and done, these linked properties (from the word file) will also tie in to a database field.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Regards,

 

Karyn

I cannot edit scrapbook categories

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 11:31 AM PST

I cannot add new categories to the scrapbook. Also, I deleted some of the pre-installed categories and they are gone.

Is there a bug? Workaround? 

I am using office 365 on a mac running mavericks

Word doesn't recognize address list

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 11:03 AM PST

I'm trying to email a document and  I select MAILINGS > " recipient" > Choose from outlook contacts > (contact list appears and I select one) > error message occurs "Could not find installable ISAM", whatever that is. A "Data Link Properties" box shows up with PROVIDER, CONNECTION, AND ADVANCED taps. Now what. Could you please help me find an installable ISAM. 

How do i link text in paragraphs to figures in tables/charts

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 10:32 AM PST

Hello

I have a report i run every quarter.  I calculate the figures needed in Excel and create tables and charts.  Currently the process is to copy/paste the tables and charts into Word to send that document as a memo to the client. However, this process has become tedious and redudant. 

I know that i can link my tables/charts to my Word file so that if i update in Excel, it will auto update in my Word memo file. 

However, in the memo i reference in text/paragraph form the information provided in the tables and charts.  The figures change from quarter to quarter and sometimes a figure referenced in the text does not match the figure in the table because it needs to be manually updated and due to human error they sometimes get missed.  i am wondering if there is a way to create a field of some kind that will auto update the figure in the text based on the figure in the table?

e.g. 

Table 1
Calculation A 123,456
Calculation B 789,101
Calculation C 121, 314

"As you can see from Table 1 we have A at 123,456, B at 789,101 and C at 121,314, therefore..." 


Is there a way i can make sure that the information provided in the paragraph/text is auto-updated when the source Excel table is updated? 

Thanks! 

Why, in a numbered list, do extra spaces appear between number and text from 10 on?

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 10:28 AM PST

Using Word 2013. Can't find a way to delete the extra spaces. They make the list look wacky.

Microsoft Word doesn't work when I open it

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 09:57 AM PST

Whenever I try to open up my Microsoft word on my windows 8 laptop it always says 'Microsoft Word has stopped working, Microsoft will notify you if we find a solution' , but it never gets resolved. This has happened before on my laptop but my friend fixed it and I have no idea how... any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :)

Pictures disappear

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 09:13 AM PST

When I insert photographs into word documents (a memoir that includes pictures), they will seem to insert fine only to later "disappear." The spot in the document remains (as does the text box), but the image cannot be seen and the document prints without the image.  At times the image will again come up, but the color will be completely off -- any ideas?

Creating diffent types of pages to a template

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 08:17 AM PST

Hi All

I have finally created a template, what I now want to do is to add a landscape page, and an A3 page into the template and then if the user does not want to use these additional pages he/her can delete,

 

The problem i am having is that when I insert a section break into the template and then modify the next page, when I delete it all of the formatting followings on from the formatting after the section break

 

Does anyone have a solution for this....

 

Or will I have to create an additional page that can be inserted into the document if say user A wants to use a landscape of A3 Page.

 

Any ideas on this one would be fantastic.

 

Thanks

Creating Sub Templates from a Master Template

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 08:11 AM PST

Hi All,

 

I am using Word 2010, but am in compatibility mode for 2003, as not all users have Word 2010/. I have finally managed to create a master template which is fully workable with great advice from this site,

 

However my next mission is to create sub-templates that link to the master template so that if any information is updated in the master template the sub templates automatically update.

 

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatfully received.

Message about spelling or gramatical errors.

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 07:35 AM PST

When I open this Word document, it gives the message

 

There are too many spelling or grammatical errors in Letters 1 to continue displaying them.  To check the spelling and grammar of this document choose Spelling and Grammar from the review tab.

 

I do this and it says there are no problems.  Most curious.

 

This is a merge template document.  This happens when I open the template, and when I look at the merge result.  (This part may or may not be relevant.)

 

Who has seen this?  What can you tell me.  Thanks.

 

 

Office 365 Home Premium Free Trial Version not working

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 07:13 AM PST

Good afternoon. I am really hoping that someone can help as a matter of urgency.

I downloaded a free trial of Office 365 Home Premium this morning, but despite trying several things found online (including Fix It and reinstalling), it will still not open Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, so I am completely unable to work.

It attempts to open those, but within seconds it says that it has stopped working and that Windows is looking for a solution. Windows never finds a solution and just closes the programme.

The PC is second hand and it came with Office 2010, which I removed when I downloaded Office 365.

Please, can anyone help?

Many thanks.

Word 2013 Template Cascading

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 07:03 AM PST

Hi,

Is it possible to create a Word 2013 template based on another template, such that any changes made to the base template are reflected in all templates that are derived from it.

Regards,

Andrew

Why does Word 2007 reformat documents created by others when I open them?

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST

When opening .docx files created by others, my Word 2007 reformats some of the page breaks, margins, tabs, etc.  A co-worker of mine has the exact same version of Word, but she is able to open the document without any of this reformatting occurring.  Any ideas?

Can I recover a previous version of my document?

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 06:20 AM PST

I'm using Word 2007 for windows7 Yesterday, before closing a document I'd been working with and saving for two days, I unknowingly pasted irrelevant text over the entire document, saved, and quit. Needless to say, I was quite shocked this morning to find two days of work gone. Is there any chance that word stores a "revisions" history, similar to GoogleDocs? Or is my work just gone?

[Moved from Word 2011 for Mac forum by moderator]

Formating by Ghosts In Document

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 06:00 AM PST

I have turned off auto lists in document but it keeps making auto lists according to some mysterious context.  It also changes the spacing on the lists and add in bold here and there.  How can I stop this????

Dots Instead Of Spaces

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 04:53 AM PST

Tonight, while I was typing an assignment, I accidently hit something on the screen and suddenly there were dots or small lines in between the words where the spaces used to be (eg where-spaces-used-to-be). And it wasn't just on that file - all my Word files now have the same thing. How can I get back to normal (spaces not dots) and what did I accidently hit to create this problem? I use Microsoft Office 2003.

Insert text on specific line at specific position

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 04:15 AM PST

At the bottom of an MS word document, in the status bar, there are two items: Ln and Col which give the position of the cursor on the page.

I want to insert some text at a specific position on every page in a document but I can't find the correct thing when using "Selection". For example, I want to insert text on Line 4 at Col 25 on every page in the document.

I'm sure it is simple but I just can't get the right formula.

ms office Accounting

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 03:06 AM PST

I just started using ms office accounting software 2009 for my small business accounting.
Please let me know how to set the currency symbol as our Indian rupee instead of US dollar.
I am unable to how to set it.

Cursor staying busy

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 01:19 AM PST

I am using MS. word 2007, the cursor has started staying busy. always jumping, with the blue circles going round and round. how can i make it stop? I am using windows Vista Home Premium. Thank you

Temporary Word files are not deleted

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:40 AM PST

The temporary files Word creates when a document is being edited (Shown in Windows Explorer with names starting with "~$......") are not being deleted when the document is closed.

I have been through Windows Options but I can't see anything that might be causing the behaviour.

Have I inadvertently changed some setting?


Thanks

WORD 2013 Crashes When using Compare function

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:13 AM PST

Dear,

 

Recently we migrated all our users to

- Windows 8 (64-bit)

- Office 2013 (32-bit)

 

 

Now we have multiple users with the following issue:

when they do a Compare of 2 docx (made in office 2010)

word opens both documents but then crashes.

 

error in event viewer:

Faulting application name: WINWORD.EXE, version: 15.0.4535.1507, time stamp: 0x52282ac8

Faulting module name: wwlib.dll, version: 15.0.4535.1507, time stamp: 0x52282ac6

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x008c2f02

Faulting process id: 0xe88

Faulting application start time: 0x01ceef4ed7fd63de

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\WINWORD.EXE

Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\wwlib.dll

Report Id: 5c62b64e-5b42-11e3-be8d-a0481cdfb4ab

Faulting package full name:

Faulting package-relative application ID:

 

 

--> Repair Office --> no luck

--> multiple users/ multiple documents

--> so not user related

--> not document related.

 

Anybody got an idea?

 

 

iemand een idee?

Building Blocks in Word 2010

Posted: 02 Dec 2013 09:55 PM PST

Where do I find the Building Blocks.dotx file, so that I can copy it onto another computer and load it into Word?

Changes to Word Templates are not saved.

Posted: 02 Dec 2013 09:45 PM PST

I have created a template for a report form.  When I make micro-adjustments to this the style settings in a document I use

Styles --> Modify --> New documents based on this template - Paragraph etc. to make the change.  When I save the document I get a dialog asking if I want to save the changes to the template and I select "Yes'.  However, Lo and Behold!  When I start a new document with that template the changes are not included in the new document.


I have never had this before.  What can have changed?

Default tray not being recognized when saving document as a template

Posted: 02 Dec 2013 08:44 PM PST

I have created and saved a document as a Word Template called "Contracts"  it is a three page document.  I have a problem when I am printing this document though, no matter what tray I tell it to print from it will print from Tray 1 (which has my letterhead) I do not want it to print to Tray 1 so I have changed the default settings in the document to tray 2 but this does not make a difference.  I  have also selected tray 2 in the actual printing options but the first two pages of the document will print from Tray 1 and the third prints from tray 2.

I have reverted to creating this document again but this time saved it as a document and not a template and it seems to work however I am frustrated that I cannot save it as a template.

Has anyone experienced this problem.

"link to previous"

Posted: 02 Dec 2013 08:20 PM PST

Could you please tell me how to activate the "link to previous" feature in Word 2013?   It is grayed out on my computer, meaning that I can't click on it.   Thanks.

Invisible highlight color

Posted: 02 Dec 2013 08:13 PM PST

Usually when you double click or select a piece of text, the word processing program (word 2007) highlights that particular word for you in a color that contrasts the background. 
But for some  reason when I double click on a piece of text in word 2013, it's hard impossible to see that the text is highlighted. In other words the color is either the same as the background color (white) or a highly transparent different color.
How can I make it possible to distinguish between selected text and non-selected text? Is there a setting in word 2013 that can be changed to make it happen? I didn't have these problems in word 2010 or 2007 or 2003 or....


Thanks.




I'm not talking about the highlight on the ribbon, I've tried that and it's not working.