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Microsoft Word - Unable to remove letters that show up when I open Word

Unable to remove letters that show up when I open Word

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 05:22 PM PST

Every time I open Word the blank page has the letters kjl on it.  I have tried to remove them without success.

opening Word causes Office configuration

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 01:34 PM PST

Whenever I open my MS Word program, I get a screen that says "Please wait while Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 is configured. Configuration Progress...configuring Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007."  Then MS Word is opened and operates normally.

 

I have already tried the following to no avail:

1) Opened Control Panel, Programs and Features, Selected Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, Selected Change, Selected "Repair" for Change your installation of Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007.  Repaired MS Office Enterprise 2007.  Rebooted computer.

2) MS Word, Word Options, Resources: Ran Microsoft Office Diagnostics - Diagnostics run: 5, Diagnostices that identified problems: 0, and Diagnostices that took corrective actions: 0.

 

The problem is recent and occures upon each try to open MS Word.  I have run Office 2007 without incident for over two years.

 

MS Excel, MS Access and MS Outlook open without any issues.

 

Running Windows 7

Updating office xp

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 05:36 AM PST

I am trying to update officeXP. I am given two choices: 1.OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-client-enu.exe and 2.OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-fullfile-enu.exe. Which do I choose? Thanks.

Ruler is in Centimeters

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 02:42 AM PST

In my WORDS2007, everything has been changed to inches (WORDS OPTIONS/ADVANCED ...  etc) including CONTROL PANEL/REGIONAL SETTING. But the Ruler in WORDS still remains as centimeter. (The paper size and Margins are also shown in Inches)

Please help to change it back to inches

Thank you very much.


Lee CC

Problems with saving new files from another programme into Word 2010.

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 04:55 PM PST

Can someone assist with this problem please? I have reposted from Word banter.

Background to this post. ... I had a lot of help from this site with setting up macro but at the time it was beyond me. It was too advanced and I cannot take a concept and re-apply a different fix. I apologise and thank everyone for their help.  It is extremely difficult for me to work with the macro concept given that a lot of the information is old and I cant do it without screenshots. It is not my main task to become an expert in Word but just to do this one thing. Doug Robbins kindly wrote up a code for me  based on my docuument  to change my footnotes from superscript and I paid to have someone show me how to install it step by step using screenshots. I was lucky to find someone to do this. I  was using it for some time but forgot my programme that uses charts is saved into word. This has created a new problem for me. I was warned it would be a permanent fix and svaed my new macro in global template. end of background to this post.

 

NEW POST

I will have to do this post in stages because I know what is happening but need to sort out this problem first.

I made a new footnote macro and saved it in Word global template. It was working fine but then it didn't because of another programme that uses Word to open some charts is using the same template. I forgot about this programme when I set a global template and I have just started using it again. I made some mistakes and couldnt even close the files without saving it. I really didnt know what to do.

When I want to just file this programme it is fine and get saves as a Word Doc. However when I close it I get the message "this file is in use by another application or user C:\users\AppData…normal.dotm. I press Ok and it opens a window to save it to templates. The file name is normal. But this thropws up other messages.

What do I save it to, "Word Macro enabled template"? If I choose Word document I get a message that" it cannot be saved in a macro free document. dot VBA project." ( I know this refers to visual basic) I am then asked to save it to a macro enabled file type in the drop down menu or continue to save it as a macro free document. If I don't save it then word closes down or shows it is closing down but actually doesn't . After trying it again just now I just got a message that it is "a read only" document. If I save it to a macro template I stell get errors and I have a stack of normal templates in the "roaming files".

 I will be using the charts a lot from now on. I knew how to change the normal template in earlier versions but hadnt used macros before.

What should I try and save it in please? I have written down a variety of messages I get and not all the same. What is the best process of handing these charts please?

Or does the answer lay in changing the global template. I believe this may be a permanent fix.If it is gloabal template should I repost my question.

Stefan I went to the link you gave me http://word.mvps.org but I really couldn't relate to much of it as the ribbon was different and I couldn't recreate the same ribbon. So without this I couldn't follow this.

 

I didnt want to jump ahead to far but the macro is still there and no longer working.  Can someone  you please explain this using "dummy language" and/or is it possible to send screenshots as an attachment

 

I was taken to tak for not litening to you before but I really tried to follow your advice but it was beyond my skill level.  and didnt hep because the information I was gien was old. Stephan acknowledged this and showed me additional code but by then I was thouroughly confused and stressed. I am now moths behind in my project so would apprecialte your assistance.

kind regards.

 

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mailmerge pulling in blank rows from excel source file

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 09:33 AM PST

Hi guys, I'm hoping someone can help me out.

 
I've got a word mailmerge tied to an excel source file.  Everything has ran well for the past 6 months with everything until now.  I'm running into a problem where the mailmerge is creating extra records that are blank.  The source file (I've confirmed this is correct) has only 20 rows of data.  I've gone as far as highlighting the rows complete to the end of the book, right click, and deleting the rows complete and saving prior to retrying the process, (not just hitting the delete key to clear data).

 

But I'm still creating 1000 records that word wants to send emails for where only 20 exist.

 

How do I get the mailmerge to pull just the active rows and no more?   

 

Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

 

how to mailmerge to unique managers with atleast 5 unqiue associates data under them

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 08:45 AM PST

Hi,

 

I want touse mailmerge to do the following: i have the excel in this format:

username  managername   groupname

dave         abba                admin

eric           abba                admin, user

michele     sue                  admin

chasse       kevin                user

 

 

now i want to use mailmerge to send emails to the managers(in this case Abba, sue, kevin) giving them the other 2 columns details about their reports only.  the problem here is becase abba is repeated twice...i dont want to send her 2 emails either. can i send her just one email with her reports details in a table to some other format?

 

how cani do this? is this possible?

 

Office 2013 apps won't load

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 07:27 AM PST

Loaded Office 365 and have Office 2013 icons on my start page, but they won't run. When I click on any of them, the wait cursor appears for a few seconds then stops. If I start run as administrator, I get the UAC message, then the wait cursor, then nothing. I watched in task manager and could see the UAC window load, but there was never a process for the Office 2013 app. This is true for all of them, Word, Excel, Access, Power Point.

I also tried putting a shortcut to Word 2013 on the desktop and dragging a Word document to it. Nothing. I was able to install Office 2010 and it seems to be working, but I paid for the use of 2013, and I would like to use it. I need Access.

Just another frustration with Microsoft's latest version of ME.

Changing administrator rights on for Word 2013

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 07:31 PM PST

My Word 2013 on Windows 7 automatically opens as administrator.  How do I remove this setting so it opens regularly?

MS Word header styles are showing black boxes instead of numbers--how can I fix this?

Posted: 17 Feb 2013 12:18 PM PST

I modified the default headers for a large document. They looked fine when I set them up, but after I saved the document and came back to it, some of the outline numbering showed up as black boxes. The instructions for setting up list styles was very confusing. I had particular trouble selecting the multilevel outlining--it keeps going back to the default setting.

 

 
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