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Microsoft Word - MS Word macro: Using varible for Windows("filename 123.doc").Activate

MS Word macro: Using varible for Windows("filename 123.doc").Activate

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 02:51 PM PST

Is it possible to use a true variable for Windows("").Activate?

Currently  I have Windows("filename 123.doc").Activate

however this macro needs to be used on several files.

I need the Windows("").Activate to accodomate so that I don't have to change the name for each file.

Accelerator (or Macro) to automate creation of new AutoCorrect entries in MS Word 2010?

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 02:50 PM PST

Hello all.  I searched through the FAQs and other info here and found plenty of useful tips (thanks!) but here is something I would like to find: code for an Accelerator or macro to quickly enter AutoCorrect entries on the fly.  I am a government worker (yeah, I know...) and use hundreds if not thousands of acronyms.  I've tried various add-ons and utilities (RoboType was my favorite) but now we're prevnted from running additonal programs on the government PCs.  I can still do macros and such, though.

Has anyone created something like this:  You are reading a document and run across a phrase you want to store as an AutoCorrect entry.  You highlight the text you want to keep, for example, "U.S. Government (USG)" and either right-click for a contect menu action or hit a defined macro key.  That would trigger an action to automatically bring up and populate a new AutoCorrect definition, let you make final adjustments, and have you enter the 'trigger text'.  I tend to use the character ` followed by the acronym such as "`USG".  After that I can simply use `USG if I want to type the phrase "U.S. Government (USG)" into a document.

I've assigned a hot-key to bring up the AutoCorrect dialogue and that works OK.  It's rather trivial to do.  But it would be very nice to take this one step further take highlighted text and have it automatically populate the field for a new AutoCorrect entry.  An Acceleartor that worked when right-clicking highlighted text would be awesome, too.

Thank you.

/Sam/

MS Word macro: Opening then closing embedded documents

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 02:43 PM PST

I am having difficulty creating a macro (via MS WORD) opening and closing an embedded document. I am able to open an embedded document but am having issues closing the embedded document.

Current code:

Sub Macro1()

'Navigates to file containing "File:"   

   Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = "File:"
        .Replacement.Text = ""
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindAsk
        .Format = False
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute
    Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=2
    Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend
'Opens embedded file
    SendKeys "+{F10}+O+O"

End Sub

Word 2010 When Macro are finished then Save

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 01:00 PM PST

Hello from Steved

Ok I run a macro to clean up a word Document, When completed I would like it to save it please.

I start by Saving the document in this case "27-February-2014.docx" before using the macro.

Now please what is required for it to save the same document after I've run the macro, my attempt is below. Thank you in Advance.

Sub Save()
    ActiveDocument.Save
    ChangeFileOpenDirectory "C:\Racebase Results\Results 2014\February\"
    ActiveDocument.SaveAs2 FileName:="27-February-2014.docx", FileFormat:= _
        wdFormatXMLDocument, LockComments:=False, Password:="", AddToRecentFiles _
        :=True, WritePassword:="", ReadOnlyRecommended:=False, EmbedTrueTypeFonts _
        :=False, SaveNativePictureFormat:=False, SaveFormsData:=False, _
        SaveAsAOCELetter:=False, CompatibilityMode:=14
End Sub

Word stops working

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 12:44 PM PST

I have installed Office 365 home premium on three computers.  I already had word installed on them.  Every time I try to use word it continually stops working and I have to restart it again.  It is the same on all my computers.  I am using Windows 7 on every computer. 

Office pro 20007 Word problem

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 12:11 PM PST

I have a very unique problem.  When I start Word my mouse cursor changes to the circle that goes round and round as if it is loading the program, except it doesn't stop.  It may pause for a moment then it starts chasing again.  I am using windows 7, upgraded from Vista on a gateway laptop.  I have had it on there for at least two years and never had a problem until recently.  I've tried reinstalling the software, but only did the repair feature for fear of losing my docs.  All of the other programs in the suite run fine, it is just Word.  Any ideas would be appreciated.  I have plenty of hard drive space, approximately 40G.

Thank you,

Signing in to Microsoft Account from Word 2013

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 11:38 AM PST

I have been having trouble signing in or doing any task that involves connecting to the internet through Microsoft Word 2013.  Each time I try to sign in or, for example, try to insert an online video, it gives me an error messages saying that Microsoft is having "temporary server issues". Yet I have a working internet connection and can sign on to my account without any hassles when I try to do so through my internet browser. 

Is this a problem with my version of Microsoft or perhaps my laptop? Please if you could give me any advice on the subject I would really appreciate it!

Kind Regards

E. Swart

Lost Math AutoCorrect Entry

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 11:33 AM PST

I seem to have lost the Math AutoCorrect entry \doubleQ. I am using MS Office 2010 Home and Business on Windows 7 Home version. Is there a way to recover this entry? Can I download this from somewhere. or must I reconstruct it somehow?

Newsletter formatting problems

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 11:27 AM PST

I've been using Microsoft Word 2007 and Outlook 2007 to create and test/send a monthly newsletter for a client for about 3 years now. Each issue seems to come with new and increasingly frustrating formatting problems. The newsletter is set up in a table in order to control columns and cells. Each issue is limited to 2 legal size pages, as we also print the newsletter. 

The formatting problems are numerous and usually occur when pasting into the email message. Problems like: photos jumping around, the right column repeating itself, the right column changing width, line spacing changed, and so on. The current issue looks great except the a photo in the bottom cell on the left and the company logo in the footer - they are both dropping down about 2 inches from where they belong - but still leaving a space where they should be displayed. This is a problem I've had before, but I can't even remember how we got past it last time.

I would appreciate any and all suggestions on an easier way to format these, or even alternate software suggestions of easy to design newsletters (from our own template) where "what you see is what you get".

Windows 7 64-bit Windows Installer "preparing to install" message when opening Word or Excel

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 11:25 AM PST

    After working fine for over a year,  NOW when I try to open a Word document or an Excel document  (or just open Word or Excel),

 

 I get a message box from Windows Installer that says "Preparing to Install".         I am running Windows 7 64-bit.

   I cannot get past this.

 Note:  I bought my Lenovo computer with Office 2010  as extra.  I was given a product key to enable the Office software.

  I don't know that I can uninstall and reinstall......   how would I do this?   Once I uninstalled, I could not get Office back, could I?

  Thanks much.

 

     -jwr

Misaligned numbering and failure to obey numbering commands

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 11:04 AM PST

I'm writing a manual and have numerous sections with subsections, and each is numbered with upper and lowercase roman numerals.
Each is also formatted by a style.

My first problem is when I enter the command to start the numbering over after each section, it doesn't work. It says I will modify every section linked to the applied style and asks if I want to proceed. I click "yes," and the numbering remains as a continuation from the previous section instead of starting a new section. I enter the command by right clicking, under "Numbering" choosing "Set Number Value," and then clicking "Start New List" after telling it to start at i, A, or I. As I said, it doesn't compute. The numbering continues from the previous section's number value; it also changes my spacing settings when I enter the command, which doesn't make any sense. The Style dialog doesn't show a feature to command it to start a new list either.

My second problem is I can't figure out how to align my roman numerals, upper and lowercase, that are in lists by their outer side. Word automatically aligns their periods or inner sides, and it leaves a ragged left look to my large sections of lists that start with "i" and end with "xxii."   

My third issue is that the paragraph spacing in each style is set to 0", but styles with numerals set them farther left. Surely the styles can be modified to correct this issue.

Word 2013 shuts down almost immediately after opening

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 10:23 AM PST

To  Whom It May Concern ,

I purchased Word 2013.  When I open it, the program almost immediately shuts down.

The message screen shows:

Microsoft Word has Stopped Working

A problem has caused the program to stop working correctly.  Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.

I will open the program successfully.  When I try to open a recovered document, the above message is shown.

When I try to open other document.

NEW

BLANK

then stops working message

Please help

Thank you,

Rebecca Boldt

Words in Color Not Printing, Black and White Words Are Fine

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 10:19 AM PST

I am trying to print a document that includes primarily color fonts, and a little bit of black and white.  When printing, the words in B&W print fine, but the words in color do not print...at all (not even printing in B&W instead of color).

I have tried printing to a couple of printers, with no success.

Last week I was able to without a problem, and today I had co-workers send the same file to the same printers, and they had no issues with the color printing.

Any suggestions?

Word question

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 09:06 AM PST

My son was working in Word and now I have a sentence across the top that comes up each time I open Word.  I don't know how he did it, I just want to undo it so I have a blank worksheet at start-up.  Any help would be appreciated.

Word Hyperlinks suddenly stopped working today

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 09:02 AM PST

6 hyperlinks to excel surveys in a word doc --

Saved in one drive and shared to a dozen people all 6 hyperlinks stopped working on all computers today.


I have gone back to the surveys clicked on survey link share and pasted the link directly into browser -- and that goes correctly to the relevant survey.

 

However hyperlink the same link into word doc and the link does not work.

Also no other hyperlinks created in word work -- both word online and word proper

I have repeated the same hyperlinks in an excel file and these work just fine

Same problem from many computers different browsers various operating systems

Anyone got any ideas -- are Microsoft updating anything at the moment is this just a glitch? 

How do I desable spellcheck on only one document?

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 07:54 AM PST

[Moved from Word 2011 for Mac by moderator]

This isn't really a good answer as Word 2010 doesn't have a Tool option to select anymore, at least not out of the box.  Anyways, here is how you actually do this for just one document.


  • Click on the "Review" tab at the top
  • Then Click on "ABC Spelling & Grammar".  This should be on the far right under the "Proofing" section of this tab.
  • When the Spelling and Grammar checker pops up click "Options" at the bottom left
  • At the very bottom of the "Proofing" section of the Options menu that pops up there is a section with the header, "Exceptions for:".
  • The current document should be selected, but if it isn't select it in the drop down.
  • Check "Hide spelling errors in this document only" and "Hide grammar errors in this document only"
  • Your done!

You can also get to the "Proofing" options menu or any other options menu by simply going to 
  • File --> Options
  • Click on Proofing or one of the other options

Select All command for Normal Style gives wrong Word Count

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 07:15 AM PST

I am currently writing a large dissertation in Word 2010 (~30 pages, 6,000 words atm), and I have organised all my headings, and text using Word's styles to allow for a more organised document. This was particularly helpful as what I could do is just right click on the Normal style, and choose Select All to find the correct word count for my dissertation with parts such as figure legends excluded.

Just recently, Word has started acting up. Now when I choose Select All for the Normal style, it selects all the text correctly, and a few seconds later it scrolls to the bottom of my document and only selects the last few instances of text formatted with the Normal style, and thus giving me the incorrect Word count of ~500 instead of ~4,000. 

Does anyone know what on Earth is wrong with Word, and how I could fix this ASAP? 

THIS IS SO ANNOYING!

Tool bar is not available in Word 2013

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 07:14 AM PST

When I open Word 2013 the tool bar is not available. The only buttons at the top are ? and X

Heading Styles to Table of Contents Styles bolding issue

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 06:26 AM PST

I have modified all 9 heading styles in Word 2007.  They work perfect.  I have also modified the TOC styles and all is nearly perfect except for the last two.  When I generate the TOC, TOC 8 and 9 keep the bolding of the numbered heading, but not the text.  There is bold applied to the Styles Heading 8 and 9 for both the text and the numbering but there should be no bold when converted to the TOC 8 and 9.  I've done everything I can think of.  I have gone into the modify option of the heading 8 and 9 style and see the normal things applied, bold etc.  I have gone into the modify style for TOC 8 and 9 and see no bold applied.  When I highlight the number in the generated TOC it says times new roman bold, but it does not say that in the Style itself.  It's driving me insane.  Any suggestions on what I am missing here?  Here is an example of what I mean.  As you can see, when converted to the TOC the numbering of the  last two stay bold:

HEADING 1

Heading 2

I.     Heading 3

       A.     Heading 4

                1.     Heading 5

                        a.     Heading 6

                                i.     Heading 7

                                      (1)     Heading 8

                                                (a)     Heading 9

TABLE OF CONTENTS

HEADING 1 (TOC 1)

      Heading 2 (TOC2)

I.     Heading 3 (TOC 3)

       A.     Heading 4 (TOC 4)

                1.     Heading 5 (TOC 5)

                        a.     Heading 6 (TOC 6)

                                i.     Heading 7 (TOC 7)

                                      (1)     Heading 8 (TOC 8)

                                                (a)     Heading 9 (TOC9)

Why the first copied images is diplayed in word 2007 inspite of copying another images?

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 06:13 AM PST

Why the first copied images from any web page of Internet Search like bankersadda.com is diplayed again in word 2007 inspite of copying another images?

I have my macro which picks up "not to be used words", but can I set it up such that it also recommends the other words

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 03:53 AM PST

I have set up macro for my word document, which highlights the words I have listed as not to be used words. But to look for the words that I can replace it with I need to check my list, which is a bit bugging. Is it feasible to achieve this: I click the highlighted word and a context menu appears which gives me word/words that I can use to replace it. If yes, please let me know how can I do this.

I am looking forward for something like this. In this case I have just one word, but at places I may have few more words in the "replace with" list.

Insert caption to images/graphs/pictures; two possible Word options

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 12:22 AM PST

While inserting captions to graphs or images in my Word document, I find that sometimes Word chooses another layout for me. I added two images below which shows the difference:

Picture 1: Here the caption is 'integrated' in my document and I can also see it in my cross reference (important!).

Picture 2: The caption is inserted into a text box and I cannot find it in my cross reference.

I have tried to find the difference in the caption insert box, but I do not seem to be able to find why sometimes Word chooses to go for the text box option. Is this a problem of the type of image I am trying to connect to (though other pictures can get the right caption and other figures or tables for example do not) or something else?

Regards

Robin

edit: the numbering in both captions is visible & can be updated, so the link is there in both cases)

Office 2010,

Windows 7

word starter 2010

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 11:36 PM PST

I have word starter 2010 installed and upto press, have not had any issues. However, now, when I try to open my documents from the start menu, the icons are orange and I get a message that states the programme needed to open these documents is not installed, I then have the option to purchase another office product. BUT, when I open the word starter itself from the programme menu, it opens fine and I can view/amend/create new documents, I just cannot save them. Please help????

Microsoft Word 2013 on Windows 8.1: "Microsoft Word has Stopped Working"

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 10:16 PM PST

Hello, I am using Microsoft Word 2013 on Windows 8.1, and am working on a long documents using EndNote for references. When editing the text, after about 5 minutes I will start getting an error message that "Microsoft Word has Stopped Working..." and must close. It recovers my document, but keeps happening.

I need a solution for Word 2013, and one that allows me to use EndNote (and not lose my data in the process!)

Thanks!

Saving in 2013 and can no longer open files!

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 09:07 PM PST

Hello,

So I had a trial of Microsoft 2013 home premium and now it is over. I have gone back to typing papers in microsoft 2010 and every time that I go to save it, It saves in 2013 and I cannot open the files on my computer! This is really affecting my work because I cannot open past files. Please help thanks!!!

How to save a new picture style in Word

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 08:42 PM PST

Hi. I need to create a new picture style in Word 2013 but can't seem to find any way to do this. The style will be simple: I'd like all the pictures in the document to have a black border applied to them. Thanks.

Editing CV

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 08:18 PM PST

Hello, I have difficuling in editing a cv from model. When I add info on the right side of cv from the next page onward, it's continuing on the left side.

Here are the links of Unedited cv https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=85B584FBEA75DEDD!108&authkey=!AJMWL60eQ8FENjQ&ithint=file%2c.docx

and edited cv what supposed not be happened. https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=85B584FBEA75DEDD!107&authkey=!AJ4XIKWOZPnL4-o&ithint=file%2c.docx

Customize autoformat

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 07:39 PM PST

Hi, I write H2O2, where the 2's are subscripted, all the time.  I'm hoping I can customize the 'autoformat while you type' so when I type H2O2 it automatically subscripts for me.  Is this possible?

Thanks!

Microsoft Office stops responding, even after several troubleshooting steps.

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 06:29 PM PST

First of all, I am runnning on Windows 7 home premium, and using Microsoft Office 2013.

So I have recently been having problems with all of the office programs, mainly using word. They work fine until 2~5 minutes after opening, when they stop responding and leave me with no choice but to force close them. After searching the web for several different troubleshooting steps, nothing has worked so far.

Things I have tried so far;

-Running word in safe mode and disabling ALL add-ins.  Restarting, leaving it with no add-ins at all.

-Repairing office several times, having each time an error at the end; "Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 configuration did not complete successfully."

-Running different anti-virus programs (Microsoft Security Essentials, avg free) with no negative end result.

-Checking for Windows updates, driver updates, anti-virus updates, etc.

-Even tried the installation of a Microsoft Fix It tool only to find an error as well 

So far I've only achieved frustration, not a single difference from all these steps.

Text always right-banked

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 05:20 PM PST

When I open MSWord I have some content on the page that used to to blank

How do I reset it so when I open MSWord I just get a plain empty doc?

Further the content is right-banked! This now seems to be the default, even though left-aligned is set

I recently opened a document I received from Saudi Arabia, might I somehow have set text to go from right to left?

If so, how can I change this back?

Please help, urgently, I have deadlines and can't work this out! Many thanks

Editing a cross reference to a figure in word

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 05:00 PM PST

Hy there,

I'm using cross references in word to the figures that I have in my document. I'm first adding a caption to the figure and then selecting the reference style 'Figures' and showing only Figure x.x. So far so good....

But I noticed one thing, when reading the text (at pdf for example) and I click on the 'hyperlink'/cross reference text, the cross reference always works in a way that the figure caption shows up on the first line of the document, which is obviously what we referenced, but the thing is, the figure is above the caption and this way, will never pop/show up together with the caption.... Having the reader always to scroll the page up to see the figure...

So my question is exactly if there's a way for me to change the selected page area where the cross reference goes to. For example, if the cross reference showed the caption at the bottom of the page, both the caption and figure would be visible.


Thanks in advance. Best regards,
Bruno Melo  

Hide the ribbon but always show the custom access tool bar (CAT)

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 04:25 PM PST

When editing a Word document with my tablet and digitizer pen I needed to keep the pen ribbon open but that takes up a lot of valuable screen. I put the start/stop inking and erase commands on the custom access tool bar and it freed up a lot of space. However, I can't figure out how to just keep the CAT and hide the ribbon for even more space.  Anyone know how that's done?

Manuvering around in a word template I have created and others accessing my template

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 04:24 PM PST

I created several templates and saved them so in MY TEMPLATES folder - which was easy since I was the only one that used these.  Now I have 2 more people in my office that may need access to these templates to fill out forms. 

How can I set up the forms so that we can use "tab" to advance to the next text field?  Right now it looks like the only way to maneuver to the next fill-in field is to use the down arrow. 

If I save these files on the server so they have access to them, do I save them as files or templates?  I want them to have easy access but also want to ensure everyone is working on the most current versions.  Do they have to open the folder where these are saved or can they add them to their own MY TEMPLATES folder?