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Microsoft Word - MS Office Word cannot open files created in OpenOffice or LibreOffice

Microsoft Word - MS Office Word cannot open files created in OpenOffice or LibreOffice

MS Office Word cannot open files created in OpenOffice or LibreOffice

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 01:05 PM PST

It's a multi-OS environment and unless there's a rapid fix then we'll be going entirely to OpenOffice/LibreOffice very soon.  Zero chance of ditching the Linux machines running LibreOffice for an all MS environment. 

Also, when opening files created in LibreOffice Impress that were saved in .ppt format (because MS Office is completely helpless to open LibreOffice files at all when they're saved in their native format, even though Impress can open any Powerpoint file with no problem) when they open the text is often screwy and everything has the squiggly red spell-check line underneath it.  

Office 365 Home Premium: what happened to streamed applications like Word & Excel?

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 12:26 PM PST

What happened to streamed applications? I was using Microsoft Word and Excel just last Friday as streamed applications (which I love and need) and now I can't find the link for this anywhere.

I am NOT looking to install office. I'm talking about the streamed applications (I don't know MS terminology -- "on demand"?). All I know is when I logged on to Office.com there were links to stream the applications about halfway down the page. Now everything is changed (and messed up) on that page.

Help! I have a deadline!

Thank you,

Mark

Formatting the List of Figures/Tables

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 12:22 PM PST

I was wondering about formatting the Table of Figures.  I used all of the built in capability for creating the caption and the Table of Figures.  When I do, I get something like this for long captions:

Figure 1.1 This is a very

long caption..........................2

(In case the formatting of my sample does not show, in the second line of the caption, the word 'long' is directly under 'Figure' in the line above)

I was wondering if there is an easy was to get the second line aligned with the beginning of the caption text:

Figure 1.1 This is a very

                 long caption....2

(Again, in case the formatting of my sample does not show, in the second line of the caption, the word 'long' is now directly under 'This' in the line above)

Finally, is there an easy way to remove 'Figure' from the Table of Figures and just leave the number (so 1.1 instead of Figure 1.1), but of course leaving the number in the actual caption where the figure in shown?

Thanks,

DJ

Replacement Normal.dotm file not being loaded by word

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 11:29 AM PST

We have a group policy that replaces everyone's Normal.dotm file with a company letterhead file. The file is getting pushed to the workstation in the C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates folder (Windows 7) but when they open Word they get a blank file. Renaming the Normal.dotm file on their computer to something like Normal2.dotm will allow me to open it and see that the letterhead information is in there.

The strange thing is that it doesn't work for some people but does for others.

The file is corrupt and cannot be opened.

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 11:29 AM PST

Hey Jeeped--

So I have a problem with a Word Document of mine and I had seen that you had responded to some similar problems with successful solutions. I didn't know how else you contact you personally so I hope you (any everyone else) are not bothered by my not-pertinent comment. If there is a better way to correspond with you please let me know! In the meantime, if you would be so kind, i had a super important inquiry:

I have been working on a word document (class notes for a Business Associations class) since January 1, 2014. I have never had any problems regarding opening the document and such. Today, as I was opening the document, I got the following message:

"The File BATWO cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents."

When I open the "Details" it specifies that "the file is corrupt and cannot be opened."

Finally, when I click "OK," it tells me that "word found unreadable content in BATWO. Do you want to recover the contents of this document? If your trust the source of this document, click Yes."

When I click yes it simply goes back to the first message saying that the file cannot be opened.

I have put a lot of work into these notes and I have tried many of the options I have seen (including some of yours). However, it has been to no avail. Could you please help me out here?

Neeralee

Word is not working

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 11:19 AM PST

why is word not working? it keeps saying something went wrong!!!!!!   FIX IT I DID NOT PAY FOR SOMETHING TO NOT WORK!!!!!

[Original title: word]

With Microsoft Office available for free on outlook accounts what's the use of buying the entire Office 2013/2010 suite??

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 11:13 AM PST

I spent quite a sum buying the Office 2010 Professional plus 3 years ago along with Windows 7 Ultimate. Now that Microsoft  has made Word, Excel free for all outlook accounts, I feel betrayed. Most of my work is done using Word/Excel and sometimes PPT. But now by making it free, I cannot actually trust Microsoft with another new product. what are the chances I'm not being taken for a ride?? Say if I buy this new product today, they may make it free online  tomorrow . Anybody with an Internet connection (almost everyone with a computer or mobile phone has one) can make documents/Excel spreadsheets at no real cost.

That isn't fair...

Also what's the point in still advertising Office 365 or 2013 when you've distributed that same product online for free??

I really can't imagine what's going on within Microsoft at the moment. I can only think of one good reason why they've decided to make Word/Excel free - to counter Google docs. It's really pitiful to see that instead of coming up with a better solution Microsoft have settled for a fistfight with Google. Microsoft must listen to their customers. They can't go on behaving arrogantly forever. they must realise that their customers are their lifeblood. Once you lose their trust you can't go on for long. For starters, why not show your solidarity to your loyal customers by supporting Windows 7 with a new service pack(Windows XP had three!!)??

Will these guys ever learn??

Theme change is not sticking in Microsoft Word (Office 365)

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 10:22 AM PST

I am trying to change the theme in MS Word (Office 365 Home Premium), but when I select Dark Gray nothing happens. I have changed it under Account and under Options, and although the Dark Gray theme appears as a selection in both places, the color has not changed. I have closed and re-opened Word. Any more suggestions? The white theme is making me crazy. ;-)

Thanks,

Craig

Issues with Word 2013 and Onedrive

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 09:30 AM PST

My company and I are having the following issue: Microsoft Word 2013 crashes repeatedly when working together or alone on a shared document with Onedrive.

Each of us are working on different computers in different regional offices; however, we are all using Word 2013. I know that there is an option to work on the document via the web but we've chosen to edit in Word since it is easier to format. Also, Word crashes when scrolling, saving (uploading to Onedrive), or typing. It will state that word has stopped responding and will try to resolve the issue. Word will then close out completely with or without restarting us back in the original document. This happens when only one person is editing the shared document as well as when we are all working together. 

Looking for suggestions or solutions and any assistance with this matter is greatly appreciated!

Formatting Page Numbers in a Table of Contents

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 09:10 AM PST

I am in a time crunch with my issue. I am sure there are threads out there that I can reference but I do not have the time to do so. I need to know how to format the pages numbers within a table of contetns to reflect the page numbers in a document. The document has multiple sections and the pages are numbered by section; for example, the pages in section 1 are numbered 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, etc. How can I get the table of contents to insert the page numbers in this way?

Thanks you very much in advance!


Scott

Bibliography Style missing in Word 2010

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 08:55 AM PST

Hi,

I'm using MS Office Professional Plus 2010 on a Windows 7, 64bit edition. In word, under the references tab, office says the Bibliography style is "missing".

Things I've tried to solve the issue, all without success:
Through control panel > Programs and Features
* "Change" MS office and re-installing the plug-in for bibliography
* "Repair" MS office

I've installed Service Pack 2 for MS office 2010 on my pc, no sign of Service Pack 1 though. Could this be the issue?

Thanks for your help.

Hidden field code

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 08:36 AM PST

I have a document with a {DOCPROPERTY "DocID"} code in it and for some reason the results are hidden.  I can display the actual code by using Alt+F9 but the results will not display.  I checked the format and it is not hidden text.  There are several other fields in this document (TOC and Date/Time) that are displaying without problems.  I've tried removing the code and reinserting a new one but have the same results.

Ideas?

Richard

Narrator

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 08:27 AM PST

How can I get the Narrator to read a scanned document in either Word or Wordpad.?  It will read a typed document in Word and then copied to Wordpad and the Narrator will read it.

Help please

Thank you,

Dennis Dibley UK

Pasted text doesn't conform to new margins

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 08:09 AM PST

I am attempting to copy text from a small pop up box with a text space of only 2 inches.  When I paste into my new word document (with 1 inch margins) the text does not fill out the word document.  

 Can anyone help?  

How do I unlock Word 2003?

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 07:43 AM PST

I have read the answers to similar questions and they didn't work.

Word 2003 is activated and has been since I instilled it.

I use it everyday constantly and have used it thousands of times. It is not any kind of trial version. I bought it in a store a long time ago (2003). I just tried to create a PDF and got the locked (by me) message (nothing about password). I've created hundreds of PDFs and it has never done this before.

Can someone give me step by step e.g. 1, 2, 3, instructions to unlock it?

This is the question: Can someone give me step by step e.g. 1, 2, 3, instructions to unlock it?

Word 2003- Tools- Unprotect Document does not exist

Word 2003 has arbitrarily (I didn't do it) locked itself.

I find instructions for Tools, Unprotect Document.

Protect Document is in the dropdown under Tools.

Unprotect Document is not.

How do I unprotect (unlock) Word 2003?

Word 2003- Tools- Unprotect Document does not exist

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 07:33 AM PST

Word 2003- Tools- Unprotect Document does not exist

Word 2003 has arbitrarily (I didn't do it) locked itself.

I find instructions for Tools, Unprotect Document.

Protect Document is in the dropdown under Tools.

Unprotect Document is not.

How do I unprotect (unlock) Word 2003?

Vertical Scrolling Disabled

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 07:20 AM PST

Every time I start a new document in MS Word 2013, the vertical scrolling is disabled. I have to go through the hassle of selecting "Options" from the file menu, clicking "Advanced," and then scrolling down to the "Display" section and selecting "Show vertical scroll bar." 

Is there a way to make vertical scrolling a default setting? Or at least a way to customize my toolbar to allow me to display the vertical scroll bar without going through the elaborate mechanism of going through the "Options" menu?

how to login jnr1010

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 06:53 AM PST

In My Computer, I can't go http://www.routerlogin.net; How can I do it? Help me please.

Word embeded image dates

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 06:30 AM PST

when adding images to a docx or odt file type they are stored in the xml as images dated 1899.

 

why is this?

 

to replicate:

create any Office document, Word, Excel or PowerPoint

copy a image or image crop from another application like MS Paint

paste into document

save & close application

 

copy resulting file and rename extension of file to zip

open zip

explore zip content for folder named 'media'

open 'media' folder and note list of images and the date modified.

 

The above also applies to an image 'inserted' into the document.

 

applies to Office 2010 and Office 2013

 

Mike B

Automatically populate header...

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 06:23 AM PST

I want to have it so that when I insert a cover page, the text that I enter as the title is then inserted into the page header, e.g. I have a document and I insert my cover page. There is a line of text on the cover page for a title. I type "Handbook", I then want the headers of the document to be populated with "Handbook". 

Word 2007 Clip Art photos have turned to WAV files - March 2014

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 06:02 AM PST

Suddenly most all clip art pictures have WAV on them as well as this text appears on all those files  dglxasset...   The link to the help is also broken.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/??Origin=EC790014051033&CTT=6&ver=12&app=winword.exe

Any help appreciated, as I use this a lot.  Thank you.

Highlighting text

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 05:03 AM PST

I have a 2,000+ page document which uses highlighting for specific texts.  I want to make the document available to others, but want to remove the highlighting first.  When I attempt to select the entire text and NO COLOR the document does not change existing highlighting.  It actually makes the highlighting unchangeable.  When I use the same feature on specific texts it works for two times then freezes the highlighting also.  I think the length of the DOCX may be part of the problem.  Got any ideas?

Linking Templates

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 04:30 AM PST

Hi All,

I have asked this question before, and I did not really understand the response (my limited knowledge, has anybody got a step by step guide, on how to create a template from an existing template and linking them,

So for instance I was to change the LOGO - in all linked templates the LOGO would update?

Referencing in Word 2013

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 04:17 AM PST

I have been writing a word document for a university report successfully referencing my material by adding a reference, then selecting "insert citation".

It would then display in the document in the normal style..

(Cartledge, 2012) and the reference table at the bottom of my document would display properly.

However, I have just had to repair my office 2013 product due to the document not displaying all the pages whilst still remaining the same file size and displaying all words in the word count.

I have still found a way around this problem by saving the file to 2003 format and then copy/pasting then information into a new document.

But when I try to re-insert the references they will now not display properly. They show up as 

{CITATION dav03\|2057}

It appears in this format in the document and in the bibliography at the bottom. I have tried adding new sources, using my previous master list sources.

This is really frustrating me now.

David

Advanced nested TOC

Posted: 02 Mar 2014 09:26 PM PST

I wish to create a document with 3 levels of TOC's -

The document is organized into "Titles," then "Chapters," and inside that "Sections."

So I would like to create automatic TOC's in the following order: (smallest and deepest first)

First for the "Sections" - Next for the "Chapters" which contain multiple "Sections" - and then a final main TOC which includes both the "Titles" and the H1 Tag for the "Chapters"

Can get it all to work with bookmarks for the "Titles" - and use the b\ switch to display the TOC for each bookmark...

But then to get the "Sections" to display inside the "Chapters" works until I run out of alphabet (26 variables) for the TC field code - so I am wondering if there is another way to create inside TOC???

Any input will be greatly appreciated...

Bold Numbers in TOC

Posted: 02 Mar 2014 06:07 PM PST

I have a TOC: {TOC \H\Z\T "HEADINGS 1,1,HEADINGS 2,2,HEADINGS 3,3"}. My level 1, 2, and 3 headings come out with bold numbers and bold text as I intended. When I update the TOC, the level 1 and level 2 numbers in the TOC become bold which I don't want. I've spent hours trying to unbold the numbers without messing up the TOC to no avail. Thanks in advance for your help!

Why is Word 365 on the desktop so slow?

Posted: 02 Mar 2014 05:57 PM PST

Word 365 on the desktop is almost unusable because of it's slowness.

On all documents it just takes for ever to do anything: Typing, moving the cursor etc.

Is there a reason for this?

Is there a fix?

I don't have this problem in Word 2007.

Thanks

Is there a way to have a different amount of space before or after a paragraph depending on the style of the following or preceding paragraph?

Posted: 02 Mar 2014 04:53 PM PST

I am building a template for my thesis, which will be a long document with multi-level numbered headings. I've modified the paragraph settings of my headings and body paragraphs as follows: 1.5 line spacing throughout (required to allow thesis examiners room to scribble...), 6pt spacing before and after all headings, and 12pt spacing after body paragraphs.

I was hoping to increase the space after body paragraphs that are followed by headings, to improve readability by better separating the different sections of the document. Currently, the spacing between a body paragraph and the heading below it is 12pt, as dictated by the space after body paragraphs. Basically, I would like the spacing between my body paragraphs to remain at 12pt, but the spacing between a body paragraph and a heading below it to increase to say 20pt. If I increase the spacing before the headings, it gives me too much white space when there is no body text between two heading levels. If I use the "Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style option", there is no clear break between my body text paragraphs.

Is there a way to change the amount of space added before or after a paragraph based on what the style of the following or preceding paragraph is? Or any other suggestions on how I could achieve this effect? (The best I've come up with so far is to have a separate style for the last paragraph before headings, but that's awkward with all the revisions.)

Thank you for any suggestions,

Audrey