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Microsoft Word - Windows 8.1, Word unresponsive

Windows 8.1, Word unresponsive

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 02:44 PM PDT

I recently upgraded to windows 8.1 and for a while word worked fine, and then today it did not respond when I clicked on the icon. so i tried to start in safe mode, and administrative mode, but nothing worked. so i restarted my computer and tried again, and again nothing worked.

Is there a way to solve this or do i need to re-install word?

When a user clicks on an option button, instead of selecting it, the VBA window opens

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 02:12 PM PDT

Perhaps this is a cautionary tale about working at the edge of one's knowledge.

I'm not a developer but I know enough to be dangerous.

I use Word 2010 and my client's company (I just learned) is still using Word 2007.  I recently created a form template for them--a dotm file. The form initially used drop down lists but they changed their minds and I used option buttons instead. All along my client has been opening the dotm file and looking it over as I progressed through creating the form.

Now that I delivered what was supposed to be the final version she, for the first time, double-clicked on the file on her desktop to create a new document based on the template. When she clicks on an option button the button is not selected. Instead the VBA window opens. What did I do wrong? The buttons aren't properly grouped (because I did a lot of copy and pasting and forgot about grouping them correctly)--I can easily fix that.  But I can't see how that would be an issue. (Famous last words, I know.)

I'm fixing the grouping now but does anyone have any ideas on why the VBA window is popping up when my client double clicks on the template?

cannot save or open in office

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 02:08 PM PDT

I cannot seem to open or save documents in any of my office software. as well the toolbars have lost their titles and I cannot access at all the file toolbars. I have taken a screen shot of word:

None of the Microsoft programs will start.

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 02:06 PM PDT

When I try to open any of the Microsoft programs (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Note ect.) a message pops up saying, "Something went wrong... we could not start your program. please try again. if it wont start try repairing it..." when i try to repair it another message pops up telling me," something went wrong... sorry we ran into a problem. error code: 30089-13." please help i dont now what to do and have to finish my paper

Incorrect Formats with Word Documents Accessed on iPad with OneDrive (SkyDrive)

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:42 PM PDT

This problem has been going on for years. SkyDrive and now OneDrive from the iPad App Store cannot format Word documents properly. Both fonts and spacing are off. Other Apps like CloudOn and Box format Word docs correctly. You would think that MS would actually try to fix this. I really would like to use OneDrive on my iPad to access Word docs.

Mail Merge from Excel - when I WANT a leading space

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:40 PM PDT

I've found quite a bit on how to get rid of leading and trailing spaces in Mail Merge - but I want to keep them in, and Word just won't let me!  

If a field is blank in a record, I want nothing in the document, but when fields are not blank I need their contents separated by spaces.  Making everything conditional ("{IF {x}="" "" " {x}"}") takes forever to code, and my master docs start to freeze and crash when they have too many complicated fields.

So I thought I'd be really clever and put the leading spaces in each field of my Excel data source, so the space would come in attached to the merged data and my merge code could be simplified.  Apparently this works with merges to MS Publisher, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher-help/common-mail-merge-issues-HA010253730.aspx.  Unfortunately, when I merge to Word, Word automatically trims off all the spaces and smooshes the words together!  Ugh.

Tried using non-breaking spaces instead of "regular" ones - no joy.

When fields contain numbers, apparently it's possible to format in a way that includes a leading space - but this is all text.  

As it stands, I'm stuck with either (1) lots and lots of tedious IFs that eventually choke the software, or (2) maybe using some other leading character - something not in my data, like maybe an underscore or something - and then Replacing All of them with a space in the merged output.  Is there possibly a more elegant solution?

Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:46 PM PDT

When I try to open a file I already have saved or open a file that I have downloaded from my yahoo email account, I get the following error.

Microsoft Office, "This program is unable to run because of missing or corrupted files.  Contact your manufacturer".

Please note.  It does not happen with every file....Thank you.

Accessing Word documents from USB

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:17 PM PDT

I have a new notebook with Windows 8.1

Happily created Word documents, saved on USB to take to school. I have accessed these both on my notebook and the school system.

Now getting "There is something wrong" message but no error code and can't access them from my notebook. Can still access the scanned documents, only seems to affect Word documents. Tried the control panel/troubleshooter.

Thanks

I have just tried accessing copy of the Word document from the computer...in fact it is Word itself that I can't open. Just a message that says the program won't run. No error code.

Microsoft Office Software no longer working

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:12 PM PDT

Recently, my email stopped syncing followed by an inability to open any of my Microsoft Office 2013 programs.  I have recovered my computer and reinstalled the software, but it only worked for about a day following that.  When I try to open the programs I get either nothing or a general error message with no code.  Any ideas?  All my other programs, those original to the computer, still work just fine and no virus has been detected.

Addins Won't AutoOpen - Word 2010

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 10:05 AM PDT

I have a .docm file, which I've added to the "Templates and Add-ins" dialog (from a "Trusted Location"), then checked the checkbox next to it.  I assumed, like in Excel, that this would force Word to open this addin automatically upon launching Word.  This setting is NOT saved when Word is closed.  When I restart Word and re-open this dialog, my addin name is shown, but the checkbox is UNCHECKED.

I've also tried copying the .docm to the C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP folder, expecting it to be opened upon launch, however this doesn't work either. 

Ideas?

Thx,

Allen

Word 2013 Shape Positioning

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 09:40 AM PDT

When inserting line adjacent to a table which bridges multiple rows the text in those rows are displaced.  In the past I would select the shape and go to the Position tab under More Layout Options.  Unchecking "Layout in table cell" within the Position tab and this problem would be fixed.  It seems that recently in documents I have been working in, the "Layout in table cell" option is grayed out and I can not select it.  Is there a reason this would be grayed out and can it be corrected so I can use this option? 

Can't Open Word 2013

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 09:37 AM PDT

I currently have Office 2013. When I try to open a saved document or even the word 2013 program itself, a popup comes up and says "Another program is currently using this file." This doesn't happen if I try to open PowerPoint or Excel, just Word. Any help???

Printed labels don't align correctly.

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 09:31 AM PDT

I'm using MS Office 2007 on a machine running on MS XP.  I have been trying to print a sheet of labels, each of which has the same text as all the others.  The labels are in sheets of 65 (i.e. 5 columns of 13 labels each).

I found and downloaded (from Microsoft.com) a "wizard" or template which appeared to suit my requirements perfectly.  It was tailored to my labels which are sheets of DECAdry OLW-4730 65 x (38.1 x 21.2 mm).  All the dimensions matched perfectly, with left, right, upper and lower margins the same; the size of the labels the same; the width of the small column of "dead-space" between each column the same; even the size of the backing sheet was exactly the same as a sheet of A4.

Having completed the template, I tried printing the end result.  Hopeless......

-   the size of the text font was smaller than intended or expected;

-   the text 'blocks' were too close together both horizontally and vertically;

-   the left-hand column was too far from the left edge, and the right-hand column too far from the right edge;

-   the text over-lapped each label vertically and horizontally, to the extent that the bottom row of labels was completely blank and most rows above that

    were totally useless.

Since then, I have tried recreating the sheet of labels in Excel, but have only achieved the same result.

Can anyone tell me where I have gone wrong ?

Many thanks.

JM

How do I save a mail merge letter?

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 08:54 AM PDT

I created a mail merge for a letter and saved it.  When I open the document, I have only the first letter available to me, not the entire group of letters that I thought I saved in the mail merge.  Similarly, I did the same for mail merge labels, and when I open that, I have only the first page of labels.  How do I get back to the full set of letters or labels so that I can print them out now?

How to customize different footers

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 07:40 AM PDT

I need to slightly change the footer on each page so that it looks like this:

Copyright © 2015 Company Name

               IM 1-1

The only thing I need to change is the last number so that it reflects the page number. So page two would look like:

Copyright © 2015 Company Name

               IM 1-2

And so on. Is there a way to do this in the footer?

Many thanks!!

How can I apply contrast & brightness settings to all photos in a document?

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 06:54 AM PDT

I'm using Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013. I have 50 photos in a document and I would like to change brightness & contrast settings to all of them (identical settings) but it doesn't allow me to select more than 1 photo at a time.  Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,

Vera

Error message “Something went wrong. Sorry, we ran into a problem. Go online for additional help. Error code 0-4

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 06:12 AM PDT

Can anyone help me? This issue started Saturday.

Word prompting to save document that new document is based on.

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 04:00 AM PDT

I am having an issue that is bugging the life out of me.

We use a document that acts as a base for all our documentation standards call it "documentation1.docx"

(its a template but saved as a DOCX because its a living template and changes frequently, DOCTM is not suitable in this instance)

when I open this base document a make a pile of changes and do a Save as to another name (customer1.docx) and location everything is fine. A new "customer1.doctx" file is created and no changes are made to "documentation1.docx"

When I subsequently open "Customer1.docx" to make updates to it and save it it updates "Customer1.docx" no problem.  

My annoying issue arises when I close "Customer1.docx" I get a prompt asking me if I want to make changes to "documentation1.docx" even though I have not opened or interacted with "documentation1.docx" in days. I have to click Dont Save to get the window to close


why is this happening?

Tidying up styles in Word 2010

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:01 AM PDT

I've been working on a 200-page document, a lot of which is put together by cutting and pasting from a wide variety of sources. In term sof styles it was complete chaos and I wanted to bring order. I copied the whole into a new document based on my own template with a very limited number of styles and then went through re-formating by clearing all styles and then applying the styles I wanted. But the document still seemed to be full of all sorts of styles. Many of these listed in the Styles pane turned out not to be in use, and so I could simply delete them. But this could be done only style by style, one at a time, and so was a very slow and time-consuming processs. So my first question, to which I haven't been able to find a clear answer in anything I've read on styles, is whether it is possible to do a bulk delete of all custom styles listed but not actually in use in the document in consideration.

Secondly, where an in-use style is used a significant number of times I want to use Find & Replace to change it to the style I want. I find this generally works well, but have come up against one particular problem. To be able to find and replace, you have to be able to select the first style from the massively long drop-down list appearing in a very small panel in the Find & Replace box. What do you do if the style you want to find just is not there, as there is no facility for entering a name by hand?

And finally, I seem to be left with a number of styles that have apparently just one instance of use. They will not delete, but selecting the supposed instance brings no result and it cannot be found through Find & Replace. If I try and modify it by adding some outrageous characteristic so it should stick out in the text like a sore thumb, I still can't find where it is. How can I get rid of these single-instance styles that apparetnly cannot be found and changed? I'd like to end up with a manageable list of styles in use that I can overview without scrolling all the time.

(It's probably very obvious to the specialists that although I've been a Word user for a couple of decades I am still not comfortable at all with styles. I thought I'd mastered them at the start of this century, but then got totally lost again when Microsoft changed everything, in that I found what used to be a very simple way of working turned into something very complicated and generally very much slower than applying manual formating. I have tried searching to get clear answers to my questions, but have not come up with anything that has worked.)

i bought my pc and i misplaced my product key,how do i recover the product key

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:01 AM PDT

i bought my pc and i misplaced my product key,how do i recover the product key

Multilevel Numbering for Numerous Appendices

Posted: 23 Mar 2014 11:55 PM PDT

Can someone please point me in the right direction; I'm sure this particular situation must have been dealt with before.

I use multilevel numbering in my document associated with styles, i.e. 1.0 Heading 1; 1.1 Heading 2; 1.1.1 Heading 3; etc.

I have also created a style for autonumbering appendix headings, e.g. APPENDIX 1 etc. For this purpose I have created a style 'Appendix Head'. The prefix 'APPENDIX' is part of the the style, in other words, I select an empty paragraph and apply the style 'Appendix Head', and the result is e.g. APPENDIX 1 for the first appendix. Is this a standard method for numbering appendices or should one rather use the 'SEQ' field for this purpose?

I now would like to autonumber the headings in the appendices to look similar (in format) to the regular document headings, although they need to be independently numbered of the document heading numbers, and include the prefix 'A-#' where 'A' denotes Appendix, and '#' denotes the appendix autonumber, for example Heading 1 of Appendix 1 should be 'A1-1', Heading 2 of Appendix 1 should be 'A1-1.1', etc. Likewise, Heading 1 of Appendix 2 should be 'A2-1', Heading 2 of Appendix 2 should be 'A2-1.1, etc.

To summarise, the document structure should look something like:

DOCUMENT

1.0 Heading 1

1.1 Heading 2

1.1.1 Heading 3

2.0 Heading 1

2.1 Heading 2

2.1.1 Heading 3

etc

APPENDIX 1

A1-1 Heading 1

A1-1.1 Heading 2

A1-1.1.1 Heading 3

etc

APPENDIX 2

A2-1 Heading 1

A2-1.1 Heading 2

A2-1.1.1 Heading 3

etc

Loss of toolbars and menus

Posted: 23 Mar 2014 11:07 PM PDT

I have lost all the toolbar names and cannot open a new file or open files within office. I can't seem t find tools/options to reset the defaults and this copy of offie was installed by dell onto the pc at purchase, so I don't really know how to re-install if I don't have hard copies. I include a screen dump of the problem,

thanks

word 2013 cannot cut and paste from a word document to another word document

Posted: 23 Mar 2014 09:26 PM PDT

I highlight a section, then I use ctrl + c ( nothing appears on the clipboard), and then I use ctrl + v  and nothing happens on my new word document. I have tried all three options from file,advanced, cut and paste . I have checked all the options, and unchecked them and still nothing happens. Help!!!!!

Add expand/collapse headings to older Word document opening in Word 2013

Posted: 23 Mar 2014 09:07 PM PDT

My client has a 20 page Word document created in Word 2007. They are looking to upgrade to Word 2013, which I have installed on my computer.

I've opened their document in Word 2013 and saved it as the new .docx format, but I don't see the expand/collapse arrows or options in the Headings.

They have used Heading styles and Heading 2 is showing as Level 2 in Outline view (though it's not indented - should it be?).

Has anyone else tried opening an older document in Word 2013 and can successfully see the expand/collapse options? Do I have to do something with the Heading styles to update them, if possible? I really don't want to have to recreate 20 pages from scratch if I can help it.

Regards,

Sonia. 

 

Round Up in Word 2010 via VBA

Posted: 23 Mar 2014 08:21 PM PDT

Hi

I have a document that I store raffle numbers for a short time.

I would like to know how many raffle books I need, I know that each book has 50 tickets in it, so I need to divide the total number needed by 50, but say I have 51 tickets, I will need 2 books.

How can I get Word 2010 VBA to round up to the nearest 50, so that if the answer to my question is...

     Between 1 and 50, I will be told that I need 1 book.

     Between 51 and 100, I will be told that I need 2 books.

     Between 101 and 150, I will be told that I need 3 books.

     etc.

Here is that part of the code I currently have:

     BlockSets = Round(Tickets / 50) 'Tickets = Raffle Ticket

Thank you in advance,

Neil

lost work by closing unsaved document

Posted: 23 Mar 2014 07:14 PM PDT

I worked all day to fill out an inspection report for my work. I went to close the document and mistakenly hit the "NO" to save the changes made to the document. I opened the document and none of the work was there. Is there a way to recover the work that was completed when I closed the document at 6:20PM

Character that doesn't start a new word?

Posted: 23 Mar 2014 04:13 PM PDT

Hi,

Is there a character that can be used to give the appearance of a space, dash, underscore or similar, but that Word (2013) will not consider as the end/start of a word?

For example, I would like text to appear like this:       FIRST SECOND

but I would like to be able to double-click on one "word" and for both to be selected.

It appears that Word treats any character other than a-z, A-z and 0-9 as a delimiter for a word, even non-breaking hyphens. 

Is there any character other than a-z, A-Z and 0-9 that Word does NOT treat as a new word delimiter?

Cheers
Rich

PS. Normally I would use lower-case and capitalise the first letter of each word an not use any spaces, but now I need to use a style which has All Caps on!

Something went wrong and we couldn't start your program - Windows 8.1 and Office Professional Plus 2013 - HUP

Posted: 23 Mar 2014 03:24 PM PDT

Everything for Windows 8.1 and Office Professional Plus 2013 was working fine until today - and when I went to open Word, I received the "Something went wrong and we couldn't start your program".   I went to the control panel as recommended, but there is no repair option for as suggested by the error message.  I've tried restarting the program, and rebooting the computer, but to no avail.  How can I fix this problem?

Thanks,