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Microsoft Word - Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint 2013 don't open after installing the new windows 8.1 update

Microsoft Word - Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint 2013 don't open after installing the new windows 8.1 update

Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint 2013 don't open after installing the new windows 8.1 update

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 02:29 PM PDT

After installing the new windows 8.1 update, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint no longer work. Publisher does work however. I tried opening it in safe mode, running it with administrator, using compatibility options, repairing, uninstalling and reinstalling, and even trying to use regedit to fix it. The only solution I found that worked was uninstalling the new update. Is there a way to fix this problem?

How to save in external harddrive by default

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 01:29 PM PDT

I want to save work, and also my photos, onto my external hard drive rather than onto the internal hard drive.  Is it possible to tell Office to do this by default, e.g. so that when I go to "Save as" it takes me directly to my external hard drive?  Also can I do something similar for my photos?

Something Went Wrong With Your [Office365] Program .. But I can't do anything

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 12:53 PM PDT

I have been having problems with Office365 all day.

When I try and open any Office365 program it comes up with the error message

When I go and try and repair this install I get error message number 2

I have rebooted and rebooted and re-installed and even performed a system restore.

I cannot work out what is going wrong here - there is nothing installing, yet it seems to not want to do anything.

Can someone suggest how I can move forward with this as nothing I have seen would suggest a solution

Can't Type New Text Over Selection

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 11:40 AM PDT

Hi:

This problem is driving me crazy.  Hope someone can help.

I select a block of text using the cursor. Then I try to type the new text in.  It takes about 3 keystrokes for the program to respond. Then I'm able to type the new text.  This is slowing me down terribly.

Under Options, the following, which may be relevant:

Typing replaces selected text -- checked

Enable Click and Type -- checked

Will very much appreciate any help.

Jane

using microsoft word 2010,windows 8

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 11:32 AM PDT

i am using word 2010 with text boxes two colours one blue for men one pink for women,in my family tree,

now please tell me i can change the colour of my text i want to wright in these boxes,

for the pink boxes i need black ,for the blue boxes red ,so it is easier to read,

been told with word 2010 you cannot change the colour of the text,is this true,

please tell me it is not true,and explain how i can change the colour.

if it is true i will have to go back to word 2000,this you can use.

why is it each time microsoft office changes for the worse,

office 2000 was a lot better

In Word 2010, page numbering [page * of *] and [file name] in a footer that appears on every page

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 10:37 AM PDT

In Word 2010, How do I put page numbering [page * of *] and [file name]  in a footer that appears on every page of a document?

word shuts down and restarts when adding citations

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 10:30 AM PDT

This started happening fairly recently and I don't know how to fix. Word shuts down and restarts and repairs the document with the citations, but this should not be happening like this.

Any fix?? I tried re-installing and repair options and reinstall says I have used up all my licenses and repair says it can't find the download link.

very frustrated and paper is due.

No tabs button in paragraph dialog box

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 10:21 AM PDT

I am trying to clear the tab stops in my document, but there is no "tabs" button in the paragraph dialog box. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Fields in Word 2013 strange behavoir

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 09:36 AM PDT

Hi all,

When i use a field with a formula in word 2013 it doesn't seem to handle currencies correctly. If i try to add the values in a column with formula SUM(ABOVE) everything works ok if the currerencies have no decimals (e.g. € 40 + € 50 adds correctly to € 90) but when i use decimals things go wrong (e.g. € 40,01 + € 50,00 adds to € 0,00). "," is the decimal character in Dutch. I've checked this in the language settings and other office tools and earlier versions of Word treat it correctly. To make things even stranger: when i add two numbers with the period as decimal character i get these results:

€ 40.00 + € 50.00 gives € 90,00 (periods in the arguments but a comma in the field, correct result)

€ 40.00 + € 50.01 gives € 91,00 (periods in the arguments but a comma in the field, incorrect result)

Has anyone have any idea how to resolve this? My customer billing depends on this function.

Thanks, Gertjan

Updating references in word 10 and associated problems

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 08:21 AM PDT

Hi,

I have a huge word document filled with references and cross references and suddenly it started playing tricks to a point of despair.

First it stopped updating the figures and the table  numbers so I got same references for tables and figures.

Then it stopped updating the table of contents so I had to delete the TOC and insert again.

Then it lost track  of the links , that is when I right clicked on a reference , rather than moving the cursor to the corresponding table or figure  it went directly to the first page.

When I tried inserting a new reference because the existing ones were not updating and the update field was grayed out I just got Table without a number but if I chose the whole caption then all the caption was inserted.  I toggled fields and there is an indication that there should be a number or at least that is what I noticed when I compared fields to one where the number is shown.

The whole thing is driving me crazy and cannot find heads or tails of it now.

Finally I am using track changes since the document  needs to be submitted in such a format.

Numbered paragraph style, first word, etc. in bold until colon, then "normal" styled text

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 08:21 AM PDT

I've had times where this ended up kinda/sorta happening automatically (more specifically, I suppose this was via format painter where it retained the styling of first word bolded, rest not), but I'd like to figure out if there's a way to control it.

What I'd like to accomplish, is for my style overall to behave like this, as automatically as possible (including numbering, as part of the style).

1. First few words bold: Then after the colon, regular looking text

1.2 More first few words: And after the colon, regular looking text

1.2.1 You get the picture:  So my question is, is there a way to do this?  (Or worst case, just the first word bolded, rest automatically not?)

Microsoft Word Proof Reading

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 05:38 AM PDT

Hi,

I have installed the Japanese language proofreading software from the Microsoft Website and run the setup, but every time I try enabling it in Microsoft Word, it keeps telling me that it is not installed.

How do I solve this problem?

Many thanks in advance

Creating a jigsaw diagram in MS Word

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 05:19 AM PDT

Hi I wonder if someone can help me. In word I'd like to create a diagram comprising a 3 x 3 interlocking jigsaw. I need to be able to add text to each piece and also shade each piece a different colour. I know I could use a graphics file and put invisible text boxes over each piece but ideally I'd like to be able to choose the colours myself. Any ideas gratefully received!

I Can't Print!

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 04:15 AM PDT

Hi,

I have successfully used my new laptop and printer to print documents, but now cannot print pictures. Can someone please help me. Please talk in layman's terms, because I'm not technologically-minded. Thankyou.

What happens when you delete ChemDraw and Word seems to want to find its Add-ins

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 04:12 AM PDT

Hi I've deleted ChemDraw on my PC and it had an add-in for MS Office 2013 and now I can't seem to create a graph inside Word without getting the message:

"Sorry, we couldn't find C:\Program Files (x86)\CambridgeSoft\ChemOffice2010\ChemDraw for Excel\ChemDrawExcel12.xla. Is it possible it was moved, renamed or deleted?"

I click, "Ok" which is the only option it gives me but whenever I try to create a graph again I get the same message.

I would sure like to create new graphs in Word so I would love it if somebody could help me with this.

Word has run into an error.

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 02:47 AM PDT

When ever I open my word documents today, it has this message, and asked if i wanted it to be repaired. When I clicked on the repair box, nothing happens. Please help.

Rashidah

Number formatting in Word 2010

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 12:01 AM PDT

Is it possible to format numbers in Microsoft word 2010 i.e put commas separators while using mail merge. I want the Indian style of formatting numbers which will show the numbers as follows

100,000 is to be displayed as 1,00,000

1,000,000 is to be displayed as 10,00,000

and so on.

While searching the community, I found formatting options using \# "#,##0" after the mail merge field. This displays the formatting in millions while i want in lakhs.

word 2013

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 08:13 PM PDT

I cannot get the word to activate, it says the features on word have been disabled because it hasn't been activated then when i went through the steps to activate, it said the email address wasn't associated with office, but when i sign into the account that email is the one that comes up on the screen and i just have to type in the password...so it still doesn't activate it and I have used no other address with any accounts on windows 8.

Want to change 'fields' into 'characters'

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 04:58 PM PDT

I need to remove field codes in a bibliography and change back into text.

Have searched everywhere and its been suggested that I highlight text to be changed then use Ctrl+shift+F9 but when I do this nothing really happens other than small white boxes (some with numbers some with letters in) appear on the ribbon/menu bar which disappear if you click on them. The prescribed keys may not work as my laptop keyboard is a lenovo for thinkpad.

Someone had written a makro to do this for me but it only seems to work in word 2003 itself on the PC that version of word is on and as that PC is dying I shortly won't have access to it (the license for that word version is only for that PC).

tables of figures for diffrent captions without spaces

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 03:44 PM PDT

I have a document that have multiple chapters and in each chapter I use different caption for my figures. In chapter 1 the figures are Fig1. 1, Fig1. 2 ...

but in chapter2 they are Fig2. 1, Fig2. 2 etc.

In order to make a list of figures I added multiple ones; the first one is table of figures for Fig.1 the second one for Fig.2 and the last one for Fig.3. However, the problem is that they will have a space between them and I cant delete it. so my final list of figures looks like that:

List of Figures

Fig1.1 aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Fig1.2 bbbbbbbbbbbb

Fig1.3 cccccccccccccccc

Fig1.4 ddddddddddddd

Fig2.1 ssssssssssss

Fig2.2 dddddddddddd

Fig3.1 dddddd

Fig3.2 bbbbbbbbbbbb

Fig3.3 cccccccccccccccc

Fig3.4 ddddddddddddd

I cant delete those two spaces, and my final list of figures looks weird as I showed in the previous example.

Any suggestions

Ahmad