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Microsoft Word - Accidentally deleted Adobe Active XI, Now can't convert word docs to PDF. Tried to reload office, get errors. Any suggestions?

Microsoft Word - Accidentally deleted Adobe Active XI, Now can't convert word docs to PDF. Tried to reload office, get errors. Any suggestions?

Accidentally deleted Adobe Active XI, Now can't convert word docs to PDF. Tried to reload office, get errors. Any suggestions?

Posted: 11 May 2014 02:34 PM PDT

Hi,

I accidentally deleted Adobe Active XI...   So now when I create a WORD doc and try to convert it to a PDF, the operating file (ADOBE ACTIVE XI, is missing), so I can't convert docs.

I thought I could just download and reinstall Microsoft Office 2013 again and it would bring it with it with the reinstall.  When I go to reinstall Microsoft Office, it asks me to save the setup file, but it won't save.  There is no option just to run the set up file, only save it.

Maybe I am going about this the wrong way, any suggestions.  I went to Adobe's website, thinking I could just download Active XI from there, but you they will only give you a 30 day free trial.  THen you pay.   Why should I do that, if I get it free with Micrsoft Office, except I am having trouble getting it back!

After receiving an email MSWord attachment and working on it, it is now missing. Is it recoverable?

Posted: 11 May 2014 12:31 PM PDT

I have MS Office 10 and Windows 7 64 bit. I received an email with a MS word 97-2003 attachment which needed additional work.

Today I opened Word to finish some work on the file before returning it. It is not shown in any of the obvious places in Word although 3 other similar documents are there. I have followed through the standard MS procedure for finding missing Word files but without any success.

I am having to contemplate whether (very stupidly), I clicked this particular file, Enabled Editing and continued to make substantial changes while clicking on the save button but without saving it specifically to my PC with the Save As command. The file name shown at the top of the page would have been identical either way.

To see what would happen, I replicated the problem today by clicking on the attachment, Enabled Editing, and then clicked the save button. I then clicked on File

and then Info. It showed me the full path as follows:

C:\Users\ivor\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\3RYXXZZV\File Name.doc

My heart sunk when I saw Temporary Internet Files but checked my PC anyway and spotted a .DB file of the right size and with the correct time and date in a Caches sub-directory

C:\Users\ivor\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Caches

I have been unable to open the .DB file as yet and it may turn out to be something else.

 

Could one of the experts tell me if I am wasting my time and that the file has disappeared forever

Thanks

Where is the Help in office 365

Posted: 11 May 2014 10:53 AM PDT

Hello,

I am used to have in any sofyware the existence of the Help menu, as it is in office 2011 (office for mac) as it shown here:

But, in my Office 365 I can't locate this Help menu see my word 365 interface:

So, how can I locate the Help menu in my Word 365?

TIA

Need for document specific dictionaries (or company specific, etc)

Posted: 11 May 2014 08:48 AM PDT

I believe that Microsoft is missing something by only having one set of dictionaries (used by Spell and Grammar Check). 

It would be really useful if a Word user was able to pick and choose dictionaries depending on the client or company the document is for. This particularly applies with technical documents, where some words may need to be in a dictionary for one company, but not others.

This may also apply to Excel and to a lesser extent, Outloook.

Another example may be for companies that have international offices and where they need to switch between different flavours of English, or even different languages. Choosing the document language covers this to a certain extent, but there will always be words which come up that may be correct for one situation, but not appropriate for another. Just having one custom dictionary is rather restrictive.

I envisage an option from the Spell Checker to Manage Dictionaries, where a user can choose, for the particular document they are working on, which custom dictionaries they want to use. I would also like to see the option to choose which dictionary to save a word into when adding to the dictionary. OpenOffice and LibreOffice offer this and it is a very nice feature.

I know dictionaries can be changed in the Proofing section, but this is long winded, and doesn't allow for different versions of custom.dic, except by manually renaming a another language custom.dic before opening Word. However, this is clumsy and I'm sure can be a better way.

How to highlight the same word that was present multiple times in a particular file?

Posted: 11 May 2014 07:28 AM PDT

How do I perform a particular activity on a few "selected words" in the Word 2010? 
For Example consider the following paragraph. 

"luminary:a person who is an expert or a great influence in a special area or activity. 

Eg: Various leading luminaries of the arts were invited.

Eg: The President, who has chosen not to cast his vote to ensure "neutrality", has the mandate to call the party with numbers or alliance partners to form the govt. Mr. Mukherjee never known to deviate from the rule book, has begun consultations with legal luminaries& constitutional experts"

In the above example, I highlighted the word "luminaries" thrice individually.

But what I want to know is, can we highlight all the 3 words at the same time? 

error code 30029-4

Posted: 11 May 2014 07:25 AM PDT

I have just installed Office 365, but when I go to use it I get error code 30029-4. I have followed all the prompts and repair suggestions, but it persists. I have re loaded but the same think. Any ideas anyone?

Cheers

Neil

Microsoft word

Posted: 11 May 2014 05:34 AM PDT

whenever i open microsoft word it opens up in the corner of my screen (right hand) and i can only see a bit of the document, it wont let  me move it and it stays in the corner of my screen?

Where can I insert the sequencing Latin numbers in MS Word 2010?

Posted: 11 May 2014 04:44 AM PDT

Hi,

I want to insert such numbers.

I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
XX
XXI
XXII

 I couldn't find any of those numbers above when I clicked on  insert 'symbol' on the toolbar.

Should I only use the letters on Keyboard, such as 'I', V, X' and so on.  I don't think so since sequencing Latin numbers are different?

Right to left text input. Keyboard commands back to front.

Posted: 11 May 2014 01:34 AM PDT

Whilst typing within a table cell in Word 2013, (PC running 8.1) I must have inadvertently hit a shortcut key which then changed the text entry into right to left and the keyboard commands back to front, so delete, backspace, right and left arrows are all opposite to what they should be.  

I've been through everything to do with language settings and suchlike, including deleting the cell completely and starting again, and also copying and pasting the text in a clean document, but this formatting is fixed and I can't remove the problem.  All the other cells in the table are fine.  Any help gratefully received as this is driving me completely mad!

Goal: The Ultimate College Notes Template

Posted: 10 May 2014 11:07 PM PDT

Starting notes from scratch every day is too much work! I'm working towards making the Ultimate College Notes Template that I can simply open and start typing in. So far the progress has been great! 

First, the title should be separated from the main work both in style and placement, and it should have a format that allows the user to easily distinguish it from their notes from other classes. The following is the format I use (without commas): "Class, Class #, for xx.xx.xxxx, for Ch #, - Description". Even if a student saved all their notes from all their classes in one folder, this title format would still make it possible to locate anything they may be looking for. This title should be displayed at the top of the document, and saved as the document's title.  

Now for the meat of the document. Because MLA is so widely used and adaptable, I decided to use its Multilevel list format - I. A. 1. a. i. (1). (a). (i).- instead of a different style. The great thing about using a multilevel list format is it will allow the user to quickly narrow down the sections of the notes they are looking for during a review. Alone, this works well (especially when printed), but if the user will be studying directly from the computer there is an even more organized option. 

The items in the previous two paragraphs have already been saved into a template, but I'd like to go even deeper. The following items would provide even more organization to the document, and potentially give users a new way to study directly from their notes. These features are: collapsible bullet points, bold level 1 listing (I.), and large spacing before level 1 listing. The problem is that I can't seem to figure out how to apply these features to a template, which is where I need your help! 

Word 2013 allows users to collapse individual levels of a list while editing the document. By using this option, users could study from a much cleaner document and they may even be given the option to self study by revealing answers in a collapsed level. I need help to apply "outline levels" to the Multilevel list. I think this my be possible by assigning each level a different Style, but I'm not very familiar with styling. On a similar note, I'd also like to apply boldface to outline level 1 to separate the main headings from the smaller subsections. Lastly, I'd like to separate the main from each other. I've been able to do this is the past by using paragraph spacing 3.0 on the last level of the list before a main point, but this is time consuming and I'd like for it to be done automatically.


Goals:

  • Designated Title section: Boldface, set format (Class, Class #, for xx.xx.xxxx, for Ch #, - Description)
  • MLA Format List (I. A. 1. a. i. (1). (a). (i).)
  • Collapsible bullet points per level
  • Bold outline level 1
  • Large spacing before outline level 1 to separate main sections. 

If anyone could help me figure out how to make this Ultimate College Notes Template a reality, I'd be happy to share it with the world! Together, we can save students hundreds of hours of fiddling with their notes so that they may procrastinate their studies in some other way! :)

Why did you make the quick access toolbar faint instead of vivid?

Posted: 10 May 2014 07:59 PM PDT

In Word 2007, the Quick Access Toolbar was bright and easy to see.  Why did you change it to make it faint and difficult to see? 

Cannot get Office to Work

Posted: 10 May 2014 06:08 PM PDT

Hello

  I purchased Office 2013, installed and could open office but would keep kicking me out. I followed some of the Troubleshooting step mention in some of the articles. I uninstalled with fix it and then reinstalled office 2013. This time around I cannot even get office to Start error 24. I've tried to repair offline and online through Uninstall Programs to no avail I got and get error " Something went wrong " " Sorry we ran into a problem " " Error Code 30029-4 " .

I've gone onto my account and cannot see the product linked to my Microsoft account, not sure if that is the issue. Any help would be appreciated.