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Microsoft Word - "Email as PDF" function button causing crashes in Office 2013

Microsoft Word - "Email as PDF" function button causing crashes in Office 2013

"Email as PDF" function button causing crashes in Office 2013

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 02:46 PM PDT

I created a toolbar in Office 2010 that would allow me to click the button, "Email as PDF" on the ribbon.

In Office 2013, there are two bugs in this function.

1. In Office 2010, when you click this button, an Outlook email windows open with the document attached as a PDF and the cursor is focussed on the send-to address bar.  In Outlook 2013, when you click on this same button, the focus is completely random.  Sometimes the focus is on the send-to address bar.  Sometimes it is on the subject line, sometimes it doesn't focus at all.

When sending an email normally, Outlook focuses on the send to address bar normally.  It should also do so when you click "Email as PDF"

I attach a screen pic showing the button.

2.  In Office 2013, there is a major bug occuring when a person tries to send an email  with a word document attached but another dialogue button is open in Outlook.  What occurs is that the email cannot be sent (Outlook warns that a dialogue button is open), the dialogue box is focussed for you to deal with it, but then when you close it, the email is gone.  You cannot then shut down Word at all and Outlook no longer functions either.  This never occured in 2010.  All one had to do is shut down the dialogue box, return to the email and send it.  Now, the entire Office system crashes.

Printout repeats word/phrase from end of one line to beginning of next, but Print Preview looks fine

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 02:24 PM PDT

We're having a chronic problem in Word 2010 where someone will print a document and notice that a word or phrase from the end of one line will be repeated at the beginning of the next line. However, the repeated word/phrase does not show up on screen, nor is it seen in Print Preview.

We've tried switching to a different printer, with no luck.

Is this a document corruption issue, or a print or display driver issue?

Inserting Multilple page PDF to a Office File

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 02:08 PM PDT

I have a multiple page PDF that I must add more pages to it and need to insert it into either Word or Publisher.  I have found how to insert it but it only inserts the first page, how can I get it to insert the second page as to where I can add my 3rd and 4th pages that I have already saved?  Thanks in advance!

Form Fields In Word Documents

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 02:07 PM PDT

My colleages have set up a document using form fields.  Unfortunately the end user's are double clicking on the field and getting the field box setup instead of just highlighting and typing.   In a nutshell, the end-user doesn't understand how to put in their text.  My colleagues also don't want to put an explaination to the user that reads you should hightlight and type over the text instead of double-clicking.  Another paramater is that I've been asked not to make it an actual locked form because they want the user to be able to send just the last two pages and not the entire five pages. 

Cannot insert PDF into word as usual - will only insert icon

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:54 PM PDT

I'm trying to insert a PDF into a document in Word 2013, to be displayed as the entire page. I've done this many times and had no trouble, but all of a sudden, whenever I try to insert a PDF as I've always done, it is only ever inserted as an icon. I keep retrying, checking the settings every time to make sure nothing is checked that should not be, and the PDF keeps being inserted as an icon. Please help!

Surface Pro II/Office 2013 displays all charcaters in Italics

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:27 PM PDT

I have some documents that I edit from multiple systems. When I open in Windows 7 with Office 2010 all is good. When I open with Surface Win 8 Office 2013 all characters  in the file are in italics.

I can edit and save. When I return to Win7 the characters are as normal except where edited. It seems do definitely be a display issue.

Ideas?

Mail Marge Master Template stripping formatting when using INCLUDETEXT

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 11:50 AM PDT

I am working with a Mail Marge Master Template essentially created to spew out letters based on certain criteria.

The master template has a TON of IF statements basically to check what letter template (different letters created in Word) to insert using the INCLUDETEXT field code based on the value of one of the list field.

If the field is "Letter1" then letter1.doc is inserted, if the field is "Letter2" then letter2.doc is inserted...etc

The template works great and inserts the right document using the INCLUDETEXT but the formatting of the INCLUDETEXT file is stripped (no bold, italics, bold etc..).

I have created a basic Mail Merge file from scratch and tried to include different letters and the formatting is perfect.  Somehow this Master Template I am working with is stripping the format.

I am using basic code in both the original and my test file:

{INCLUDETEXT "C:\\LOCATIONOFFILE\\letter1.doc" \*CHARFORMAT  \*MERGEFORMAT}

I don't think I need the CHARFORMAT but it's in the master so I left it.  The Master Template is very similar:

{IF {MERGEFIELD Letter} = "Letter1" "{ INCLUDETEXT "C:\\LOCATIONOFFILE\\letter1.doc" \*CHARFORMAT  \*MERGEFORMAT}" ""}

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Word 2013 corrupt file 'the name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag' location Part:/Word/document.xml, line 2, column 4606

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 10:45 AM PDT

Hi

Can anybody help with this failure? I've applied the microsoft Fix-it solution, but it still fails to open. I've browsed the support forum, and tried various recovery tools, without success.  The failure occurred when I converted a PDF (with lots of embedded graphics but no equations) to word, using the built-in converter in MS Word 13.  I then did some extensive editing, and saved the file.  Everything looked OK, but when I opened Word the following day there were problems getting it to start .  Then there appeared to be a small file of 162 bytes and the corrupt file appeared and would not open.

Here is a link to the file

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8Y1F7aBbYQFQ2R2Z2Y5SVd4emc/edit?usp=sharing


Thanks to anybody who can help

Best Regards

David

Creating drop-down lists in Word

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 09:18 AM PDT

I create a drop-down list to be used in a form in an MSWord document.  I add the items by entering the "Display Name" and then the actual "Value".  However, once I protect the document so that it can be used a form and you select an item, it shows only the "Display Name" and not the "Value".  This remains the case when I print the document.

Is there any way one can create a drop-down list that allows more than one item to be selected in the form?

Mail Merge Question

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 08:58 AM PDT

Hi,

Is it possible to merge one to many in the same document?  Example, my data source (Excel) has the fields:  Person's Name, Comment 1, Comment 2, etc. Similar to this:

Person 1 Comment 1 Comment 2
Person 2 Comment 1 Comment 2

I would like to group the comments by the comment field, not the person's name and display the data like:

Comment 1

Name - Comment 1

Name - Comment 1

Comment 2

Name - Comment 2

Name - Comment 2

I can get the first group to populate with the information, but the second group of comments won't display any information.  I looked at using the Directory mail merge type, but the comments are going to be different from each person and some may be blank. 

Thanks.

How to make feel of 'Notebook Style' in word 2010

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 08:51 AM PDT

Hi Everybody,

How to make feel of 'Notebook Style'

ie.

Lines in background

and

i want to type over it in 'Handwritten manner'

How to make this possible?

Thanks in Advanced

Ravi Vare

Outline View - Insert a Sub Document

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 08:40 AM PDT

Hi All,

I am using a document that I have created from a template, in outline view I want to add a sub document (only problem) they have the same headings as it is also from the same template etc... so now when in go to the TOC it also updates the headings in the document I have added as a sub document I only really want to show this as an Appendix, does anybody have any ideas on this, that when I insert this?

Many thanks

How to use/type 'Traditional Division' in word document

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 08:29 AM PDT

Hi Everybody,

How to use 'Traditional Division' in word 2010 document

.

As like follow

Thanks in Advanced,

Ravi Vare

Word 2010 will not stay on Home page as soon as I click on document

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 08:01 AM PDT

Word wont stay as I have it set up on the Home screen. As soon as I click  inside on a new document for example it gives me another ribbon at the top (not the home page )- I tried to customize it as the same as home page , but it not the same width or look.

The home page does come up when I start word, the only way for me to get back it in the doc us to click again on home.Anything I click on, on the ribbon or the document when in home page,  reverts a thinner ribbon with not as many options as the home page- I just want to use the home page as I have it set up-

What do I do?

I do see that control F1 will toggle the display back- but does this keep it permanent?

windows8.1whatmicrosoftwordiscopaable

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT

whatmicrosoftwordneededforwindows8.1

Bug: Page Color not shown in when new window is created

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 07:57 AM PDT

Here is a bug I discovered in Word 2010 14.0.7166 (when programming some macros):

In Print Layout:

1) In Page Layout, set the Page Color to some color

2) In View, create New Window. The new window will not show the page color.

3) If you go back to Page Layout, and click on Page Color, you will see that the page color you chose in 1 is selected. Clicking on this again fixes the problem: the new window shows the page color.

I have not found a way to fix this, to have the effect of 3, within macros, except switching in to Print Preview view, and then switching back. Removing and resetting the value of page color fills, screen refreshes, etc., don't seem to do anything.

Some Office Docs don't open - They open to Office start screen

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 06:43 AM PDT

Hi,

So I have a very strange issue on one of our users laptops. The user is on Windows 7 and is using Office 2013 with Office 365 subscription.

It started with the user attempting to open a Word document from our in house file server. Here is what happens...

When they open the doc the Word load screen starts

  • The Word load screen disappears and then reappears
  • After the load screen has reappeared, Word opens at the start screen where you would select 'Blank document' etc. Therefore document failed to load.
  • This happens with other Office apps like Excel for example

So here is the strange thing. This only happens when files are stored on the file server. If I copy the document to the local desktop it opens fine. The user has full access to these folders on the server (NTFS permissions).

Here is what I have tried and nothing has worked....

  • Office repair - Quick and online
  • Complete Office uninstall using Microsoft fix it, restarting the laptop then re-installing
  • Starting Word in safe mode - It just restarts and goes back to the start screen as normal
  • Renaming / removing Normal.Dotm files etc and renaming the Word 'Data' reg key
  • Adding the users file server credentials into Windows Credential manager
  • Removing recently open files
  • Tried on another computer and the documents open fine

Help please :-)

Missing/blank pages issue

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 06:36 AM PDT

So I was working on a very important document when Word stopped working. I could not do anything. I quickly saved my work, but when I opened the document again, about half of it was inaccessible, the scrollbar showed that pages were still there, but I could not see or access them to recover my work. Word didn't even show blank pages, it was just the background gradient. Also, it was tough to edit the last page before the cutoff, so I couldn't delete the information I could see in hopes that the information on the missing pages would move up into the pages I could see. I even tried to access it through onedrive, but it said there was an issue and forced me to open it in word, which gave me the same problem. There were no earlier versions of the document, since I saved it before I quit. Is there any way to access the information in the missing pages, or recover an earlier version of the document?

page numbering from a specific page

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 06:29 AM PDT

Is there any option in word 2013 to start number pages from a certain page while all the prior pages has no numbers at all?

thank you

Microsoft Office 2013 won't open 0xe06d7363 error.

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 04:31 AM PDT

Whenever I try to open any Microsoft office application it says 

'The application was unable to start correctly (oxe06d7363) Click OK to close the application, can anyone please tell me why this is happening.

Many thanks

Multiple Selection Drop Down Boxes

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 03:17 AM PDT

Is their a way for users to be able to select more than one choice when using drop down boxes eg- Can choose red brown green by just clicking on each.  They will be highlighted during selection and then appear on the form?

why does typing look dimmer when add to a document using word 2013

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 11:05 PM PDT

I have a Church list of names and need to edit it every week.  when I added a name this time to list, the fonts were dimmer than the other writing.  What did I do wrong?

Error in Table of Content page number when click in Print Preview

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 11:01 PM PDT

Hello,

I have a document with a table of content, a list of figures and a list of tables. If I update all the document or table by table, the page number shown is right.

However when I click print preview the page number change to 1 in all the entries for the three tables.

If I saved the document in pdf or I print it the page number is right again although it is shown 1 in all the pages.

Do you know how can I fix it?

Regards

Microsoft Word 2013

Microsoft Windiws 8.1

Search multiple documents

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 10:58 PM PDT

Windows 7 / Office 2010

Is there a facility—Windows or Office—whereby one can search for a keyword in multiple (unopened) Word documents in a given folder?

If yes, please provide details.

Delete a file warning

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 10:16 PM PDT

Where is the dialogue box that asks me if I want to delete the file?

Windows 7 & Word 2002 - documents being erased

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 07:23 PM PDT

Are there any known issues with Word 2002 wiping out documents under Windows 7?  Specifically, my Mom will be typing in a document in Word, and with no warning, the document will become blank.  The file itself becomes empty.

She used the same version of Word for ten years under Windows XP without having this issue.  She has written over 1,000 published pages, so I don't think it's user error.  The problem has now happened several times on her new Windows 7 PC (Dell hardware, purchased in March 2014).  Email and Internet seem to work without any problems.

Any suggestions are welcome.  A new version of Office is not desired because of the learning curve for an 80 year old.  Thanks.  Geoff

Cursor starts half way down

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 06:48 PM PDT

In Word 2013, when I open a new document the cursor starts half way down the page.  The top and bottom margins are set at 1".  I have tried closing and reopening Word.  I have tried rebooting, but  nothing is changing this. I can type, and the text gradually moves up the page as I type, but the cursor always starts half way down the page.  It was not doing this earlier today.

Lock a template

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 06:22 PM PDT

Hi

I am creating a template that users will be able to insert photos text.  How do I lock it so they cannot accidently delete any componants such as the insert image that I have set up in developer tools, I may have several in a page.  I want them to stay where they are not be able to be moved.  Everything I put on the template needs to stay where it is so the user cannot move delete or resize but I still will have sections where they can add their text.

What is the box that shows in place of a space?

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 06:07 PM PDT

I've received a manuscript to format where a number of the spaces between words or at the end of sentences have been replaced by a small box. Can someone tell me what causes this and what it is? See image.

I am working in Word 2010, but I don't know what version initiated the document.

Can't open docm - error message - the name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:37 PM PDT

I have a 2013 word document that is a docm that I can't open and get the error message the name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag. Can any one tell me how to fix this?

Thanks

can't change page colors

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:13 PM PDT

I have a Word 2010 document in which some but not all of the pages are colored.

The document's Page Background color is "no color."

The textbox menu pops up on some of the colored pages so I assume that the whole page must be a text box.  However, the fill is "no color."  How can I get rid of the color?

On other colored pages, no textbox menu pops up.  What could be  controlling the color on those pages is a mystery.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Text not pasting into Word 2013 from outside source (Windows 8.1)

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:26 PM PDT

Hi, 

I recently got a Lenovo u430 with Windows 8.1. I've been having problems with text not pasting into certain programs such as JCreator and Microsoft word. In Word's case, text will paste fine as long as it is copied from within Word, but text copied from any other source will not paste. Ctrl +  V or right-click > paste just does nothing. 

Any ideas as to what could be causing it?