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Microsoft Word - Outlook being used by another program

Outlook being used by another program

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 04:27 PM PDT

I have been trying to mail merge.  I opened only word, no other programs are running after restart.  Set up mail merge again.  Clicked send and nothing happens. I get an error message saying another program s using outlook.  Since it was not open I am confused.  

I have used MS Office for years. I made the mistake of buying a windows 8 machine and office 365.

Any suggestions.

Copying a Chart in Excel 2010 and pasting in Word 2010 as a picture

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 02:10 PM PDT

I have a pivot chart in Excel that has blanks instead of zeros in the data (for Count values). The line graph in Excel 2010 displays these as zero points (yes, I have seen ways to get around this in Excel to display the zeros - I don't have this problem). However when I paste this chart into Word as a 'picture', the image is not what you see in Excel - the zero values/lines are missing, that is the problem. What you see is not what you get when you paste as a 'Picture'!

Simon

2 copies per page multiple pages

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 01:57 PM PDT

Hi,

I have a 365 page document and I want to print 2 copies of it.

I need to print last page first and 2 of the same page per A4 sheet.

I will then have it guillotined and bound.

I am using Word 2003.

How do I do this?

This modification is not allowed because the selection is locked - in Word 2013

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 01:52 PM PDT

I upgraded to Word 2013 recently and am beginning to regret that decision.  Every time I turn around I find something that's broken / has changed / is screwed up when I convert my documents to Word 2013 format.  Here's the latest:

I have a master document that contains 5 linked subdocuments that was converted to '13 format from '10.  I can edit the material in the master doc (title page, front matter) just fine.  When I try to edit anything associated with the subdocs (header or footer on the subdoc pages, for example) I get "This modification is not allowed because the selection is locked".  Any ideas?

Also, is anyone aware of a list of the things that break / need to be re-done when converting docs from '10 to '13?  I'd much rather have a list to refer to than keep stumbling over these things.

Thanks,

Steve

One Click New File Open Default; Suppress Blog Option

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 01:51 PM PDT

When I do a "file -> new" in Word 2007, it opens a page giving me the option to open either a blank word document or a blog post.  I never need a blog post. 

How do I prevent word from offering the blog post option?  When I do a "file -> new" I want word to instantly open a blank word document, with no intervening steps or clicks. 

Word 2013

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 12:51 PM PDT

After a scan a document how do I get it into word where I can change the document and use it as a template.

Strange Open File Behavior

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 12:36 PM PDT

Word 2013 (32 Bit), Windows 7 Professional (64 Bit) Sometimes I want to open a file when I already have one or more files open. Simple enough. But sometimes when I have one file open and attempt to open another by means of the Open File dialog box within Word, the second file doesn't open. But on the Windows Taskbar I can see the first file and a "blank" second file. To get the second file to open sometimes trying again works, other times I have to close the first file. Anyone else have this issue? Any ideas? Thanks.

MS Word 2007 w/Windows 8.1

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 11:18 AM PDT

In the past, when I would copy something for a website, I was able to copy and past the images into my word document. Now with Windows 8.1 I can't paste the images into my documents. I get a box. So is it windows 8.1 or Office 2007 where the problem begins? I do a lot of independent research and need this capability.

Word doesnt open

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 10:31 AM PDT

I have windows 8 laptop with Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013.

When I click on the Word tile it starts to opn but then an error message appears:

Word has run into an error that is preventing it from working properly. Word will need to be closed as a result. It gives the option to 'repair now' but then nothing happens.

Any advice?

Thanks

ImportFragment converting "Continuous" break to "Next Page" break

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 10:02 AM PDT

A fragment .docx document contains a "Continuous" break.  If the target (active) document is not empty or if not using ActiveDocument.Content.ImportFragment, which replaces the whole document content, a "Continuous" break is converted to a "Next Page" break using ImportFragment.  How can I avoid this behavior?

Some footnotes lose their style after joining documents

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 09:42 AM PDT

I have a multi-chapter document. Each chapter is in a separate Word file, and each one is supposed to use the same styles. Each chapter also has more than a 100 footnotes (with reference within text). The footnotes all have the style "Footnote Text"

Before rendering the final document, I join all chapters by inserting a section break and and then Insert -> File.

What happens is that some footnotes (maybe 5 out of more than 100 in a document) lose their style and become Heading 1 or Heading 2. What strange is, that it is usually the "same" footnote text (reference to the same book for example). But if I check the source document, the whole text of that footnote really has the "Footnote Text" style, I don't see even one character from that note having another style.

So what I did was to remove formatting of that note in the source file, re-apply the "Footnote Text" format, and try to re-join the documents. The note in questions then shows up OK, but another note, previously fine in the first join attempt, now has the wrong "Heading 1" style.

At first I thought this might have had something to do with copy paste from another document, with the footnote text somehow "retaining" the style from the file it was copied from, but since it seems to happen to a new note after fixing one, I am a bit lost. Besides, even if the style was retained, I should see something else than "Footnote Text" in the style in the original chapter document, right?

Is this a known problem when joining documents? Am I doing something wrong?

printing issues with office 365 word - HP printer works fine but document will not print duplicate copies

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 09:02 AM PDT

HP has confirmed my printer is okay but Word of 365 will not print duplicate copies

word 2013 file

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 08:57 AM PDT

I get this error  where the document cannot be opened and it says Location Part:/word/document.xml, Line 2, Column 268735

I have found several posts explaining how this could be fixed, but cannot manage By myself.

Is there any one who could help me with this?

Pia

Adapting Multilevel Lists in existing doc.

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 07:33 AM PDT

I have a document that was not formatted and now I am going back through and attempting to format the numbering in case of later need of adding a section. 

The current document has the sections as follows

1.1

    A

       1

       2

    B

      1

      2

1.2 etc. 

Is there an easy way of telling the document that it has a multilevel list so when need be I could, for example, add a section 1.2 after 1.1 and it would change the following sections. 

I am working on Word 2010

print issues from a web based outlook account

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 07:28 AM PDT

I have Office 2013 that functions correctly except when I try to print any attachment.  I get an error message that asks for the product key for office. Even when I enter the correct key I get an error message that states invalid key

Word 2013 - Viewing All Markup causes 55 page document to become a 9 page document and freezes the file

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 07:20 AM PDT

The word file was created by me in house from a template I created. 
It was worked on by three other Word users with versions different than mine. 
Upon return, I open the file and can view everything in No Markup or Simple Markup. 

When switch to All Markup, it turns into a 9 page document and eventually freezes. 

Please Help

TOC shows content instead of heading

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 05:34 AM PDT

Hi,

I have an old DOC file that I needed to make changes. 

I've added a few sections to the file and when I went to update the TOC, the entire TOC changed to the entire content of the file, rather then the heading that i've applied to each paragraph.

Any thoughts why and hat to do?

Thanks a lot in advance

Is there an indicator that the file has unsaved changes?

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 04:48 AM PDT

I've had this document open for a few days, adding a little at every visit to my PC. 

Is there an indicator that I've made changes but not yet saved the changes?

Word 2010: How to paste content without numbered lists being made continous

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 03:45 AM PDT

I have content including documents and sections of documents which I'd like to paste into another document (same template/styles). This content contains multiple numbered lists.

However, when I do, the start of each list is lost and instead of multiple lists, they are now treated as one long list:

1. Apple

2. Orange

3. Pear

Heading 1

1. Dog

2. Cat

3. Pig

Changes to:

1. Apple

2. Orange

3. Pear

Heading 1

4. Dog

5. Cat

6. Pig

Obviously I can re-apply "Restart at 1" but this laborious for a 1,000 page document. Is there an alternative?

P.

Equations have become non-editable “pictures” in Microsoft Word

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 03:41 AM PDT

I am using Microsoft Word 2010 -Windows 7 -32 bits. After opening a previously saved Word file containing  equations (I am using Equation editor ), it is discovered that  some of the equation (formula) have become non-editable pictures.


I know this is associated with the Auto-recovery function in Word and I turned off the Auto-save function in Word, but the issue is not fixed. (I used  Microsoft Word 6 before and  met this error but  after turning off the Auto-save function in Word 6,  the problem is fixed)

Imagine that thesis with hundreds of formula suddenly became  pictures. What's a nightmare!

I do not think that after a lot of years this bug it isn't fixed or can not fix.


Is there any way to safety edit with the formulas and Equation editor ?

Is there any way to recover the formulas?

Could you give me some advices?

Word 0kb files In Windows 8

Posted: 09 Jun 2014 11:02 PM PDT

I have MS office and Windows 8.  I recently upgraded to 8.2. and since this time - every few days my Word gets hung in the auto recovery save.  when this happens - it shows the same autosave message across all open Word documents.  when I save documents when this is happening - it looks like its saving but its saving as an empty file (0 kb).  once I close it - everything I've worked on leading up to the save is lost.  I can recover by crashing Word through the Task Manager.  I had my IT investigate and they reinstalled Word but it didn't work.  do you know what is causing this?

microsoft word prints my documents but the last word on a line which is longer than the page, prints half of the word on the next line

Posted: 09 Jun 2014 08:46 PM PDT

Hi I cant find a setting which allows microsoft word to print the whole last word on the next line, or uses a hyphen mid word.

at the moment my page looks like this when it prints.

"twinkle twinkle little star how I won

der what you are."

snipping tool

Posted: 09 Jun 2014 07:25 PM PDT

The snipping tool reverts to word document every time I try to use it while on the internet.

Just started having trouble this week.  

I am a teacher and use this tool consistently every day.

Help!!

Hyphenation error on although in Word 2013

Posted: 09 Jun 2014 07:14 PM PDT

Word  auto-hyphenates the word "although" improperly. It puts the hyphen between the "t" and the "h".

This frustrating problem apparently existed in Word 2010 as well.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/why-does-word-2010-improperly-hyphenate-although/c07d1788-82f3-47a4-9c06-b7089740e816

How do we get Microsoft to correct bugs like this? Ctl-hyphen is not a solution -- only an occasional workaround. 

MS - don't make it hard to identify and report bugs.  These types of problems need to get fixed!

Section numbers are hidden by a black box in Word Heading Level 1 and 2 only

Posted: 09 Jun 2014 06:52 PM PDT

The heading titles are visible for Heading 1 and 2, but the actual number (to the left) is hidden by a black box.  The other level headings are fine, e.g. both number and title are visible.  This applies to the entire document.  I can't find the Word version # on the document.  It was a template, forwarded to me.

Multiple copies of the same image - how to save space

Posted: 09 Jun 2014 05:10 PM PDT

I've looked at an XML format Word document.

I've put in 1 copy of an image. The file size would be 50KB for example.

If I take the same image and make 10 duplicates in the document and save, then the file size becomes 500KB.

Why??

Why isn't it possible to have one copy and have pointers to the one image copy in other places?

Surely that wouldn't be rocket science to do?

Thanks

Omar

What are the different types of XML document in Word?

Posted: 09 Jun 2014 05:07 PM PDT

I want to create Word documents that are XML format

I've noticed that there's 'strict xml' and just xml

Whats the difference?

I want to create a template document that I can use to create many duplicates by reading in a CSV file

I assume strict is the best format?

Thanks

Omar