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Microsoft Word - Changing bullet and number defaults

Changing bullet and number defaults

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 02:50 PM PDT

I have tried the "Cntl-Shft-S" option and always crash Word and selecting "modify"

Went to blank document (the only one open), Home-->Paragraph Dialog Box --> made desired change, selected "Set as Default" for all documents.  It doesn't take!!!  Every time I have a bullet list with indented bullets, the setting changes to enable "Don't accept space ...".  I've tried several slightly different approaches but nothing works.  

This is a major annoyance since I use lots and lots of lists with bullets and indents!!!  SUggestions?

Microsoft Office 2013

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 02:44 PM PDT

This is similar to what is happening to many others.  

Last night I turned on my computer and went to open Excel and received the following message


Something went wrong

We couldn't start your program.  Please try it again.

If it won't start, try repairing Office from "Programs and Features" in the Control Panel

I tried the control panel fix and it did not work.  

I have started my computer again this morning but am still encountering the same problem. 

Unable to update Microsoft Office Home Student 2013

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 02:21 PM PDT

Hi,

Hoping someone can help me out here because I'm finding this really frustrating.

I recently purchased Microsoft Office Home Student 2013 and installed via the Office website. Problem is, using this method corrupts my menus. Shame really because I like the idea of having the latest version deployed when I go to install.

So, with corrupt menus, I tried installing the IMG file which I downloaded through the Office website. I mounted this in Windows 8.1, installed and my menu issue was resolved. Problem with this is, no matter what method I try (and I've went through a lot of possible fixes suggested by various websites), I cannot get Office to update. I've tried disabling/enabling updates, tried Microsoft's suggestion of running a fix, tried re-installing and some other stuff; all without success.

Anyone any experience of this issue that could maybe offer me a solution?

Regards,
FF

Embedded fonts in template dotx strange behaviour

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 11:01 AM PDT

Hi,

I have a dotx template document in which a font is embedded. This font is not installed on the computer which is why it is embedded. I do not understand how Word handles it because I have two different behaviors. I can reproduce the problem on Word 2007 and 2010 (don't have any other version). The dotx file is on my desktop.

  • CASE1: I double click the file which opens a new document docx based on the template. The font embedded is displayed in the Home > Font drop down. However the font is not applied in the document and seems to be replaced by one supposed to be similar.
  • CASE2: Right click on the document and then select open which opens the template itself and do no create a document.
    • The font embedded is displayed in the Home > Font drop down AND the font is applied in the template. 
    • I then do a "Save as" word document (docx) and the the document has the correct font used.

I do not understand why the font is not applied in CASE 1 even. This is not a show stopper as we can use the document instead of the template but I am worried this hides something else.

Any idea ?

Thanks in advance

word 2013-i changed default line spacing but it will not hold

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 10:58 AM PDT

I want to change line spacing default in word 2013 to single space.  I followed all instructions but setting will not hold.   I looked at many sites as well as

http://www.word-2013-tutorials.com/what-is-normal-dotm/ but single space setting will not hold.  Please advise.  Thank you.

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Posted: 15 Jul 2014 10:48 AM PDT

I purchased Microsoft word on July 9th and I actually used it. I have 2 documents, but I cannot find it again. It's word symbol is still on my toolbar, but It's not working.

Transfer a Numbered List format into a Style

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 10:22 AM PDT

How do I take a defined multi level list of numbers and change it into a style?

There is NO way I can find to start a 'blank' style and then add the numbering so I used the multi level list numbers.

Ultimately I want to 'secure' the template so no stray code enters.  In a test, the multi level numbering button is grayed out.

pep1HybridEliptical

Dropdown Box to Populate table

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 10:18 AM PDT

Hi All, 

I am looking for a way to populate a table, with many fields with text, based on what option I select from a drop down list. 

For example, I have 8 different types of services, and when I click on one, I want a table to populate these fields based on what I clicked on. 

I am relatively inexperienced with everything and I want to know how this can work, or if there is an example anywhere. 

Thanks

Automatic links are not updating

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 10:09 AM PDT

Hi, I have a few word documents with links (paste spesh...paste-link) from an Excel file. On my machine it all works well, on my colleagues, it doesn't!

This isn't a newbie question, I have correctly changed the source to reflect the file location on his machine, and I have checked the setting in Options...advanced...general.

And if I select all and click F9 - it all works correctly, but it won't update automatically when I open it.

Any ideas?  I'm stumped!

Thanks

M

Microsoft update bug that deletes Word from computers

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 09:14 AM PDT

My last automatic update deleted Word and Explorer from my computer.  I wasn't concerned about Explorer, but I needed Word.  I had installed Microsoft Office last year, and the rest of the program was still there; but when I tried to open my documents, I would get the error message "sorry, something went wrong and word was unable to start (24)".  In looking at online posts about this error message I've found that the same thing has happened to other people.  None of them received any solutions from the Microsoft team, despite trying various fixes.  This software is not cheap; so, for Microsoft to accidentally delete it from someone's computer, and then not offer a solution, is pretty frustrating.  The only option seems to be re-installing Office using the product key, but what about those of us who have misplaced our keys?  I bought the software a year ago.  I've been looking for the key and can't find it.  I tried to fix the problem using system restore, quick repair, and then online repair.  I didn't realize that when I clicked on "online repair," it would uninstall and re-install the software.  So now I have access to Word, but only for 6 days, and if I can't find my product key by then Word will be inoperable.
So, what do I do now?  And what is Microsoft doing to fix this bug?

Trouble with bookmarks and formulas in MS Word 2010

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 08:14 AM PDT

I work for a research institution in the finance department, specifically in the  3rd party funding department.  I am responsible for a very large project

which has 16 external partners.  Each partner must prepare a proof for our financial backer showing how the funds were spent.  The form must be sent to all of our partners.  The problem is neither Excel nor Word are exactly suited to our needs.  The form has a lot of text (think a tax form).  The form must fit on standard sized paper and have different sized tables on one sheet (which is why I can't use excel, no merging cells won't work as it won't make standard sized tables).  So when I try to set up a table in Word I keep having the following problems:
1) The table won't calculate correctly.  I get a "syntax error".  What's extra frustrating is sometimes it works, some times I get the error.  It's really irritating. 

2).  When I try to transfer data from one table to another, I set up a formula and reference a bookmark.  Then randomly Word deletes the bookmarks?  That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

I am seriously at my rope's end.  I need to know how to set up a document in excel on a standard size piece of paper that would look something like this:

Table 1: 3x4

Table 2: 5x4

Table 3 4x4

Table4 8x18

Table 5 8x18

Or tell me how to set it up in word so that the formulas don't screw up at random, the table auto calculates (a macro would be super), and for Christ's sake the bookmarks don't disappear on me.  Seriously microsoft you find ways to make my blood pressure rise every day.

All Office 2010 applications Crash while trying to print

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 08:08 AM PDT

I am having a similar problem with my MS Office 2010 programs (PPT, Excel, Word) not being able to print.  I can print from other applications.

I have tried the suggested fix of changing the default printer to MSFT XPS, but whenever I try to print from Office, the program goes to (Not Responding) and stays that way forever, until it kill it.

The process I'm trying to use is File > Print (button) but no dialog box ever shows up to allow choice of printer.

Split from Original:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/all-office-2013-applications-crash-while-trying-to/372b6f49-1349-4b5a-be1f-644b6a1ce52b

Word 2010 - fillable form

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 07:44 AM PDT

I have created a word 2010 form (picture below). I want the user to be able to enter text within the text box and have the text box resize to fit as much text as they put in. I have selected the Autofit selection and can get the text box to resize, but I need the text below to move down accordingly. Can someone tell me how I get that to happen.

Thanks,

Ginny

Text labels for fields in Word 2010

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 07:26 AM PDT

Rather than leaving a blank space in a document template where the field result will go (and rather than having the full field code show up in the document) I want to be able to place a label in the text, eg [client name will go here], that will be replaced with the field result when the field is updated. I know this can be done as I can see it in use in other document template being used in the company I work for, but those other templates were created for us by a third party and I have no idea how they did this. Any suggestions?

Paragraph replacement works not as expected in Find and Replace

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 06:22 AM PDT

Hello!

I wanted to make super-fast text formatting, but got some difficulties and now can't solve them. I've found some articles I needed, worked with them in plain text editor and separated titles with additional line break beween previous and next paragraphs.

Then I tryed to use find with following expression:
(^13^13)([!^13]@)(^13^13)
and replace with following:
\2 (also, I wanted it to be formated as Header 1) I realised that previous and next paragraphs also turn out to be headers.

I didn't loose my optimistic attitude at that moment and decided first to replace what I wanted with ^13^&^13. Finally when I again tried to use formatting I got everything the way it was before, but with additional paragraph breaks. That was surprising. Finally, when I opened the Outline view, I realised, that added by Find&Replace paragraph breaks do not work like the independent paragraph, but like the manual line break.

Could you please tell me, how I can cope with the situation?

Beforehand thank you.

Office 2013 right-click menu weirdness

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 05:45 AM PDT

I've just installed Microsoft Office 2013 and have noticed something strange with the right-click menus in all applications (see above). I've disabled hardware acceleration to see if that would rid the little lines coming out from the top and bottom of the right- click menus. 

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Thommo14

Bullets formatted differently on first page (2013)

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 05:28 AM PDT

I created a document that has multiple levels of bullets/numbers. For some reason, the formatting of the bullet/numbering is different on the first page only. I look at the paragraph settings and it appears to be the same; however the spacing between the bullets/numbers and the words is clearly different on the first page than the rest of the document. 

Numbering highlighting

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 04:17 AM PDT

Somehow Word came with the idea to highlight 1st level numbering using black color.

How can I change the highlight color of numbering? I cannot find that option in the Font dialog...

Thanks,

Jan

When saving a specific document, Word 2013 won't let me, saying it's "locked for editing by another user".

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 02:29 AM PDT

Every time I open and edit one particular document (although it has happened on other documents as well, though not frequently), and I edit it, when I save it, Word says it's "locked for editing by another user" -I'm the only user/editor of the document. It also lets me "know" when the document will be available for editing, meaning, when the other "user" (which is me!) will stop editing. But it never happens; the document is always "locked for editing by another user".

So the only way around I found is saving the document with another name (namely, I only add a character of the alphabet to the end of the name). But the problem resurfaces every time I open the "new" document, having to save it again with another name (that is, changing the last character with a different character of the alphabet, the next in line). Afterwards I delete the "old" document. But the problem persists over and over again, every time.

How can I stop this cycle? How can I keep the document not-locked for editing for the next time I open it?

Thanks for your help.

mail merge source data from excel ,dialog issue in Word 2010, after Windos updates

Posted: 15 Jul 2014 12:44 AM PDT

hello,

I was used mail merge from Word 2010 to create some test forms.

It was working till the windows make the new update in date :11.07.2014.

Now I am not able to choose different source data from excel. the Browse.... dialog its not working any more. Another problem is with the Save As... dialog..

I am using Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2010.

Thank you in advance.

Ion

Insert Citation Gallery Macro

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 10:33 PM PDT

Hey guys,

I've been trying to make the 'Insert Citation' galley popup for the user to make a selection through the use of a macro,

Problem is, try as I may I cannot get the darn thing to open up or produce any response.
The code I currently have is the following:

    CommandBars.FindControl(ID:=384).Execute

Which, unfortunately gives a RunTime Error '91'

(It is of note also that simply running the 'InsertCitation' Command from the 'Word Commands' menu in Macros produces no result either)

Additionally there doesn't seem to be any 'InsertCitation' or 'CitationInsert' Object when searching though the Object database in VB.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

-Tristan

Use a CommandButton to Add a New Row to Word Form

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 10:18 PM PDT

I am trying to use a command button within my Word template to execute a macros that will add a new row to a table (13 columns, each cell has a content control).

I've used the code found here: http://www.gmayor.com/word_vba_examples_2.htm

However, I'm receiving an error when I test the button (runtime error 5941). When I debug, it's highlighting the following line as the error:  Set oTable = Selection.Tables(1)

Any suggestions on how to fix the code for my use case?

  

ERROR MESSAGE: Something went wrong

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 10:03 PM PDT

I keep getting an error message that something went wrong when I try to open my Word Documents....Can I please be advised how to fix this error as I am unable to open my important documents.

Office 2013- Something went wrong- I've been unable to open/start Office 2013 since 7/13

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 09:34 PM PDT

I have not been able to use Office 2013 since 7/13. Not sure when the problem started , since I had not used it for a few days. On 7/13

 and 7/14 I saw numerous posts from people with similar problems, some advising that this is also a problem in Europe. Have not found a good solution. Tried system restore back to 6/30/14. NG. Saw a post saying that updates on 7/10 were the problem and advising to uninstall  them and disable automatic updates. Did that, but many of the 7/10 updates kept reinstalling by themselves. Also saw a message from a Microsoft Moderator asking each person with a problem to start a separate thread in order to get a private, individual response, which is why I'm writing.

What's the problem and, most importantly, what's the solution.

NsMVH

Keyboard shortcuts refuse to die when told

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 09:25 PM PDT

Hi folks. I have an .dotm add-in containing about 20 macros. It also contains two other macros that let my users enable or disable a set of keyboard shortcuts for these macros as needed -- that is, only in specific documents. (The shortcuts commandeer some commonly used built-in key combinations, so I want them enabled only when a user explicitly allows it.)  I've done this successfully before. But on this file, for some reason, merely loading the add-in enables the shortcuts -- in all documents.

 

I've confirmed via the Customize Keyboard dialog that these shortcuts are *not* enabled in the .dotm itself, but I've also explicitly disabled them via code just in case. I've unloaded all other add-ins and had Word rebuild the Normal template to verify they're not hiding there either. I'm sure they're living in the add-in somewhere. (When I unload it, they go away.)

What could be causing this?? There are no automacros in the file, and the shortcut-enabling macro (see below) isn't called by any other macro. All shortcuts are set with the Customization Context shown, the active document. (not Normal or ThisDoc).

 

Sub KM1(mac, k1)
CustomizationContext = ActiveDocument
KeyBindings.Add KeyCode:=BuildKeyCode(k1), _
   KeyCategory:=wdKeyCategoryMacro, Command:=mac
End Sub

 

Sub KM2(mac, k1, k2)
CustomizationContext = ActiveDocument
KeyBindings.Add KeyCode:=BuildKeyCode(k1, k2), _
   KeyCategory:=wdKeyCategoryMacro, Command:=mac
End Sub

 

Sub EnableShortcuts
KM1 "LengthenLine", wdKeyF4
KM1 "ShortenLine", wdKeyF5
[...and so on...]
KM2 "SelectPrevPair", wdKeyControl, wdKeyF4
KM2 "SelectNextPair", wdKeyControl, wdKeyF5
[...and so on...]

 

Thanks for any clues.

Mark

Office 2013 Something Wrong

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 08:08 PM PDT

It appears I will be downloading Open Office....it is free and it works. Thanks for failing Microsoft. I am not risking the uninstall and reinstall based on others in this forum saying they had issues doing so.

Converting objects into contiguous file

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 07:55 PM PDT

Greetings,

I opened a one-page file, then attached a succession of one-page files to it. What I got was a series of objects that want to edit in individual files, on top of which, the last object in the file shows me two pages when I edit it, but only the first page when I view the concatenated file. What I want is one contiguous file that has no objects in it. But I can't find a way to convert the separate objects into what amounts to running text. And I can't see that last page in the concatenated file. Any way to do this? Thanks one and all.

DOCX files do not have thumbnails, BUT some DOCX files do have their thumbnails

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 07:32 PM PDT

I have a problem where thumbnails for some DOCX files are not showing.

I have found that unless those DOCX files without thumbnails are opened, then saved as using the DOC extension, and then opened again to be saved now as DOCX, then the DOCX thumbnails work.

All other thumbnails (such as DOC, PPT, etc.) are working. Even PDF!

Actually, I just found out that DOC files converted to DOCX using the CONVERT button on the WORD 2010 SAVE Menu (to be sure, it's the button that to its right shows the following: COMPATIBILITY MODE. Some new features are disabled...) does not seem to create thumbnails. And definitely windows explorer does not show the thumbnails for files converted using this feature.

Furthermore, when you open a DOC file and save it using the SAVE AS menu to change the DOC extension to DOCX, then the thumbnails work.

In Excel we find a slightly different behavior, when XLSX thumbnails don't show, it's a matter of simply using the SAVE AS XLSX on the same file, and once it's saved, the thumbnail works. This does not happen in Word.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Luis Puente

Creating Keyboard Shortcuts in Word 2013

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 06:16 PM PDT

I would appreciate help in creating keyboard shortcuts in Word 2013, as part of Office Professional Plus 2013. Specifically, I'd like to create a shortcut to access the AutoCorrect box, but can't find information on creating shortcuts for items in the Options dialog box. Any suggestions on how to do it or where to look for instructions?

Thanks!

Microsoft Office 2010

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 05:59 PM PDT

Can`t open Word Program keep getting a Pop up in red that tells me  SOMETHING WENT WRONG.  Can Microsoft tell me how to fix this. I understand that today 15th July this is happening to a lot of other people.

I get message "can't connect to Wikipedia"

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 05:42 PM PDT

When I try to get a definition or additional data in Word 13, I get a message that reads something like. System can't connect to server due to my settings. Anyone know about this?

Please....

Thank you in advance.

Strange reaction to uploading word document to website

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 05:39 PM PDT

When I try to upload a DOTX to a website I get

The upload goes okay - But what is the dialog about?

Macro not working in Word 2003

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 05:10 PM PDT

I found a macro to convert text boxes to regular text, but it isn't working.  Please tell me what needs to be fixed with it.  Don't know Visual Basic. 

Sub ExtractTextBoxes()

Dim NoStyle As Boolean

Dim aStyle As Style

Dim aShape As Shape

Dim i As Integer

'Check for "OnceABox" character style

NoStyle = True

For Each aStyle In ActiveDocument.Styles

If aStyle.NameLocal = "OnceABox" Then

NoStyle = False

Exit For

End If

Next aStyle

'If necessary, create "OnceABox"

'character style

If NoStyle Then

ActiveDocument.Styles.Add Name:="OnceABox", _

Type:=wdStyleTypeCharacter

With ActiveDocument.Styles("OnceABox").Font

.Color = wdColorRed

End With

End If

'Style textboxes and convert to frames

For Each aShape In ActiveDocument.Shapes

If aShape.Type = msoTextBox Then

i = i + 1

aShape.Select

aShape.ConvertToFrame

Selection.Style = _

ActiveDocument.Styles("OnceABox")

End If

Next

'Clean and delete frames

For i = ActiveDocument.Frames.Count _

To 1 Step -1

With ActiveDocument.Frames(i)

.Borders.Enable = False

With .Shading

.Texture = wdTextureNone

.ForegroundPatternColor = _

wdColorAutomatic

.BackgroundPatternColor = _

wdColorAutomatic

End With

.Delete

End With

Next

End Sub

Windows update crashes Microsoft Office

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 05:06 PM PDT

Like thousands of other users, I can no longer utilize any of my Office Suite, since the update. Don't know how to fix, did a restore, etc., etc. I have documents I desperately need to access. What is the fix?

docx files don't have word icon

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 05:02 PM PDT

I recently re-installed a copy of Microsoft 2003 Professional edition, which I've been using for years, and noticed that all of the my Word 2007 .docx icons are displayed as white rectangle rather than Word icon. All Word 2003 format documents have correct icon and any .docx I open and save as .doc showup with the correct Word 2003 icon.

How can I go about resolving the issue of white rectangles?

Thanks,

Qbert123

Microsoft office 2013 not working.....

Posted: 14 Jul 2014 03:58 PM PDT

Like so many other people on here my microsoft office has completely stopped working, i can not access any of my saved documents which i need for work, and can not open up anything to make a new document. I have updated windows as i was told to do and have tried restarting it but nothing has worked, it just keeps coming up with "something went wrong" but when i try the fix it option nothing happens, extremely frusturated and very behind on my work!!