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Microsoft Word - Setting up highlighted drop downs (blank and options) after prompts in a Word doc (2013 Home and Student); saving as template

Microsoft Word - Setting up highlighted drop downs (blank and options) after prompts in a Word doc (2013 Home and Student); saving as template

Setting up highlighted drop downs (blank and options) after prompts in a Word doc (2013 Home and Student); saving as template

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 02:05 PM PDT

Please help!

Not a fill-in field or drop down text.  When I click on a given prompt/question on a Word doc in Windows 8, a (highlighted, I think..?) blank space or box should drop down that allows the user to respond.  Would like to save this in template form.  Thanks!

How to change the color of a symbol in Word?

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 01:49 PM PDT

I want to change the color of the Enclosed Alphanumerics of the Font Arial Unicode MS, how can I do so? For example, I inserted the symbol of the M with a circle around it, it is in black and white, but I want to be able to change the color of the M and just the color inside the circle. Can I do this? I tried to copy and paste it into Paint but it changed the symbol to a question mark.

Office error message referring to oart.dll

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 12:33 PM PDT

I have tried repairing office from control (programs and Features) still the message which is popping up is

C:\program files (x86) Microsoft Office\office14\oart.dll is either not designed to run on windows or contains an error.

I cant access outlook or excel either and i am stuck in middle of some important work. please help. thanks maria

[Moderator note: Split from "Word does not work" thread]

Cursor jumping to a random spot in Word document

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 11:10 AM PDT

When cutting and pasting from one document to another, the cursor jumps to the beginning pages of the document I'm trying to paste into.  Is there a fix?

un-protecting a word document

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 09:36 AM PDT

<Moved to Word forum from Windows 7 forum>

How do I un-protect a 2007 word document?

how do I un-protect a 2003 document with word 2007?

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 08:10 AM PDT

<moved from Windows 7 forum to Word 2007>

Am unable to un-protect a 2003 word doc. with word 2007. Cannot find any icons!

Enforcing standardisation of documents

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 07:55 AM PDT

Hi there,

I'm sure this has been asked and answered before, but I searched around for a while and couldn't find the information I need, so thought I'd ask.

I'm running Microsoft Word 2013.

I've been tasked with creating standardised templates for certain corporate documents, and would like to "foolproof" them.

What I mean by that is, making it as difficult as possible to operate outside of the template I create, for example I wouldn't want somebody moving the company logo in the header around because it makes their title fit more conveniently.

I'm aware that it's likely impossible to actually lock the content completely while still making the document editable in places, but how would I go about making sure it's at least difficult?

For example, a report. I might set up a textbox with a heading, and I'd like that heading to remain as it is, format and all, for all eternity.

Or the company logo being in the top right of the document in the header, immune to accidental selection and dragging when somebody's changing the header, or being squished and downsized.

Is there anything I can do? I'm particularly interested in making the logo in the header immovable, that's priority number 1. If anyone could help I'd be very grateful

Microsoft office 2010

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 07:51 AM PDT

I suddenly found my microsoft office used for almost 3 years couldn't be used anymore since early July 2014. Can you help to answer why? How can I re-install this again? Thanks

Chapter page numbering issue

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 07:30 AM PDT

Hi

I am having problems with the page numbering my (large) docment. The numbers follow sequential until I reach chapter 4. The first page still stages 3.1 opposed to going to 4.1.

I have a section break opposed to a continuous section break. This has worked in previous chapters. I have spent over an hour on this :-(

Can anyone help me 

Word 2013 cannot print a specific document

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 03:45 AM PDT

I have recently updated a client to Office 365.  They are happily using Office 2013 but we have a problem with one Word document they get emailed every month.

This one page balance statement will not print in Word 2013.    This happens on any PC with Office 365 Word 2013.  The machines are fully updated.

The document has images in the header and footer.  It has text in the footer as well.

If I remove the header and footer in Word, it still will not print.  It occurs on all 3 of the printers I tried (separate drivers).  

Only if I cut and paste each part (body, header, footer) into Publisher can I then print. (not a solution)

Any ideas how to force Word 2013 to print what Word 2010 prints easily? 

Replace string of words using wildcards

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 02:17 AM PDT

I'm looking for a way to use wildcards to replace a string of words in a long document.  The problem is that while the words are bounded by the same symbols, the words are different each time.


I would like to replace sentences like these:


* 1 * Om Sthirayai Nama - Salutations to Him who is perennial
* 2 * Om Sthanave nama - Who is the axis of the world


so that they look like this:


1 - Salutations to Him who is perennial
2 - Who is the axis of the world


There numbers go up to 1008.  I don't mind if the asterix are kept as long as the words between and including Om and nama are deleted.

Is there a way to do this?  I had a look at a few pages on wildcards but could only find a way to delete different letters within a word.

Thanks

MS Word 2013 - How do you move a table / use the selector to move a table

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 02:04 AM PDT

Hi All,

I swear this cannot be as hard as it seems but I have found nothing after searching other forums and posts...

I am using MS Word 2013 and I cannot move a table.  Whether I create the table using MS word or if I cut and paste one from MS Excel (both 2013 versions) I cannot actually move the table.  That is, the left/right/up/down arrow box you see in the 2010 version does not appear.  So at this point I am pretty much stuck with inserting a table on the left margin and cannot move it around.

So...how do I actually move the table, this seems like such a basic feature and I am struggling for what to do.  Thanks,

Side by Side Error when trying to open 2007 Word and other similar programs

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 10:58 PM PDT

I have encountered a very stressful problem, whenever I attempt to open Word (2007), or Excel I get an error message which says:

"The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail."

I have been combing forums for the past 12 hours and have attempted several suggested fixes, to no avail. Such as those suggested:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-word/side-by-side-configuration-error/5eed4b6e-3662-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5\
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/officeversion_other-office_install/word-2007-will-not-open-it-says-the-side-by-side/5cf5bc15-8ab8-470b-bb99-df26bade6e4f

An attempted system restore was not successful (the restore actually failed and the restore point was not far enough in the past to pre-date the problem).

I attempted to run a sfc scan was suggested in one form (to another user), but this failed at ~77%, with a message which said that it could not perform the process.

Any help would be much appreciated as this has consumed my entire day!

Thank you in advance.

As an update:

Even Viewer states the following:

"MMC could not create the snap-in. The Snap-in might not have been installed correctly.

Name: Event Viewer CLSID: FX:{b05566ad-fe9c-be05-7a4cbb7cb510}"

And my efforts to uninstall and re-install Microsoft Office have been met with the following comment:

"Microsoft Enterprise 2007 uninstall did not complete successfully"

New Office 2013 Crashes Upon Opening

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 10:18 PM PDT

Newly installed Office Home & Student 2013 Word and Excel crashes upon opening with message that I will be notified if a solution is available, with no such notification.  How do I fix this problem?

Mail Merge using data from two different worksheets

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 04:58 PM PDT

I can do a simple mail merge using data from a single Excel worksheet, no problem.  Now I need to create a mail merge doc using data from two different Excel worksheets within a single *.xlsx workfile.  The first worksheet has multiple rows of data with column headings.  The second worksheet has only one cell that I need to print on each mail merged document (it's a specially formatted date).   I can't figure out how to access two different worksheets within a single merge, in other words, pulling merge data from two different sources.  I've hunted thru YouTube and MS and can't see anything that helps.  Thank you for your time.

Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 Word crashes when trying to invoke or create a Macro

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 04:29 PM PDT

When trying to invoke a Macro on a word document I receive a message stating word has encountered a critical error then it closes and reopens.  I have tried to use a earlier document to see if it was just a corrupt file I get the same message and crash.  I tried to create a Macro from scratch and as soon as I click the Macro button it crashes.  I have tried setting macro security button to the lowest setting no help.  I have tried using the restore feature on the control panel still cannot repair.  I am a transcriber and Macros save a ton of time please help.

Japanese Font Problems - Microsoft Word

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 04:29 PM PDT

Okay. So I am a Japanese major so a LOT of my typing happens in Japanese. For regular paper MS Mincho is fine, but I normally like to use SimSun when I am reading it as a personal preference. The only problem is that now that I am using Word, it apparently thinks I'm three years old and can't choose my own font. I changed the default theme, changed the styles, AND tried directly changing the font to SimSun but as soon as I start typing it changes back to MS Mincho EVEN THOUGH THE THEME IS SAYING THE DEFAULT IS SIMSUN. Honestly it's not THAT big of a deal, but it is crazy irritating and the fact that I cannot simply change the font (like in Word 2003 or *cough* LibreOffice) is enough to **** me off. Before I throw my computer out of the window, is there another solution I can try? Thank you.

create "help" text in MS Word

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 04:10 PM PDT

How do I create a simple text box pop in MS-Word that would display when I click on a hyperlink. The screen tip shows but is limited to 256 characters. I want my "help" text box to show more than 256 characters.

I want to print in the smaller type size that I have entered on the file but when I print to comes out as the standard size. How do I get it to print in the smaller sizw?

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 03:26 PM PDT

I want to print in the smaller type size that I have entered on the file but when I print to comes out as the standard size. How do I get it to print in the smaller size?