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Microsoft Word - Moving from VBA to C# for developing add-ins to Microsoft Office

Microsoft Word - Moving from VBA to C# for developing add-ins to Microsoft Office

Moving from VBA to C# for developing add-ins to Microsoft Office

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 12:52 PM PDT

I have heard that it is possible to write apps for Word in C# as a replacement for VBA.  I have just spent over an hour going through a bewildering maze of what seems to be conflicting information on the Web.  I see Visual Studio 2010 and 2013, I see Visual Studio Tools for Office, I see Office Interop, I see MSDN, I see .NET 4.5.  But I cannot find a simple roadmap of what to do if I want to move on from VBA. One of the key benefits for me would be to use the more mature Visual Studio as the IDE in place of the built-in VBA editor which is ... flaky ... to say the least.

I would be eternally grateful if someone can tell me if it is possible, what I need, what would I gain/lose and how much it would cost.  I am a retired software developer currently working on a non-profit project with no possibility of any remuneration whatsoever, so I cannot even think of spending thousands of dollars.  Free downloads would be ideal.

I am using Office 2010 currently but may upgrade to 2013 if needed.

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Stop Word 2013 from printing extra page showing statistics

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 12:47 PM PDT

I have not found why Word Pro 2013 is printing an extra page showing the information shown in this image followed by my document.

This does not occur when printing any other content i.e. PDF, test print, internet content. This does not happen when printing in Word Pro 2010.

How do I turn this off for Word Pro 2013?

Need to "undelete" an essay

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 12:25 PM PDT

I have office 365 on iPad mini and my essay in word was deleted by mistake. I need help undoing that mistake please.

thank you

Content Control: Address Book Option?

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 11:51 AM PDT

I'm using content controls to create a form letter.  I would like a field that give the user the option to type in the addressee and address or to choose an address from his/her contacts list.  I can get the Address book into Word on the quick access toolbar.  is there a way to link that to an option in the drop down box?

Thank you.

"Word has run into an error"

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 11:12 AM PDT

hello, so I have had Microsoft Office 2013 for almost a full year and all of my Office programs work except for Word 2013. This is a new error that keeps occurring. Everytime I try to click on the Word icon the message "We're sorry but Word has run into an error that has prevented it from working properly". I have tried literally everything I can to get help with this problem; I have uninstalled and reinstalled Office 2013 over 3 times, I have changed the settings for Office, I have repaired Office and I even called Microsoft Support and spoke to 2 "experts" who could not help. I have also looked at all of these discussions to see if I could find a solution. Although I have read a lot of helpful comments, nothing has worked for me and I really need this program for school. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!

exporting documents new letterhead using batch method

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 09:48 AM PDT

Hi,

We have documents that were "exported" to new letterhead as the company logo changed over the years. This was done by using a macro. Once again the company logo/information has changed and I am being asked to export the information onto new letterhead.

Two parts to my question:

1) As the information was exported from one letterhead to another the versions of MS Office also changed, therefore old codes transferred along with the information. This makes the documents act strange at times. Can we remove old macros or code before transferring the information?

2) What is the best to move the information wholesale (batched) from letterhead to another?

Thanks!

Word 13 Visual Basics Error: The language VBE7INTL.DLL could not be found.

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 09:24 AM PDT

Hello,

everytime I launch Word 13 and try to create a blank document, this VB error pops up. After closing it, it'll come up a few more times, then Windows tells me, that the VB environment couldnt be initiliazed. Afterwards Word doesnt work anymoe.

I think the problem appeared when I installed the german language pack on my Surface.

It's not bc of too little RAM, and I already tried creating a new normal.dotm file, the new one has a little ! in the icon... Um, or does it have sth to do with the .dll file?

Any help would be kindly appreciated :)

Preserving text format when copying and paste special-ing from Excel to Word in Office 2010 Professional Plus

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 09:18 AM PDT

I am trying to copy a fairly complex spreadsheet (one that contains several simple mathematical functions coded into the document -- I mention this in case it might be having some effect on what I'm experiencing) from Excel to Word, but when I do so, the text within the cells is affected ... the spacing between some characters becomes wider, causing other characters to nearly overlap with one another and rendering the text whacky-looking on the whole. I am highlighting and copying the table within Excel, placing my cursor on the destination page in Word, clicking "Paste Special," and selecting "Paste as Microsoft Excel Worksheet Document."

Does anyone have any idea how I can accomplish transferring this table from Excel to Word WITHOUT messing up the text within the cells?

Thanks!

Citing resource from an inserted online picture or video

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 09:05 AM PDT

With the new additions, inserting pictures and videos directly from the Internet (online) is a breeze. How can you automatically have your resources cited in the footnotes or bibliography section on your paper (similar to what Google Docs) does for you?

Will System Restore put my deleted Ms Office applications back?

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 08:26 AM PDT

I have been trying to fix a problem on my computer and as part of it I deleted my MS Office application.  If I do a system restore that I took prior to working on my computer, will it restore my MS Office applications ?

Make spell check ignore partial words followed by a hyphen?

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 08:07 AM PDT

I transcribe audio regularly.  My format requires that I transcribe partial words followed by two hyphens.  The spell check flags every one of these.  Is there a way to get the spell check to ignore them?  I tried adding *-- to the dictionary, but it didn't work.

Thanks.

How To Change Microsoft Word 2013 editable fields default setting. Do not want to have to click "View/Edit Document" to edit fields!

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 06:41 AM PDT

In the older versions of word, when I opened one of our lease documents, which has a text field and check box field, I  used to be able toopen the doc and edit those fields. Now with the new Word 2013, those fields are not editable unless you click "View/Edit Document". Just 2 extra steps but time consuming when you are doing 100's of leases. 

Is there a way in the settings to set it so you can just edit the fields upon opening.  And not have to click "View/Edit Document".

Thank you

Directory name not valid error message

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 06:22 AM PDT

Whenever I start Word 2013 I get this message:


C:\Temp is a directory on my hard drive and I can both read and write to it. 

When I start Word in Safe Mode by holding down CTRL, the error message does not appear. But when I start it normally, the error message comes back.

I have tried deleting my normal.dotx file to let Word recreate it, but that didn't get rid of the error. What else should I check to see where the error comes from?

Word 2013 repair?

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 06:12 AM PDT

Word was working fine u til 2 days ago when it said this: Something went wrong/We couldn't start your program etc......Try repairing from "Programs and Features" on control panel.

Well I can't find this Programs and Features on the control panel............Help.

I did do a restore to previous date and that helped other problems but now this one.

Plus, when it is working it makes me save all my docs to PDF before I print, and when I want to print it keeps asking me to save as PDF when I already have, so it won't print. Suggestions?

I'm not real savvy so simple is better then techie, thanks.

KVL

Merging to Word2013 document with embedded spreadsheet

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 03:28 AM PDT

I am having problems when merging to a word document which has embedded spreadsheets.  This problem has arisen today previously it was working fine.

When the merge has been completed all of the mergefield codes are like this {DATE \@ "d MMM yyyy"} which reverts to the correct information when I toggle the field code.

However the document also has two embedded spreadsheets which show as { EMBED Excel.sheet.12 }.  I can open this document and edit it but cannot get it to display as a table in the word document.  Obviously a setting has changed somewhere but where?

krikirgappa update

Posted: 25 Sep 2014 10:22 PM PDT

I am using Office365 Professional.

All of a suddent, I am getting an additional panel on the top right of my office word program..

It says Kirikirigappa downloader.

How to get rid of this additional downloader toolbar on my word program.

It's happening from the last one week. I assume I got to see this on 18th Sep on my word and still not going off.

I didn't find anything with that name under add-ins.

Creating a drop down box in word 2013

Posted: 25 Sep 2014 06:14 PM PDT

I am trying to create a drop down box in word 2013 - I have searched and it says to go to view > toolbar > forms. But when I go to view I cannot find the toolbar option. I also cant even find a help tab in 2013. Im trying to add this and not very tech savvy - help please!

horizontal pan when editing graphic in Word

Posted: 25 Sep 2014 05:01 PM PDT

Greetings...

Win 7, Office 365, MS Word:

Created new empty doc, creating flowchart-type graphic.

Page=letter, landscape, 1/4" margins all around.

As I add an item to the chart, then try to add/edit text, the graphic slides sideways on the screen to show the left side of the graphic.

Not the part of the graphic I'm working on, the whole other edge of the page, and I can't see the element I was adding!

Arrgh.

This is when I'm zoomed in on the graphic to where the whole page doesn't fit on the screen. Word's window does not seem to be repositioning, so I'm assuming (yeah, ****/u/me) that it's Word and not my display drivers, etc.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Jay

Microsoft Word 2010 - Using calculations in table

Posted: 25 Sep 2014 04:19 PM PDT

Hello,

I am trying to build a formula within a table in Word. Table 1 is where the formula is. Table two is where the information is.

Table 1 - I need to show a % of the following in table 2.

If (table2 c5 = 0, 0, c5/c4)

Word 2010 cannot connect to Outlook 2013 address book for mail merge

Posted: 25 Sep 2014 03:33 PM PDT

I have a problem connecting from Word to the address book.

In the Envelope and Labels window, when looking to mail merge, there is no icon for the address book.  I have attached how it should look but have circled the icons that are missing on the PC in question.

Also, after creating a quick launch icon, it is grayed out.

Machine Specs
Word 2010, Outlook 2013 on a Recent Windows7 PC.

Adding automatic paragraph number also adds strikeout text

Posted: 25 Sep 2014 03:19 PM PDT

I have a document with multi-level lists tied to the built-in heading levels.   I am entering the text in track changes for a client.  When I enter my Heading 2 text, I turn off track changes.  However, even with track changes TURNED OFF, the document enters the previous number as strikeout text in front of the new number (in redline text)!   I tried accepting just that change, but Word ignores it (I'm in Word 2013 and "accept this change" is greyed out; "accept and move to next" just moves to the next line of text without changing anything).   How do I fix that?????

Cannot open a 97-03 Word file in Word 2010

Posted: 25 Sep 2014 03:09 PM PDT

Hello,

I have some very old files that I am now trying to open in Word 2010.  The files were created on an old computer and I had the hard drive contents transferred to this computer years ago.  The Type of file according to the list of files is Microsoft Word 97-2003 Document.  In the same folder I also have duplicates of each file with the addition of ._ at the beginning of each file.  When I double click on the file (without that addition) I get a message saying that: Word was unable to read this document. It may be corrupt.  I tried the Open and Repair feature and it did not work.  I also tried to open in IE and it did not work.  Please let me know how I can open these files.  Much appreciated!

How to put a text over an equation in word 2010?

Posted: 25 Sep 2014 12:06 PM PDT

Hi,
I want to make this formula in Word 2010 in equation tools, but I do not know how insert character "o" up this formula that are shown with red arrows.

I also used Matrix 2*1 from equation tab but it did not exactly same as bellow.