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Microsoft Word - MS Word 2013 - Open Document and Resume at Last Known Location

MS Word 2013 - Open Document and Resume at Last Known Location

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 02:39 PM PDT

- Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit

- Office 365 with Word 2013 (64 bit) installed on local desktop computer

Until recently, when I opened a prior document, there would be a small bubble or prompt in the bottom right hand corner of the screen allowing me to resume at my last known location in the document. I found this feature very helpful.

Now, when I open my large document, there is no prompt or bubble allowing me to easily resume where I left off in the document.

How can I turn this helpful feature back on again? And, if someone knows how it was turned off, I'd like to know that, too, so that I can avoid turning it off in the future.

Changing Reviewer name on Word for iPad

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 01:49 PM PDT

How can I change *my* reviewer name (e.g. when I add a new note under "REVIEW") without having to log to my Microsoft online account and changing my display name there? It seems such a hassle to have to do that. The reason I need to change the name is because I am submitting an anonymous review on some papers. Other papers I do not need to be anonymous and can use my full name. Is there *any* way I can do this on the iPad without having to log in to the Microsoft account every time? Thanks for your help.

Mail Merge Spacing issue in conditional bookmark

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 12:53 PM PDT

s there a way to suppress spacing between two conditional bookmarks, in case the condition does not satisfy the given logic?

 

Eg:  Logic is "Eligible" is yes then print "Description" else blank, so issue is if "Eligible" is no then and it leaves the blank space which needs to be removed.

So how can we create condition which doesn't leave blank spaces if condition is not applicable? 

 

I am using MS word 2010

Name Eligible Description
India No India (i/ˈɪndiə/), officially the Republic of India (Bhārat Ganarājya),[12][c] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west;
India Yes Home to the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history.[13] Four world religions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism—originated here, whereas Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam arrived in the 1st millennium CE and also helped shape the region's diverse culture.
India No The Indian economy is the world's tenth-largest by nominal GDP and third-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).[14] Followingmarket-based economic reforms in 1991, India became one of the fastest-growing major economies; it is considered a newly industrialised country.

Word2013 wont open after update

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 12:43 PM PDT

I recently allowed automatic updates on my laptop (Office 2013 on Windows 8.1) and afterwards, when clicking on Word, I received a pop up saying that the shortcut "word.exe" would no longer work because it had moved/changed (same for powerpoint and excel). Right-clicking and opening the containing folder (office 2013) only had the shortcuts that no longer worked.

When using Explore, I could only find a new folder "Office 15" but nothing works from there.

Any suggestions to get my Word back (uninstall office 15 or revert back to 13???)? I'm a writer/journalist and need it for work.

Thanks!!!

Numbering restarts not working

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 11:19 AM PDT

Split from this thread.

I have numbered titles and numbered lists within. I modified the inner list indents by applying a new style with a custom indent of "0-left".

Word is not restarting the list after every main "Title 1", so I tried resetting numbering from context menu.

And then **** starts. It restarts numbering, but also resets my custom indent only that paragraph!

- Reapplying my custom style do not fix it, I don't know why.

- If I change it to normal and apply it again, OR if I use copy/paste format, it "works", but numbering is set to continue and I have to reset it again and indenting is changed again... chicken or egg.

So I get something like this

I.         Introduccion

    1 Par one, ok

    2 Par 2, Ok

    3 Par 3, Ok     

II.       Purpose

      1 Problem here with "Default" indent

    2 Par ok

    3 Par ok

Is a bad bug. I am very disappointed. Every day working with Office 2013 I spend more and more time trying to work than actually working. And when you crash into something like this you feel very frustrated. I should never moved out of Office 2010.

I would report it as a bug. Is there a place to do so?

Thanks for any suggestion,

AutoComplete Date dodgy in Word 2007

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 11:15 AM PDT

Sometimes in the same document Word 2007 will complete a date -- the day of the week completes, and then a comma and a month completes the entire date to the year.  And sometimes I have tried to type in a date not the day I am typing and it didn't work, so I am careful about that.

I cannot for the life of me find the autocomplete format options.  I have drilled down to auto correct options where the trail grew cold.  I know they must be somewhere, as there are so many ways to format date.  Where are they?  And why do you think the feature is intermittent within the same document?  It utilizes a saved "template" [ie a docx not a dotx file] which has always worked with autocomplete date. 

How do I wrap text around a clip art picture using Word Office?

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 10:10 AM PDT

I just recently purchased Office 365. I have been using Word a lot for school and now for my computer class I have to write a paragraph, insert clip art and wrap the text around the picture. I have checked YouTube videos on how to to do this, but I don't see the wrap text option when I click on the image, click on format under picture tools as in the video tutorial. I see the option to change the picture size and a couple other options but the wrap text option isn't there so it seems. The YouTube video tutorial was for Word 2007, Word office is a little bit different. Where is the wrap text option in Word Office? Thanks for your response.

Trusted Publishers in Microsoft Word 2013 Expired

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 09:58 AM PDT

Hello,

My job has recently upgraded to Office 2013 and one of my coworkers noticed that both of the Trusted Publishers in the Trust Center are expired (see screenshot). Will this cause any sort of security issues for users?

DDE Issue with Mail Merge Using Word & Excel 2013

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 08:57 AM PDT

Once I upgraded to 2013 I am unable to complete a mail merge. I get an error message that the DDE Link failed and then a box comes up with an option to use OLDB. I select show all options and then select Microsoft Excel using DDE but then the fields don't come over properly & it will only show 6 columns of fields so if I have more than that I'm out of luck. If I get on a colleague's computer I can complete the merge fine (they're on 2010) but this isn't an option for me because I use mail merge all the time. I read another thread that suggested un-checking the box under Excel options that says "Ignore Other Applications that require DDE" but that box was already unchecked.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks, Yvette

Numeric Picture Switch (\#) Issue

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 08:53 AM PDT

Hi,

I am trying to add four numeric picture switches (\#) to mail merge fields in Word. Specifically I need to remove the decimal places. The code I am using is "{MERGEFIELD M_1109 \# $,0}" When I add the switch to the end of two mergefields all works as needed. When I add the switch to three mergefields they all break with an error saying the data source could not be found. (The two that work are interchangeable between the three.) And the fourth mergefield never works with the switch.

Any ideas?

Thank you!!

Embed an Excel Document in Word

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 08:40 AM PDT

I have an excel document that I need to embed in Word.  Once embedded the excel document is too large to fit on one page, I have resized and it becomes illegible.  Is there a way to embed the document so that it is tow separate pages of the Word document?

Thank you

Editing a Document with Pictures and Text

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 06:54 AM PDT

I had a PDF document that converted to a word document which has many Graphics and Text.

I need to understand how I can as I want to

  • Make the graphics smaller and align the text accordingly to the graphics in the original document.
  • I have also tried to cut and paste it into a new document but the writing and graphics still do not align

If anyone can help me I would really appreciate it as it must be at least 12 years since I last used Microfoft so I have forgotten a lot but can nt finfd the answer when enter to search engine

  • how to move pictures and words from a word document in outlook 2007

Many Thanks

H

Office Help: the filename,directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 06:53 AM PDT

I just reformatted my HD and reinstalled Windows 8.1 and Office 2013 but have the same problem I had before.  When I use one of the help screens in any Office 2013 program and click on a video Notepad opens and I get the message: "the filename,directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."

Why are my Word documents opening blank?

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 06:43 AM PDT

Documents frequently open blank in Word 2007, even though they contain content.  To be sure they have content, I can right-click, and convert/view as PDF and see the content.  It may be that these documents are from "untrusted" sources, even though I am the author of most.

In the trust center, I have configured the places I store documents to be trusted locations.  However even if I place one of these documents into a trusted location, it still comes up blank.  That makes me think that the document itself is considered untrusted.

I have found that for some of these documents, opening them from within Word may cause the content to appear, while double-clicking the same document from the OS results in Word treating it as a blank document.

What is maddening is that the blank documents give no indication of why they're blank and no option to view the content.  It is as if Word does not know how to read Word documents.

I've run the online troubleshooter/inspector/fixer but it was no help.

I'd appreciate any advice.

Thanks!

Change Spelling Errors into Bold Font Automatically

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 05:46 AM PDT

I have some documents with spelling errors.  Word automatically places a jagged underline under each of the misspellings.  I manually locate each of these errors and change the font of the bad word to Bold.  

This manual process is error-prone.  Is there any way, using a macro, to automate the detection and font change??

If it matters, I am using Word 2007 under Windows 7. 

insert arc symbol

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 04:52 AM PDT

hello  i  want to  know if  i  can  insert  the  arc  symbol  in  a  doc  with  keyboard(without  equation  from  word)

Custom styles in multiple documents

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 04:52 AM PDT

I am in the process of writing a large document and want to have separate chapters in separate documents that are all formatted the same. On top of this I already have some chapters from a previous document that I want to copy and paste in to their own chapter documents, these also need to be changed to conform with the new formatting.

I am having a nightmare trying to get all of the formatting the same across documents, trying to save style sets and themes etc. to no real avail as the styles refuse to update when I try and load a theme or style set in a different document.

So, can someone step me through, from scratch, how to get all of my custom styles, numbering and all in to every document I want.

As an example; The image below shows a custom style selection

Image

How do I make it so this style appears for Heading 1 in every document I wish.

Many Thanks

Scott

Word 2003, annoying (Latin) next to style types

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 04:27 AM PDT

Yesterday windows 7 was loaded on my work PC with Word 2003.  I am finding it highly annoying that at the top of the page, to the L of the font type (style) it lists the style name as '(Latin) Arial' and all the style formats have '(Latin)' before them.   Is there anything I can do to get rid of that?

I guess it is something to do with languages, pointing out that it is Latin as opposed to Asian for example?

Many thanks

DM

word 2013 AUTO filling from a dropdown list

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 02:48 AM PDT

Hi,

Problem - Word 2013 I've added a dropdown list from the Developer tab (lets say it has the number 1 - 6 in it). I would like my selection of '3' to appear in a sentence later in the document.

I have seen repsonses on the internet and in the MS community to press Ctrl 9 and add something inside the brackets, including question of legacy for the drop down, also VB coding.....I am confused.

HELP - I would like an easy to follow answer please. What do I do next? I have my dropdown list created from the developer tap with numbers 1-6. My sentence might state - I have '3' cats. How do I get the '3' to auto fill in my sentence from the Dropdown list? Other questions that might help to solve it. My document is saved as a docx.

Should my document be created in 'Dotm' or is ",docx" ok to use.?... maybe I need to restrict editing in the document?

Many thanks

insert online picture

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 12:39 AM PDT

Dear Support community

In Word 2013, when i go to insert online picture, it says:

"Sorry we are having some temporary  server issues"

i have checked that i am definitely connected to the internet and that my office is allowed to connect to the internet. please advise what i could do to solve the issue

Many thanks

Word 2010 cannot open file on Terminal Server Session

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 11:43 PM PDT

We have a domain of 100+ W7 clients and 2x 2012 R2 servers, one is a terminal server.

This problem occurs for one user only (afaik).

The user can open her files on any client, but opening on the TS fails with this:

Microsoft Word
Word experienced an error trying to open the file.
Try these suggestions.
* Check the file permissions for the document or drive.
* Make sure there is sufficient free memory and disk space.
* Open the file with the Text Recovery converter.
 (P:\Fried Rice.docx)
P1: 200494
P2: 14.0.7015.1000
P3: 5aey
P4: 0x80070002

She can create new Word files and save them in the same folder without problem, and reopen them.

But the problem persists for existing files. The file protection looks OK.

As Administrator, I can open her files using the Terminal Server.

I gave her (very!) temporary admin status but this made no difference.

The above is pasted from the event log, and a similar message appears in her session.

Other Office programs show similar symptoms, but non-office files open OK (images etc)

I discovered that her profile was damaged a few weeks ago, and deleted it so that a new one was created. We have folder redirection and roaming profiles. Hers is similar to all the others (or should be!)

Suggestions please!

Saving a docx file as a PDF came out almost twice as large

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 09:00 PM PDT

Saving a docx file as a PDF came out almost twice as large.  Why is that?  Usually I find PDFs to be smaller.

I was posting a link to the document from our website.  I didn't want to use a docx file because not everyone would be able to read it.

Is there another options?

Tools drop down box in the Save as window

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 08:44 PM PDT

I am currently doing schooling, and using microsoft office plus 2013. In my booklet it goes into saving files wth a password attached, I know I can do this through the info option on the file page, but the booklet is asking me to do it through the 'Tools' drop down box in the 'Save as' window when saving my document. When I click on this drop down list it only give me the option to 'map network drive'. Can you tell me how to get the options I need in the drop down list to appear?

Thank You

Chart changes data when double-clicked, resized, or moved

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 08:28 PM PDT

Hello.
We have been having problems with word 2010 charts.
I have this chart; when I double-click it, or resize it, or move it, the chart displays different data.
So, I now have a completely different graph from the original.

That includes the data, axes labels, and values.
I also can't retrieve the original data from the original graph.


For example, I have a scatter chart with data of voltage vs. temperature.
After double-clicking the chart, it will become a chart of current vs. voltage.

What went wrong?

Is there a way to fix it?

Office 2013 - Word Macro Error Message

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 03:58 PM PDT

I am receiving a very repetitive error message in MS Word that states that the function I am running contains macros and that the Administrator at the time of install chose not to install support for macros.  The help associated with this error message directs you to Options / Trust Center.  I have set the Macro option to disable all macros without notification.  This has not solved the problem and in the course of using the document, the error message pops up repetitively.

I have tried to run a Repair / Quick Repair but the process failed.     Additionally, my program states that I have updates pending but the update fails to launch and I receive error message 30088-26.

Please advise how to address these error messages.

Unable to access Word

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 02:37 PM PDT

My computer will not let me access Microsoft Word 2013 on my computer, when I try it says"something went wrong, we couldn't start your program." My question is can you please help me get word back onto my computer?

[Original title: HELP]

Screen is getting scrambled in word documents!

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 02:36 PM PDT

Hi! So you can see the issue below is that my document is getting completely scrambled when using word. It usually fixes itself when I change my view but sometimes it does not. Anything in yellow is edited by me - the yellow boxes are not part of the problem. 

Anyone have any idea why this happens?  I have a newer / fast computer that should work fine with this. 

This happens in Microsoft Word 2013. 

This issue is confined to Microsoft Office Word only

I get no error messages, just the scrambled screen like is shown below. 

I did not make any changes to my computer prior to this happening. 

Reviewing -- Filtering revision marks and comments to one particular person

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 02:30 PM PDT

Let's say three people provided revision marks and comments.  Is it possible to view only those from one particular person?  Or, if viewing everything from all three, is it possible to modify the Next button so that it goes only to one particular person's items?

Word 2013 Crashing

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 02:22 PM PDT

I purchased a new laptop about a month ago. I have installed Office 2013. My Word 2013 freezes often and seemingly sporadically. Once it is frozen all function is lost, I cannot even use Alt+F4 to close or the exit button. I must use Task Manager to close the program. At no time does Word try to troubleshoot itself or make an alert that it is not operating correctly. All other programs seem to run fine on my computer. Does anybody know why this would happen, and what I can do to resolve it?

Disable the Mini Clipboard

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 02:00 PM PDT

There is a mini paste or clipboard icon with (Ctrl) in parentheses that often hovers over my text when I am writing a document.  I can't seem to move it out of the way and it almost always appears over text that I am trying to edit or read.  How do I get rid of it?  I guess it wants me to paste something, but I don't.  Am I activating it accidentally some how?  Is there a way to get rid of it completely?

Right Click, New does not show Word, Excel

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 01:27 PM PDT

I installed Office Professional 2013 on my laptop running 8.1.  In an Explorer Window when I right click, New does not show Word, Excel, etc.

Need some help on how to REPEAT some data on a drop down form field options box.

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 01:18 PM PDT

Good afternoon,

I am working on a form where as I would like to have a drop down menu containing lets say 20 names with their respective contact information(cell and home numbers).  For the first drop down, if I enter all that information manually, is there a way that I can copy it into the next drop down menu boxes?  This is going to be for a standby calendar, so it will be changing monthly and where as I can just change it as I go along.  I hope that makes sense.  Thanks!

Word 2013 Gridlines Do Not Show

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 01:00 PM PDT

I tried to show gridlines in my Word 2013 document in print layout by checking the "gridlines" box under "View" tab, but the gridlines do not show. I've chosen print layout. Did I do something wrong? Please help.

Margins and Line Spacing

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 12:46 PM PDT

I am working on my dissertation formatting in Word 2010 and have to have 1 inch spacing between certain lines as well as 2 inch spacing from the top of the document on certain pages. I set my margin to 1 inch and added 1 inch of spacing but when I print the page out and measure with a ruler there is always a little extra space. This happens for the spacing between the lines as well. I need it to be exact. I turned on hidden characters and do not see extra space. Please help.

how reformat endnote reference in body of document

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 12:26 PM PDT

I know how to format endnotes in body of text to 1, 2, 3 et. but I would like them to read 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, etc where they appear in the body of the document.  Can this be done?

Page Numbering

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 12:04 PM PDT

In Word 2010 - Section 1 - no page numbers, Section 2 - page numbers A1, A2, A3, ...........; Section 3 - page numbers B1, B2, B3...........

How do I do this?

Thank you 

Make a TOC into 1-click hyperlinks

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 11:54 AM PDT

Word 2010. Win 8.

Have created a standard TOC in my word document. I would instead like it to be hyperlinks where I can click on the TOC list item and be re-located to the corresponding location in the document. I have looked up several methods, but none is exactly what I want:

1.  SCOPE.......................1

     1.1 User's Guide....2

2. ACCESSING IT..........4

    2.1 First Time...........4

Would like the words in italics to be clickable to the corresponding section in the document.

Can this be done?

Max

Mail Merge {ASK} fields and {FILLIN} fields prompts for input for every recipient in the recipient list

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 11:23 AM PDT

I have been using Mail Merge with letters and envelopes successfully with a Fill-In rule, it works well, but i am having a problem with it when using a Fill-In prompt for using Mail Merge to email from within Word 2010 or 2013. When i select the option to Finish and Merge with the "Send Email Message" Option I am getting prompted for every recipient in from my "Recipient List", the list from an Excel spreadsheet. I found an old reference to this problem on the web, (http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/fields.htm) and it mentions a couple of knowledge base articles ( Q238978 and Q164547) but i can't find these articles.

Has anyone seen this prompting behavior for [every recipient] with mail merge when sending an email message from within Word?

Thanks

B

stop automatic conversion from PDF to Word

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 09:39 AM PDT

I am using Win 8.1, 64 bit, office 365 home.personal.   When I download a PDF file and save it, the next time I try to open it a conversion from the PDF to word takes place automatically.  I want to be able to keep most of these as PDF files.  How do I turn off this feature? Is it just a matter of being aware and using Acrobat to open?  I intermix my documents in Word when I save them.

I cant open downloaded word or pdf documents that was sent via email.

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 09:32 AM PDT

I cant open word documents or pdf docs that have been sent via email. This is a new problem. I do have norton anti virus software. Word works just fine otherwise. I just cant open attachments. I get an error message "word experienced an error trying to open file"