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Microsoft Word - Word wont open documents on my Acer laptop

Word wont open documents on my Acer laptop

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 03:35 PM PDT

I can open a blank document and save it and reopen it but I can't download a word document from a professor and open it on word bc it says opening in protected view and it just continues loading and never opens it.

All the programs open as microsoft word. what do i have to do?

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 02:45 PM PDT

also all of them have the same icon. The problem started when i tried to open a microsoft word file and send me a error note and finally opened it contained some wierd coding.This is a part of it:       ãwš¶âwd(ãwg˜âw«ãw¯Dâw«ìãw"ãw¶âw- Þw|ãw7þâwsÅæwvñâw}ñâw·ãw       

Word 2010 no longer limits its search and replace to the selected column in my table

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 02:07 PM PDT

I don't know when this issue started as I have done this for years since I work with very large documents but suddenly, you cannot select a column in a table and do a search and replace on data only in that column - it attempts to replace it in the entire document.  It is not exclusive to my computer.  I have attempted the same thing on 3 different computers in my office with the same result - and the computers are stand-alone computers so it has nothing to do with the network.  One of the computers had a Windows Update bundle (including a service pack) for Microsoft Office 2010 applied today 9/29 - there were 29 updates in that set.  My computer did not have those updates, it had a handful of them from 9/10/14.  I did a system restore back to 9/9/14 but the problem remains. I do still have 26 Office Updates that were applied on 8/18/14. I sure hope the problem did not start then as I have worked on many files with tables and not knowing how many replacements there would be in a document, I would have had no idea there was an issue.  I only found out today because I was working on a small document and knew there should be exactly 150 replacements, however, Word indicated 320 which included the text found in the NON-selected columns.

Anyone know what is happening here?

Thanks.

Office Word not working.

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 01:58 PM PDT

Split from this thread.

The problem does not occur when I access Hotmail through my iPhone.  On another computer that I was using as a server, and which the same problem with 2 hotmail accounts as my laptop as I've described in this thread, the entire suite of Word programs now is not working.  Is there a new virus in circulation causing these problems?  I have antivirus software and quick books is working but not word or excel.  

Recent Folders in Backstage - Pin Folders Not in List

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 01:29 PM PDT

Microsoft Word 2013 (15.0.4649.1000)

MSO (15.0.4649.1000) 32-bit

Part of Microsoft Office 365

Windows 8.1

In Microsoft Word 2013, there are folders I would like to pin at the top of the Recent Folders list in Backstage.  I know how to pin folders from the Recent Folders list, but I cannot get these specific folders to appear on that list so I may pin them.

I rarely save files in these folders; instead, they are more like "master" folders containing multiple subfolders in which I do save files.  Having those pinned to the top of my Recent Folders would speed up my file operations considerably.  (I'm a teacher with thousands of documents organized by course, unit, chapter, and activity.)

How can I get these "master" folders to appear on the Recent Folders list so that I can pin them to the top of that list?  Alternatively, is there a way I can manually add these "master" folders to the Recent Folders list or even the pinned folders list?

I tried creating a file and saving it in the "master" folder, thinking that would force the "master" folder to show up on the Recent Folders list.  It did not.  I tried creating a second file and saving it in the "master" folder, thinking that the Recent Folders list generates based on the frequency with which I access a folder.  That did not put the "master" folder on the Recent Folders list.  I tried opening both documents from within Word, editing them, then saving them again, thinking that multiple file operations within Word might help force the "master" folder onto the Recent Folders list.  No success.

Again, I know how to do this in the standard file operation dialog box with Favorites, and how to configure options to bypass Backstage, but there are some advantages to Backstage I would like to preserve, if possible.  I have similar issues with Excel and PowerPoint, but I'm guessing the solution in Word will apply to those as well.  If not, I'll tackle them later.

Thank you for any ideas that might help me with this issue.

David

Loosing installation section from Office for Students 2003

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 11:00 AM PDT

When I purchased my current computer it came with an initially free version of Office (2007?).  As I already had Office for students 2003 I loaded this to use.  If the 2003 version had been logged into everything was fine.  However if I tried to pick up a word document from an email before logging into 2003 version the 2007 version seemed to take precedence and I was forever having to stop the installation process that ensued.  A few days ago I finally decided to rid myself of this problem and uninstalled the 2003 version.  Now whenever I try to open a file I get the message that the 2003 version needs installing and to insert the original disks.  I have lost these!! 

I may having been remiss in loosing the original disks but it does seem that removing the trial version has disabled the 2003 version which still shows as present on my computer.  Can anything be done?

MS Word - Cannot delete a comment or update a marked up area

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 10:56 AM PDT

Hello -

I have two small pieces of my Word document that I cannot delete the comments or change the markups.  I did at one point use the Developer tools to Group these areas.  I did ungroup them, think this would solve the problem, but it has not.

HELP!!!

Word 2013: issue with table row of exact height

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 10:09 AM PDT

Hi!

In Word 2013 (with all additional updates installed) I notice an issue with row height in tables.

I'd like to create tables with rows of exact height. (I need such tables for example when creating labels or forms.)

I set row properties as shown on the following picture:


But after printing such a table I see that rows are not exactly 5 cm high (measured from one border line to the next). Actually the height is increased for the size of cell inner margin.

The following picture shows three tables with only one cell of 5 cm x 5 cm in size each having different cell margins. In order to compare the tables horizontally I set tree columns on that page and inserted a column break before the second and the third table.


While taking the screenshot I pressed mouse button with the pointer on the bottom border of the second table so that the horizontal grey line appeared on the screen - it marks the height of 5 cm. You can see that the second and third tables are higher than 5 cm.

If it is a bug then it is an very old one as I also saw that issue in Word 2003 I used before moving to Word 2013.

If this behavior is by design then how am I supposed to get exact row height regardless of cell margins? Is it possible to achieve that in Word 2013?

Moreover, if I save this document as a DOCX file and open it with LibreOffice Writer 4.* I see that all three tables have the same size of exactly 5 cm, which is what I'd like to get in Word 2013, as shown on the following picture:


This shows that this behavior causes compatibility issue when documents created in Word are opened with LibreOffice Writer because rows may get lower in Writer than in Word and in turn this may cause the cell content to wrap or not be displayed completely.

-- rpr.

Make all occurrences of a phrase italic

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 08:35 AM PDT

I'm typing a long report, and have just discovered certain words need to be in italics. Is there a way in Microsoft Word to find all those phrases and switch them to italics? Do I have to use a macro or something like that?

In a Protected MS Word Form, how can I have automatically updating linked data based on user entry data in a field?

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 08:32 AM PDT

I have "Job Title" appear throughout the document. It'd be a shame to have to enter it multiple times.

I've tried bookmarking the first usage and then cross referencing but the cross references only update when printing or in print preview. This should be updated before saving as well.

Would using document properties be possible under the protected status of the form as a field? Would there be a way to do this?

Are there alternative ways to have linked text that updates ideally automatically, but I can settle for updating throughout the text on save & on print. 

Ryan

Microsoft word 2013

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 07:40 AM PDT

i keep getting a error message stating that  we're are sorry, but word has run into an error that is preventing it to work correctly... what is the problem here.. I'm in college and this preventing me from doing my work.. 

Is anyone aware of any glitches with Word 2010 mail merge?

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 06:28 AM PDT

1. I recently got into trouble at work when I discovered the button for Mail Merge to email. As I was experimenting with a customer list from an Access database, it sent out the emails without warning. When I tried sending out an apology for the first email, I tried to replicate exactly what I had done the first time, but this time there WAS a dialog box with a warning that they were about to be sent. The dialog box appears every time since.

2. We use mail merge to send out appointment reminder postcards. The last time required two different versions to two different types of customers. The first group of cards were saved as a document for printing later. For the second group, I filtered out the names from the first group, & merged to the printer.  However, ALL names were merged, including those I had filtered out.

I have used mail merge many times, with no problems whatsoever, and find it odd that these two incidents happened within two weeks of each other. Has anyone else noticed glitches like this?

Place of picture differs in the print review

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 04:28 AM PDT

Hi folks,

I wanted to create my own cover page at MS Word, but I am not succeeding. The main issues is that, when I place a picture on the top of the page, it stays here, but when I take a look at a print review it is moved a little bit down.. How I need to solve it?

Thanks in advance

Trying to print (as PDF) two A4 pages onto one A3 sheet

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 03:24 AM PDT

Hi...I am using Word 2013. I am trying to print two A4 pages onto one A3 sheet.  I need to print to PDF not a hard copy output to then send to a commercial print company.  In Word 2003, all I had to do was go to Print, select the option 'two pages to a sheet' and change the page size to A3.  I then selected CutePDF or NitroPDF from the printer options.  The result was a single A3 landscape page PDF with my two portrait pages side by side.

I cannot achieve this with Word 2013.  When I use the equivalent print settings, I get a single paragraph on the first page (landscape) and then the remainder of that original page content on a second page (portrait) and my original second page now as third page.  I do have section breaks and text boxes in the document – but that was never an issue in Word 2003.

I have trawled the web, chatted with an Answer Tech person and spoken to MS tech support in the UK – but with no success.  Can anyone help?

TOC in a table

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 02:03 AM PDT

Good morning!

I really hope that someone here can help me!

I'm setting up a template (so the content change every document) where at the end I need a table that report all the titles/headings of the document, right as a TOC do. Every row need to report a title/heading in a table of two columns.

Can anybody figure out how I can have that? I need that table to be update every time the titles/headings change.
At the moment I put a formatted TOC into a single cell but in this case I can't align the rows of the second column to the first.

How do I make a print macro

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 01:50 AM PDT

Hi,

I used to have a printing macro so that when I clicked on it, it would print the first page from tray 1 with my letter head and then the rest of the pages on tray 2 with plain paper.

How would I make one again?

Thanks,

Scott

Word 2010 "Contacting" Problem

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 12:18 AM PDT

Hello :)


I have this problem "Contacting J:\Document1.docx" whenever I open a file from Removable Disk

If I copied the file to hard disk it's opened normal

Thanks

Please help!

Posted: 28 Sep 2014 08:45 PM PDT

I try to open Microsoft Office 2013 but this keeps on popping up: Microsoft Office Document Cache Sync Interface has stopped working. When I view the problem I get the following:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
  Application Name: WINWORD.EXE

Please help?

Word stops working everytime I open a document

Posted: 28 Sep 2014 05:28 PM PDT

Why does my Word 2013 stop working everytime I try and open a document? What can I do to fix this? Ihave uninstalled and reinstalled the program 3 times. Please help.

Microsoft Word crashes when typing in Chinese

Posted: 28 Sep 2014 04:34 PM PDT

Word crashes whenever I type the the Chinese characters 的 or 他

Does anybody else have this problem or have an idea of how to fix it?

I use the built in traditional Chinese keyboard