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Microsoft Word - Encoding

Encoding

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 02:00 PM PDT

Help!!  I saved something in notepad as Text.  Somehow? it saved as an encoding of 'ANSI'.  I cant read it now.  How can I change this back to readable regular info? 

Not all Word 2013 Document Themes available

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 12:50 PM PDT

I am a computer teacher and some of my students have many document themes available in Word 2013 and others have very few.  What can I look at on the student's profile to make all document themes available to all of my students?

Saving from Word 2013 to Word 97-2003 corrupts table of contents

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 11:51 AM PDT

I'm seeing a very strange effect on some of my documents.  I don't know what is causing it, but to me it is clearly a defect.

You take a document that has a table of contents and multiple pages of content, saved in Word 2013.  Next, save it as "Word 97-2003" for compatibility purposes.  Then open up this freshly saved document and take a look at the table of contents.  The page numbers slide off to the right outside the margin!

Here's how the document looks in Office Word 2013:

Now when saving as Word 97-2003, you are warned about some conversions that may affect the layout:

OK, that's fine. It doesn't suggest that it won't be able to handle the TOC (table of contents) and change the formatting there.  But then you get this:

Notice the ".............................." goes clear off to the right past the right margin limits.  You cannot see the page numbers.  If you shift to LANDSCAPE mode you can find your page numbers.  There will be a right tab stop floating out there around inch #9.  Try manually correcting this and you get into a nightmare of playing around with tab stops.  You try to select all lines of the TOC, but after doing that and moving the tab stop, you get unpredictable results.  It's a mess.

If you delete the TOC and recreate it in this document, THE SAME PROBLEM HAPPENS.  There is some strange conversion effect that permanently corrupts the document.  I even tried to save the original document without the TOC, but still adding one causes this.  The layout/formatting in this document is extremely basic and rudimentary. There is NOTHING sophisticated going on here that would incur a compatibility issue.

I've tried to search on this issue and cannot find prior complaints.  Is this a known issue?

Excel and Word very slow when double-clicking on file

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 10:21 AM PDT

Win 7 and Office 2007.

 

There are several posts regarding this topic. But I have not found any that gives me an applicable solution. This is my problem:

 

If Word/Excel is running it takes less than a second for a small file to open after double clicking it.

 

If Word/Excel is *not* running it takes from 30 seconds to several minutes for the file to open.

  • It does not matter if it is a doc docx xls xlsx et.c.
  • It does not matter if it is a local file, a file on the server or on the NAS.
  • It does not matter if it is a newly created file or a very old file.

Some interesting observations regarding Outlook:

  • Opening a Word/Excel attachment shows the same symptoms as above. Very fast if Word/Excel is running an very i slow if they are not. But my impression is that now it takes twice as long time.
  • Opening a .pdf attachment shows exactly the same symptoms as Word/Excel files from within Outlook. But here I do not have the double clicking problem. From Explorer .pdf files starts "immediately".

Any help is much appreciated.

Kjell K

Problem with long header during TOC formating

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 09:53 AM PDT

Hi,

I have a problem with a header that spans over 2 lines.

My first header is formatted correctly like this:

Chapter 1: XYZ.....................5

 1.2 Abstract..........................7

However the second header is long and ends up looking like this:

Chapter 2: XYZ XYZ XYZ

XYZ 9

 2.2 Abstract......................10

Even messing around with the tab stops didnt help..

I would like to have it look like this:

Chapter 2: XYZ XYZ XYZ

XYZ.........................................9

 2.2 Abstract......................10

Is there a fix for this? Thank you very much!

Mail Merge losing superscript formatting

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 09:27 AM PDT

Hello!

I am trying to use mail merge to transfer numbers with superscript following them (i.e. 1st, where 'st' is in superscript). I am transferring the text from an Excel file to a Word document using Mail Merge, but I haven't had any luck retaining the formatting.

I also tried to figure out a way to make Word change the text to superscript automatically after the merge is complete, but I'm not sure how to do this either.

Any help would be appreciated!

My Most Recently Used Symbols Disappeared

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 08:28 AM PDT

I recently had to re-install Word 2010. As an author, I use quite a number of symbols. Now my gallery of most recently used symbols is gone, and it hasn't come back with usage. How can I get it back? If I clickk the omega symbol, it shows up, but I want it in the popup when I hit the symbol like it used to be.             

Vertical Line - Tranck Changes not printing as viewed on Print Preview

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 08:17 AM PDT

I'm working with MS Word 2010.

It is a two column document, and I'm tracking changes on the individual columns by using a vertical line at the right side of the individual columns.

While working on the document, the vertical lines are shown at the right hand side of both columns, this also shows on Print Preview.

When I print, the document shows the consolidated vertical lines of my changes to both columns on the extreme right only (no longer on the right of the individual columns).

It is not printing as displayed.

I had this working before on my desktop, it is not working on my laptop.

What can I change on settings to correct this?

I have tried converting to PDF, but it displays as printed. I have tried downgrading to compatibility mode in MS Word, no difference.

How to: 1 Import custom shapes, 2 add link from one shape draw to next shape draw in document, 3 table of contents with links to pages and drawings ? Please

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 07:44 AM PDT

http://blogs.office.com/2012/03/20/creating-custom-shapes-in-powerpoint-2010/

1 How to import custom shapes for word 2013 created in PowerPoint 2013 
    (can be somehow replace files with the shapes of the word with powerpoint or create custom shapes and add to Word 2013) 
2 How to add a link to the form in Word 2013 drawing so that when you click on the shape passed on to the next drawing in the same document? 
3 How to create a table of contents of the document in Word 2013 that contains a hyperlink to the pages of the document and drawings? 
    (Can be create drawings in Power Point and Word 2013 only display their content?) 
I care about you create a document, working with text and drawings numbered, tables in the same document office in 2013.

These are the official questions from the Department of the sales hotline Microsoft. 
I called the Hotline sales, but they're there do not know anything about the shapes in Office 2013

I want to just buy Office 2013 package.

Word experienced an error trying to open the file

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 07:21 AM PDT

One of our users who is using Windows 8 and Office 365 Home and Office received an error message when trying to print a Word document from an email (Outlook).  It said, "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."

There is nothing wrong with the documents.  No settings have been changed on her computer. She had no trouble opening and printing documents from Outlook in the past.  When the documents are imported into our database, they will open in Word and print from there. If we save it and print from the location, it prints. Is this an Outlook issue?

Thanks for any help you can give us.

Different languages in word, with non-English physical keyboard

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 06:28 AM PDT

Hi.

I have a dilemma with Word in terms of language and proofing tools. The physical keyboard on my computer is with Danish layout but I often write texts in English in Word. I have installed both English and Danish proofing tools and both Danish and English keyboard layouts are installed in Windows. 

But I can't change the proofing language in Word to English, I can only mark text I've written and tell Word that this is English. The only way I can change the proofing language to English is to change the keyboard to English in Windows (via the language bar). But that comes with a prize, since my physical layout of my keyboard then doesn't match the input, i.e if press the button on my keyboard with question mark ( ? ) when I'm typing i Word I instead get underscore ( _ ). That is impossible/very frustrating for me to work with. 

Is it really not possible to tell Word that the text I am writing is in English, but still keep my Danish keyboard layout? I have set everything to English in word, but no matter what, it still uses Danish as the default language. When I press the language tab (from the lower task bar) when I'm working on my document and select English and press set as standard, I doesn't change anything. It immediately reverts to Danish.. 

I'm using Office 2013, Windows 7 and everything is installed in English.

Please advice.

Best regards, 
Kenneth

Word 2013 opening files in Read Only

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 05:30 AM PDT

Hi,

I have recently purchased a new computer, first time using Windows 8.1 and also first time using Office 2013.

I have a program that I create invoices with but when it tries to open the invoice template (which has fields which update according to data pushed through from the program) the template is opening in Read Only meaning that my data isn't getting loaded into it.  The Invoice Template is an RTF file type (I have no control over this) and I have previously used this program to run invoices using Word 2003 without an issue.

After looking here it seems there are a few people with this Read Only issue.  I have tried all the usual things like making sure Read Only box isn't ticked, checking all Trust Centre stuff out etc but nothing I do changes this.

Help!

Equation Editor - Insert custom size matrix

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 04:52 AM PDT

It does not appear to be possible in Word 365 to insert an equation with a Matrix that has a different size larger than 3x3. I.e. 

- create a new document

- Insert | Equation

- Equation Tools | Design | Matrix

I can only select from the predefined Matrix sizes. The context menu does not have an option to insert additional rows or columns.

I need to create a Matrix with 6 rows and 2 columns. I did manage to 'fake' it by first inserting a 2x2 matrix and then creating a 3x1 sub-matrix in each cell. This does seem silly.

question about word 2013

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 04:25 AM PDT

Hi,

I have a .doc file that was written in word 2010, now I have switched to office 2013, it open the document but only the first page of the document!!!! does anybody know how to solve that or have the same problem?

any hints or comments are appreciated.

regards,

Vahid

Unable to open Word 2013

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 04:24 AM PDT

I have downloaded office 2013 and everything will open with Microsoft except word.

what do I need to do to rectify this issue?

[Original title: Jamie]

How to create a new symbol

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 06:39 PM PDT

Split from this thread.

Sorry, you have explained how to get an *existing* symbol in the panel, which is easy. The question in general is: how do we add a non-existent, i.e., new symbol to the list of symbols in word? Is it possible at all?

Office 2013 is no longer working

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 06:16 PM PDT

I am unable to open any type of file from office.  Everything was working fine and now I can not even open a new document in word, let alone a saved document. Help!!!

Word 2013 File Conversion doesn't work

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 05:59 PM PDT

I have been opening earlier version of word documents with word 2013, but now all of a sudden I'm getting the file conversion window.  And in the file conversion window it says "select encoding to make your document readable" - WIndows ( Default),  MS DOS and  Other Encoding.   And the text for the file shows up as gibberish whenever I select each one of the options.

Please advise.

Regards.

  

Problem opening a document

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 03:58 PM PDT

Split from this thread.


When I try to open the document it only allows Word Desktop Option not regular Word. How do I get an editable copy of the document.