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Microsoft Word - Recover and repair

Recover and repair

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 01:58 PM PST

I was using Word 2007 with Vista.  I bought a new computer (Windows 8) and upgraded to Office Home & Student 2013.  I get a message that I need to use recover and repair to open the documents on the new computer.  I've gone to the forum and tried the suggestions there but still cannot open the documents.

Share Office 2013 and other programs across all accounts.

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 11:47 AM PST

Hi all,

I have installed Office 2013 on my new Acer laptop, running Windows 8.1 and after some bumbling around have also set up accounts for my hubby and two children. The problem is that I can't figure out how to share Office with the other accounts, because when I click on Start and look at the available apps none of them (or others I installed on my own account) are showing.

How do I a) share Office across all accounts and b) only download an app once for it to show as available on all accounts?

Thanks LOADS!

Cathy :-)

Microsoft Office 365 Word Document Problem

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 08:51 AM PST

I have a document that a letter N has appeared at the top of all my pages. Why is it there and how do I remove it?

Styles

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 07:25 AM PST

I have just starting using Word Styles in Word 2013 and I am finding them generally great in managing my documents however from the articles I have read, it should be that when using Styles, there should ideally be no extra spaces or unwanted spaces in the documents. I still find extra spaces which I have to manually delete and this does not make me happy at all.

Secondly in a number of cases when I make changes in the 'Line and Page Breaks' under paragraphs which contains; Widow/Orphan control, Keep with Next, Keep lines together and Page before break by checking the boxes to activate these controls; the style does not respond and I have to make adjustments manually. Is there something I am missing in handling styles? They should automatically format the document to be neat.

Please advise on this as I need to train my colleagues on use of Styles.

MS Word 2013 spell check highlights changed words as misspelled.

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 06:35 AM PST

This problem started yesterday. If, for example, I delete the lower-case f in finally and replace it with a capital F, spell check highlights "inally" as if it's a fragment. The only way to get rid of the highlighting is to retype the word. Any thoughts?

Moving Word mail merge file

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 05:38 AM PST

I have a number of Word mail merge master files linked to a very old Access database as the data source. Every so often over the years, I've changed computer and had to reset the link between the Word files (they are .doc, but could be .docx except for the ones that do image merging) and the Access data because the path has changed.

The problem is that I have dozens of often quite similar queries in the database, and it is hard, after several years of it all just working, to find out which query is being addressed by the Word file. There doesn't seem to be any UI in Word to provide this (even if the old path is still available; if it isn't it won't open the file without identifying the new source, which is chicken-and-egg). I even tried opening the Word file as binary (in emacs), and it doesn't seem to store the query name as a text string within the file).

So, how can I determine which query a Word mail merge master file is referencing in an access database? Is there a way to determine this after the link has been lost?

problem of filling text from bottom of the page

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 01:31 AM PST

when I start to write, the first line appear at the bottom of the text and by pressing inter, text go up. On the other hand text fill from the bottom of the page and blank spaces (due to figures and next paragraphes) appear on the top of text. What should I do?

starting page 1 on the left without having Word inserting an extra unwanted page

Posted: 26 Nov 2014 09:01 PM PST

I want to have page 1 start on the left page without Word 2010 inserting it's famous unwanted 'blank' page that skewed my document when it's printed.

I have a title page and inside cover page as section 1. The TOC is 3 pages and those are SECs 2 and 3. Then comes Section 4 where Task 1begins (could be called Ch. 1) but I want this to start as page 1 but on the left side as this task is 2 pages and I want them facing each other.

The thing is, the problem of odd/even page business. If I do get page 1 to start where I need it to, then somewhere in the middle of the 140 pg document Word insert a blank page.

How can I get to have page one start on the left and keep the numbering consecutive all the way through without Word inserting anything anywhere? Is there a simple and clear way to go about this?

Merging Table Cells in Microsoft Word on Apple iOS app?

Posted: 26 Nov 2014 08:40 PM PST

I have Microsoft Word app installed on my iPod touch (5th gen).  I tried searching online and the Help/Support section and couldn't find what the subject of this thread is.  How would I merge two cells on a Word table into one big cell?  I didn't see anything in the menu or the quick pop up menu when I selected two or more cells.

Mysterious heavy horizontal dotted line

Posted: 26 Nov 2014 08:33 PM PST

In WORD document - - a heavy horizontal dotted line suddenly appeared. How can I get rid of it?

Small letter n with tilde - where is it?!

Posted: 26 Nov 2014 08:29 PM PST

Microsoft Office 2013, Word:  I've been searching the Symbol pane in several different fonts looking for n with ~ above it, but either I'm blind or it's just not there.  Has anyone else found it?

Help with fixing Word to normal sized page look

Posted: 26 Nov 2014 07:48 PM PST

When I open Word, is opened with the actual page as half of the possible screen in the Word window. I've clicked and changed views a few times, and it fixed, but now it won't. I've tried opening several saved documents as well as new documents and they all end up looking like this. Is there any way to fix it? It is very hard to read, edit or type documents with this view.

Embedding theme colour palettes

Posted: 26 Nov 2014 07:41 PM PST

I am currently trying to somehow 'embed' a number of theme colour palettes into a Word (2010) template. Is this at all possible for the the colour palettes to 'live' with the template, so anyone that downloads the template will have the themes or do the theme colour palettes need to live on each individuals computer?

Apologies if this has already been answered before.

MS Office 2013 Pro installed on a Vaio laptop with Windows 7 OS. When WinWord is launched, all tamplates appear on the screenb but does not work?

Posted: 26 Nov 2014 05:18 PM PST

Laptop:  Sony VAIO   RAM:  8GB   OS:  Windows 7

Sufficient Storage - 750GB

Office 2010 worked fine.  Completely uninstalled Office 2010 before installing  Office 2013.

When you click on any template "not responding"appears.  I have not been able to resolve this even after  a complete un-install and re-install of MSOffice 2013.  Note that, PowerPoint, Excel, OutLook work fine.!!!

Latest:  When the app shows "Not Responding"  I tried to quit X (top RH corner of the app box),  it showes three options

1.  Close the program, 

2.  Restart the program,

3.  Wait for the program to complete.

(a) When I chose # 1,  a new doc page opens!

(b) If I open a "old"  existing docx from a folder,  work proggram works.

I am not sure why the "Word Portal page"  is not working??? in this MS  Office 2013 Pro app?

Mailmerge on Word 2013 stopped working correctly for a document that had been working correctly for a long time

Posted: 26 Nov 2014 04:44 PM PST

The Word document pulls records from an Access query to fill out fields in a letter. It still does that but now it prints the set of letters over and over whether I send the output to a printer or a PDF.  

Numbering paragraphs in Word 2010

Posted: 26 Nov 2014 03:44 PM PST

I've followed the instructions from WordMVP to set up a list style for document in Word 2010. I need to the sections to look like this

Section 1 - Content (Level 1)

1.0  Content (Level 2)

1.0.1  Content (Level 3)

1.0.2  Content (Level 3)

1.0.2.1 Content Level 4)

etc........

1.1 Content (Level 2)

1.1.1 Content (Level 3)

1.1.1.1 Content (Level 4)

1.1.1.2 Content Level 4)

1.2  Content (level 2)

1.2.1 Content Level 3

Section 2 - Content (Level 1)

2.0  Content (Level 2)

2.0.1 Content (Level 3)

When I set up my style list per the instructions when I'm in level 2 it goes from 1.0 to 2.0 instead of 1.1

Thanks in advance for the help!

Office 2013 Does Not Work

Posted: 26 Nov 2014 03:36 PM PST

Getting error message "We're sorry but Word ha run into an error that is preventing it from working. Word will need to close as a result."

Will modified keyboard shortcuts in Word affect other programs?

Posted: 26 Nov 2014 03:24 PM PST

Split from this thread.

Will changes made in Word flow through to other applications? It is not just in Word that they stopped working