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Microsoft Word - TABLES DRIVING ME MAD IN DISSERTATION!!!

Microsoft Word - TABLES DRIVING ME MAD IN DISSERTATION!!!

TABLES DRIVING ME MAD IN DISSERTATION!!!

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 01:58 PM PST

I like to think that I am good in Word, and I really understand how to use tables/format them etc.  HOWEVER,  I seem to be completely unable to lock a table in one place and get the text to flow round it.  HELP!  I am in the last week before hand in!!

How do I put everything on one page into one frame?

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 11:39 AM PST

<Moved from Windows 7 / Programs>

I have this form that I've created with both Word 2007 and Excel 2007. I would like to put the whole page into one frame, including an actual frame. Is it possible to do this? What it boils down to is I need to wrap an box around the whole page. I drew the square and tried to put it around my work but it wouldn't go to back. What am I missing? What do I need to do?  Thanks!!

Word 2010 ~ Formatting Zip+4 Code in a MERGE FIELD

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 10:42 AM PST

Hello:

I need help with the following code so the the last 4 #'s of the zip code do not show. Here's the code to use for zip+4 for those who want the zip=4 format. How would I treak this code so that the zip code is 5 digits, i.e. 90079:

{ IF { =ABS ( { MERGEFIELD PostalCode \# "####'-'#####" } ) } <> { MERGEFIELD PostalCode } { MERGEFIELD PostalCode \# "#####'-'####" } { MERGEFIELD PostalCode } } 

Word/excel converter

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 10:09 AM PST

Dear All,

I am using the default Windows converters [wordconv.exe, excelcnv.exe, ppcnv.exe] for converting old doc,xls,ppt format files to docx,xlsx,pptx [Xml formats]. This conversion tools works fine in my windows 7 PC. But when I execute the same command in a windows 2008 Server, the conversion is not happening. I'm not even getting any error messages or error logs. 

This is the command I'm using for doc--> docx conversion:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\wordconv.exe" -oice -nme "input.doc" "output.docx"

This is the command I'm using for xls--> xlsx conversion: 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\wordconv.exe" -oice "input.xls" "output.xlsx"

Both are running on 64bit Operating System only. Someone help. Any suggestion would be helpful. Is there any pre-requisite software needed which will be available in windows 7 by default but not in 2008 servers?

Please do let me know if you need more information.

Thanks,

Paul

Draft View has gone wonky

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 09:53 AM PST

OK... so I am a freelance publishing subeditor and to work on documents I use Office 365 with Dragon Naturally Speaking 12. So far I have found this to be a very good combination.

However... this morning I was dictating text into my computer using Word when Dragon misheard something I was dictating, believing it to be the command "Draft View".

I always work in draft view anyway, so I was already in draft view, so the command should have had no effect. However, what actually happened was that the various text styles used in the documents I edit no longer appear in Draft view. Instead, all of the text is in a font which looks like Courier. Doubleand triple carriage returns have all been replaced with single carriage returns; in short, the formatting on the document is FUBAR.

But when I view the documents in print view, outline view, read mode etc, they look fine. And when I open the documents in my laptop, which runs Word 2007, everything is fine in draft view.

I have 'repaired' Office 365 using the control panel and I have uninstalled the programme and then re-installed it and yet the problem persists.

Can anyone tell me: WTF has caused this and how can I remedy it?

Thanks in advance,

Matt

Afrikaans Proofing Tools for Office 2010

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 09:20 AM PST

Is an Afrikaans proofing tool available for Office 2010 (Version 14.0.4760.1000 (32 bit). No service packs are installed

PLEASE NOTE: I do not want to change the interface language; it must stay English. I only need an Afrikaans spell checker.

It seems that most links on sites dealing with this query lead to Office 2013 sites.

Problems when trying to open a Word document

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 04:59 AM PST

Hello,

Has anyone out there encountered the following problem: I cannot open an existing Word document by simply double-clicking on the icon of the document on e.g. the desktop or in the Explorer tree structure. Instead I have to first open the program Word and then open the document from the menu bar on top within Word.

Hoping for help

Dennis_14

List format question

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 12:38 AM PST

Here is my question:

In one of cases I need to type, the draft looks like:

1.    Answer the following questions and

       you need to ...

       (a)   What is the name of ...

       (b)   What is the value of ...

2.    (a)   Compare X and Y ...

       (b)   State your ...

I have no problem for the first part for 1, and 1-(a), 1-(b) etc. But I cannot make the second part since I cannot find a way to have 2 and 2-(a) appear on the same line. Is there is a quick solution. 

Thank you!

Jun 

Mail merge Word Excel, Could not find installable ISAM

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 10:28 PM PST

Hi there,

I am trying to do a Mail Merge using a Word document and an Excel database. When I try to open the Excel file I get the error message 'Could not find installable ISAM'.

There ar some threads about this error message. Some about a connection string, some about file locations. Since I don't use a connection string, that seems not to be the answer but I do have some worries about the file locations or the registry entry.

On my system the Msexcl40.dll is located in C:\Windows\SysWOW64 and in C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft-windows-m..components-jetexcel_31bf3856ad364e35_6.3.9600.16384_none_b2ae6f155dd6aa86.

The register key to JET is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Excel

So everything seems to be there, but it does not work.

Using Word/Excel from Office 2013 Professional Plus 2013 32-bit

Running Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64-bit.

Any ideas??

VBA to detect rotation of inline shape

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 06:09 PM PST

It's only been recently (since 2007?) that Word has allowed us rotate inline shapes. I'm looking for a way for a macro to detect whether such a shape has been rotated; but apparently there's no .Rotation property for the InlineShape object. Any ideas for a way around that (in Word 2010)?

If it helps, the rotation is always either 0 or 90 degrees, so a Boolean function would suffice (that is, there's no need to detect the amount). Unfortunately the shapes are not all of the same aspect ratio or this would obviously be simple.

Thanks for any clues.

Mark

How to find a file you saved over.

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 04:33 PM PST

I finished typing a document in Microsoft word 2013. I then decided to transfer it to my usb drive. I thought that I was moving the new version (from my computer)) to save over the the old version (on the flash drive) but I did the opposite. So then I had an old file (from my usb) on my computer. I tried to reverse it by right clicking the undo copy button, but it just deleted the file. Now I cant find the file that I accidentally saved over either. I have windows 8 by the way.