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Microsoft Word - Autospace and quotes.

Autospace and quotes.

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 02:15 PM PST

I have my Word program set up to automatically double space after a period.  However, when I add quotes, I have to backspace the two spaces at the end of the sentence to put the end quotes.  Is there a way to eliminate this step?  When I use parentheses, it automatically backspaces to the period, but quotes do not.

remove password from a 2003 Word document using 2013 Word, password known

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 01:29 PM PST

I have many documents with a "read only" password under "security options" that was put on the documents when they were developed in Word 2003.  Now I have upgraded to Word 2013.  I would like to change the password to something else to give to another group and maintain the confidentiality of the current password.  But I have not found a way to enter this function in 2013 to remove the read only password.  I tried the "encrypt" function under protect document, but it just adds another password in addition, and does not remove the old one.  What can I do?  Do I have to find an old version of Word somewhere?

-Shadya

Is combination content control possible in word 2010

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 01:20 PM PST

I'm not a terribly well-trained word 2010 user. Anything I can do, I pretty much gleaned from just poking around the menus. Currently, I have a document using rich text content control fields. Nine times out of ten, users are choosing one of about a dozen or so items to put in the fields. It would make it much easier to just have pull-down menus to cover all these options, but is it possible to have some kind of option to put in a custom text entry instead for those 1 out of 10 times?

The only solution I could come up with is to have an "other" option followed by a rich text content control field to add detail, but for the purpose of this form, I can't have that displayed. In other words, if it is an "other", it has to state specifically what the "other" is, no more, no less.

I'd appreciate any help with this matter. Thanks.

Tables in locked templates

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 01:11 PM PST

I have drawn up templates with locked styles for use on our intranet.  Included in these templates are tables, however, i need to allow further tables to be included when necessary.  Locking the formatting does allow insertion of tables, however, the borders/shading cannot be used.  I have tried setting up an autotext table, customised table, quick part etc.  As this template will be loaded to our ERMS and accessed via our intranet when I set the autotext etc, even saving to the template and not normal.dot, it doesnt show in the template when loaded (obviously works on my computer due to saving to my setup).  Any thoughts?  Thank you.

Letters cut off when printing

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 12:42 PM PST

Sometimes when I print from various programs, Word 2007, Emails from Outlook 2007, third party programs, certain letters or phrases on a line, not the entire line, get cut horizontally. It happens randomly and also in different places in different documents. When it is printed to a pdf it looks perfect. If there was a way to attach an example I would. Any help would be appreciated.

word2007 takes over 30 seconds just to open

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 12:40 PM PST

what could be wrong? I just installed office 2007 on a new dell i5 8 gig windows 8.1 pc.

it takes over 30 seconds for word to open a file.  My old windows 7 blew the doors off that.

What do i look at/for?

Thanks

Why have some of the templates dissapeared from Microsoft Word - Office Windows V8.1

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 12:15 PM PST

I've got the latest version of Microsoft office and windows V8.1. I made a CV with the 'timeless resume' template. Now when I open word I cant see this template anymore. There seems to be others missing as well. Why has this happened and how do I get them back?

Online there are 57 resume templates. All of the ones I had downloaded are highlighted and have a pin in the bottom right corner, but I cant see them in Word for some reason as if they are hidden.

Word 2013 cannot see track changes sent from another author

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 12:14 PM PST

Hello,

I have received a file from a friend, who used an unknown version of WORD and put comments in the text w track changes. I opened the file, however, I can only see red lines in the margin where the changes were made, but cannot see the actual changes or the balloons or the like. I would like to change my pc's settings in WORD so that I can see these proposals.

I have tried to click 'show markings in line' and '..in balloon's but it does nothing. I can see the changes in a reviewing pane, but I want to see them in line/in balloons.

Which settings do I need to change in order to see the tracked changes that another person has made?

Thank you,

Sue

Disable Simple Markup in Word 2013?

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 10:57 AM PST

I'm on a PC using Windows 7/ Word 2013.  I work in track changes mode often, and I'd like to turn off the Simple Markup mode.  When I'm editing, I often select rows and lines of text by clicking in the left margin of my document.  But now with Simple Markup, I end up unintentionally switching my document from "All Markup" to "Simple Markup"dozens of times in an editing session because clicking on the thin gray line in the left margin switches the view.  I don't want Simple Markup to be an option anymore.  Can I turn it off?

Thanks!

Kristin

Help with "The name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag"

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 10:05 AM PST

I have been working on a document for an extremely long time and, on the day I was hoping to hand it in, it has corrupted. I think it may be due to a lot of cross-referencing, referencing via Endnote and other similar functions.

If anyone is able to help at all, I would be so very, very grateful! 

Below is a link to the document on my skydrive.

http://1drv.ms/13DFOdT

How do I print specific pages in Word?

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 09:52 AM PST

I have a document that has front matter numbers i, ii, iii, etc. followed by a new section with numbers 1, 2, 3, etc. When I send a print request for pages 3 and 5, for example, the pages printed are iii and v. If I send a request to print pages 12 and 13, it prints pages 5 and 6 because it it sometimes (not always) counts the front matter. How do I set up the print request correctly?

Thanks,

Susan

Digitally signing 2013 word document

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 09:08 AM PST

We just got upgraded to Word 2013, before this upgrade we could digitally sign protected word documents now we cannot even fined where the signing function is.  Does anyone know how to digitally sign with 2013?

Appearance of page breaks and section breaks?

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 07:44 AM PST

I've been curious about this for a while...

Does anyone know why page breaks and section breaks can have different appearances (in the page layout view with hidden characters showing)? For example, sometimes the dotted lines extend across the width of the page, sometimes not. Sometime there is a paragraph mark at the end of the break, sometimes not.

Need Collaborative Document Development Environment - SharePoint Right? (Windows Server 2008 OS)

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 06:55 AM PST

QUESTION:  Need the link to the appropriate SharePoint version for a Server running Windows Server (Standard) 2008 Service Pack 2.

ACTUAL NEED:  A Collaborative Document Development Environment.  My research seems to say that SharePoint will accomplish this for me (please comment on this if you disagree).  If you disagree, what do you think my other options are?  Keep in mind we must use Microsoft Word.

BACKGROUND:  I have a small team of 3 people.  I would like to have it such that we can collaborate on document development where I can check out the document and my colleagues can check out the same document, make edits, and then check them back in; all our edits will be merged together.  Just your basic collaborative document development - with in mind that its only 3 maybe 4 people doing it.

SERVER DETAILS:

Machine Type:  Dell PowerEdge 2900 Server

Windows Server (Standard) 2008 with Service Pack 2

Processor:  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5460 @ 3.16GHz (2 Processors)

Memory: 16.0 GB of Memory

System Type: 64-Bit Operating System.

CLIENT MACHINE DETAILS:

Machine Type:  HP Pavilion 23

Windows Edition:  Windows 8.1

Processor:  Intel(R) Pentium(R) G3220T @ 2.60GHz

Memory:  4.00 GB

System Type:  64-Bit Operating System

ISSUES:  The Server is not allowed to be connected to the Internet.  Thus, it will be necessary for me to download SharePoint externally which is always a problem since Microsoft many times wants to tell you what you need for the machine that you are currently on.

COST?:  What is the possible cost for SharePoint when I am using it this way?  How long will the Trial Version last so I can test it out and see if it works for us?

POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVES:  Need to do basic Document Collaboration using Microsoft Word.  If SharePoint is not the best solution, please make me aware of other possibilities and I will gladly research them.

CLIENT SOFTWARE:  I am assuming there is a client version for the client machines.  Is that true?  Where do I download those?

Table of Content with hyperlinks in Word - problem with link source

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 06:05 AM PST

I created a Table of Content for a very long document, I need to convert it to pdf and use the TOC for hyperlinking to the pages.

If the 'Use hyperlinks instead of page numbers' option is un-ticked the page numbers can navigate me in the doc, but when I tick this option, the TOC become a hyperlink, but not a correct one, for me it's ok in word, but if I hover over my table lines I can see that I receive an external hyperlink leading to my file in my computer folder, not an internal reference within the doc and of course it will not help at all if I upload this doc to a website and it tries to reach this folder in my computer.

Do you know why is that leading to my share drive folder and to solve this problem?

Thanks,

Noeka

Sequenced line number in Footnotes

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 05:48 AM PST

Has anyone successfully created VBA code to have Word 2013 create line numbers like WordPerfect?
Looking for script to force Word 2013 to line number the Document (wdStory) and line number the footnotes. Footnote line number needs to start at 1.

Creating a template for team

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 04:08 AM PST

I know it's possible to create a template for myself. But is it possible to create one which can be used and accessed by a team of people? Or is this not practical?

Highlight multiple words

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 12:25 AM PST

Is it possible to arrange this macro so that "custom" highlight in yellow and "treaty" highlight in blue.

Sub Highlight()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim oRng As Range
Dim i As Long
    vFindText = Array("custom", "treaty")
    For i = 0 To UBound(vFindText)
        Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Range
        With oRng.Find
            .ClearFormatting
            .Replacement.ClearFormatting
            Do While .Execute(FindText:=vFindText(i), _
                              MatchWholeWord:=True, _
                              Forward:=True, _
                              Wrap:=wdFindStop) = True
                oRng.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
                oRng.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
            Loop
        End With
    Next
lbl_Exit:
    Exit Sub
End Sub

Thanks in advance

Protect Word

Posted: 17 Dec 2014 11:55 PM PST

Hello,

I have a Word template that employs a userform and different types of content control.

Now I secured the the document, in a way that "unprotects" the actions of the userform and then "reprotects" the document after filling it out (see below). This code works like a charm.

Because I have content controls in the document (that need to be populated), I selected "Filling in forms" when protecting it. But the thing is that I have one part in my header that needs to be filled out and even though I put a content control there too, there's no way the document lets me go there to type something, but just jumps to the next "open" content control. (I can't put it in the UserForm, because there will be two different people editing it after each other and the first one doesn't know what to put there).

Since I can't add exceptions to "filling in forms", I was just wondering if there's a way I can still access the header to edit it?

Thank you!!!!

This is the code is used to unprotect:

ActiveDocument.Unprotect Password:=""

CODE (for the userform)

ActiveDocument.Protect Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields, NoReset:=True, Password:="" '

Also, if there would be a way to allow users to remove unnecessary spaces within the protected document, that would be really great!!!

Follow-up: I just realized that even if I don't select "filling in forms", I can still edit them because of :=wdAllowOnlyFormFields. But even though I selected the content control in the header as an exception, it still won't let me edit it! Is there a code that I can still edit the header / a bookmark or content control in the header?

Thank you!!!!!

I can only edit it, if I close the Userform before filling it out. But I need it to be the other way around, so that I can enter data in the header after the userform populated the document.

Alternatively it would be great if the protection would go away if it is saved.

Or I just need the template to be password protected so it can't be changed. The resulting "normal" document can be freely edited.

Simple VBA macro to copy text from docA to docB

Posted: 17 Dec 2014 11:38 PM PST

Hi, 

I am using this simple VBA macro to extract the text is select with the mouse from the active document into a new document

strMytext = Selection.Range.Text
Selection.Copy
Documents.Add
Selection = strMytext

The problem is that when I select text from more than one row in a Word table, the script also copies the text that is present into columns I have not selected.

I have tried using 

strMytext = Selection.Text

instead, but then the script only copies the text from the first row of the selection (it does not copy text from multiple manually-selected rows in the table(s)

How do I copy only the text in the columns AND rows I have selected?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Word VBA: docRef.Paragraphs quirk?

Posted: 17 Dec 2014 11:04 PM PST

Hi!  When i try to get a count of the word "a", this macro always returns a value of 3, no matter how many "a" words are in the document.  When i try it with all the other letters of the alphabet, it doesn't have a problem returning the correct counts.  Mystery?


       a = 1

       For Each wrdPara In docRef.Paragraphs

          wrdRef = wrdPara.Range.Text

        If Asc(Left(wrdRef, 1)) > 32 Then
            x = Trim(LCase(Left(wrdRef, Len(wrdRef) - 1)))

        With ActiveDocument.Content.Find
                 .Text = x
                 .Format = False
                 .Wrap = wdFindStop
                 Do While .Execute(MatchWholeWord:=True)

                            Count(a) = Count(a) + 1
            Loop
                Words(a) = x
         End With

                 a = a + 1
         End If
         Next wrdPara

How can I highlight multiple items in Word 2013 to paste into another Word document?

Posted: 17 Dec 2014 10:15 PM PST

How can I highlight multiple items in Word 2013 tocopy and paste into another Word document?

How to get a photo to align left in a table cell

Posted: 17 Dec 2014 05:28 PM PST

I have been beating my head against a brick wall trying to get a photo inserted into a cell, to align left.

It is the photo of Alexander Hamilton, upper left here: http://paulrittman.com/Feds&DemReps.docx

I want that photo to be placed alongside the left border of the entire table/row, but no matter how many times I move it, it simply gets larger or won't move, or whatever....

What do I need to do?

Cannot paste text from OUTLOOK into Word 2007

Posted: 17 Dec 2014 04:06 PM PST

Just recently, I can no longer copy text from OUTLOOK.COM email into a WORD 2007 document using the straight CTRL-C and CTRL-V method.  If I use the PASTE SPECIAL and use any of the options EXCEPT "HTML Format" the text is inserted.  When the paste does not work (when I do CTRL-V), I get the "Contacting Server for information." message in the lower left corner of WORD.

There were Windows 8.1 updates recently installed .  I have not tried to do a restore yet, was wondering if there was any settings in WORD that might be causing this?

Word Version: 12.0.6683.5000

Windows 8.1:  Version 6.3.9600

If Statement, Word & use of Wildcards

Posted: 17 Dec 2014 04:01 PM PST

I'm trying to figure out how to include a wildcard in a Microsoft word document - IF Statement.  It's not a good example (because I should break out the State separately), but using below example, if I merge a mailing address in my letter, I want the response to read either that we will ship your product, or we only sell in California.

{If <<Mergefield>> = "*CA" "Your product will be shipped soon." "We only sell our products in California."}

I also thought perhaps a =right<<mergefield>>, 2 might work, but I might be trying to mix too much excel with word.

Thanks!

Ann

Cannot Sign Into Word with College Account

Posted: 17 Dec 2014 03:29 PM PST

My college offers all of their students a free subscription to Office 365 for as long as we are enrolled. I was taking advantage of this very useful opportunity, and was using Office 365 mobile on my iPhone, until the update on the app store which separated Office 365 into three (or more) separate apps. For some reason, I cannot log into Word using my college account (ends in @mymdc.net). When I input my email, it will find the account but after loading  for a few minutes (with the message "connecting to service"), I get an error that reads: "there is a problem with your account. Please try again" The funny thing is that I can still log into Office 365 Mobile, and I am still logged into Office on my computer. I would like to know what I can do to solve this, as I use Office (especially word) quite a bit on my iPhone.