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Microsoft Word - Issues opening MS word docs

Issues opening MS word docs

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 02:08 PM PST

I bought a new laptop with Windows 8 a couple months ago. I am unable to open any MS word or powerpoint documents that I have generated on any other computer. I went to Geek Squad and they told me to uninstall and reinstall MS office but that did not work.  These documents are saved on flashdrives and open up on several other computers. Any suggestions?

Flip/Mirror/Reverse Page Formatting?

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 12:32 PM PST

I have a fairly long document that, for the most part, consists of three text boxes on each page. The text box on the far left is colored and serves as a side-panel for information that is an appendage to the main text and also makes the pages less bland. I am planning on printing this document, and realized that if i print it as it stands then the red text box on the left will be on the left for each page, instead of how i imagined it originally (with the red text box on the outer side of each page).

I could fix this manually, by going through every odd page and moving the red text box to the right side and the other two text boxes over as appropriate. This would make it so that when printed, the red border/text box would be opposite each other in the book. However, it would be much more convenient if I could somehow tell word to reverse a pages text boxes/formatting, as the formatting is all done except for the lack of mirroring.

Is this possible?

Thanks for your time, its a little long.

-TWS

P.S.

I have access to word 2007, 2010, and 2013, but usually use 2010. The document seems to play nice in every version though, so if one version can do this i will convert it over.

Word "Not responding" when clicking hyperlinks

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 11:47 AM PST

When I click some hyperlinks in a document someone sent to me word freezes saying "not responding" and at the bottom I have a message saying "trying to contact server".  This is so frustrating, anyone know why? 

office 365 word

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 11:23 AM PST

Why won,t word operate on windows 8.1 in my dektopp

Index feature, Latin Extended Additional Characters (in Georgia) - Word 2007

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 10:33 AM PST

I am trying to index a document in Georgia font in Word but I am finding that some of the characters from the Latin Extend Additional family of characters (S, s, D, d, T, t, H, h + italicized versions with dot below) are not visible in my version of Word (PC user running Word 2007 on Windows 7).  The document originated with a Mac user who has a special diacritics package running.

Upon opening the doc, these characters appear as boxes.  If I select the entire document and re-select Georgia, nothing changes.  I can however switch to fonts like Times or Arial and the characters are supported and I seem them.

Question #1: If I switched this document to Times and completed an index and at the end of it switched the document back to Georgia, would this be seamless?  Meaning, would the font change cascade throughout the index too?  I ask because usually one has to change index details in the dialogue boxes associated with that functionality.

Troubleshooting the problem I did find that if I moved the manuscript into fonts that support the needed characters, that if I then returned to Georgia I began to see characters in place of the boxes.  This came with format changes to the document in all the places where the characters were subbed in (for example: "Formatted: Complex Script Font: +Body CS").  The subbed in characters don't seem to be native to Georgia, they are sans serif. 

Question #2:  What is this functionality that subbed in the characters?  Is it a Unicode approximation that speaks across font?  Is there any way I can download these Latin Extended Additional characters for Georgia?

Thanks so much for your help!

Forms, content control, and footers.

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 09:41 AM PST

The objective: To create a five page form for a client profile at my company. The first page is a cover sheet with the client's name, ID, and a service summary (all text). The next four pages are identical service profile (though a different service is profiled on each page, so the content will be different). The client's name and ID is repopulated in the header (which I already know how to do). The body of the profile pages has three rich text content control forms, enabled via the developer tab. I also put a footer on each profile page which contains two tables, one of which needs to be filled out (all text) when doing the profile in the body. I put it in the footer so that the tables would be uniformly displayed on the bottom of the page, regardless of the length of text in the main profile section. I also want to restrict content control so that workers don't accidentally tweak page elements and then I have to resend the form or tell them how to fix it.

The problem: First, if I try using forms for the table cells, because it's a footer, it repopulates the same data on each page. This is bad, as each page is profiling a different service so the content needs to be different. The other problem is that, with restricted editing, other people can't even access to the tables in the footers to edit the content anyway. I've tried to use section breaks instead of footers, but they do not seem to be working properly. Instead of the tables being uniformly placed on the bottom of the page, their placement is affected by the previous section.

Can anyone help me solve this problem? Thanks.

Headers

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 08:29 AM PST

I am working on a Template and was wondering if I could format my header that it will pull information from the body of the template.  For example, in the header I want to include the job number and name of the customer in the header.  It is already listed in the body of the template.  Can this be done that it will automatically pull the information instead of having to type it again in the header?

Word 2010 Building Blocks

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 08:06 AM PST

I just created a new category and BB entries but now I can't go back to my General category.  How do you change categories?

Thanks for your help

Word. On screen my paper looks correct, after printing word erases words on the end of sentences. How to I fix?

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 08:02 AM PST

Word.  On screen my paper looks correct, after printing word erases words on the end of sentences.  How to I fix?

Merge Field Problem

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 07:04 AM PST

<Title changed for clarity>

I'm currently trying  to make a directory in Word 2007 using an access database. Why doesn't the following work?

«SALUTATION» {IF MERGEFIELD FIRST_NAME} = "" {MERGEFIELD SPOUSE} {MERGEFIELD FIRST_NAME} «LAST_NAME»

I get Salutation  {IF MERGEFIELD FIRST_NAME} = "" {MERGEFIELD SPOUSE} {MERGEFIELD FIRST_NAME} Last Name

Cannot pin folder in backstage

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 06:21 AM PST

I can not pin a folder in backstage of Word 2013.  I can not get a folder to show up in the "RECENTS" area.

Need word macro to export and import alt text.

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 05:37 AM PST

Hello Guys,

I need word macro to export and import alt text present in Microsoft word.  Motive is to export text for localization and after localization import the same.

Alt text could be found here-:
right click on picture-> go to size -> Alt Text

Word 2013 - Document disappears when deleting text

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 12:41 AM PST

I'm not really sure what's wrong, here's what's happening -

I will have a document open in word, when I go to delete a large amount of text (either by highlighting and deleting, or by holding down the delete button) the entire document will suddenly disappear and leave me with only the grey background.  This also occurs when I use the slider to navigate through the document

In some cases the document itself stays, but all of the text disappears.  

I tried saving after this had occurred, when I went to reopen the document that I had just saved I was greeted with an entirely blank word document.  

This is happening quite frequently and is seriously interfering with my ability to work.  Does anyone recognize what's wrong and know how to fix it?

Thanks,

Kat

Microsoft word won't open - registry error from upgrade to 8.1?

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 08:50 PM PST

Howdy,

When trying to open Microsoft word (or any other office application - I have office '13), I get the following message:

Winword.exe - Entry Point Not Found
"The procedure entry point _vsnprin4 could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\d2d1.dll."

I read a suggestion to use Event View to see the error details and this is what it reported (please note is error generated below pertains to excel):

Faulting application name: EXCEL.EXE, version: 15.0.4667.1000, time stamp: 0x543d3243
Faulting module name: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\d2d1.dll!_vsnprin4, version: 6.3.9600.17278, time stamp: 0x53eeb4a3
Exception code: 0xc0000139
Fault offset: 0x00098f05
Faulting process id: 0x210
Faulting application start time: 0x01d018e83f5689e6
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\EXCEL.EXE
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\d2d1.dll
Report Id: 82ef0769-84db-11e4-beb0-006b9e021b75
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Any ideas where to go from here? Is this a result to my upgrade to 8.1 from windows 8?

Thanks!

Space between two headings cant eliminate?

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 08:22 PM PST

Hi All,

There is space between two headings 

i cant eliminate.

Red Arrow indicate Space

Create macro that saves current doc in another folder or drive (in addition to current folder)

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 05:45 PM PST

I found a macro to do this in Word2000 (listed below) but it does not work in Word2007 (Enterprise) which I am trying to use:

Every single document I create is saved on the laptop but also must be saved on a desktop on my network. That is called drive U. I am able to do a  SAVE AS and append U:\ to the front of my filename and save it. But I would like a macro that does it for me since I do it for everything. If I create a keystroke macro, all I know how to do, it would include the current filename, such as U:\file1 but I want to also use the macro for file2 etc. My keystroke macro would save it as file1 again. Not good.

How do I change or replace the Word2000 macro below to accomplish this? Thanks in advance.

HERE IS THE WORD2000 MACRO AND THE ERROR:

I get run time error "bad file name" and it highlights  "Documents(ActiveWindow.Caption).Close" (If I delete that line the next line is highlighted instead)

Sub SentToDriveU()

    If ActiveDocument.Saved = False Then ActiveDocument.Save

    System.Cursor = wdCursorWait

    OrigLongFileName = ActiveDocument.Name

    OldPath = ActiveDocument.Path & Application.PathSeparator

    If ActiveDocument.Path = "" Then

        MsgBox "Please save this document before sending to drive U:", _

           vbOKOnly, "This Document Not Saved"

    Else

        Documents(ActiveWindow.Caption).Close

        FileCopy OldPath & OrigLongFileName, "U:\" & OrigLongFileName

        Documents.Open FileName:=OldPath & OrigLongFileName

        Application.GoBack

    End If

    System.Cursor = wdCursorNormal

End Sub

Font Color Makes Text Bold

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 04:59 PM PST

I have word 2010 installed on a Dell XPS 13 in Windows 8.1.

Whenever I apply a font color to text, the text becomes bold. It is impossible to remove the bolding and just have regular text that's in color.

I have used Word for decades and have never seen this before. I've checked editing options, keyboard options, style options... no luck.

Has anyone experienced this and do you know how to fix it?

Thanks for your help.

Safe to convert to Word 2010 XML format?

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 04:08 PM PST

Safe to convert to Word 2010 XML format?

Hi all, 

I like to confirm the answers to the question posted at the following link: 

http://superuser.com/questions/656031/safe-to-convert-to-word-2010-xml-format 

  1. Is all formatting kept when converting a Word 2010 document to XML format?

  2. Is there a difference in features I can use with a document in the XML format?

  3. Will my content and formatting be safe in the future and not break or disappear after 2 weeks of edits?

   4.   Also, is it safe to REVERT the XML format to docx? 

Also, I want to ask whether it is safe to save a file (*.xlsx) as an XML Spreadsheet 2003 file (*.xml) without any loss. 

I have the full Microsoft Product but it is refusing to work.

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 03:14 PM PST

Hello

I have the Microsoft Office 365 suite which is fully paid. I have had no issues with this until around three days ago when inexplicably it stopped working showing me the following screen:

Does anyone know how I can get past this screen as I do need Microsoft Word to work for me?

Many thanks

Jade