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Microsoft Word - TOC Page numbers in front

TOC Page numbers in front

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 01:45 PM PDT

Hey ... !

When using the TOC Field Code, how do I place the page numbers IN FRONT of the Style?  There's got to be a kludge for this ... maybe using bookmarks?

So instead of this:

BEARS ....... 5

COWS ....... 7

DEER ......... 8

I want this:

5  BEARS

7  COWS

8  DEER

Strategy for creating a dictionary

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 01:42 PM PDT

I want to create and print a personal dictionary in booklet form. It should include words, their definitions, and preferably header guides (e.g., "egg" appears in the left-side header of a page that begins with "egg" and "egret" appears in the right-side header because it's the last term on the page).

I'm using Office Professional Plus 2013. Is there a good way to do this in Office? Enter data in Excel, print in Word? Enter in Access? Create booklet in Publisher? Just use tables in Word? I'm not sure what would be the easiest way to build a flexible and editable format. Any suggestions?

Alternatively, does anyone know of a better tool for creating dictionaries like this?

Word document losing periods and initial caps

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 12:39 PM PDT

I'm using  Word 2007. Does anyone know what might have caused a large document on which I was working to lose periods at the end of many sentences, and the initial capital letter at the beginning of the following sentence? It sounds like a macro, but I"m not using any macro like that. 

Mail Merge mix-up

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 12:36 PM PDT

I use mail merge to print mailing labels directly onto my monthly newsletter. I have entered the information into an Excel spreadsheet and each label prints fine. It seems that mail merge takes groups of 15 records and will print them in reverse order (I realized this when I was just printing in alphabetical order, not by zip codes). Now, I have the records sorted by zip code, and then the zip codes that all go into one mailing tray are grouped together, but all on one spreadsheet. When I print them, they are so mixed up.  I have to sort through 600 newsletters to find every one that goes in each tray. I can't print each tray separately because they all have to be submitted together electronically as one mailing job to the USPS. Is there a way to stop this shuffling of records as it prints?

Continuing a style across a page

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 11:16 AM PDT

Does there happen to be a way in Word 2013 to add the "THE YELLOW CAB (CONTINUED)" automatically where it breaks pages?

Thanks!

THE YELLOW CAB

blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah blah

------------------------------------------ Page Break -----------------

THE YELLOW CAB (CONTINUED)

blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah blah

Formatting random alphanumeric numbers in Word.

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 10:49 AM PDT

I am about to send out survey questionnaires that must not identify respondents by name or make it possible for anybody to guess who a respondent is in a controlled target population area. Hence I need consent numbers in-lieu of names. How do I make Microsoft Word to generate and insert random alphanumeric numbers on a document, in the same way dates are generated?

I am sorry if this question sounds dumb. I am not just too technical.

Thanks,

Eric B.

Word 2013, W8.1, Docx - each line of text is on a separate page after the first page

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 10:13 AM PDT

In Word 2013, W8.1, in some docx documents, beginning with the second page, each line of text is on a new page.  Saving these into doc format solves the problem, but there are times I want the docx features.  This is not consistent behavior and I have not tracked down a root cause.  The first page is fine, but starting with page 2, there is only one line of text at the top of each page and the next line starts a new page.  The effect is like there is a next page break at the end of each line, but only in docx (and, again, not consistently with all docx documents), including header/footers and page numbering.  A 3-page document may display/print as 100+ pages, and number each page accordingly. 

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

Upgrading from Office 2007 to 365: what happens to customizations?

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 10:05 AM PDT

We may be upgrading a Win 7 machine from Office 2007 to Office 365. In doing so, what will happen to our customizations?

Assuming they'll get lost, are there any steps I can take to make the transition easier? Customizations include:

A custom style set that I use on almost all incoming documents. Will I be able to export/import it?

A small collection of macros I've written. Will it be as easy as opening a Visual Basic window and copying over to the new install? Will I be pasting to the same location?

Extensive keyboard customizations. Is there a way to export/generate a list of customizations before upgrading? If there is a process to re-mapping, I'd rather do it all at once than try and remember every customization. Also, is there any way to do the mapping based on that list. That is, it will be quite tedious to re-map them one at a time using the 'regular' customize process (i.e. scrolling through a list to find the command, etc.). Can it be automated at all?

The least likely is custom add-ons (e.g. Oxford Concise Dictionary). I assume those will need to be re-loaded from scratch.

Any other typically customized categories I've forgotten about in the intervening seven years (seven years!)?

Sorry if this is in the FAQs or basic help--I've searched but not found anything.

Oh, and though I'm posting this mostly about Word, if there are similar guides or resources for Excel and Outlook, those would be much appreciated. Thanks~

How do I save font style changes to custom headers in Word 2007?

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 09:47 AM PDT

I am trying to save a simple custom header in Word 2007. It only includes a page number (in a separate text box) and a StyleRef field (Chapter title). In the header drop-down my custom header says "Error! no text of specified style in document." (All built-in headers with a "chapter title" display the same message.) However, when I insert it, it displays fine with one exception. I can't save changes to the font styles in this header. I want to save it as Cambria, pt 12, bold, small caps. I can apply this formatting to my text then overwrite that header or even save my changes as a new header. The font style changes show up on my header drop down box (although it just applies the font styles to its "Error! no text of specified..." message). It all works fine until I exit the document and save changes then reopen the document. There go my font style adjustments. They're gone from the header drop down box and they only remain on the very first word of the header. What am I doing wrong?

Trouble opening a Word 2013 document with Word 2007

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 09:41 AM PDT

[Edit: If the likely source of the problem isn't version compatibility or you've never heard of such a conflict telling me that would be appreciated too]

A client that sends me documents to work on recently switched over to Office 2013 (we're on Word 2007). Since then (or perhaps somewhat since then; this may be a correlation/observer bias problem on my end), I've had trouble opening some Word documents.

When I try to open a document, I get the generic "The file xxx cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents. There are no error details available.

Here's where it gets a bit weird. I can change the extension from .docx to .zip and see the contents of the archive and open/view various xml files. Furthermore, I can paste it into a shared directory with a Linux VM and open the files in LibreOffice without a problem (I have to work in Word though, so that's not an easy way out).

I'm on a Win 7 machine running Office 2007. The files have come/created by different machines on the client's end without any discernable pattern—some files have opened fine. We asked on client to back-save and that seemed to work, but we can't really keep asking them to do so.

I'm kind of at an abrupt dead end diagnostics-wise. In a pinch I can save the LibreOffice as a Word doc and move forward, but I'm not comfortable with that as a solution—these are 200-page books with lots of graphics, formatting, tracked changes and comments; I'd hate for something to get lost in the transfers.

Any thoughts?

Thanks~

Office and pdf files suddenly can't be opened.

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 08:10 AM PDT

I have a situation on our network. a large portion of our doc, docx, xls, xlsx and pdf files on our shared drive won't open. Word files say "Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc". Excel files say "The file you are trying to open is in a differnet format than specified by the file extension. Verify that the file is not corrupted and is from a trusted source before opening the file. Do you want to open the file now?". Pdf files say "Adobe Reader could not open the file because it is either not a supported file type of because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).". This happened a couple days ago on Friday morning. I have been trying to figure out what happened. At the time, I was working on a user's computer removing a virus from it. Remote Desktop would fail when ever he tried to use it. It would fail with the message about Faulting application mstsc.exe with the faulting module of mstscax.dll. After some research it pointed towards a virus. Using Kapersky I found the virus in the boot sector. I use the tool from Kapersky called tdskiller to remove it. While dealing with this I started to hear users say that they couldn't open files on the network share. After finishing the virus removal I turned to this problem. I verified that the files wouldn't open. All the pdf, excel and word files would report the above messages. After restarting the server some of the files would open. I have a majority that won't. If I try to copy the files to my desktop I still get the same messages. The files are on a virtual Windows Server 2003 and in a shared. When I agree to open them in either word or excel (acrobat doesn't give me the option) they display gibberish. I scroll down thru them and see no recognizable text. It looks like the following for example, "Ã.yuvµæJC"Ln<gÔ–i1eK1´Ùô"¸q"0Æ*\É¢"¬ÙW>L#KÄÎp". I am not certain if it is a virus or file corruption. I am not certain how to recover the information. Should I do a check disk? Any help and ideas would be hugely appreciated.

Word 2013 Configuring online content access

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 07:07 AM PDT

Hi All,

I'm trying to configure Word 2013 to allow access to Insert \ Online Pictures \ Clip Art as an internet resource, yet suppress other internet services such as File \ Account \ Connected Services \ Storage | Other Sites | Office Store.

The only GPO I have found that affects these settings is Microsoft Office 2013/Tools | Options | General | Service Options.../Online Contentshow which edits the reg key 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\policies\microsoft\office\15.0\common\internet]
"useonlinecontent"=dword:00000000

Configuring the GPO to Allow Office to connect to the Internet enables both Online Pictures, and Account \ Connected Services.  Disabling the GPO turns them both off.

Is it possible to suppress Connected Services while allowing Online pictures?

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

trouble inserting ESP. file

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 06:44 AM PDT

I need to work with some esp. files in both or either Word or Publisher. I have Office 365 but cannot insert the file(s) in either program. I get an error in Publisher and just a box with an x in it telling me it cannot be displayed in Word.

Thanks for your help,

Gary

Saving Docx as ODT skips equations containing '/' : bug in omml2mml.xsl ?

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 05:41 AM PDT

Hi,

Whenever I save a DOCX file as ODT, equations containing '/' in them go missing in the ODT version.

This looks like a bug in the omml2mml.xsl XSLT that transforms equations from Office MathML to MathML.

This happens in both Office 2010 and 2013, it also occurs in 3rd party tools like Wordconvert1.1.exe that use Word's Document SaveAs API.

Is there a known fix? Please help - this is a real showstopper for me.

I can email you sample files to reproduce the issue.

Thanks,

Amit

Links replaced by things like {HYPERLINK "xxx"} (MS Word 2007)

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 05:36 AM PDT

Hello,

My MS Word 2007 was working fine for years and all of a sudden, all links are replaced by code looking like something like {HYPERLINK "xxx"}.

If I do a print preview, the links show normally. I am guessing I enabled/disabled something but can't figure out what.

Attached is a print screen of one word doc showing the issue (note: I have closed, shut down the PC, reopened other docs, etc... the problem persist and is on all Word documents).

Help!

Julien

Text is being compressed when printing Word document

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 04:36 AM PDT

Hi Experts

I have noticed every now and then that when printing a Word document some of the text is being compressed into what seems like one character for each line. However it is not all text parts of the document that are being compressed. I have experienced this on two different brands of printers (HP and Canon) now.

It seems to make a difference removing the printer and adding it again but I do not think that really is a solution. As far as I recall I have read somewhere that this has to do with background printing in Word.

Anyone has a solution for this without deactivating the background printing of Word?

Assembling a Manuscript with Multiple Chapters in Individual Files

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 03:50 AM PDT

I have written a novel that has 11 chapters.  I have written each chapter in a separate Word file.  I would like to assemble these into one manuscript without having to copy and paste each chapter.  Does Word have any capability to do this?  I'm thinking of something like this:

1st Section

...include TitlePage.docx

2nd Section

...include TOCPage.docx

3rd Section

...include FigPage.docx

4th Section

...include Forword.docx

5th Scection

...include Chapter1.docx

6th Section

...include Chapter2.docx

...etc...

Thanks...Bill Smart

word crash and stop responding

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 02:54 AM PDT

Any idea why word crashes whenever I open  it and want to print any solution thanks

"Add a Place on the Cloud" link in Word 2013 does not respond on my PC hence I cannot add "Dropbox" - "OneDrive" is added by default

Posted: 01 Jun 2014 10:52 PM PDT

Configuration: Word 2013 (32-bit) on Windows 8.1 (64-bit)

In the following image, as we see, "+ Add a Place" link is meant for what it says BUT, when put in action, it simply responds NOT to left or right click.

As it says, adding location would hep save Office documents to the cloud. Therefore, I wanted to add here "Dropbox" which I can use for saving Office documents to the cloud.

But then, I CANNOT do this because the link does not respond.

Does it respond to click on your PC and lets you add Dropbox or any such other place on the cloud?

Or, is your experience like me?

 

"Read Mode" in Word 2013 does not look as the "Take a Tour" document says - wonder why so?

Posted: 01 Jun 2014 10:36 PM PDT

  • This question is based on Take a Tour document of Word 2013.

  • It says, as you see in the image below, that I can view a Word document in Read Mode where as the icon shows, the document will appear in book fold

  • But then, as I click on Read Mode Icon, the following is what I get, NOT in book fold view as the icon shows

  • Wonder, why it is so, or what have I done wrong?

Word 2013 Vertical Ruler

Posted: 01 Jun 2014 07:46 PM PDT

I have the vertical ruler displayed in Word 2013, but I don't see, at the bottom and top of the ruler, the arrow that I used to click on to move to the next or previous page.  Has this been taken out of 2013?

Thanks.

Error 24 when trying to open word file

Posted: 01 Jun 2014 05:17 PM PDT

Hi,

I am an on line uni student and My results for my last assignment I cannot open as word is throwing this error up

The error reads - Something went wrong and word was unable to start (24)

would really appreciate some help as have no clue how to fix.. The above box tries to give instructions but I could not follow as am still getting my head around 8.1

Key board problems with symbles

Posted: 01 Jun 2014 04:53 PM PDT

When typing this symble @ I get this symble " and this happens with ather keys too. How do I get my key boad to work normally. It is some thing that has only just happend in the last few days. Please some one help.

Cannot create a pdf file with MS office 365

Posted: 01 Jun 2014 04:25 PM PDT

This does not work on my PC  why wont the option to create a pdf file work with MS office 365?

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Word 2003 problem opening docx files

Posted: 01 Jun 2014 03:36 PM PDT

I know that 2003 is no longer supported, but I thought the community may be able to help me.

I have two computers, both running Windows 7 Professional and Office 2003 with SP3 and the format converter.

On one computer, everything works fine--I'm able to open the new formats ("x") by double-clicking on the file.

On the other computer, I can do the same for xlsx and pptx files, but not for docx.  I can open docx by opening from within Word, but not by double-clicking on the file name.  I get an error message that says:  "This action is only valid for products that are currently installed".  I checked the list of file types in the control panel and they are correct.  I then un-installed and re-installed Office 2003, SP3 and the file converter add-on.  No change.  I'm stumped at this point.

Anyone know what the problem might be on the second computer?  Thanks.

John

word for iPad - how to view as outline

Posted: 01 Jun 2014 03:14 PM PDT

I do not have a paid account. I thought I had read that MSWord for iPad allows one to view a word doc in outline mode. I am reviewing reading a large word doc that is a manuscript with headers and sub-headers etc. for different chapters. I am completely new to this app so any help is appreciated. The file I am viewing is in OneDrive.
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