| Error message Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:41 PM PDT I am getting an error message when I try to open Microsoft office programs such as exel and word. The message reads "We are sorry by word (exel) has run into an error that is preventing it from working correctly. Word (exel) will need to close as a result. Would you like us to repair now? When I select "repair now" nothing happens. Thank You! |
| wildcard search question for Word Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:30 PM PDT I have a very large word document . Within the document are instances of a word pattern like this: apple:apple I wish to find all instances of this pattern within the document . The two words within the pattern must be the same. Is this possible using "find" in Word? |
| Fonts size changed from 12pt to 8pt in all documents Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:16 PM PDT I started a new document in Word 2013 and notice the fonts in this document were about 8pt or less, even though I had Comic Sans set to 12pt. I opened older documents and the fonts size in them also were about 8pt, even though the select size was 12pt. I could select all the text and then choose a font size of 18pt or higher and the text enlarged where it looked normal. I tried creating a new blank document and the same results as in the first paragraph above. I tried searching online and followed several tips on creating a new blank document and got stuck where the instructions; "If you do not have a document open, create a new document that is based on the Normal template. To do this, clickFile, click New, click Blank Document, and then click Create." There never was a "Create" button to click on, it just opened a blank document. Is there a solution? Respectfully, |
| How do you run spell check to check for errors in your track changes comments in Word 2013? Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:08 PM PDT Hi, Can anyone tell me how to run spell check on my track changes comments in Word 2013? Thanks in advance. |
| larrymoody Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:57 AM PDT since i am a member of this forum, why can't MS send out an email response to these queries??? these are legitimate concerns!! PLEASE, MICROSOFT, send out an email if this update is OK to install!!
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| Reply to Jay Freedman Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:36 AM PDT | Answer I'll try to answer at least some of your questions. I don't have answers for all of them. a. Is there a way to prevent automatic unwanted format changes to complex tables? Every time I open the document, a few tables are changed. They are too complex to be assigned one style. Is it possible that if a table has no Style, Word feels free to change its format? In Word, just as every paragraph has some style, every table has some table style. In the same way that Normal is the default paragraph style, Table Grid is the default table style. However, table styles are flaky and have been ever since their introduction in Word 2002. Refer to Shauna Kelly's article for an excellent rant. Although table formatting should never change just because of reopening a document, the conversion of Word's memory-resident image to the XML in the disk file could have a bug that's triggered by particularly complex formatting. If you can isolate particular tables that are unstable, I can pass them to the Word developers to investigate. | | b. Why does displaying the XE fields completely change the page numbering and page layout? Can this be prevented? If not, it was a horrible design decision. They should have handled it like the Review notices off to the right. XE fields are comparatively old constructs in Word, and they behave like all other fields -- their code displays inline. Tracked changes and comments came along later, and they use a different display mechanism. I doubt that Microsoft would consider rewriting the indexing code to accommodate your suggestion, as good as you and I think it would be. Every XE field is automatically formatted as Hidden. You can avoid changing the layout by going to Options > Display and unchecking Hidden text. This is absolutely required before you generate the index, to avoid getting incorrect page numbers. | | c. Why doesn't Advanced Find have a backwards search or a count of instances found? It does. To search backward, click the More button to expand the dialog, and change the Search dropdown from All to Up. To get a count, click the Find In button and click Main Document (or one of the other choices if available). The count appears in the dialog. | | d. I think I've noticed that Find does not work 100% of the time. True? That's not my experience, with one exception: If you use a wildcard expression when the "Use wildcards" box is not checked, or you use a non-wildcard expression when the box is checked, the search probably won't find anything. | | e. The lines of text differ in length between Draft and Print views. This is very inconvenient because Print view shows the final layout but repaginating is very slow. The original purpose of Draft view in early versions of Word was to minimize the load on the slow CPUs of the time (8086 and 80286 processors). Later, it morphed to a view that minimizes the temptation to fiddle with formatting when you're supposed to be paying attention to wording and organization. Neither of those things has anything to do with line breaks. When you switch to Page Layout view, it's supposed to be What You See Is What You Get. Almost any reasonably modern processor should be able to keep up with repagination in real time, although those complex tables you mentioned might slow it down -- especially if they're damaged in some way. | | f. Why does repaginating have to happen all the time in Print view even when I make a change that can't affect it? Very annoying. Print Layout view repaginates whenever you aren't actively editing. It has done that in every version of Word, because it's trying to be WYSIWYG. g. My book has three levels of organization: Parts, Chapters, and Sections. When I go to update the page numbers for cross references or TOCs, doing it at the Part level does not work. It keeps asking whether I want to update everything or just the page numbers. Doing a Chapter or Section is OK. I don't know what you mean by "Part level" -- and neither does Word. The largest functional grouping in Word is the document, and the next largest is the section. How are you defining your Parts, and more importantly, how are you trying to get Word to understand them? | | h. I thought that the entries in a TOC were hyperlinked, so that if you click on one it goes there. Mine don't do that. If you use one of the "Automatic" tables on the Table of Contents button, the entries should be hyperlinked. You do have to click somewhere inside the content control that contains the TOC before the tooltips will appear, and by default you have to hold Ctrl while clicking to make the jump. (To change that, go to Options > Advanced and uncheck "Use Ctrl+Click to follow hyperlink". Note that this affects all hyperlinks in all documents on your computer.) If you really don't have hyperlinked entries, press Alt+F9 to display field codes. In the code of the TOC field, add the \h switch (documented here) and then press F9 and choose to update the whole table. i. At seemingly random times, when I click Home > Paragraph > Numbering, Word hangs up for as much as ten minutes! Any ideas? Nope. But if you're numbering headings (rather than numbered lists), avoid the Numbering button like the plague. Instead set up a Multilevel List numbering scheme according to this procedure. Anything else is asking for trouble. | | j. Why are the Quick Styles not in a sensible order? The snarky answer is that it is sensible -- to someone. The real answer is that there are many sensible orders, depending on what you're doing and how you prefer to work. You can define your own order. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to open the Styles pane, and click the Manage Styles button at the bottom. Go to the Recommend tab of the dialog. In turn, click each style you want to see on the Quick Styles gallery; if it's gray, click the Show button; and click the Assign Value button and give it a value. The lowest values appear first on the gallery, and higher ones farther to the right and/or down to the next row. | | k. Is there a way to find out what styles are actually used in my document? It would be nice to delete all those that are not used, in one quick step. Not really. For one thing, you can't delete any of the built-in styles -- Word just won't allow that to happen. You can delete custom styles, either those defined in the document itself or those defined in the base template. If there is any text formatted with a style that you try to delete, you'll be warned; if you continue, that text will be formatted with Normal style. You can affect which styles are shown in the Styles pane, if you care. On the Styles pane, click the Options button. The "Select styles to show" dropdown claims to let you choose "All styles" (but not really all; only Paragraph, Character, and Linked), "In use" (but that shows some styles that aren't assigned to any text), "In current document" (but this shows the same list as "In use"), or "Recommended" (according to the settings on the Recommend tab of the Manage Styles dialog). l. Is there an easy way to remove lots of the styles I never use? Deleting one at a time is very slow. If these are custom styles rather than built-in styles, then yes, you can write a macro to do it. The gist of it is that, for each custom style, the macro does a Find. If no text with that style is found, then the macro deletes the style. If you ask Google, you'll probably find that someone has posted such a macro. m. Are any of these things improved in Office 2013? If not, why buy it?
If these are your only criteria for whether to buy Office 2013, then you won't find any of them are different in Office 2013. The major focus in 2013 is on integration with the Cloud (particularly OneDrive) and on collaboration with co-workers. There are some very nice new features, but none of them are in the areas you asked about. | |
| Graphics messed up in all Office programs. Posted: 24 Aug 2014 09:54 AM PDT I've updated my graphics driver. I had the problem with office 2007 and just purchase office 2013 with the same problem. 
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| Pop-up Editing Bar Word 2013 Posted: 24 Aug 2014 05:19 AM PDT There is an annoying (to me) task bar (?) with editing options that covers up text while I am trying to edit that text. The same editing functions exist on the ribbon. How do I stop Word 2013 from popping up this small task bar?
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| Tiling New/Open Windows in Word 2013 Posted: 24 Aug 2014 05:14 AM PDT How does one prohibit Word 2013 from tiling new or opening documents? I would prefer Word to open doc and overlay previously opened documents.
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| Change Default Hyphenation Setting Posted: 24 Aug 2014 04:47 AM PDT How does one change the default setting for hyphenation to "automatic"? I have searched "options" but cannot find anything relevant. Must I turn on "automatic" each time I open a new document?
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| Gidouen Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:58 AM PDT Since I started using WORDS and EXCEL using the program MICROSOFT office starter 2010, I keep on getting a pop-out saying : """" Click to run An update for Microsoft Office Starter 2010 - English is now available on line. Please remain connected to the internet for the duration of the the update. Do you wish to start downloading the update now? OK Cancel """" This doesn't look like a Microsoft notification. I did not click on OK or CANCEL. I just click on the X at the top right of the window to remove it. Please inform if this is e genuine Microsoft notice. Many thanks. <moved from: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/mse-protect_scanning/gidouen/5b4ae266-4a46-45b3-8384-9ef2050a56d7>
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| Problem in specifying page borders Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:36 PM PDT Hey, I'm a user of MS Word 2013. I have to do my Industrial training report with the following specifications. The page borders should be 40mm from the left edge and 25mm from the right, top and bottom edges. Since word doesn't take spacing more than 31pt(which is way less when converted to mm), I'm unable to get the required page borders. It's kinda urgent. So, any solutions please ? |
| Changes to Normal Template in Word Posted: 23 Aug 2014 04:46 PM PDT If I change the Normal Template (for example, by changing the default font or font size), do past documents based on the (prior) Normal Template change? Or does changing the NT only effect future documents?
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| WORD 2010 - How to Centre text and a text box across a page... Posted: 23 Aug 2014 03:30 PM PDT Can anyone tell me how to go about this? Basically, I have the text "Now" then a rectangular shaped text box which is for a tick, then "In the next 4 years" then a another text box, then "In the future" and another text box - this is all across 1 line. I'd like this entire line to be centred including the text boxes. Every time, I try and highlight this line, its only the actual text which is being centred. The text boxes are staying where they are and I'm not sure how to do this. Thanks for any help :) |
| Autosave is Disabled: iOS Word App Posted: 23 Aug 2014 06:15 AM PDT iOS Word app on iOS 7. Word 2013 (from Office 365) on Win 8.1. Updating a document on both platforms. Make a change on the Windows platform. On the iOS app I get a pop up that says 'Autosave is Disabled - This file is being edited by other authors. To save your changes, go
to the File menu and tap Save and Refresh. I can't find a 'File' menu in the iOS app. I have Home, Insert, Layout, Review, and View. I do have 'Autosave' enabled in the iOS Word app. Thanks for any help or advice. |
