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Microsoft Word - What is causing this mysterious box and how can I remove it?


What is causing this mysterious box and how can I remove it?

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 02:28 PM PDT

I had someone show me this empty box at the bottom of the table on their Microsoft Word 2013 document and tell me that they didn't know how it got there or how to remove it. 

I know it's not a cell from the table above as when I right click on it, it doesn't bring up options for dealing with cells.  I've tried selecting it and deleting it and then right clicking on it and cutting or deleting it, but no luck.  What is causing this and how do I remove it?

Document crashes Word

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 12:56 PM PDT

Split from this thread.

The document in question has come from SharePoint online and has some heavy formatting.

Can we send in the word doc in question? I suspect it will crash whatever machine it runs on.

Cannot uninstall or re-install Microsoft 2010 home & student

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 12:19 PM PDT

My Microsoft 2010 does not work, it keeps telling me the user will not let me. I had it yesterday and today it will not let me access it.

I am so confused. I did put myself and girlfriend as an administrator and put myself as a local account. It also says cannot verify the license and should repair the office program in control panel. I have tried this and it does not work. What do I do now? I had office for four years not it is telling me they cannot verify my license what is with this, I am totally confused. Please help me I need my office!

Thank You

Home and Student 2010 problems

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 11:20 AM PDT

So I bought Microsoft Home and Student 2010 a year or 2 ago for my laptop. It was working fine up until I had to get my laptop repaired numerous times for hardware problems. I eventually got it repaired a month a go, I installed Office Home & Student (for 3 pc's and I'd only installed it once on my laptop) and it seemed to be working. However when I tried to get some work done and open documents I keep getting the message of it being an unlicensed product. I tried putting in the install disc again to try and repair features and see if that made a difference, it didn't. I went to Google and saw some suggestions like changing the settings because Publisher isn't a part of it so wan't working, I did that and it too made no difference. I saw other people saying to remove and re-install it and other people saying there is no need. I've also seen people saying you have to upgrade. I've already spent almost £200 on it, surely I don't need to upgrade again, do I? If anyone out there can possibly give me some hope of fixing this issue I will be very grateful.

Andy

Do drawing canvases prevent photo compression?

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 10:11 AM PDT

Hi all -

I'm using drawing canvases to group pictures in word and I keep ending up with extremely large file sizes that are leading to issues with saving. I have been individually compressing each photo, but it doesn't seem to make a difference as to the file size. Any help? 

'Set proofing language' has a mind of its own

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 09:28 AM PDT

Word 2010 on a Windows 8.1 computer, Spanish hardware and keyboard setting, software purchased online in English from Spain.

i have removed every reference i can find to the Spanish language, and i have set every place i can find to 'English' as default.

Still when i start an email or a Word document, the system insists on checking in Spanish first, even though i use English predominantly.

i have been to 'Set proofing language' where SpaNISH IS HIGHLIGHTED, CHANGED THAT TO eNGLISH, TICKED 'SET AS DEFAULT', clicked the option to 'change every document based on Normal template, and still if i click 'Set proofing language immediately (or on next opening a document) it proof reads in Spanish

i have been through every 'help'topic i can find on the subject, and am currently considering whether my first floor office is high enough to completely destroy my computer and its software if i throw it out!

Help!

Keith Mason

Automated Table of Figures

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 08:57 AM PDT

My figure captions have long, explanatory notes, which continue on the same line as the actual figure number and main caption text (this is a requirement of the document - I can't change that). Is there any way of applying a style to part of a line and not the rest of the line/paragraph? I just want, e.g., Figure 1 Blah Blah Blah to appear in the automated table of figures but the style I apply is taken up by the entire text that follows this piece. Thanks in advance.

Very strange disappearing text and paragraphs in Office 2013 Pro

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 08:46 AM PDT

Okay, I swear this question has never been asked before. I've spent the better part of my life for the past two days scouring the internet for this issue.

First, qualifiers:

  • I am running Windows7 and Windows8.1 when this issue occurs.
  • I have Microsoft Office Professional Plus
  • It happens regardless of whether or not I have copied/pasted or typed manually
  • I am not using the overtype feature
  • I am using OpenType Features and alternative expert fonts (such as Linux Libertine, Minion Pro (Adobe), Calluna)
  • It happens regardless of whether or not I have OpenType features enabled.
  • It seems to not promulgate by the default font Calibri (tested in one place on one paragraph).
  • I have not experienced this behavior in any of the other Microsoft Office products other than Word (Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Access).

Next, the behavior:

  • It happens at seemingly random times. When I'm typing, or copy/paste, a number of things will happen. First, my cursor will disappear, and part of a paragraphs text will be randomly missing from the screen. When I try to highlight the affected body of text, the "highlight gray" that covers the text also partially disappears. When I try to click and move my cursor to within the affected body, it also does not appear. When I go to remove part of the paragraph (usually the beginning), the missing text magically appears.
  • It also occurs when I'm returning to the beginning of a line. When I press enter at the end of any given paragraph, the end of the paragraph will disappear with the start of a new one.
  • When I go to print, the text also is not present. In fact, in many things I've done, my numbers, fractions, and list numerators do not appear in the print, even if they are present on the screen.
  • The problem is also present when exporting to a PDF of any kind.

Help?

Missing Insertion Cursor in Word 2007

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 07:51 AM PDT

In Word 2007, I am missing the insertion cursor and macros are not running anymore either.  I have read multiple post on this issue.  Tried almost everything from uninstalling to repair to word options and cursor rates.  It has not worked.  Need help!

Word 2013

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 07:05 AM PDT

I now have Word 2013 as part of a new Office Package.

It opens properly  and it is easy to use. However, I am finding that when a file is saved and closed it reopens in word 2003 mode ( not compatibility Mode) the next time I want to work on it .

I still have Office 2003 on the computer,

My question is, how can I stop recently created files opening in the old Word style and appearing in the folder with the old Word icon?

Do I simply remove the older program from the computer. If so how will that affect older files created before Office 2013 was installed ?

Result Chain Smart Art

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 06:53 AM PDT

I have been searching a better way to draw Result Chain smart in word with no success so far. I have seen Result chain diagram in wikipedia. Can some one suggest me to draw in these type of diagrams. Thanks in advance.

Microsoft Word 2013

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 05:19 AM PDT

Microsoft Word 2013 is not working properly. I've done the following;

1) Run > winword /repair - nogo

2) Same as above - winword  /safemode - nogo

3) Uninstall Reinstall - nogo

Not sure what else to do. Ran a microsoft fix it, nope.... 

The problem, is that when I open it - everything is blank. Other Office 2013 products work just fine. I can't see text, I can't see menu items, and when I try to download templates everything but the image is blank. I can't even see the ribbon. Not sure what else to try at this point...

Thanks in advance!

Pictures not displaying in Office (Word) for Windows Phone 8.1

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:47 AM PDT

I am a new user of Windows Phone 8.1.

When I open a document (created in Office '93 for example) in Office on my Windows Phone, the pictures and word drawings in the document do not display, I just get the old Windows picture icon.

Is there anything I can do to get this to display properly?

Short footer.

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 08:34 PM PDT

The footer on side of my mirror document is shorter that the footer on the other page.  How can I make them equal in size?

Word has run into an error that is preventing it from working correctly

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 07:40 PM PDT

Word:

 

Version: 15.0.4641.1003

Error Code: -1610612703-8

ERROR_BAD_CONFIGURATION

1610 (0x64A)

The configuration data for this product is corrupt. Contact your support personnel.

The uninstall and change both failed to complete.

Word Form - Buttons Stop Working

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 05:46 PM PDT

I have a Word form that has been used for several years, but doesn't work correctly in Word 2013.

There are a number of content controls and 2 buttons, one that emails the document and one that does a validation of the information entered. When we open the file in Word 2013, after working through the fields, when one scrolls back to the buttons, they do not work.

It's not that the code is failing, the button simply doesn't respond in any way to the mouse. ie, It doesn't appear to move, instead the outline and sizing handles appear around the button. This makes it impossible for the user to submit the form. It works perfectly in earlier versions of Word. There are two content controls near the buttons, and they too stop working. No cursor appears when you click in them, and no text appears when typing.

The only way to get the buttons to work again is to disable Protection, go into Design mode, then exist Design mode and re-protect the document. The two buttons are in an unprotected section of the form.

I need to find out how to get the document to work reliably in Word 2013.


Thanks

Gordon

In word 2010, text converted to non-standard bottom border

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 05:05 PM PDT

I don't know what I must have done.  I'm proofing a large file (800 pages of mostly text) of short stories.  There are many places in the stories where a scene break exists - consisting of '***' centered on its own line.  These have ALL been replaced with a non-default bottom border, ie, a 3 point wide dotted line (small squares, actually) across the entire width of the line above. To be very clear, it is not an underline.  It's hard to believe that I somehow made such a global change, particularly because I'm still trying to replace the bottom border with the original line and aren't finding a find/replace for borders. 

I'm running 64-bit windows 7 and 32 bit Word.

For example:

These are the words before the scene break (denoted by ***)..

                    ***

These are the words after the scene break. 

And, to a small degree, it now looks like (except the underline is really a big fat border):

These are the words before the scene break (denoted by ***)..

These are the words after the scene break. 

My questions:

1.  how could I have done this (or could the change to bottom border be something in the document that was masked over and I hit the switch)?

2.  How can I fix this in a replace-all way?

thanks for any help you have to offer.  I spent some time looking for a previous question but didn't find anything useful.

Joan

Where can I download some free, virus and adware-free, music symbol font sets?

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 04:50 PM PDT

Just like it says on the top. I want to change the lyrics to a song for my own use, not to record or anything.

How to mark a task as complete without adjusting the actual work Microsoft Project

How to mark a task as complete without adjusting the actual work Microsoft Project


How to mark a task as complete without adjusting the actual work

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 10:44 PM PDT

I want the task to be checked (Completed!!) and i want to be able to say
that i was able to complete this task in half the time and tell the boss that
i saves this much money on this task.

I use a view that includes a custom task field (number) that is the exact original estimate.
It is a non calculated enduring value. Baseline does the same thing and is nice because of the native
Gantt chart representation but sometimes that is too sophisticated. As Jan said the reporting comes
in; in your case; 
The custom task field has an enduring value of 4 which is the original work estimate, with no need to
understand baselines. I did it most for the convienence of not having to explain baselines to other users.
then just made them nice reports that show "We beat estimate!" on this task or "We went over estimate
on this task" Almost immediately there was a gain in focus on each assignment to beat estimate. PM's tightened
estimates, resources responded, and a balance was struck. "TRUE" estimates became visable, not ones with built in
bloat, trust was built between resource and scheduler. Resource started looking for root causes of why an assignment
would take longer or shorter. Almost always it had to do with someone messing with their flow, That is interruptions OR waiting
on a needed preconditon.



"Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote in message news:%phx.gbl... 


Milestones linked to summary bar

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 06:35 PM PDT

Hi,

Quote:
"I don't like seeing Milestones with its predessesor the summary bar to
which
it belongs"
Good news, that is impossible to do. When you try it you get the message:
"You cannot link a summary task to one of its subtasks".

HTH

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620
"meljay" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
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Customized Who Does What When

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 05:27 PM PDT

Hi John! I think I'm making this harder than it has to be. I went into the
Customize Fields screen and changed the values of the 20 flags to Yes. (Yes,
I have multiple resources on multiple tasks). But then I'm lost.

In the Resource Sheet, it shows all 20 custom fields under each resource
name and then in the Gantt view, no fields show.

If you have time, can you walk me thru this? I'm getting frustrated with my
inability to figure out what is probably an easy puzzle.

Thanks,
Patti

Seemingly simple question about scheduling resources

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 03:30 PM PDT

Yeah, I see what you're saying, but without the program in front of me, I
can't check. I will check first thing in the morning. Thanks for the input,
and I'll keep you posted.

Doug

"Brian K - Project MVP" wrote:
 

Remote Connections from Project Pro

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 03:22 PM PDT

Dave Lugo wrote:
 

well best case the server and the project Pro client are not on the same
box, for performance reasons but I suppose that would work. That box is
going to get a little busy.

--
Brian K - Project MVP
http://www.projectified.com
--
Senior Trainer - Electronic Arts
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QuantumPM Associate
http://www.quantumpm.com

Change windows behaviour

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 11:08 AM PDT

aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAHHH!

:-PP

Cesar



"JackD" <momokuri@gmail> wrote in message
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Sorry,
You can't change this behavior.

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Schedule gaps

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 10:45 AM PDT

Hi,

So far so good!

Just a precision: don't be afraid of clear leveling.
Leveling introduces delays ands stores them on assignment level.
Clear leveling just puts them to zero.
That is why clear leveling is so much faster than leveling itself (can take
minutes on pools with many files); it is so much simpler.

Hope this helps.

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620
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HELP: Task Calendar won't have any effect!

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 08:26 AM PDT

Dear Julie,

Yes, it's my mistake not having chosen all monday to Friday column! Thanks a
lot advicing my careless mistake!

Best regards,
Teres
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How do I accomplish this kind of budgeting/resource allocation?

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 06:47 AM PDT

In article <phx.gbl>,
"Patrick Allmond" <com> wrote:
 


Patrick,
Well I'm glad you went back to proofread what you wrote - even if it was
after the fact. Many people just don't care. I even had one guy tell me
it was too much effort to bother with capitalizing. And these people
work in a professional environment? Wow.

Sorry, it's kind of a hot button with me.

When users put together a plan to secure budget there is always a
certain amount of "gaming" going on between the performers and the
providers. Unfortunately it is a no win situation. It might work the
first time but pretty soon management (or a customer) figures out the
the numbers are padded and they set or negotiate a budget accordingly.
So the user pads the next plan a little more and so it goes. In the end,
the plan isn't worth much because it doesn't represent anything and no
matter what the project the budget is never enough anyway.

I'm not sure there is a real answer because you're going against human
nature. The best scenario is to establish a honest working relationship
among the performers, management and the customer. Communication is the
key. My suggestion - put together the most honest plan estimate you can.
Don't shortchange yourself but also don't "pad" the plan. If you
management and customer are worth their salt, they will respect the job
you need to do to make the plan successful, and that is a win-win
situation.

That's my two cents anyway.
John
Project MVP