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Microsoft Word - Captions retain chapter numbers but lose sequential numbers between users in Word 2007

Microsoft Word - Captions retain chapter numbers but lose sequential numbers between users in Word 2007

Captions retain chapter numbers but lose sequential numbers between users in Word 2007

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 03:03 PM PST

Greetings.

I am sharing a large Word 2007 file with another office. When they open the file, sequential numbering in captions is lost, but the chapter number and hyphen separator remain. Does this have something to do with user settings? Any suggestions for resolution are very much appreciated. Thank you. 

Microsoft office books

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 02:22 PM PST

I am more of a beginner in microsoft office, but may inch into a little of intermediate with word. I would like to know the best books to get to help me at home. I am on a very strong budget, so I need the most economical  way. I was thinking of getting John Walkenbach "Excel 2010 Bible".  I have microsoft office 2010 with windows 7.

I am trying to change my career since my industry has declined in the past 10 years. I hope someone can help.

word error

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 01:57 PM PST

word cannot open the file because the file format does not match the file extension (C/...... /// docx)

The above error message appears when I download a word doc as view or save .. the existing docs on my computer open correctly..

Please Help Roy

Word 2013 will only open in "Read Only" when opening from Ektron CMS400.net

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:53 PM PST

Ektron CMS400.net allows users to edit word documents by opening the file in Word.  While this worked for Office 2010, the Word 2013 files will only open as "Read-Only."  I've tried changing the "Trust Center" settings but nothing works.

Any ideas?

Can I use clip art

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:51 PM PST

In the past I have made cards for family and friends and have sometimes included the clip art on Microsoft Word. I am currently considering selling some of my handmade cards and was wondering if I am allowed to use these clip art images?

Word 2010 - Can a fillable form have a digital signature?

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 10:45 AM PST

Can a fillable form have a digital signature?  If the answer is yes, once the first signature is sign; can the form be locked?

Outlook converting Word and Excel attachments in "All files" and changing their name

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 10:43 AM PST

User reported that emails from certain contacts have their word and excel attachments converted from their default format to an "all files" one, and their name is changed to one single capital letter (I, S, J), just as they were the link to the C: drive.

However, the attachments can be opened if Word / Excel is selected from the Open With.. menu. The issue was experienced with 2 external senders (both from the same company). I noticed that all messages were in Plain Text format, while others that successfully displayed the attachments were in HTML. Still, after asking the end user to send some test emails in HTML format, the problem still occurred. 

Other steps I undertook were running Outlook with the "/safe" switch, clearing up the Content.Outlook files in the Temporary Internet Files folder, and changing the contacts' Outlook Properties to "always use Rich Text format".

Also considering checking the file associations in Control Panel, although an improper setting there shouldn't also rename files.

Any suggestions of what might cause this problem, or any possible solutions?

Many thanks in advance.

MS Word "Command Button ActiveX" tool no longer availble to be used

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 09:37 AM PST

Hello,

If I execute the following steps

  • Developer tab
  • Controls group
  • Legacy Tools tool
  • Command Button (ActiveX control)

I receive the message "The program used to create this object is Forms. That program is either not installed on your computer or is not responding. ....."

I used the Command Button tool during the beginning of November and it worked just fine.  I rebooted the computer and restarted MS Word and it still is not working.

Additionally, all past buttons that I created using the Command Button tool are no longer working.  Clicking on a previously created Command Button no longer runs the macro that is assigned to it. (Note - These Command Buttons have been added to a Locked Form that is saved as a Macro Enabled Document in MS Word.)

This same issue is happening to most of the computers at my work site as well as my home computer.

How can I resolve this problem?

Thank you

Mark

Malfunctioning form/template created in Word 2007 and 2010 developer tab

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 08:30 AM PST

Hello there,

Amongst other things, my organisation puts together questionnaires using the developer tab in Word, which external users complete and return to us.

We use text boxes and drop down boxes, and restrict the documents' formatting so users can only alter certain parts of the document when answering questions e.g. add text, select from drop-downs.

Late December 2014, all of our online versions of the questionnaire documents lost fidelity, in particular, we could no longer place a cursor in the text box answer spaces. This also happened to completed questionnaire documents we hold on our system. External users have not been able to manipulate the text boxes in the documents they downloaded from our site since then either.

I have tried to create new forms, but the functionality of the text boxes I create is still imapired i.e. once I restrict the formatting, I am unable to put the cursor in the text box amd type anything.

Our internal IT team suggested that one of the automatic updates that Microsoft suggest they roll out to our licences could have created this issue. Has anybody had a similar experience and/or know of anyway to rectify this issue? Happy to provide further information if necessary.

Thanks in advance for responses.

Jack 

Tab problem with Microsoft Word 2013

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 08:21 AM PST

Hi there,

A document I've been working with for ages with no issues has just started doing alarming things with tabs.

I am indenting each new paragraph with what should be the default setting (1.27cm I think). However, I press tab once and the cursor jumps right to the end of the line.

Also, if I want to tab an existing paragraph so that the first line indents to 1.27cm, I hit tab and the first line indents as it should - but the next three or four lines sort of jump off to the right of the page, beyond the margins and beyond the visible page boundaries.

Would appreicate any advice!

Fixed continuous Section Break

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 07:50 AM PST

Since Word seems to require sections be established prior to working with headers and footers, and the breaks actually control the behavior of these, it stands to reason that if you want to ensure that your headers and footers remain as you want them on certain pages, then you need to be able to insert sections breaks that do not move.

I'm working with a template that has a specific header on the first page, and a different header on the second page, and no headers from this point forward.  The continuous section break at the bottom of page 1 permits me to insert this second header on page 2, but if the amount of material on page 1 changes, then this can kick that section break over to page 2 and now all my headers are hosed.

In my template, 'sections' are not determined by content, but by position in the document.  Thus, 'section 1' stands for "everything which is on the first page of the document," and 'section 2' stands for "everything that exists on the second page of the document, and 'section 3' stands for "everything in the document which occurs after this point" because I have no headers starting on page 3.

So...what I need to know is one of the following:

1.  How to force section breaks to remain where they are on the page instead of relative to text.

-OR-

2.  How to set up pages which do not rely upon section breaks to be able to control the content of headers.

Thanks!

What is going on with scanning?

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 07:34 AM PST

I have recently, and probably foolishly, purchased a subscription to Office365, thinking I was getting an improved version of the software I have been using for years.

So I want to open a document and scan into it.   Big mistake.  The first thing I find is that there is nothing about scanning on the menus.  So I try the help:

What is this? "we have taking scanning out"?  Why? are you deranged or something?  You seriously want me to run two separate programmes to scan my documents into word?

OK, let's try doing it your way.  I click the link in the help page and I get

And that says 'Scanning isn't available if your are using the 64 bit version of OneNote on a 64 bit version of windows'    What?  I have paid, in total,nearly £150 for a 64 bit operating system and a subsription to Office 365 and I can't use my scanner with it?

How am I supposed to scan documents into your software?

Envelope prints in wrong place

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 07:22 AM PST

I am trying to print an envelope using the Envelope wizard at Mailings > Envelopes but try as I might it prints in the wrong place.  Using a Brother DCP7020 printer, the envelope has to be manually fed in the centre, between the guides.  This is also what the wizard specifies.  But no matter what I do or what settings I try, it prints to the left edge of the print area, as if I was printing on a 8½ x 11 piece of paper.  The Print Preview looks correct.  There is no other way to insert the envelope into the feed - it has to be centred, there is no way to feed an envelope on the left edge. I tried reinstalling the print driver but it wouldn't let me, since it's a USB printer and says the driver is already up to date.

How do I print properly centred on the envelope?

All word and excel file extensions corrupted, any way to get them back?

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 06:56 AM PST

Hello,

My coworker recently had her computer worked on by a supposed technical support. Now all of her documents, workbooks, and PDF's have been resaved with a wonky file extension I have never seen, and will not open anymore. They are all saved as "filename.docx.DXYMJOB"   We have no idea where the DXYMJOB came from, and nothing came up on a google search. I tried renaming a document, removing that extension and leaving it as just .docx, but it still won't open. 
Has anyone had this happen before? We tried doing a system restore to before this all changed, but it did not repair any of the documents. 

Thank you for your help,


Erin

Word 2010 Link to file

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 05:22 AM PST

word 2010 automatic updates to excel links working but not to jpg links. Under the dialogue box showing links the "Update Method for selected link" is available for excel links but not for jpg. The jpgs were inserted as link to file.

Quotation marks are inserted in wrong font

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 04:25 AM PST

I'm trying to edit an existing document that was created by someone else with Mac Pages.

One paragraph style uses 16 pt Iowan Old Style font. But if I insert a quotation mark in such a paragraph, it gets inserted in Arial Unicode MS font! (That doesn't seem to happen with any other characters.)

I used the Style Inspector on that paragraph style and found that it indeed has BOTH of those fonts defined for it:

Font:
   (Default) Iowan Old Style
   16 pt
   Font color: Black
   (Intl) Arial Unicode MS
Language:
   English (U.S.)

This totally threw me. How can a paragraph style have TWO different fonts defined for it? And why is one marked "(Default)" and the other one marked "(Intl)"? And why does the "Intl" style only happen with quotation marks?

Auto Scaling not working in word 2013

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 02:54 AM PST

I try to paste a screenprint, or a copy of an image into a table in word.

Unfortunately, it always gets pasted (even in both paste special options) to 100%, and not to column width. If I allow column width to vary, the colun may become a bit bigger, but a) the images may exceed one page in width and b) I want my columns to be fixed.

I read about this problem also for word 2010:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/graphics-pasted-in-from-the-clipboard-do-not/122113f9-ab5a-4f63-8297-c2160e25ae54?page=2

and

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/82023079-f911-4e23-9ac5-f2e0ae120826/scaling-an-image-while-pasting-word-2010?forum=word

But I cannot reproduce the autoscaling as described, even using Sue's svg and using "copy image" instead of screenprint or snipping tool.

Question, thus:

How can I paste any image into a table in Word 2013 so that it automatically fits itself into the margins (i.e. downscales)?

Autocorrect self deletes

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:36 AM PST

Hello

I put a lot of frequently used words in MS Word 2013's auto-correct feature.  Frequently it "forgets" the words I've put in it.  Why?  I've been saving documents as a template sometimes but i'm not sure why i'm doing that.  I work from one document for about three weeks.  Why, when i open it the next day has it forgotten some of my new auto-corrects and what can i do about it?

Thank you for reading this.

Importing Pictures

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:14 AM PST

Can Microsoft Office Picture Manager tell me the image resolution of a photograph in Word 2003?  If so, how do I import the picture to it?

Make a fillable Form with fixed text content in Word 2013

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 10:54 PM PST

I want to make a form in word that has fixed size fillable elements.

for example the user can type his name in 20 characters only and if his name was more than 20 characters, the size of font automatically decrease and fit in text content.

Is there any solution with MS Word 2013?

Thanks.

Normal.dotm Word 2007 problem

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 09:22 PM PST

After some Windows updates my Normal.dotm started to open up with different settings. I deleted it from its Template location several times, hoping that Word restart would go back to previous settings but it didn't.

Even more confusing is the fact that if I use opening option "New" by right-clicking on the Template it will give me corrupted file but if I use "Open" option the file with correct formatting will open. This means every time I open Word using any desktop or menu shortcut, it will open corrupt document. This is after I manually changed my shortcuts as well, just in case.

By "corrupt" I mean completely different settings than default should have and this is without previous manual alteration by me. I always use "Print Layout" view and it has no ruler on left side and cursor starts right at the top of the page with zero margins. When I check the settings for "Top Margins" it is set to 1 inch as the default should be.

Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

office 2013 guides

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 09:00 PM PST

When I try to open any of the office 2013quick start guides, or the office touch guides it tries to open in word pad and a failed to open message appears. Shouldn't it open in the reader app or word 2013. Do I have a computer setting wrong?  i'm using windows 8.1

Accidentaly delete all content in MS WORD, close and save. Please help its my thesis :(((((

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 08:43 PM PST

I super accidentaly delete all content of my thesis and hit close and save button,

my thesis deadline is 1 weeks from now :(. 

can somebody please please please help me, its my everything, 

is that some kind of application like restore point, but can also affect files ?

heeelllpp T_T

MS Word encoding seems to have changed on its own...??

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 06:32 PM PST

A relative of mine has spent hours working on a report for college, only to come back to the computer and be meet with garbled text that used to be her 2500 word document.

After spending some time playing around with encodings and the like (with a copy, not the original file) I haven't been able to recover anything.

Aside from the obvious moral of the story that is: always keep a backup elsewhere, would anyone be able to possibly help recover the document, or has it become corrupted and thus irretrievable??

I've included a screenshot as an example, can provide a copy via Google Drive if anyone would prefer:


Any help would be greatly appreciated, 

- Josh

MS Word scroll jumps around when switching windows

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 05:15 PM PST

When using Microsoft Word on Windows 7, if I have a long Word document open and I scroll down or up to a different page without setting the cursor there and switch to a different window, when I switch the focus back to Word, it will jump back to (or scroll back to) where the cursor is rather than staying where I last left it.

When returning to the Word window, I want to return to it exactly like I last left it regardless of where the cursor is.

For example, I open a 75-page document and write something on page 15. Then I use the scroll-wheel to scroll down to page 65 without clicking anywhere. Then I switch to a Chrome window that has text I want to copy and paste into page 65 of the Word doc, which I highlight and copy. When I switch back to Word, it will jump back to page 15 because that is where I last left the typing cursor. Then I proceed to curse at my computer as I try to find the spot I was at before.

I usually try to remember to put the cursor on my active page before I switch to something else, but this seems like an unnecessary workflow chore. When I forget to do this , it is incredibly frustrating - especially in 100+ page documents.

I've looked for a fix all over. Does anyone know of a settings / tweak / anything that would fix this behavior?

Grouping images and text boxes

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

How do I group images and text boxes together? I know how to do it on my computer, but not on my iPad. 

Word 2013 crashing every 5 minutes

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 03:44 PM PST

I just downloaded office 2013 (via office 365) on a brand new computer and word is crashing every 5 minutes with this message: 

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: BEX

Application Name: WINWORD.EXE

Application Version: 15.0.4673.1000

Application Timestamp: 54588338

Fault Module Name: unknown

Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0

Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000

Exception Offset: 000013d2

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Data: 00000008

OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48

Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:

LCID: 1033

skulcid: 1033

How to start a Word document with page 1 starting on second page

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 03:31 PM PST

I want a document template to have no page numbers on the first page, and on the second page, let the numbering start with 1 (and the third page would be numbered page 2, etc.). I went to this page (http://libanswers.walsh.edu/a.php?qid=162649) and followed the instructions but my second page still has the number 2. I have selected the Different First Page option already.

Any suggestions?

Microsoft Word 2010 password error (using copy and paste)

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 03:24 PM PST

Hi all

First ever post on a forum like this but majorly hacked off so needed to ask!

Using MS Word 2010 and I password protected an important file for work.

Knowing that I can not recover the file if I lose the password I thought I would write it down in excel first, which I did. This was 17 characters long and contained a space.

To ensure I then had this correct when creating the password via File> Permissions> Protect document - I pasted the password into the field. Thinking it was sensible to do so (which it most def is not) I then manually typed this when it asked for me to re-enter the password.

Word accepted this and saved the document. On closing and re-opening, this is where the issue arises!

1 - I type the password in manually, no luck, the password is incorrect! (I have tried c. 100 times and varied this etc incase of a typo - but bear in mind I have the exact phase I copied and pasted saved too!)

2 - I copy and paste the password in, same result!

The file is broke! Surely I must of made an error, or the password was to long, or something... So, I did a few tests, creating new documents (with no important content!) and repeated and tweaked the process using the same password and a shortened dummy password:

Same Password:

Test 1 - Same as above - same result, can not open!

Test 2 - Same as above except I manually typed the password BOTH times - file is fine, password works! 

Test 3 - Same as above except I copied and pasted the password BOTH times - file is fine, password works!

Dummy password:

Test 4 - Same as above except I changed the password to "A Bc" - password does not work... can not open!

Test 5 - Repeat 2 but with short password - same result, works!

Test 6 - Repeat 3 but with short password - same result, works!

So I have eliminated it being an issue with my password, but it is an issue with the method in which I entered and MS Word accepted my password, but now will not open!

Try this for yourself, I suspect you will have the same result...

This has caused me a lot of time and stress, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Kind reagrds

Luke

Decision to suppress a block of text or print the text

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 01:28 PM PST

I have a document that is printed daily.  Within that document is an instruction set that only needs to be included in the document on the last day of the mounth.  It is a rather large block of instructions that is currently being printed every day and it is just a waste of space.

I know I could make a second document that contains the instruction set and then have the person select which document to print based on the day of the month but I was hoping to do this from within the existing document.

1) Can it be accomplished with either a macro or a VB routine?

2) Do I have to create 2 documents and then have to edit each document when the documents need to be updated?

Don