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Microsoft Word - Gradient Text Locked and Unusable

Microsoft Word - Gradient Text Locked and Unusable

Gradient Text Locked and Unusable

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 02:04 PM PST

I recently downloaded Microsoft Office 2013 onto my laptop. When I go to change the font color of my text, the Gradient option is greyed out and unclickable. When I make the font category bigger, Text Effects is also faded out.  I feel like something is disabled but I don't know what. How do I fix this?

Word crashes when working with a drawing canvas

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 01:03 PM PST

Split from this thread.

Hi,

Unfortunately since we migrated from Word 2010 to Word 2013 I experienced a lot of similar problem when working with drawings and canvas ..... in a lot of cases completing with a complete Word crash. I could even generate a Word crash creating a new Word document and doing only two single canva operations.

I observed several times thie same problem, in fact each time I forgot to not use object groups with embedded text. This is just not working with Word 2013.

I assume that Microsoft have an OOP bug in their text managemnet copying only the pointer to the text in place of copying the whole content leading to the observed behaviour that change the text in one object changes the text in all object copies.

Workaround:

- Use another program

- If you have to use Word like I have never copy object with embedded text, i.e. create each text instance individually.

Regards

TOC crashes on update unless Word runs in Safe mode

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 12:26 PM PST

Split from this thread.

Actually I am finding that WORD 2013 cannot do a simple TOC update in normal mode - it crashes on every attempt. I can only manage a TOC, list of figures, or tables if I start WORD in Safe mode.

Download

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 12:07 PM PST

Our computer crashed in November and we lost Microsoft Office.  

Can I use the original program download to re-stall Microsoft Office?

The program and the computer are from 2007.

Computer problem with Word 2010

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 11:16 AM PST

Computer  problem with word Document.

A few weeks ago my computer was going slow and my son offered to see if he could sort it out for me. He was able to clear malware off the computer and copy my files to an external hard drive. When I got the computer back everything   looked fine and the computer was working much faster. Problems arose when I open a file and later closed it. It then seemed to create a copy file . The word logo appears in the folder as a lighter version on the normal  logo that indicates the flag type.

If I try to print a copy of the doc from what looks like the genuine one or the fainter one,  it will not print . If there is a watermark on the doc it will print the watermark only.

An email will not print either although the Epsom  window on the computer will show as normal as will the print page and  the printer window on the printer. I have enclosed a photo of an example  from a word folder and as you will see the file name changed from 10 to a sideways s and what appears to be a $ sign. In addition the normal appearing file contains 1.21 mb, while the fainter one indicates  1.62 bytes.

My computer operates on Windows 7 and word 2010 which got about 2 years ago. Is there a setting that is making my files save as docx and if so how do I change it and restore my files.

"Microsoft word document" is how my files were tagged in the file index.

Any assistance how I might solve this problem would be most welcome.

N. B. I do not have much technical knowledge but can follow instructions.

Regards TB

Setting a word limit

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 11:05 AM PST

Can I create a form that sets a word limit that can be entered by the user?

word multilevel outline-- lock numbers??

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 11:05 AM PST

I have created a 200+ page document w/ outlines and multiple numbered lists and multiple multi-level lists.

Is there a way to "lock" or "freeze" the list numbers?

I want to allow others to edit the content but not change/delete/add to the numbers on the various lists.

Can you help?

Swapping documents in side-by-side view

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 10:05 AM PST

I'm using MS Word 2010 and looking at 2 documents using the side-by-side feature.  I'd like to change the positions of the two documents from A-B to B-A.  Doing this by dragging and resizing windows is awkward.  Is there a more elegant or simple way to do so?

Typing in Vietnamese using Arial in Word 2013

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 09:49 AM PST

While placing Vietnamese text from a Word 2013 document into InDesign, I noticed all characters printed using the Microsoft font Arial. It appears to support more glyphs than some other fonts.

I was asked how people can type in Vietnamese using Arial --- do they use different combinations of modifier keys or do they need a special configuration of either Microsoft Word, their computer, or their keyboard?

David Swanson

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 09:43 AM PST

How do I print labels  using Windows Vista Home Basic?  Will it be the Mail Merge feature of Word?

Table text appearing as symbols and numbers

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 08:35 AM PST

Hey guys,

I've just been sent a word document by a friend who has a deadline for a proposal and and most of the document has changed to a series of characters. I have tried all the typical methods to reverse this i.e. converting and reconverting from text and rtf, opening in a 3rd party work program, deleting final paragraph and extracting it in fragments into a new document, but alas nothing seems to help. It appears that the problem is stemming from the tables...

I have attached a screenshot outlining the problem. Any advice would be very much appreciated. 

Many thanks, 

Jeremiah.

Word 365 recent documents default location is Onedrive

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 08:20 AM PST

Everytime I open Word the recent documents list is always the files located on OneDrive, even though they have not been synced or updated.  I am looking for a way to enable all recent documents to be displayed, not just those on the cloud.

Word 2013 - fill-in forms, same value in fields

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 06:04 AM PST


Trying to create a fill-in form where several of the fields will be the same answer/value. It's simple with Adobe Forms to do this with the property name being the same. Help. I've read some articles but can't get it to work. Any step by step instructions would help. Using Legacy Tools, Developer Tab.

Splitting, selecting and deleting words by unknown colour

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 05:52 AM PST

Hi

I have a document pasted from the internet that contains several hundred lines.   The names are in a purple colour (not sure exactly which shade) and the job titles are in black (see example below).

I want to split out the first name, surname and job title into three columns.

Here's what I have to work with.

The first name and surname are in purple and separated by a space.   

The job title has no space between the surname but is separated by colour (ie it's black!)

Any pointers would be appreciated!

I'm thinking search by colour might work but I don't know the shade? 

I've tried "select by similar format" but it picks up the whole line.  

Cheers

Alan



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Copying a text from a website that has a narrow textbox, and pasting it into word.

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 05:29 AM PST

Whenever I copy a text from a website where the textbox is narrow, pasting it in Word will always cause it to follow the same narrow formatting instead of being continuous. 

Example:

year and on weekly earnings in the previous year. No significant impact was

found on the labor force participation rate or the employment to population

ratio in the census week or the number of weeks worked in the previous year.

The magnitudes of the coefficients imply that a 1 percentage point increase in

the percent of foreign-born in a city reduces the unemployment rate by

0.23 percentage points; reduces the number who worked in the previous year

by 0.25 percentage points; and reduces wages of unskilled natives by

1.2 percent, at most.

Instead of:

year and on weekly earnings in the previous year. No significant impact was found on the labor force participation rate or the employment to population ratio in the census week or the number of weeks worked in the previous year. The magnitudes of the coefficients imply that a 1 percentage point increase in the percent of foreign-born in a city reduces the unemployment rate by 0.23 percentage points; reduces the number who worked in the previous year by 0.25 percentage points; and reduces wages of unskilled natives by 1.2 percent, at most.

Is there any way I can paste the text and edit it to make it flow in one continuous line without any breaks?

Sorry if I'm not explaining it clearly. English is not my first language.

Office 2013 over Windows Server 2012 RDP World Add-On Macro/Template Error

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 03:51 AM PST

I have a new Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop environment for about ten users (not R2) with the latest Office 2013 Pro installed.

The users all have an add-on word template in Word for Office 2013.  That add-on was installed as administrator and ONLY works as administrator.

When any other user (even if they are local administrators, domain admins, etc.) opens Word, they are immediately prompted with the following message:

"Could not load some objects because they are not available on this machine."

If a user "runs as administrator" it runs fine.  Obviously, I don't want that.  I have been searching and searching and thought maybe there was a group policy or Office setting someone may know that I just can't find.

Any help would be awesome!  Thank you.

Restart after level question

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 02:32 AM PST

I have set-up a customized multilevel list where I have associated paragraph styles with 7 levels that seems to be working properly.  My document has other paragraph styles that may be mixed in with the multilevel list and are not part of the multilevel list so I would think they would not have an effect on the list. My question concerns Restart after level.  It seems to me that any higher level would reset a lower level numbering, but from experimenting a lower level will only restart after the specified level.  Am I correct?

Cannot open word file

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 02:22 AM PST

I have this file that I have shared on Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/s/3dlywyvhbxf0juf/FindersKeepers.docx?dl=0 and somehow I cant open it. Could someone check it out for me please. Thank you.

Avoid printing a worksheet object

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 12:11 AM PST

I have a word document with an inserted excel worksheet object in the footer, how can I avoid getting the excel icon printed when I print the word document?

WORD why does it automatically go to 11pt.? 12pt. is the norm. why do some WORD documents show 8pt. asviually different sizes?

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 10:17 PM PST

Although some if I copy and paste a smaller looking 8pt. to page it is bigger those letters become bigger. Is it from using the same document over and over adding info.?

Quick selective copying in Word'10

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 08:15 PM PST

Hi,

I wish to know short-cut to copy text from

(1) a particular line to a particular line. Say the doc has 200 lines and I wish to copy from line#56 to line#112. What is the short cut?

(2) similarly a particular line to end of the doc.

Thanks in advance!

Word for iPad upload pending forever to OneDrive

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 07:48 PM PST

Was excited to switch to Word for iPad, but quickly found it extremely slow saving and retrieving from OneDrive. My 2-page Christmas letter w 6 pictures hangs indefinitely at "Upload Pending". After 24 hours of not updating, I deleted and reloaded the app, losing my letter, of course. Re-wrote the letter. Same problem. It's been a couple days now, and it's still pending. Documents without pics do save to OneDrive, but seems sluggish compared to Pages. Help?

Word 2013 & Exel problems

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 07:36 PM PST

 I have monthly newsletter that I have written using a template in Word 2013.  When I bring up previous months newsletters, the formatting is all very messed up.  I also noticed that when I bring up an Exel document from early December all the cells are unformatted.  What in the world is going on ????

Please answer asap!

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

I'm trying to do a project and i want to put in a footer to show the pages. My problem is that the first page will say one, but then i have to put the footer in again on the next page. When i do this, the third page will say two as well. If i change the third page to say 3, the second page will then also say three. How do i get it to automatically change number with each page?  I had the exact same problem earlier today on another project but i asked my teacher and he said it didn't matter. My current project will have 20+ pages, so I don't really want to put it in manually. I also don't feel like it would let me anyway, but I haven't tried to do this with more than three pages.  

Opening files

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 04:00 PM PST

Hi today I downloaded Office Home and Student. Before there were some files I cldn't open, Now I can't open any. Neither can I open attachments from emails. Windows just stops working. Help! 

Thank u, Irene

Link picture to Word 2010

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.

Original Title: Word 2010 Link to file