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Microsoft Word - Issue with Word 2013

Issue with Word 2013

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 11:18 AM PST

I have a reoccurring problem with Word 2013 on my laptop.

I am a college student so I am constantly downloading Word files for my classes or other needs. 

Every time I open a file, of course, it opens it in the protected view.

However, if I try to enable editing in order to do anything to the document, the program freezes and comes up with the error message "Not Responding".

It does this every single time and I'm a bit annoyed since I've already tried to uninstall and reinstall multiple times. 

My initial hunch was that there is a compatibility issue between different versions of Word, but I have no clue how to fix it.

Can anyone tell me what the issue is? Thanks.

Line spacing

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 10:45 AM PST

Working with Word "Starter" 10.  Line spacing is double.  How do I get the program back to single line spacing?  Thank You.

Microsoft Word 2010 - get a mail merge error

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 09:33 AM PST

When I try to mail merge the word document in a Blank Document I get an error that states: Agreement Data Base should be opened as read-only unless changes to it need to be saved. Open as a read-only?  I click Yes, but nothing happens. The document is blank. I'm not sure if the document that I'm trying to merge is corrupt or what. 

What happened to the online pictures from office.com in Word 365?

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 09:22 AM PST

Hi,

In Word, when working on a document, when I clicked on "insert" and then "online pictures", I used to get a "search at Office.com" option.  Now, the only options shown are "Bing.Com", and "OneDrive personal".  The option for searching pictures at "Office.com" is no longer shown.  It literally disappeared.  How can I search for the royalty-free pictures from Office.com to use in my documents in Word?    

Word 2013: How come the symbol of 'Show/Hide Editing Marks' looks different than earlier Office version?

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 09:02 AM PST

Hi,

For both the Ribbon button and inside the document, the paragraph mark of the traditional 'pilcrow' (¶) symbol is now replaced with a symbol that looks like a carriage-return.

Is this normal?

(Using Word 2013 build 15.0.4675.1002)

Office 365 Personal - Surface Pro 3

Sticky Notes always on top?

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 08:56 AM PST

Believe it or not I just discovered the sticky notes... is there a way to pin a particular not to the desktop and have it remain on top of all other windows? or perhaps someone may know of a third party app that does the same thing???

Looking to be able to use with Win-7 Office 2010 and 2013 (enterprise)

Publishing blog posts to WordPress--what has changed?

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 08:27 AM PST

Since June of 2008, I have been publishing a blog at https://walkthoughts.wordpress.com/. I have used Word (first Word 2007 and then Word 2010) to publish the posts. Lately my posts have included a lot of photos, and I've learned that Word displays a Contacting Blog Provider dialog for each photo uploaded.

In the past couple of weeks, however, I've been getting this message:

I get this message once for every photo. The content is bogus: I have used only 1% of my allowed storage space at WordPress. Moreover, I tried publishing a post from which all the photos had been removed (it was just 147 words of text), and I got the same message.

Clicking Cancel on the Contacting Blog Provider dialog accomplishes nothing. The Help and More Information buttons are equally useless. All I can do is keep clicking OK until it's tried the last picture, and then I get this message:

The native WordPress editor is rubbish, with no provision for formatting headings except by editing the HTML, but pasting from Word (other than as plain text) introduces a lot of garbage that overrides the formatting of the WordPress template. I would really like to be able to publish directly from Word again. I would be reasonably satisfied if I could even publish the text, as adding the photos from the WordPress editor is not too difficult (though an extra step I'd prefer to avoid). I can now sympathize with the frustration of users unable to publish from Word to Blogger.

Does anyone know whether something has changed in Word or at WordPress?

Formating an index

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 08:25 AM PST

I am typesetting a book at the moment in Word 2013. At the end, I want to include several indices (for references, subjects, modern authors etc.). Some of these indices have to be formatted differently (other orientation etc.). Hence, when I insert this category of indices, I chose another paragraph style "Index 3" ("index 1" and "index 2" are paragraph styles which are used for another type of indices in my document.)
So I follow step 2 here: https://support.office.com/en-sg/article/Create-an-index-and-update-an-index-cc502c71-a605-41fd-9a02-cda9d14bf073. The problem is that after chosing this style, settings go immediately back to the default style, "index 1". Where can I change the style permanently? So that a specific index will always use "index 3" as style, even if I update it?

converting a wav file into text

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 08:17 AM PST

can office professional plus 2013 convert a wav file into txt?

Read Only Options in Word 2010

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 06:54 AM PST

I have a problem. Word 2007 let users save a doc as read-only.  If a user opens the doc, they can make changes, but they cannot save it. They have to save it as a new doc.  I cannot find this option in Word 2010.  In Word 2010, I can restrict editing to read only, but then no changes can even be made to save as a new doc. It doesn't let you edit or enter anything. You would have to open the doc as a copy first, which is extremely annoying and time consuming. Please let me know of any suggestions you have, or if you need any further clarification of what i'm trying to accomplish. thank you.

Seemingly random language change

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 06:13 AM PST

In the middle of a document, Word tells me I have a misspelled word. The word is not misspelled. I right-click on it and Word suggests several French words for the correct spelling. For some reason, Word thinks this word is French. The word is "procurement." Word suggests five similar French words. The entire document is in English; nothing was cut-and-pasted from another source. When I check my editing languages French is installed, as are Spanish and UK English. U.S. English is set as the default.  I type "procurement" on another line and Word is fine with it -- it does not suggest that it is a misspelled French word. The word after "procurement" is "documents." Word does not suggest this is a misspelled French word.

Does anyone have any ideas about why this might be happening?

unique id for different chart style

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 06:01 AM PST

When I apply a chart style on a chart in MS-WORD and convert this word document to a zip file, then I got a chart style id in the following location of zip folder word/charts/style1.xml (e.g. <cs:chartStyle xmlns:cs="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2012/chartStyle" xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main" id="213">in this document I got id as '213') .

My first question is whether this id is unique for different charts styles in different charts i.e. for clustered column or stacked column, clustered bar or stacked bar this id is unique or not ?

Second question is if this id is unique, then is it system dependent or not i.e. if I send this document to other person will this id get change ?

I have MS 365 and Word requires login every single time, not every 30 days

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 05:48 AM PST

I have MS 365 and Word requires login every single time, not every 30 days.  Have looked at all discussions and no cure.

I cannot login when I do not have internet.

Office 365 Word spell check not working

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 04:14 AM PST

When I run Word in Office 365, Windows 8.1, the spell check does not work.  When I open a new document, mis-spelled words are underlined, but in my existing documents, they are not underlined.  Even when i highlight all text and run spell check, mis-spelled words are not identified or corrected.  

When I go to Review/Language/Set Proofing Language, the box continues to be checked for Do nto check spelling and grammar.  Even when I uncheck it and hot OK, it reverts back to checked by itself.  

This is very frustrating.  How do I fix it?  I have already run the repair program in the Control Panel/Program options. 

Word could not create the work file

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 03:13 AM PST

Check the temp environment variable.  How?

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Merge field code for Date Calculation

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 11:15 PM PST

Hi,

Kindly help me with the Mergfield code. I want to enter any date the code should convert it to the last date of the month, add 45 days in it and display the date. Help me if someone have any idea.

Thanks

Bullet list in Word 2013

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 07:07 PM PST

I designed a custom bullet list in Word 2013.  Now, whenever I start with a blank document the first level bullet appears in the upper left corner of the document.  Is there any way to prevent this?

Keeping the format of a shape

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 04:42 PM PST

Hi All,

My problem is just this.  I can format a shape in Word 2010 and keep it as a default in a particular document BUT what I cannot fix is the position on the page.

Each time I set the shape position in the layout box to be fixed to the page that setting does not save, it always reverts back to column an paragraph.  Is there a way to override this setting.

Best Rgds,

Dave R.

save as issue office 2013

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 04:00 PM PST

When I attempt to save as a document and then select browse, the dialogue box opens up half ways without being able to chose which folder to save to...

Any help would be appreciated.