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Microsoft Word - Using Find and Replace

Using Find and Replace

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 03:06 PM PST

I am an architect, and I have a standard set of notes I use when building houses. Sometimes I use these notes for a new house, sometimes, I use them for an addition onto an existing house. While most of the notes apply to both new construction and additions, there are some notes that refer only to new construction and some refer only to additions. Right now, I have to manually edit the text to remove the notes that don't apply. I am hoping to use find and replace to make my task easier. For example, here is a note that I use right now:

"Provide waterproofing on [new] foundation walls [only]."

For new construction, I would delete the "[new]" to make the sentence read "Provide waterproofing on foundation walls."

For additions, I would keep use the word "new" and "only" and just delete the brackets so the sentence would read "Provide waterproofing on new foundation walls only."

I thought I might be able to tag each bracketed comment so I could search and remove the brackets on the type of project I am writing for. For example, if I wrote my basic note as "Provide waterproofing on [ADDnew] foundation walls [ADDonly]", and wanted to edit it for an addition, I would search for "[ADD*]" and replace it with the word or words represented by the asterisk. If it was for new construction, I would just delete all the notes relating to additions. That would save me time editing the whole document for each of these little items (of which there are a lot).

I've read through the find and replace section, and can't find anything that would address this, but maybe someone knows a good way to be able to do this. I'm using the brackets, but it may be necessary to replace them with something else.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you!

Text justification in tables in Word 2013

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 03:01 PM PST

Practically all of our company's Word documents have a header with vertical text (bottom to top) that is horizontally and vertically centered in one of the cells.  In compatibility mode, the text appears as it has in all previous versions.  When the document is converted, the text disappears unless one of the left justification options is chosen.  All of the 9 justification options work correctly for the other two (left to right and top to bottom) text directions.  For bottom to top text direction, the 9 justification options work correctly in new documents created in Word 2013.

Is there a setting or option that can be changed once the document is converted to correct this?

Also, on the same cells, when the text is selected, it is not displayed as highlighted, so it is difficult to tell when the desired text has been selected.

I have checked--my version is up to date.

Lost all local Word documents on 365 for iPad - help!

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:37 PM PST

I have just gone into Word for iPad on my 365 subscription. I was asked to sign in, which I though was odd. I have not done anything odd to my iPad, like restoring.

I signed in and all of my documents, saved locally, have disappeared. I tended to save docs locally to the iPad rather than to the cloud drive. 

Where have all my docs gone? The last time I used Word on iPad was a couple of weeks ago and all my docs were there.

Thanks

Scott

PS I tried to post to the Microsoft tech support but gave up because the serial number finding options did not cover the iPad version. Makes we wonder if Microsoft is really interested in the iPad products. 

Problem with Microsoft Word 2013 ABC Check Language

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 12:25 PM PST

While typing my document, everything will be normal. (Just as a note, I'm using the names of a lot of languages in my document). For words like "English', "German", etc., they'll all be OK. But for the ones like "Malay", "Indonesian", and "Dravidian", they are highlighted as incorrect. When I use ABC Check, it says they're being check in Spanish (Spain). How can I fix this? I continuously change it back to English (United States), but the next time I go over it, it is in Spanish again. Thank you for help!

Header Change Size

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 11:26 AM PST

Using Headers - different first page - can the header size be changed on the second and subsequent pages?

How do I turn off compatibility mode permanently in Word 2013?

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 09:47 AM PST

I want to do everything in 2013 and don't want the hassle of dealing w/compatibility mode.  Anything done in 2010 on another machine I just want auto converted to 2013.

Font size and cursor extra large & cannot be changed

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 08:58 AM PST

Re Word in the Office 2007 for Students and Teachers: Last two weeks the font size and cursor size

stuck on super large.  I have not magnetized the display settings, but they are set on large. I have changed

the cursor size to medium and then small, restarted as required,  but that has no effect. I have

tried changing the font size in Word but no change can be made. I have had windows 7 64 bit on

this HP laptop for three years with no problem except hat Flash player will only install the 32 bit version.

I ran the Word diagnostics several times.  No problems found except the set up diagnostic could not

complete.  Details claimed the original source could not be found, original source was listed as the CD.

I inserted the CD but it had no effect. 

I uninstalled Office 2007 for Students and Teachers and re-installed it.  Problem still exists.

I do not know what else to do.

Microsoft Office Word Error

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 08:29 AM PST

I recently downloaded new email program called Incredimail. The program works well except when I attach a word document and try to open it, it always comes back with  "word has run into an error that is preventing it from working correctly. Word will need to be closed as a result".  When I try to open it in Word, it says the "directory path is not valid". Does anyone know how to correct this problem.

Help- cannot open word documents: 'the directory name is not valid'....

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 03:11 AM PST

Please help, there are several documents on my laptop that I cannot seem to open, this message keeps appearing:

The directory name is not valid.

(C:\... __name of file____ ...)

What does this mean and is it fixable?

Thanks!

Cannot associate .docx/.xlsx with Office 2013 programs

Posted: 01 Jan 2015 06:52 PM PST

Hi

I have Windows 8.1 OS, and Office 2007 and Office 2013 as well. Until yesterday I was able to open a docx file using MS Word 13, but today when I click the same file it is not opening with Word 13 and instead Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 opens up and starts a 'Configuration Process' and finally opens the file in Word 2007.

When I clicked on the Word 2013 icon, I am able to open it and I can also open the same file using word 2013 but I have to go to "Open" and then select the file in the already opened Word 2013. Else if I double click the docx file it does not open in 2013 but in 2007.

  • I tried right clicking and 'open with' option, but when I do it the default option says "Word (Desktop)", and if I click more options and go to the "C>Prog Files>Microsoft Office 15>root>office15"  to open in Word 2013 and select "winword.exe", it still opens in 2007 and not 2013. But when I click the same icon "winword.exe" directly, word 2013 opens up and not 2007.
  • I also check "File association" and "default progs", but everywhere it says "Word (Desktop)", even after changing the association to Word 2013 icon in office15, I still cannot open the file in word 2013 by directly clicking on it.

Thank same goes for excel as well. May be other progs as well; haven't check for others.

Need assistance, please suggest a solution.

Thank You

corrupt template or encrypted somehow Word 2003

Posted: 01 Jan 2015 06:25 PM PST

Hi

I have a problem with some word2003 files that has me puzzled. Have tried to fix the master template by the assistance found on this site without any luck. Also have tried outside recovery programs that have all said the files were encrypted.Most outside programs were filled with other things so after a few tries it was time to stop.  Have also tried the help sections in word 2007 and 2013. My hope is to find a way to fix them and also if possible understand more of how it happened to prevent it from happening again. The files came from a family members computer without a backup copy. Will attach a shot of what it looks like trying to open a file.Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Word 2013: Save to desktop directly without clicking on 'browse'

Posted: 01 Jan 2015 05:32 PM PST

Anytime I hit 'ctrl-s' it brings me to the 'save as' screen. I then have to click 'browse' and pick a save location. As I am not interested in skydrive at the moment, this means every time I save something I am forced to do the extra click (by clicking the browse).

I know this is such a minor issue, but its such a senseless waste of time (always doing the extra click) it has been bugging me more and more recently.

How can I setup Word 2013 to bypass this screen?

My Microsoft Word 2007 has stopped working

Posted: 01 Jan 2015 05:23 PM PST

I have been using it quite happily for years. Since yesterday, whenever I tried to open a Word document, I get a message from Windows Installer saying 'preparing to install'. 

I have tried restarting the computer, and also uninstalling the latest installed updates.

Please help. Word is vital for my work.

Best wishes.