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Microsoft Word - Image in digital signature scales wrong.

Image in digital signature scales wrong.

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 02:27 PM PST

I have an end user that is moving to a Surface from a laptop.  Both machines run Windows 8.1 with Office 2013 installed and are fully patched.  He has a digital signature that uses an image of his physical signature.  When he digitally signs an Office document, the image is inserted.

On his laptop all is fine.  On the Surface, the signature scales too large to fit in the signature box and becomes fuzzy and unreadable.  I've seen write-ups on there being issues with how scaling works between HD systems like the Surface and Office 2013.  I assume this has to do with that.

Is there a setting within Office to stop Office from scaling this image?

Problem Closing Microsoft Office

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 02:01 PM PST

Anytime I try to close a file in either Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel (maybe Publisher too) by clicking the x in the top right corner, it says "Microsoft (Word, Excel, etc) has stopped working:  Windows is checking for a solution to the problem." and then it tries to recover the file and reopens it.  Any ideas?

Linking Word 2007 and Excel 2007

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 12:46 PM PST

I have look everywhere and tried everything I can think of so solve this over the last week. Any suggestions/solution would be greatly appreciated. 

Background:

I currently am creating a project where a contract in Word is being updated by Excel with data. Both the word and excel file are in the same directory. However, I need to copy this directory to each client, so that each client has their own unique contract and data. 

Issue:

Initially, everything works fine. Using the embedded hyperlinks back to excel, the data populates perfectly. My problem becomes when I copy the files to a new directory. After the copy, the word doc continues to point back to the excel in the last folder (where it was originally created), not the one in its own folder. 

Of course I could create new links for every word doc, but for the number of clients and links I need this to work for it would make the entire project a waste. I would like to copy the "template" word and excel into a new folder and have the word doc only pull from the excel within it's folder. 

Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Posted: 04 Mar 2015 08:58 AM PST

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issues with Navigation pane viewing styles properly

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 08:41 AM PST

Good Morning,

I am on Window 8.1 and using word 2013.  When I am using the Navigation Pane some of my headings don't display with the proper styling.  Heading 1 should be all caps and in the document is correct.  Now the other issue that comes out of this is when I convert the document to pdf the bookmarks look like what I see in the Navigation Pane, however even when I re-apply styles to the headings it doesn't seem to fix the issue.  Does anyone have any suggestions on what could be the cause?  When I have long documents and I have to fix the level 1 headings by hand in the pdf it is very time consuming.   See screen shot below of my Navigation Pane.

Thanks for your time and assistance.

Ynez Dugan

How to use a label template in mail merge

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 08:28 AM PST

I have downloaded at .dotx that looks good.

When I try to use it as a mail merge base, I can insert merge fields, but I cannot Updater labels, nor do I know how to propagate the initial label setup to the other 29 entries on the label.

I am sure I am missing something major here! :)

IF statement to show MERGEFIELD value, if exists, else show underline (Word 2013)

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 08:16 AM PST

Mail merge source document includes field WRECID, which contains either a ten-digit string or nothing.

If data exists in the field, I want to show it; If the field is empty, I want an underline (specified by 20 underscore characters in the literal).

{ IF { MERGEFIELD WRECID } = "" "____________________" "{ MERGEFIELD WRECID }" } results in the literal "MERGEFIELD" instead of either the value in the field or an underline.

If I remove the spaces before "MERGEFIELD" & after "WRECID" in the condition:

{ IF {MERGEFIELD WRECID} = "" "____________________" "{MERGEFIELD WRECID}" } results in the literal "WRECID}" in all cases.

I've tried various other configurations but I never get what I'm looking for.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

IGNORANCE UPDATE!!! - It turns out that the connection with the source data file was broken, so I reinstituted that & tried again. Sorry, but I'm quite the novice at this.

The result is that I do get the underline for records with no value in the WRECID field but I still get a literal, rather than data, for records with data in the field.

How can I accomplish my goal?

User defined color palettes for highlight, font and borders

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 08:09 AM PST

The default color palettes provided by Word and other Office applications most often do not work well for display and printing.  Far too often I see printed documents produced by others which undoubtedly looked fine on screen but when printed at the last minute prove to be a nightmare as printed.  In some cases there are substantial differences between color printers and to a lesser extent between monitors.  

I don't expect MS to resolve this by changing the default colors but I do suggest that at the very least they allow the user to design a template whereby the default "Standard Colors" can be defined and these selections will be durable when the distributed document is viewed or printed.  A more user friendly option would be to allow the user to define what is titled "Standard Colors" or perhaps add a line of "Custom Colors" in the font, fill and border dropdowns.  As an option with would be valuable  allow IT to add a modified standard palette to all installs.  Many graphic savvy companies have specific colors that are to be used for documents.  They employ some workarounds which crudely handle some applications but this is not a competent answer to the problem.  

It appears that much of this could be accomplished by adding a setup option at the bottom of the color selection dropdown which is essentially the same for font, fill and borders.  Modifying the highlight selection dropdown would much the same.  While it would be foolish for me to suggest that these changes are easy I am not a stranger to coding.  The changes discussed essentially affect the color definitions stored in a table which are looked up as needed.  These changes do not affect the behavior of other features nor do they limit the range of colors available.

In light of the many complicated and little used features that have been added to Word I think it is time to add some long needed features that will be put to immediate use by many.

No margins in Word 2013

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 07:00 AM PST

Hi,

As you can see above, there is no margin on the top side of the page. I've tried using another page layout setting but it didn't work. Could someone please help?


-Rishikesh

selected text in word 2013 is TOO PALE TO READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 06:45 AM PST

when I select text using the cursor in Word 2013, it is so pale that I cannot even tell that it has been highlighted.  How can this be changed.  I have seen this as a recurring problem for YEARS with prior versions of Word so WTF?

Can anyone offer some guidelines regarding the copying of Arabic script text between Microsoft-based applications

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 05:55 AM PST

For starters, I can't read Arabic.  I don't know anything about it, other than it runs Right To Left.

We employ translators that send us phrases in Arabic and other languages that we eventually use in a mail merge.

The phrases come in an Excel spread sheet and we first copy them into a Dot Net 4.0 web app that I wrote (uses Telerik RadTextboxes).  

The phrases are then saved to a MS SQL database and retrieved by the mail merge using a view.  

For lack of a better question, how do you insure Arabic phrases remain intelligible and correctly oriented when copied/pasted/queried/whatever across multiple applications?  

According to our translator, 'Word won't even allow us to copy and paste Arabic text into Word without making the words read backwards.' 

(We're using Office 2013 and most of our machines run Windows 7.  Most of our databases are 2012 with some as old as 2008 R2.)

 

"Word cannot complete the save due to a file permission error."

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 02:14 AM PST

Okay so this issue has been going on for quite a while now. Every time I use Word and try to save a file, I get this message: "Word cannot complete the save due to a file permission error." My PC has Office 2013 installed and I'm using Windows 8.1. Plus, I haven't installed any add-ins either.

Anyway, is there a way to deal with this issue? Thanks.

Numbering Value Inconsistent

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 01:42 AM PST

Hi,

I have written a document with headings (from Heading 1 to Heading 4). 

Most of the time I get what I am after i.e.

4. Heading 1

4.1 Heading 2

4.1.1 Heading 3

4.1.1.1 Heading 4

But for some reason, in two of the chapters the headings for level three display out of order e.g.

4. Heading 1

4.1 Heading 2

1.4.1 Heading 3

4.1.1.1 Heading 4

The level 4 heading is still in order, it is just the level 3 heading in two chapters which have the first and second number swapped around. 

When I right click on the numbers and select 'Set Numbering Value...' it comes up with a box and I set the value to 4.1.1, but the preview below still says 1.4.1 

What am I doing wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

H

Can I create a link that triggers a template to make a copy, rather than open the template itself?

Posted: 03 Mar 2015 11:50 PM PST

Hello, Hive-Mind. 

I use a Word template for a type of pre-formatted document that I use frequently in my work. I want to insert a link to the document in another document so that I can create instructions to staff and just have them open a copy of the template right from the instructions on how to use it.

But the link generally opens the template itself, so that any changes my team would make will be permanent in the template. Is there a way to set up a link so that it goes the extra step and doesn't just open the template but triggers it to open a copy ready to work on and save as a new doc?

I know there are work-arounds such a as having a shortcut to the template on the desktop, etc. But under the conditions I have I need something like the above.

Thanks for any ideas.

ddc

Future Recommendation for Microsoft Word

Posted: 03 Mar 2015 10:45 PM PST

Hello all, 

Just a quick suggestion for Microsoft: Add a citation (MLA,APA) template/format option so you don't have to manually change the margins, spacing, etc.

After some brief research I didn't find anything about this already being available in Word, but I figured it would be convenient to have these settings already preset in the program. Let me know what you think.

Sincerely, 

-TylerWS

Just a side note; I primarily use Office 2011 for Mac, but I also have access to Microsoft Office 2010.

Batch link paste

Posted: 03 Mar 2015 06:01 PM PST

Hello,

In MS word 2010, I am trying to replace all 'December 31' to an excel link Book 1, A1.

If I press Alt^-F9, the link shows something like this: {LINK Excel.Sheet.12 "Book1" "Sheet1!R31C1" \a \t}

The problem is that there are many 'December 31' in the word file. Copying and pasting the link manually takes too much time.

Is there a way to replace 'December 31' to the excel link at once?

thanks,

Brian

Certain shape is missing from change shape box

Posted: 03 Mar 2015 04:29 PM PST

I am trying to complete an assignment and it says I need to change the current shape of a text box to a Snip Diagonal Corner Rectangle, however I am not seeing that shape. I can see it when I  am trying to change a picture but not the text box. It only shows rectangle and rounded rectangle available for me to change.

Exporting a PDF from Word looks HORRIBLE

Posted: 03 Mar 2015 03:24 PM PST

I am a Graphic Designer at a print publishing company and I often have client supplied art / layouts made in Word. Technically we aren't supposed to accept Word documents due to all the problems we encounter, but we have to flex on this one to make our clients happy and it always causes headaches for me.

Often, when I open a document, it looks OK in Word - but when I export it to a PDF it goes to absolute garbage - not always, but very often. I've tried opening Word's Advanced options and checking the box that states Word will not compress the image. I've also tried exporting the art to a PDF in every way possible, but it's still REALLY REALLY bad. The settings are supposed to be for print, but they are unacceptable - a screen shot of the Word layout would probably be better.

BUT - If I right click on the image in the file and choose "Save As Picture" I can select a TIFF and the image that was bad before looks GOOD.

Here's an example of exported PDF (top) VS saving the image directly as a TIFF (bottom)

Considering this is OK, I have to imagine the image is actually embedded properly and not just low res or linked to a missing file. My method is usually to export all the images and recreate the layout from scratch in Photoshop, but it's a huge waste of time.


I know that the file I was having problems with today was from and older version of Word. I had saved it and checked the box to preserve compatibility. I recently upgraded to Office 2013 but have always dealt with this issue on a regular basis in older versions of Word too.

I'd just like to export a high-res, print ready, PDF quickly and easily without it becoming unusable garbage. Why is this happening?