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Microsoft Word - Update Labels is greyed out so I can't update labels for formatting. Help!

Microsoft Word - Update Labels is greyed out so I can't update labels for formatting. Help!

Update Labels is greyed out so I can't update labels for formatting. Help!

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 12:10 PM PDT

I have Windows 7 64 bit Office 2013.  I want to create a sheet of labels.  I have watched the video multiple times and am doing exactly what they say to do.  But when I try to Update Labels for my formatting changes, that option is greyed out so is not available.  Help!

Page numbering is not correct on Individual Merge Letters

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 11:32 AM PDT

I have used Word 2010 and Graham Mayor's "Individual Merge Letters" tool to split mail merge "letters" fed by an Excel 2010 spreadsheet.  It worked great a handful of times in the past.  Today, I can not get the page numbering to work on the individual Word documents.  It will say "1 or 3" for each page, even on the second, third, fourth, etc. 

I am sorry to post but I haven't found what to try through my web searches.  Thank you!

Missing Themes in Word 2013

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 10:08 AM PDT

My IT staff installed 2013 on my instructor computer, but they don't have all the themes installed.  Is there a way to get these themes from Microsoft so I can install them?

I have students who will need the same information.  Any help would be appreciated.

Will works suite 2002 or Office XP run with Windows 7 and 8?

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 09:38 AM PDT

Hi I have windows 7 pro on one pc and 8.1 on a laptop

I have 3 questions which  are;

will office XP pro 2000 work on either of the OS's

and

will Works suite 2002 work on either of the OS's

and the bonus question will either of the above work on windows 10 when it is released for upgrade 

Thank you

MS Word, Office 365, Auto-Correct Stopped Working for New Entries

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 08:44 AM PDT

I use Office 365, and in Word, I've created several auto-correct options for different letter combinations to expand into common words that I use.  For instance, I have qq set to expand to Defendant, etc., etc.  

This has been working fine until this morning.  When I opened a document that I had saved last night, and tried to use the different letter combinations, several of them did not work.  So I thought they had been un-added somehow, and redefined them in the Auto-Correct Options menu.  

Still, these particular entries are not expanding.  Strangely, some of the older existing entries are working, but when I redefine those, they stop working.  

Any ideas what could be causing this?  There are no exceptions that I can see (and it's the same problem even in new documents) and all the appropriate Auto-Correct options are checked.  

I'm about to reinstall and start over but hope someone can give some suggestions!

VBA CODE TO REMOVE FINAL chr(13) character from text in Word tables.

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 08:42 AM PDT

Hi all,

I have tried to devise some VBA code to remove the trailing chr(13) character from text in word tables.

I I have come up with this:

Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
    Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = "^13"
        .Replacement.Text = " "
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        .Format = False
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchWildcards = True
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll

Which basically replaces chr(13) with a <space> character.

My problem is that the script is not selective: it should remove chr(13) only from the portion of text I have selected and only from the text in the word table cells I have selected. (that "with selection" does not seem to work), whereas it removes it from the whole word table column. Also, it should remove only the *last* chr(13) in the selected text (to maintain correct text formatting).

Any suggestion on how this can be accomplished?

Thank you so much for your help!

Need Solution to bring Corporate Templates into Office Gallery

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 08:38 AM PDT

We need a solution to get corporate templates into the Office gallery. They need to be available online and outside our company firewall. Preferably available locally yet sync with any updates to SharePoint storage location. SharePoint seemed a perfect solution.

The safest method seemed to be XML - we were able to bring local/network templates into the gallery but were unsuccessful referencing a SP folder in XML.

We then tried uploading corporate MS Word 2013 templates to SharePoint, using group policy to set the Workgroup template folder and pulled the templates into MS Word templates gallery through SharePoint/OneDrive and it has worked - sort of. 

1. The first problem is that the SharePoint rights required for users to access the templates (Contribute) also allows them to post back to SharePoint and not only edit the template files (!) but other folders are inadvertently appearing, such as Document Themes. This is a deal breaker for us if we can't set permissions to allow them to use the templates but not have write access back up to SP.


2. The second issue is that the Document Properties box pops up every time a template is used from SharePoint. This is annoying, but more importantly as in problem 1, users can then edit the document properties which are posted back to SP.

We tried making the templates available with user rights set to Viewing or Download levels (which were the read levels), but had to move up to Contribute (edit) to get it to work. I tried posting this to the SharePoint forum with no replies.

Help and other options are much appreciated!

Search and Replace at Beginning of Each Line of Comma Delimited File

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 08:07 AM PDT

I opened up an ASCII comma delimited file with Microsoft Word 2010. I would like to insert the text "w,p," at the beginning of each line throughout the file using Search and Replace command but I do not know how to search for the beginning of each line. Does anyone have any ideas how I can automatically insert "w,p," at the beginning of each line throughout the entire file?

Thank You,

Mark R. Searles

need text visible only on screen, not when printed

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 07:39 AM PDT

i need to insert text in such manner that it is visible only on screen, but when printed, it doesnt appear. for eg., when we send documents to client and need to show where to sign, it may be a great help

Removing Section Breaks after mail merge into a defined table

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 07:09 AM PDT

I am doing a mail merge and have set up the merge fields in a table.  I have set the merge template for 1 record followed by the merge field <<next record>>. I perform the merge and then try to delete the section breaks that are created and I am not able to.  If I do the same merge without the tables I can successfully remove the section breaks.  is the inability to remove the section breaks because I am using tables or is there a different way to remove them?  The method I use is "find and replace" so I identify the section break special character and replace it with a blank.

Preserve fidelity when sharing this doc not applicable to dotx templates?

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 04:35 AM PDT

I am creating a simple template with the footer saved in a custom font. If I save the file (embedding the font) as a docx it is preserved. If I save it as a dotx, every new document based on that does NOT carry the font. Is it by design?

Even selecting "all new documents" instead of this document does not preserve the font.

Links to other documents fail on re-open

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 04:35 AM PDT

I'm attempting to utilize the linking functionality where text from an external Word document is inserted as a link into a document. This feature works fine until I close both documents, then try to re-open the document. The link fails and looks like the following:

Error! Not a valid link.

The link can be created a couple ways, but the easiest is to open both documents, select the text to insert/link to, then Right-click & drag to the document that is referencing the original. You get a link that looks something like

What is the reason for this failure?

Idea for cross references

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 02:06 AM PDT

I had idea that would greatly simplify using cross References in a Word document.

After adding a caption or heading or similar, it would be good if you could highlight it, right click and have an option "copy cross Reference" then move the cursor to the location you want to create the cross Reference and paste.

For the pasting operation you could include a "paste special" to Select what type of cross-Reference you want, where the "label and number only" should be the default.

The whole cross Reference module in Word should be updated anyway. It is very clumsy as it is now.

Mystery line in document

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 01:58 AM PDT

 I have a template ( click here ) which has a mystery line at the bottom of the page.

Can someone please tell me how to get rid of it.

Thanks

Word 2010 on Windows 8 creates a much larger PDF file than Word 2010 on Windows 7

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 12:52 AM PDT

I have a word 2010 file with a size of about 3M. My operating system is windows 7. when I convert this file to pdf , it gives an out put file size of about 10 M. However When I convert this file on another computer with windows 8 [ word 2010] it produces a pdf file of about 22 M.  can Any body suggest to reduce the file size to 10 M

Moved from Windows 7

Original title: creation of pdf file

i cant log into my word program i do not have a product key and the thing is not recognizing either of my email accounts

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 11:33 PM PDT

i cant log into my word program  i dont have a product key and it is not recognizing me email addresses

can the 'page' in WORD get moved to see horizontally?

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 08:42 PM PDT

can the 'page' in WORD get moved to see horizontally? I would think you see what I have by the choices I picked to send this. 

Office 365

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 08:18 PM PDT

My computer was restored in China and I want to re install my Office 365. I have a product key. Ho w do I reload it on to the computer?

encrypted word doc

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 07:36 PM PDT

I have Office 365 on my Samsung Galaxy Note Pro. I use a word doc with fill in box's and drop down box's, but when I open it with 365 it tells me part of the document is restricted. I am unable to add text to the fill in box or utilize the drop down box. 

Word won't let me convert to Adobe pdf

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 06:46 PM PDT

I am doing a Cover Letter and Resume in Word for a college class and the instructor wants us to convert our Cover Letter and Resume to Adobe pdf. So, I converted the Cover Letter and had no problem, however, the Resume isn't working. I click change to pdf and it says it has to save first, I click ok and it says it cannot convert to pdf. I tried it again and now it doesn't save at all, it gives a message saying it cannot convert to pdf format because Adobe is not activated. I know I didnt change any settings or anything from the hour prior to this when I successfully converted my cover letter, can anyone help me please?

Stacy Witt

Adding a new heading in the middle of a document with outline heading numbering

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 05:50 PM PDT

Hello

I am using Word 2013 on Windows 7 to write documents with numbered headings.

I used Shauna Kelly's lovely instructions at http://shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/numbering20072010.html. I followed her instructions exactly, and my documents have nice heading numbering that mostly work well.

My problem happens when I need to insert a new heading into an existing document. I type a new heading in, then I apply the correct style and select my List style from the Multilevel List list, just as Shauna said to do. Sometimes this goes smoothly. and sometimes it doesn't.

When it doesn't, the new heading does not recognise that it has been inserted into the middle of an existing numbering scheme. It has the right style (e.g. Heading 3), and the right numbering scheme (I called mine Headings, as Shauna suggested). I right-click on the number in the new heading and select Continue Numbering. The number does not change, and stays stuck at 1.1..1.

As a last resort, I have tried the Set Numbering Value option, but I can only update the last digit.

Let me know if you have any suggestions.

Thanks,

Melanie

MS Word to PDF

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 05:04 PM PDT

Hi Community,

I am interested to know the best method for converting Word to PDF without losing the formatting. I had a free trial converter that was working well for me but had my PC upgraded and lost it including the setup.

Appreciate your help on this.

Thank you in advance.