| Need a macro to enclose selection in quotation marks Posted: 21 Jan 2014 03:07 PM PST Those who know me know that, while I am not VBA-averse, I am VBA-impaired, so I tend to just plug along with manual solutions rather than "bother with" a macro (which would require my asking someone to create one). But now I'm dealing with a manuscript with several hundred endnotes in which the author has italicized the names of newspaper articles. What would be infinitely helpful would be a macro that would do this to a selection: - Apply the Default Paragraph Font (i.e., ResetChar).
- Add an opening double quote at the beginning of the selection and a closing double quote at the end.
That's the sum of it. I've already been able to use a global Replace to replace "Courier" (roman) with "Fairhope Courier" (italic) and "pg" with "p."--and all other tweaks are individual and not subject to any kind of automation. But the above-described macro would save a heckuva lot of time! |
| Popup window doesn't go away Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:43 PM PST When viewing a document showing markups and I mouse over an insertion, a popup window appears that shows the author of the insertion as well as the inserted content, and the popup usually disappears when the mouse is moved away. But sometimes the popup does not clear, and I have to close not only the document but the entire Word program to make it disappear from my screen. It think the same happens if I mouse over a deletion rather than an insertion. Why does it happen? How do I stop it please? TIA .... Greg |
| Why does the View mode change from Print Layout to Draft? Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:37 PM PST When viewing a document in print layout mode and showing the final document with markups, sometimes - randomly it seems - Word changes the document view to Draft. The comments that were on the right hand side of the window then appear at the bottom of the window. Why does this happen? How do I stop it happening please? TIA .... Greg |
| Why does the page scroll when it shouldn't? Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:33 PM PST I use EndNote and the problem occurs when I am viewing my document with markup. It seems to happen after some background process finishes running, e.g. spellcheck, or an EndNote routine (but if so, not one in which new intext citations must be processed or the bibliography updated) . The position of the text in the window is moved, sometimes by more than an entire page. Perhaps another way of describing this is to say the scroll point is changed. This is very off-putting when it happens whilst studying a particular line of text on the screen. It has happened when the EndNote program did not appear to be open. Is there a fix for this please? TIA .... Greg |
| Two numbering systems Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:27 PM PST Hello, I wonder if I can number my points with 2 numbering systems. For example, there are two sections in my document, the first section has 10 points being numbered 1 to 10 and the second section has 10 points as well being numbered 1 to 10. Each section are numbered in roman numeral (I and II).
Is there a way that I can develop another numbering system (count) numbering the first point in the first section to the last point in the second section 1 to 20?
Thanks! |
| Using Mail Merge Features in Subject Line of an Email Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:21 PM PST I just learned to use mail merge in Word 2010, using data from an Excel 2010 spreadsheet, to send personalized emails from template through my Outlook 2010 account. Mail Merge seems very useful, but perhaps the most important thing to personalize in a sales email is the subject line.
Is there a way to insert custom information into a subject line using mail merge for office 2010?
As an example, I would like to have a subject like "Does <<your company>> accept online payments?", but have mail merge replace "<<your company>>" with the company names contained in my spreadsheet.
Is this possible? If not does anyone know of any free add-ons I can download to make this work? |
| using ordinal switches in a macro Posted: 21 Jan 2014 01:09 PM PST Hi! I am using the following macro and everything works fine except for the ordinal switches. The VBA code checker is not accepting the asterik used in the normal switch for ordinals. Sub AutoNew()
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Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="TimeA"
Selection.InsertBefore Format((Date + 1), "MMMM d" \ ordinal)
Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="TimeB"
Selection.InsertBefore Format((Date + 3), "MMMM d" \ ordinal) End Sub Can you help me? Thanks for any help that you can give me! Audrey |
| cannot deselect the canvas after selecting a shape Posted: 21 Jan 2014 01:02 PM PST A want to remove a shape (text box, actually) from within a drawing. I can click on the shape, but the "handles" for both the shape and the containing canvas are illuminated, so that "cut" removes the canvas. I just want to remove the shape. How do I do this.
Jonathan
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| Can't open Word 2013 document in Word 2003 Posted: 21 Jan 2014 12:43 PM PST I have two laptops. One has Windows 8.1 and the other with Windows 7. However, I have Word 2003 on the Windows 7 computer and when I send a message from the Windows 8.1 computer with Word 2013 the Windows 7 computer with Word 2003 cannot open the document. Is there a fix?
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| Building blocks that include a comment don't consistently bring in the comment. Posted: 21 Jan 2014 12:28 PM PST I'm updating a template for my team by adding building blocks for text that we use frequently. When the text includes a link, we need to specify the target in a comment for our Production team. When I test the template on my machine, it works. When a colleague tests it, she gets the boilerplate with the link, so building block is in the shared template, but she cannot get the comment. I always get the comment and can't reproduce the problem.
I had her make sure she's showing either All Markup or Simple Markup. Still no comments.
We are all running Office 2013 with all updates, on Windows 8.1 with all updates.
Any ideas as to what is going on? |
| automatic spellchecker not working on template used with old Word and Vista Posted: 21 Jan 2014 12:13 PM PST I am building a client a MSWord template, I've been using Word 2010/Windows 7, then I find out they are having issues with using it (slow typing response speed and automatic spellchecker not working) and they tell me they are using earlier Word version and Windows Vista. I've saved the template as a MSWord 97-2003 doc and that seems to have solved most of the problems but not the automatic spellchecking - does anyone know what I can do to help them with this? |
| Table of Contents Posted: 21 Jan 2014 11:54 AM PST Word 2013, Windows 7 I am trying to update a table of contents without luck. I have added some new subtitles and they are not recognized and the other pages do not update. I have spent much time on reading and trying to get it to work but have not been successful. I have tried using bookmark and the TOC feature. I've looked at Youtube videos and still no luck. Can someone please give me detailed instructions.
Happy New Year T |
| Finding AutoRecovery / Autosave in Word 2013 Posted: 21 Jan 2014 11:52 AM PST Microsoft Word 2013 is equipped with an autosave feature that saves the document automatically if you do not save it. However, for the autosave feature to work, you need to save the document at least once after creating it. If your Windows operating system crashes while you were working with Microsoft Word 2013 and you forgot to save the document at regular intervals, then majority of the work done is saved by the Autosave feature. When you restart the Windows and launch Microsoft 2013, you will be presented with an option to save document you were working on.
1. Select the saved version of the document The saved version opens in a new window. The saved version file name generally has a suffix (autosaved). 2. Save the document with appropriate name, or continue to work on the document.
Word 2013 also presents user with an Autorecover functionality to save all unsaved work. 1. Open a Word document. 2. Click on File to go to Backstage View in Word 2013 
3. Go to Manage Versions and click on it. 4. Click on Recover unsaved documents. 
A dialog box pops up which presents you're with list of unsaved documents that can be recovered 5. Select the document you want to recover 6. Click on Open The unsaved document opens and you are presented with an option to save the document 7. Click on Save As to save the document. 
Here are some additional resources: Recovering earlier versions: http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/word-help/recover-an-earlier-version-of-an-office-file-HA010356735.aspx |
| Help - How to make a select all checkbox? Posted: 21 Jan 2014 11:33 AM PST I'm currently working on a basic checklist and want to include a checkbox at the end of my options that selects all the checkboxes before it, but can't find a way to do this. I'm very new to VBA, so laymans terms or exact coding would be much appreciated! This is what I have so far - it's the final box "Full Floor Suite Board (Click to select all)" that I want to have select all of the checkboxes preceeding it: | Building Hero Shot (Required for all) | ☐ | | Feasibility Plan (Required for all) | ☐ | | Customer Satisfaction Statistics (Required for all) | ☐ | | Additional Feasibility Plan | ☐ | | Additional Property Imagery | ☐ | | Awards of Excellence | ☐ | | Building Sustainability Facts (Required for 5,000 sf and above) | ☐ | | Full Floor Suite Board (Click to select all) | ☐ | |
| Trouble converting text from Internet to Word 2010. Help! Posted: 21 Jan 2014 11:25 AM PST When I try to open any PDF document from a website, Word 2010 asks me what language to convert text and then when I enters windows default, it pulls up strange characters and I can't see my document. I have windows 8. How can I fix this? Thank you |
| Error 25090 when starting Word 2003? Posted: 21 Jan 2014 11:24 AM PST I keep getting this error along with a system error (-2147023838) when starting Word 2003 on XP SP3 with latest updates. I use the install program to fix errors/repair and it still occurs after a while. I've repaired it at least 3 times. I'm the only user on this computer. I've heard multiple users can cause these errors. I have reinstalled it at least once I think, to try to get rid of this error.
99% of Microsoft links are not helpful I find. Maybe I'm incredibly dense but I find most people have the same reaction to the content. I can google them easily and waste hours reading very poorly written "solutions" that just protect Microsoft from legal action. Please just state probable solutions from your experience. Much appreciated and so are all the thousands of others that will read this in the future with the same problem. Solution links not controlled by Microsoft often just list the solutions without wrapping Microsoft in a warm, protective, cuddly, litigation free blanket. They are most welcome. |
| Word 2013 normal.dotm styles Posted: 21 Jan 2014 10:53 AM PST Everyone has Office 365 locally installed. I need to edit the style for the normal.dotm template that Word uses. Whenever changes are made to the style and I try to save to template for documents going forward the style changes are not saved.
I can do this on my personal laptop w/o issue. I am using Office 13 32 bit stand alone not installed from Office 365. I am also on Windows 8.1
The office uses Windows 7 Pro 64bit and it looks like Office 365 installed the 64 bit version of Office.
I managed to back door this by editing the normal.dotm directly. Any suggestions as to why style changes cannot be saved to the normal.dotm. |
| WINWORD.EXE Application Version: 12.0.6514.5001 Posted: 21 Jan 2014 10:11 AM PST Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: WINWORD.EXE Application Version: 12.0.6514.5001 Application Timestamp: 4a8e09fd Fault Module Name: unknown Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: f0100061 OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48 Locale ID: 1033 |
| microsoft office - word Posted: 21 Jan 2014 09:53 AM PST Microsoft Office Home and Student is installed on my computer which I purchased in November 2013. Suddenly Word will not open. I have the message "Sorry something went wrong and Word was unable to start (5)" and then "Windows is checking for a solution to the problem" followed by "Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available". |
| Can't restrict editing in Word 2013 Posted: 21 Jan 2014 09:28 AM PST i have templates I created in Word 2003 that are restricted for Filling in Forms. i need to keep them in the 2003 version because I load them to our claim system which uses 2003. I unprotected one in compatability mode in 2013, and made some changes. now i can't restrict editing again. i made sure design mode is off, and there are no active x controls. any ideas on how i can restrict editing again????? i have dozens of templates to update. thanks |
| Formatting text inside of shapes inserted into Word 2010 Posted: 21 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST Does anyone know if I can turn off the wrap text feature when typing text inside of an inserted shape in Word 2010? When I type text inside of a shape (in this case an oval), I cannot get the shape size I want (rather small) without it wrapping the text automatically or cutting off the text at the bottom. If I increase the text size, it wraps automatically. |
| subscription expired Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:53 AM PST recently i hve recieved certain notes in my mail in word form,i was asked to do certain modifications bt it shows my microsoft subsscription expired and so the tools wouldnt work,i tried for free trial subscription using new mail id bt it didnt work pl help
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| MSWord 2007 Alt-Text disappearing Posted: 21 Jan 2014 07:58 AM PST HI I'm using MSWord 2007 and I've noticed that my Alt-Text keeps disappearing. I believe it's happening whenever I add a new element to the image. For example, if I have an image with Alt-Text and then I add a callout to the image and then group it, the Alt-Text is gone. I have to re-enter the information. What happened to the original text?...why does it keep disappearing? Does anyone know why and what I should do to prevent this from happening again? .... other than not adding Alt-Text until I've finalized all of the elements for the image. Thank you, Marion |
| Copy partial content of XLS file into Word document Posted: 21 Jan 2014 07:15 AM PST We have users who need to copy part of a protected spreadsheet into a Word document. The columns and rows need to remin intact. When they paste into Word, the formatting changes, rows seem to merge, etc. Excel and Word versions are 2003 SP3 have to be used because of the program that is used to create the files. Need to have the text appear exactly as it does in the Excel file. Thank you for your assistance. |
| Sharepoint 2010 co-authoring in word web app (co-authoring in general with some users in word 2007) Posted: 21 Jan 2014 06:14 AM PST So it seems that when using sharepoint 2010 you're unable to co-author documents in the word web app. Which basically is the whole reason we're using sharepoint on this project. We have users all over the country that are part of the same project that have varying access rights. Some users will need to modify the same document while others will not be allowed to see said document. The issue is that some of our users are using word 2007 which doesn't support co-authoring so the next logical step seemed to be using the web app.
All this aside it seems skydrive works for co-authoring in the web app. The rope is that skydrive will require me to send invitations out to everyone for all the documents that I need to have co-authoring on. Otherwise I have to use a "open" link which anyone could theoretical access. We're trying to keep things contained within sharepoint is what I'm trying to get at. If there was a way to have sharepoint point to the document on skydrive but still maintain the same permissions as were setup in sharepoint that would be ideal.
I'm hoping this is enough information for someone to understand the problem that I'm having.
Is there any workaround for this? -FlipFlop |
| Autonumbering 'ghosts' Posted: 21 Jan 2014 04:15 AM PST An office mate of mine has an interesting problem with autonumbering. I know I've seen this, before, but can't remember how we solved it: "I recently auto-numbered a document. It is repeating section 7.2 for each line, even when it is formatted differently and shows the correct number on the line. This only happens when it's printed. The regular view of the document does not include the extra numbers. But when printing it shows." Anyone have a solution? (I think we have Windows 8. I know we have Office 2010.) |
| Creating a macro to not save a document Posted: 21 Jan 2014 04:08 AM PST Hey all
I have an autonew / autoopen macro running which basically pulls in a number style into any document I create or open. Because of this, however, even if I don't make changes to a document myself, Word sees the import of the style as a change and asks me whether I want to save or not when I'm leaving the document.
This is only a minor annoyance, but I was wondering if there was some way around it. I won't always want to save a document, particularly if it's a new one that I've opened and now don't need. Is there a command I could put at the end of my macros that will replicate selecting save and then saying that I don't want to save (making Word happy that I can close down the document then without any further prompts to save unless I actually make changes myself). |
| how to download Office 2010 sp1 to surface tablet Posted: 21 Jan 2014 03:53 AM PST we recently bought a surface pro and there was a office software trail on the tablet when it was bought. However, it has gone after a month and I have tried to download Office 2010 sp1 from my university website where the software are free for staff members, but I never being able to do so after several times download. Could you please help. |
| PROOFING TOOLS 2007 - PURCHASED BUT LOST FILE Posted: 20 Jan 2014 11:56 PM PST I have purchased proofing tools for Office 2007, including Greek. I lost the file when changing the PC. Unable to find it for downloading again. Please help me. If necessary, I have a copy of the purchase receipt
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| Word 2013 not saving recipient address or attachments when composing an e-mail Posted: 20 Jan 2014 11:53 PM PST Hello, When creating an e-mail in Word 2013, then saving it (as a.doc/.docx document), both the recipient's address and (eventual) attachments are not saved inside the created file, and as such not available anymore when you reopen it. In previous versions of Word, this was not the case. Steps to reproduce: - In word 2013, create a new document.
- Using the "Send to mail recipient" button (which is not on the ribbon by default), show e-mail related fields (To, Cc, Subject, ...)
- Write your e-mail, including a recipient and a subject, then attach a file.
- Use "Save as..." (.doc or .docx, it doesn't matter) then close it.
- Open it again: recipient address and attachment are gone.
The same steps in a previous Word version (I tried with Word 2003) work fine and all data is saved as expected. If you open with Word 2013 a file created and saved in eg. Word 2003, recipient address and attachments are there. If you save it again from Word 2013, attachments are stripped, but recipient address is kept! This stripping behavior makes think of some security option, but I was unable to locate any way to influence this behavior. How to configure Word the keep the complete e-mail data when saving, as it used to do in earlier versions? Thank you very much for any useful input! Pierre-Yves |
| Office 2013 Pro stopped working Posted: 20 Jan 2014 10:46 PM PST In word when i Click on Print It says microsoft has stopped working and the it closes and in excel when i click on bold button or press ctrl+B it stop and crashes.Please help me>>> |
| **URGENT** Lost university essay on word, PLEASE help! Posted: 20 Jan 2014 10:35 PM PST Gday guys and gals,
My girlfriend has spent weeks upon weeks writing out a 50pg + paper for uni, and she went to save it today on her 2013 Word by clicking the save icon on the top left, and she closed the document down. She went to open it up to send it, and it's gone!
I have gone to file > open > recover unsaved documents;
However nothing is there to open.
Part of this paper was a part of a template she had to download online, and fill it out if that helps at all.
I've just spent 2 hours going through every folder on her computer, including a few hidden folders / app data / roaming / temp data, etc, and still can't find it!
She has a HP laptop,
here are a few details of her processor;
AMD A6-5200 APU with Radeon(TM) HD graphics 2.00GHz
4GB ram, 62bit operating system, windows 8.
If theres anything else you guys need, please don't hesitate to ask, anyone who can help us here I'd forever be in your debt haha, she needs to hand this in next week, and it will be impossible for her to finish it remotely close to the same standard. Please help!
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| I'm trying to run a macro in MS excel to help me with some formatting (Output file – Word 2010). Posted: 20 Jan 2014 09:06 PM PST
I'm trying to run a macro in MS excel to help me with some formatting (Output file – Word 2010). Everything works fine but bookmark names will automatically change to "location of the document". What would be the problem?
For example.
Here I have bookmarked "Hi How are you" to the same. I gave a name "A1", which will automatically change to " File:///d:\users\desktop\hi how are you.docx#A1"
Where in, D drive, saved on desktop and the file name with docx mention in it.
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| 2013 Posted: 20 Jan 2014 08:22 PM PST I am not impressed. I purchased and downloaded the programming. Now that I need to use it, It is not accessible. When i purchase something i expect it to work instantly or why would i waste my time and money. I am NOT HAPPY. On top of that I DISLIKE the the new window 8 it is not user friendly. Alot of back and forth screens just popping up because your curser too close to the right edge. Finding applications is like a scavenger hunt. I am not impressed with any of this. I miss windows 7 and i miss the download and go of word programming before 2013. disgusted :( |
| How do I select a picture that (I think) has been hidden behind text Posted: 20 Jan 2014 07:30 PM PST I can not select an image that has been added to a Word document I think it is hidden behind the text, but I am not sure as I was not the person who created the document and the person who did does not have enough knowledge to know what they did. I have tried removing the text but still no joy. Any thoughts appreciated.
Thanks |
| Mail Merge Crash Word 2007 Posted: 20 Jan 2014 04:26 PM PST When using mail merge in Word 2007 , when I try to select from Outlook contacts, word fades in and out and gives me the Message Microsoft word has stopped working. Then crashes. Very frustrating. About every 10th try it will work but by then I have wasted 45 minutes. Can anyone help? |
