| Need Help copying an entire page including the header and paste to a blank document Posted: 06 Jun 2014 03:39 PM PDT Hello All, I need your help. My company has many policies and procedures that I am in charge of updating and reviewing. Some of the programs have training documents or other forms in the Appendix. That are used on a daily bases. Every year when they are reviewed I must go in and change the dates. For every document and updated any changes on the forms to reflect changes in the program. Well I thought it would be easy to just copy the form or training document once reviewed with the actual program and paste. This will also take the human error out when making sure the two training documents or forms are the same. So our plant is rather large and there are a few people who need to only print out the training documents or the forms, and they are not to computer savvy, so I can't say" only print pages 46-51 and 75-78". It is a lot easier to have the document named what it is and in a general location easy to find. I cannot figure out to copy the entire page including the header and paste to a blank document. I have tried section breaks but maybe I'm doing it wrong? (Or even the abilty to split the document with automatic updates form the original?) Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks . |
| Can't open Office/Excel docs Posted: 06 Jun 2014 02:55 PM PDT Installed Office 360 Premium last October. This afternoon around 2:00 pm, sky turned dark and thunderstorms started with a vengeance in a split second so I did not have a chance to close m files. Lights flickered and came right back. Computer shut down and message up popped - restoring files so wait !!!!! Now I can't open Office/Excel files and Firefox won't work. Surprise, Surprise IE works !!!! Message pops up: xxx doc is locked for editing by ..... Do you want to open Read Only Copy. If I click Ok, I get following error messages: Word experienced an error in trying to open the file. Check file permissions for document or drive. Make sure there is sufficient free memory and disk space. Open file with Text Recovery and Converter I can see all the office/excel documents desktop and in documents folder but can't open them !!!! Hope |
| Error messages Posted: 06 Jun 2014 01:13 PM PDT I have Office 2010, I recently installed Office 365. Everytime I try to open a document in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc., from Explorer or Documents, I get an error message stating I need to repair, close or get help, I have clicked on repair and nothing happens. The only way that I can open the documents is I have to open Word or whatever program and then open the document from there. Help please! |
| Angle of text Posted: 06 Jun 2014 12:56 PM PDT In MS Word there used to be a function - in 'format text' I think - where you could change the alignment of a piece of text, so that it was at an angle or vertical, (as on the spine of a book). I can't seem to find this anywhere in the new version. Any ideas, anyone? |
| How do I modify a Mail Merge document without destroying it? Posted: 06 Jun 2014 11:30 AM PDT Sounds odd, but I bring up this Word 2007 docx document that we use as our Mail Merge Template. The person that wrote it is no longer with the Company. We do a simple mail merge from an Excel spreadsheet. The problem is that I now want to add another field to print on the merged document. I've added the field to the .docx mail merge template without any problem and have done a "Preview" and printed a sample. It's all great. But if I save the Mail Merge document prior to Previewing or Merging, something happens that makes it unusable. I can no longer add a data source to it. I can provide a screen capture movie of what's going on. Thanks in advance. |
| Word no longer working on Windows 8.1 Posted: 06 Jun 2014 11:23 AM PDT When I load Word 2007, I get the following error message "Word could not create the workfile. Check the temp environment variable" This is followed by "Word cannot open the office template(c:\users\...\word\scoutcommands.dotm). When I get rid of these dialogue boxes, I get a blank word document that I can type in, but I can't save. When I try to save as, no dialogue box comes up. My wife and I both use the same computer and software. If I log on as her, Word works just fine. Any thoughts? I have a Microsoft account, she does not. Should I try to delete my account and restore it? I should point that Word was working fine before on my account. Did I delete some files that I should haven't? |
| Word and false error messages Posted: 06 Jun 2014 11:12 AM PDT Hello When I open Word 2007, the application launches and I click the Office logo at the top. I select 'Open' and browse to the Word file I would like to open. When I click on that file, I get the following error: 'Word could not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable'. When I try to save the file (not 'Save AS', just 'Save'), the 'Save As' dialogue box opens to tell me that 'This file is read-only'. It is not 'read-only. So, I click 'Select All' and copy and paste all the text from this Word document and paste it into a new document in the hope that that is not going to display any more false 'read-only' messages. It doesn't, but another message pops up to say that I don't have permission to save in this location, and would I like to save the document in 'My Documents' instead. But that is precisely where I AM trying to save the new document! I also get this error 'Check the temp environment variable' if I attempt to attach a Word document to an email. Is this a normal.dot document error? Thanks. |
| Word 2003 will not copy formatting Posted: 06 Jun 2014 10:26 AM PDT The problem started suddenly this morning. I use Word 2003 in Windows 7. When I try to copy and paste from the Internet, Word will no longer copy the format, especially the hyperlinks. It copies as regular text instead. I am not completely adverse to buying a newer version of Office if I have to, but I don't know if that is the problem. Any suggestions? |
| Word 2010 - How to insert multiple jpg images in word, in name order, with two spaces between each item. Posted: 06 Jun 2014 10:19 AM PDT I create inspection reports in word. The document's first page is for information and formatted as a letter. The second and beyond pages are split into two columns. I have to import/insert about 30 jpg images into the document, and then annotate under the image what the image shows.
I currently click on the spot I want the image to be inserted, drag the image from windows explorer and drop in word. It puts the image just fine, I have to hit the enter key twice, and then move to the next image and repeat the process. I then go back and type in the spaces I entered below. If I grab more than one image and drop in word, they are back to back, and no spaces in between. I would have to click on each document, hit enter a few times, which is a pain. More over, if I drag multiple images over, they appear to either be in random order, or at least not by name (image01, image02 would be place image02 then image01 in wrong order).
So again, can I either get a macro, or a rule that says if I drag and drop multiple images into word, that it will put them in name order, and put at least one space between the images so I can type my notes under each?
I have my image "wrap text" set to in line with text.
Thank you very much in advance. This will cut my report writing in half if I can can get this fixed. |
| Automated way to change numbers in Word? Posted: 06 Jun 2014 09:58 AM PDT Question: Is there any way to get Word to find and replace a varied range of numbers by 1? I am using Word 2010 on Windows 7. I have a large document that contains about 300 cites to documents that will be submitted with the document. Each cite reads as "Exh. X" (where X is a number, 1 through 300). So the text might read as follows: The car is brown. (Exh. 1). The house is red. (Exh. 2). The house is small. (Exh. 3). The car was painted Brown by Jack. (Exh. 1). The car is broken. (Exh. 4). The exhibits sometimes change. So Exh. 2 might drop out entirely, leaving a gap from Exh. 1 to Exh. 3. I then need to go through and reduce every exhibit number greater than 2 by one. So Exh. 3 becomes Exh. 2, Exh. 4 becomes Exh. 3, etc. When done manually, this is very time consuming. If each exhibit only appeared once, I could easily make this change using a field, finding and replacing all the Exh. X entries with the field, and then updating it. But I only know how to do this sequentially (i.e., once updated, the exhibits will run 1 through however many Exh. entries there are). However, as the example above shows, some exhibits appear later in the document and must be referenced by the earlier exhibit number. So Exh. 1 appears first, but it then reappears after Exh. 3. If I were to update this text using a sequential list after Exh. 2 dropped out, then "The car was painted Brown by Jack (Exh. 1)" would instead be marked with Exh. 3. Is there anyway to get Word to automatically reduce every Exh. number greater than 2 by 1 (or any value)? Any suggestions would be very much appreciated! |
| Using pen feature in Word always brings up waiting pointer (spinning blue) Posted: 06 Jun 2014 08:45 AM PDT For a lot of my revision, I've been writing on Word Documents using the pen tab in the ribbon bar which appears when I use word with my graphics tablet. Every time I write anything with the pen, as soon as I lift my pen up from writing something the blue spinning working pointer appears for about half a second every time and it is really off putting and distracting. It never used to happen, it just started happening more and more recently. Just for the record, this is on a Win7 desktop which is far from underpowered so I don't think it has anything to do with that. Any ideas welcome :) |
| Got a problem. Posted: 06 Jun 2014 07:31 AM PDT For the last 18 days now, I've been getting an extremely annoying dialog box every time I open up Microsoft Word (v.2010) that keeps counting down the days for me to buy a new activation key. (you greedy, profitmongering Microsoft bastards...) Well, when my family got around to doing just that last night (after a certain cavalcade of errors) by buying an installation/activation key for Office360 (which I'm not sure we should've gotten...), I activated a Word file and got "(Product Activation Failed)" in the header amidst some blather about how my copy might be counterfeit and going on about how I should change my product key. At the very bottom of the dialog box, I got "Error code: 0xC004F074" to boot. What exactly's going on?!? I'm at the end of my rope here! And if I have to buy something else to fix this problem, so help me God...! |
| Non Breaking Space Posted: 06 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT I have three related questions on the non breaking space? I looked in Word help and am still confused. - What is a non breaking space? I do not know what it does as opposed to a regular space inserted with the space bar.
- With the non printing characters displayed, what indicates the presence of this feature?
- I understand it is inserted with CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE but that key stroke does not appear in the Customize keystrokes list found on the Customize dialog box. How do I add it?
Thank you for your input. Hugh |
| Use colorful text boxes and pictures in a header that will not be dimmed Posted: 06 Jun 2014 06:15 AM PDT I want to place text boxes will color fills and images as part of a header. When I'm in the header, they are bright. When I close the header, they are dimmed. This is expected behavior. However, I would like the image and objects to stay bright even when the header is closed. Is this possible? Bright text boxes and images inside header: 
Dimmed image and objects: 
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| I OVER WROTE ON NOTEPAD DOCUMENT BY ACCIDENT YESTERDAY Posted: 06 Jun 2014 05:56 AM PDT I OVER WROTE ON NOTEPAD DOCUMENT BY ACCIDENT YESTERDAY CAN I RETRIEVE THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT, MAYBE SOME WHERE ON MY COMPUTER BUFFER OR SOMEWHERE ELSE IN MY COMPUTER. |
| Table rows: How many rows are in my selection? Posted: 06 Jun 2014 05:44 AM PDT Is there any way to be able to quickly tell how many rows I've selected? So far I'm batting zero on an answer. |
| Adding Values of Dropdown Lists in Word 2010 Posted: 06 Jun 2014 03:23 AM PDT I have a table in word and the last column of each row has a drop down list consisting of: Good Satisfactory Needs Improvement Each of these drop down options have a value assigned to them: 5 0 -5 At the bottom of the table I would like to SUM the values of the drop downs inserted. Does anyone know if this is possible? Thank you for your help. |
| Can't get mirror margin to print correctly Posted: 06 Jun 2014 02:45 AM PDT I am going to make a bound book and print on both side, so I use mirror margin. In the print preview, the top and bottom margin on odd page and even page are on the same level. However, the top and bottom margin on the printed output are different on odd page and even page. I set the top and bottom margin are 0.9". However, on the odd pages of the printed output, the top margin is 0.9" but the bottom margin is 1.5". On the even pages, the top margin is 1.5" but the bottom margin is 0.9". How can I print it with the same top and bottom margin on both odd and even pages? |
| crazy footnote Posted: 06 Jun 2014 01:22 AM PDT Hi, somehow a footnote whose number I deleted in the document body (meaning to delete the number and the footnote below as well) is still showing in the footnotes, so that in the document body there is a number skipping. I have tried to act on that malicious footnote, but it looks blocked: I can't even put my cursor in it, I am able to merely shrink the size if I shring it for the whole document's footnote text. I have tried to create new documents, but still the page numeration goes wrong again even in those, with the number skipping; i have even tried to create two different documents but as soon as I unify them the number is still skipping. Please help, it's quite urgent! Thank you very very much!
PS: I am using microsoft office word (docx) from university 365 etc., Mac version (Macbook air). I bought it in the US, but right now I am in Italy, my home country. |
| For Jeeped: Please help... end tag mismatch..can't open docx file (notes mc:Fallback) Posted: 05 Jun 2014 11:21 PM PDT Jeeped: help! having similar problems with my file - can't open it anymore and getting this error message: 
tried opening it using an xml editor and what i got was this: 
I want to learn how to correct it to avoid recurrence but right now I need to submit a file that can be opened... help please? thank you... i've attached the dropbox link here.. https://www.dropbox.com/s/8abt42y3weff06d/140508%20DdN%20Leadership%20Dev%20Trng%20Report%202.docx |
| How to insert a List of Figures in each section? Posted: 05 Jun 2014 09:54 PM PDT I have found the way to insert a TOC for each section but can't find the process for a LOF. |
| Using compare with embedded Visio diagrams Posted: 05 Jun 2014 05:23 PM PDT I have some Word documents with embedded Visio diagrams. When I compare the documents to a previous version. the word compare tool thinks that I've deleted and inserted the Visio diagrams when the diagrams haven't changed. This is really annoying because I then have to check the diagrams for changes when there aren't any. Is there any way that I can change this behavior? I don't remember seeing this with a previous version of Word but I wasn't using document compare as much. In the latest case, I opened a document with diagrams. Then I made three changes in a table at the end of the document. When I did a compare, it said that I had inserted and deleted the diagrams in addition to the changes that I really made. I've also seen compare say that the formatting changed when I can't tell what the change was. I'd really like this compare function to be more reliable about detecting what actually changed. |
| MS Word 2010 glitch? Posted: 05 Jun 2014 05:15 PM PDT Building a series of pamphlets in Word 2010, each as a different file. Normally body content jumps over headers and footers. Of six pamphlets, suddenly the last three have this item: The body text is seen passing through the headers and footers. When I enter a field (from the Insert dropdown) for page number or filename, for example, the code appears and not the info I want. These two occurred together in the same file so I guess they might be related. Help. |
| Word 2013 error message keeps occuring Posted: 05 Jun 2014 04:20 PM PDT Every time I try to open word an error message pops up saying that word ran into a problem trying to open and that it needs to be closed. This problem started yesterday. I've tried trouble shooting, reinstalling.... I have no idea what's going on. Any suggestions? |
| Mail Merge to Email with Mail Format, Attachment, being a PDF file Posted: 05 Jun 2014 04:19 PM PDT I have been able to successfully send a merged formatted letter as an e-mail attachment to individuals on an e-mail list. But I would like to try this a different way since all my recipients will likely prefer a PDF file rather than a Word file. - How can I create a merge that attaches a PDF version of the source document?
- How can I include an e-mail message in the sent e-mail message with the attachment. In my testing, when the e-mail goes out, the message is blank. The only way the recipients will have a clue as to what this is would be by reading the subject line and the file name of the attachment.
Thanks in advance for any help. |
| Janell Posted: 05 Jun 2014 03:11 PM PDT I just purchased word and can't activate it. Now what? I made the purchase and it charged me, but cannot get it to download. Help |
