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Office 2003

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 02:37 PM PDT

I have a later version of office on my computer but am loathe to use it.  The status bar at the bottom of my word documents have a greyed out bar for Page Sec Line Col etc.  I have gone to help, followed the directions and gone to "options", chosen "view", checked "status bar" and it is still greyed out and empty.  I really love this feature.  Any suggestions?

Captions in Word

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 01:40 PM PDT

It would be very nice if in inserting a Cross Reference for a Caption of a Figure or Table in a Word doc one could select an option of "Only number". The closest match is the option "Only label and number". But that is not good enough. For example, instead of writing "... as shown in Figures 3 and 4...", if one wants to use cross references has to write awkwardly "...as shown in Figure 3 and in Figure 4..." because the option of "Only number" is not available in cross referencing. 

Insert footnote in Word 2013

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 12:19 PM PDT

Hi

I have just looked up how to use footnotes in Word 2013. I seem to have somethings wrong here,

Whereas on Ms we have this:

Lost Features from a Word 2007 Template

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 11:26 AM PDT

We have a template, archived in SharePoint (SharePoint Server 2010).  The Word version is Word 2007 on a Windows XP platform.  Each user uses the template from the C:\ disc drive, Templates folder.  The SharePoint archive is just for people to be able to download it to their PC.

The template has 6 custom covers pages.  Unfortunately, all but one cover page keeps mysteriously disappearing from the archived version.  I can not figure out what is going on, is it SharePoint, Windows, or Word, or the unholy alliance that is at the root of this problem. 

None of us has the technical skills to determin the cause.

Thanks for any help.

Hugh

How do you select a picture and replace it by pasting a picture in the clipboard and ensure picture size (footprint in document) is unchanged

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 10:48 AM PDT

I've seen this question a few times and wanted to provide a simple VBA solution.

1. Copy the replacement picture from another location in the document or other source.

2. Select the picture you want to replace.

Run this code:

Sub ReplacePictureWithClipboarPicture()
Dim oILS As InlineShape
Dim LngW As Long
If Selection.Type = wdSelectionInlineShape Then
  Set oILS = Selection.InlineShapes(1)
  LngW = oILS.Width
  oILS.Delete
  Selection.Range.Paste
  Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend
  If Selection.Type = wdSelectionInlineShape Then
    Set oILS = Selection.InlineShapes(1)
    With oILS
      .LockAspectRatio = True
      .Width = LngW
    End With
  Else
    ActiveDocument.Undo (3)
    MsgBox "Operation canceled and reversed.  The content of the clipboard was not a inline shape image."
  End If
Else
  MsgBox "Please select the image to replace and try again.  The image must be an inline shape image."
End If
End Sub

See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/installing_employing_macros.html for instructions to employ the VBA code provided above.

Feeding information from Microsoft Excel 2007 into variables in a Microsoft Word 2007 Document

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 10:33 AM PDT

Hello,

I have created a template in Microsoft Word 2007 that contains ~50 variables.  The rest (90%) of the document is static.

I have a Microsoft Excel 2007 spreadsheet that lists the name of the variable (ex. "#A") in column A and the information to be held by that variable (ex. "NAME of client)" in column B.

I have been doing a Find & Replace for each individual variable within the Word document while using my spreadsheet as a reference for what information belongs in each variable.

My question is this:


If I were to enter the specific information I would like to add to my Word Template (ex. "JOHN A. DOE") into column C of my spreadsheet, is there a way I could transfer those ~50 pieces of information directly into my Word document all at once, thus saving me the time of doing a Find & Replace for each individual variable?

I hope that my question makes sense.  Please let me know if I can clarify further.

Thank you in advance if you are willing to offer any help!

Joe

How do I incorporate a new font into Microsoft Word 2007?

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 10:08 AM PDT

I would like to use the font Old English Text MT within the documents that I am using.  This font is not available through Word 2007.  Is there a way I can incorporate the font into Word 2007?

Thank you!

Joe

Is there a way to put "TOC (continued)" on the top of the second page?

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 09:41 AM PDT

My table of contents is more than one page long, and I'd really like to have a heading at the top of the second page that says "Table of Contents (continued)". Is this possible in Word 2010?

Problem with inserting pdf into word 2013

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 07:52 AM PDT

I have a problem with my Microsoft office word 2013 (or maybe with adobe) .

Each time I insert a pdf file into word document , first what happens is that the program (mo word) gets really slow to navigate and edit and beside that the quality of the inserted pdf is low and not very clear . Third issue is that when I save the document (with the pdf in it) , its size is very big and not easy to opperate . Same thing happens when I convert that word document into pdf file - the size is huge .

BUT , when I save that document into word 97-2003 document , all above mentioned problems disappear : word is not slow any more , quality of the pdf is now ok , and the size is normal ...

So , is there any way to skip converting word 2013 file into word 97-2003 ? Is it possible to insert the pdf in 2013 document without having these problems ? IS THERE ANY FIX FOR THIS ?

Thanks in advance !!!

macros not working in Word 2013

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 06:38 AM PDT

My macros disappeared.  This may be due to the corruption of the Normal file following a problematic shut down.   

I've tried recreating the macros.    However, none of these new macros are working.  The keystroke commands I've established yield no response.  Choosing "run" in View Macro interface does nothing. 

I'm running Windows 8 with the Classic View (so it looks like Windows 7).

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Styles in Word 2010 : How to give background colour/Highlight to ONLY specific group of Word?

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 06:13 AM PDT

Hi All,

How to give background colour/Highlight to ONLY specific group of Word NOT a whole Line?

Modify Style> Format>Border> Shading .....................but this Highlight whole Line Not for specific group of words.

'and Plz. Without using Table Cell'

TIA,

Ravi Vare

Word 2010 pop up without request

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 06:05 AM PDT

 I made an update in my windows and office. After that the office Word 2010 opens continuously files that seems to be created by websites. While writing the message it opened again. Maybe related to IE and chrome...

  Any help how to block it?

Can we Link 'Page Number' of different Files.

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 06:03 AM PDT

Hi All,

For specific reasons, I have made different Word Files

Now I want to Link their Page Number one by one.

File1 [last page 10]-File2[Start with PN 11. End with 25]- File3[Start with PN 26. End with 40]....................so on

Is it Possible?

TIA

Ravi Vare

Printing from Office Word 2007

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 05:31 AM PDT

When I try to print a document from Office Word 2007, I am told that I can 'only print from apps'. How then can I print from Word as part of Desktop?

Macro to Find All Tables and Convert Them Into Text Separated by Tabs

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 02:51 AM PDT

Greetings!

I am trying to convert a huge number of Tables into Text (separated by Tabs),

but before conversion first turn all Table contents into red bold font 8 points. Thus, find Table, change to red bold 8 point font, then convert Table to Text separated by Tabs.

I would deeply appreciate your help in this matter.

Word2010 insert page number deletes my customize footer

Posted: 11 Jul 2014 01:26 AM PDT

Hi, after I have insert the page number, the word 2010 will delete my customize footer ie. path/my initial. Please assist.  Thank you for advance.

Email Mail Merge and hyperlinks

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 11:39 PM PDT

I am sending a newsletter to clients using Word 2013 email mail merge.  I have included several hyperlinks in the content of the newsletter.  These are not from the data source, they are simply hyperlinks that have been manually entered to text content in the newsletter.

When clients receive the newsletter, some hyperlinks are broken because the URL has been changed in some way.  For example I had some text that pointed to http://www.microsoft.com and when the clients received it the URL had been changed to http://www.microsoft..com.  an extra period had been added.

Other hyperlinks were fine and had not changed.  This has happened on multiple newsletters.

Is this an SMTP corruption?  Is there anything that can prevent it?

Thanks.

Word 07 will not access website from URL

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 11:29 PM PDT

When I use CTRL+LHB to access a website from an hyperlinked URL I get this message:

I can't see anything in Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 which would inhibit this action.

What else could it be?

Thanks

Ms Word files are automatically saved in "Read-Only" mode which is a problem when i want to edit the file

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 10:58 PM PDT

I'm using Ms Word 2013 on Windows 8. When i first save the file it is fine. I am able to open it in Edit mode but after editing the file a couple of times and saving the changes about 5 times I'm only able to open that file in "Read-Only" mode and when i try to edit then I'm prompted to save the file in another name. Please, help.

I can't open my Word file (name of the end tag element must match the element type in the start tag). Can anyone help?

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 09:48 PM PDT

I can't open my Word file. The error says "name of the end tag element must match the element type in the start tag". Can anyone help? It's an important document that I need to recover & submit. Any help will be appreciated.

 

I have the corrupted file in: http://www.mediafire.com/view/89x2ruc70dm11u3/2014_CLP_Infograph_-_Copy.docx

 

Thanks in advance!

Opening .doc files

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 09:14 PM PDT

Hi All.

1. After automatically downloading and installing 32 Office 2010 updates last night, I can no longer open .doc files. (Can only open .docx files)

2. Tried to uninstall the updates. No go. Comes up with "An unexpected error occurred. The update was not uninstalled." Tried all 32 updates .....all came up with the same thing.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Missing table selector button (Crosshair)

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 07:30 PM PDT

Hi, 

In regards to tables in Microsoft Word 2013, could you please clarify how to make the table selection button/crosshair appear on the top left-hand side of an inserted table? Currently, when I hover around the top left-hand corner of a table, nothing appears.

Error message when trying to insert page numbers

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 05:28 PM PDT

I am trying to insert number into a large document, but when ever I click on page number and ten go to insert nmber at bottom of page I get an error message

Word cannot open this document template

(C:\Users\Mum\...\14\~$ilding Blocks.dotx)

with two button 'Okay' and "Help'

Help doesn't seem to bring up anything related and when I click okay the message goes and reappears instantly I click okay again and then it goes.

The document is quite large with over 80pages and 70,000 words.  But this message happens on a new doc without even 1 word typed.

I googled and found help moving files around but this was for 2007 word I am on 2010 University Word

I am not tech savvy, far from it actually. But would realyl appreciate any help I can get, as I am wanting to re-arrange the pages and numbering them will help me keep track of them

Thanks in advance

Bernie

Office Professional Plus 2013 will not start, cannot open files

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 05:14 PM PDT

I am running Office Professional Plus 2013 on Windows 8.1 - as of this afternoon following install of multiple windows updates, this program will not start. I get an error message saying that it will not start.

Attempted offline repairs do not work. When attempting online repairs I get an error message that says the program's system service will not start.

Help! I have work to do and this is preventing me from accessing essential documents!

Word won't save files -URGENT -IMPORTANT

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 04:03 PM PDT

Word is not saving my files, or to put more accurately, is stuck saving my files. At the bottom of each document, there's a msg saying:

Word is saving "filename.docx"

I noticed this at 3:30 pm after working on several related Word docs all day.I get the same results when trying to save other files,msg saying 

Word is saving "otherfilename.docx" that just hangs there.

I go into Explorer and see the last file saved was 4 hours ago, at 11:30 am. I will lose 4 hours of work if I can't get Save to work. I tried saving files as .doc instead of .docx. No luck.  I tried saving to different space on my PC. Same results. 

How can I save these files??? 

And why didn't I get any error msg when I saved or when auto-saved tried to save and it didn't work??

HELP PLEASE

pdf to word conversion oesn't allow editing

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:50 PM PDT

When I use a pdf to word converter, the document does convert to Word and opens in word. however, I can't edit it. It opens as a picture. How do I get it to open as a editable doc?

System Error Oxc06d007e

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 03:40 PM PDT

Windows Office Home and Student 2013.When loading keeps coming up with this System Error. Can anybody help please? 

Windows 7 - Burners

Windows 7 - Burners

Burners

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 10:13 AM PST


"Gene E. Bloch" <invalid> wrote in message
news:g8lw1ebuiv8j.1p9q1ek3p5fqi$net... 

Look at WinAVI too.

router instructions

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 09:32 AM PST

On 3/5/2010 10:32 AM, housetrained wrote: 
Belkin defaul address: 192.168.2.1
Default password is to leave the PW blank.

Rename the SSID from the standard to something else.

Set security to WPA/WPA2 or at lease WEP 128 bit.

Set a PW in the System Settings page.

Allow the Belkin to save the changes at every point.

--
"Never argue with an idiot, they will knock you
down to their level and beat you with experience."
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Option A Windows 7 Option B Windows 7

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 09:05 AM PST

On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:26:01 -0500, ng_reader <com>
wrote:
 

Save yourself a ton of headache and transfer the data across a local
network, even if it's as simple as just connecting the two computers
together.

Alternatively, just slave the old hard drive into the new computer
temporarily and do a drive-to-drive data transfer. That would be the
fastest by far. Both of these methods avoid burning DVD's.
 

If all it needs are more USB ports, you can usually add a card to give
you as many as 4 more ports for under $10. Here's just one example.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124007

Good Midi player for win 7

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 08:20 AM PST

Winamp works very well for me, and you can load up literally thousands of
midi files, if you have that many. I have about 10,000 in my collection.

You can adjust the midi decoder if you find the volume is logarithmic or
linear and should be vice versa. That will give the volume the same
sensitivity for midi files as it is for mp3 files.

There is an old program called juke (http://www.wolosoft.com/en/) that I
used to use a lot that plays midi files quite well.
 

hard drives

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 08:04 AM PST

Thanks for that, maybe I would be just as well buying a completely new
desktop however my one has 2 dvd drive bays, additional sound cards, tv in
card, firewire, quiet fan and more. That is why I thought I could upgrade
it, especially as I already have a windows7 32 bit software disk.


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Microsoft Word - Macro Enabled Document

Microsoft Word - Macro Enabled Document

Macro Enabled Document

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 01:53 PM PDT

I use Microsoft Word 2010.  I switched a macro enabled form template to a macro enabled form document because the users of the form were not using the template correctly when they were filling in the form so that I could fix the form after the fact.  I had two fields that I had originally created using the create date field which will not work now since some users are not saving the form as a new document so it would have the original date of the form.  Is there a way of creating a macro that will update the two date fields to the current date when the original form is opened but not update if the form when it is saved as a new form?  I have set the goDate macro as the Run Macro on Entry field.  I tried using the following but it did not always work for other users:

Sub goDate()
    With ActiveDocument
        strFile = .Name
    End With
    If strFile = "00789329.DOCM" Then
        ActiveDocument.FormFields("Invoice").Result = Date
        ActiveDocument.FormFields("ExpenseSheetDate").Result = Date
    End If
    If strFile = "Expense Sheet(00789329xB751B).docm" Then
        ActiveDocument.FormFields("Invoice").Result = Date
        ActiveDocument.FormFields("ExpenseSheetDate").Result = Date
    End If
    If strFile = "Expense Sheet(00789329xB751B-1).docm" Then
        ActiveDocument.FormFields("Invoice").Result = Date
        ActiveDocument.FormFields("ExpenseSheetDate").Result = Date
    End If
    If strFile = "Expense Sheet(00789329).DOCM" Then
        ActiveDocument.FormFields("Invoice").Result = Date
        ActiveDocument.FormFields("ExpenseSheetDate").Result = Date
    End If
    If strFile = "Expense Sheet(00789329xB751B-1).docm(Read-Only) - Microsoft Word" Then
        ActiveDocument.FormFields("Invoice").Result = Date
        ActiveDocument.FormFields("ExpenseSheetDate").Result = Date
    End If
    If strFile = "Expense Sheet(00789329xB751B-1).docm(Read-Only)" Then
        ActiveDocument.FormFields("Invoice").Result = Date
        ActiveDocument.FormFields("ExpenseSheetDate").Result = Date
    End If

What am I doing wrong?

Linking Separate Documents Into One File

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 01:05 PM PDT

Hello,

I have document templates into which I have inserted variables (ex. #A = Client's Name).  Most client's I serve require a number of individual documents.  However, the footer including page numbers prohibits me from creating one long document.  What I would like to be able to do is to do one Find & Replace for all of the documents at once. 

Is there a way to combine documents into one document while maintaining pagination, footers, etc.?

The server couldn't complete this action. Error Code: 0x88ffc008

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 12:39 PM PDT

Word says "The server couldn't complete this action. Error Code: 0x88ffc008" when I want to share a document.

  1. It's 2014 -- why do we have 1960's vintage error messages?
  2. WTF does this mean and what can I do about it?

Saved on SkyDrive (or OneDrive) in a machine not in a domain. 

3d Effects grayed out - it is a .docx

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 12:17 PM PDT

Hey all,

I'm really frustrated here.

Last week, I created a simple logo which was just a box with some text in it. This week, I went to do the same exact thing I did last week, and now the "3d effects" button doesn't pop up in the Drawing Tools - Format ribbon like it did before.

What's more, even when I try to force Word to show me 3d Effects in a custom tab, it's grayed out.

The file IS a .docx... and my "save files in this format" is set to .docx. It doesn't matter if I start a new file or open a file I saved-as.

Any idea why this is happening now, when, just last week, it was working fine?

Word Fields, Avoiding Divide by Zero

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 11:50 AM PDT

Hello, 

So I am having an issue with Word Fields.

I want to create a column, c, that divides the number in column a by the number in column b.

However, if b is equal to or less than 0, I want to get 0.

This seems like a simple if statement: { =IF(B1<=0,0,A1/B1) }

Regardless of the value of A, this works fine.  For my example, A will equal 5.

If B equals 1, it will evaluate correctly.  B is not less than or equal to 0, 5/1=5

If B equals -1, it will also evaluate correctly.  B is less than or equal to 0, 0

If B equals 0, it will NOT evaluate correctly.  B is less than or equal to 0, 0, but since the true would have evaluated to 5/0, the field gives up and returns nothing.

Is there a fix?

I could use A1/(B1+verySmallNumber), but I'd rather prefer not to if there is another way.

Thanks,
Christopher

Windows 8.1/Office 2013 when opening office files from mapped drive only aplication is lunched

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 08:22 AM PDT

Hi

Setup

Windows 8.1 surface pro 2, office 2013, Server 2003,

Problem

When I try to open any office files ( .doc, .xls, .ppt) from mapped network folder only correspond application is lunched  but file does not get opened. When i open the same file from the same location but rather than using mapped point i type the unc path everything works fine. Offline files are disabled, network share is on windows 2003 server. If do the same on windows 7 and office 2010 it works fine and if I do this on another laptop with the same setup it works as well. Any ideas ??

Many thanks in advance

Some words in documents created using Word 2007 combined together after viewed and saved in Word 2013.

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 08:18 AM PDT

So the document was initially created in Word 2007 program then it was being viewed, edited and saved in Word 2013. When the edited document was returned to be view in Word 2007 (the one that created it but on different PC), some words appeared to be combined together, for instance, in Word 2007, you typed "My name is John" and then you edited in Word 2013 and everything look just fine before and after saved in Word 2013. When returned to Word 2007, it became: "My name isJohn". 

Can anyone what's wrong here and how can I avoid this issue in the future? 

A mail merge annoyance

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 07:52 AM PDT

I am little tired of this every time I use the mail merge.  After I am finished the merge and begin to work with the documents, I notice that the " Do not check spelling and grammar" box is checked.  Repeatedly, I have to return to the dialogue box to keep unchecking the box.

Is there any solution to this annoyance!!

 

green alignment lines for graphics in word 2013 suddeningly stopped working

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 07:46 AM PDT

The green graphic alignment lines suddenly stopped working in my Word 2013. How can I fix this? Thanks.

Office 2000 will not open

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 07:28 AM PDT

I downloaded the recent Windows Update today and now Office 2000 will not open my documents. It gives me the message "There was a problem sending the command to the program". Is there a solution?  Thank you

How to I add English words to my custom dictionary?

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 07:26 AM PDT

I am having trouble adding english words to my custom dictionary.

My dictionary is set to custom with the language as english, as when I change it to 'none', spellcheck doesn't pick up on any mistakes.

It will allow me to add some words such as names or scientific terms, but when I try and add an english spelling ( recognising instead of recognizing).

Can anyone help me?!

I'm using microsoft 2008 on a mac.

How to create a colored shadow for a picture in Word 2010?

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 07:04 AM PDT

I'm trying to edit a preexisting word document and cannot figure out how to recreate the show effect that is on the document's pictures. Please see below:

How can a recreate this blue "box shadow" on a new image that I put in the document? If I try to replace the picture that is already in the document like the one above, it completely removes the shadow and my new image is pasted without any of the pre-existing effects.

Any help would be truly appreciated!

Microsoft Equation 3.0 editor suddenly not working

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 06:41 AM PDT

I my windows 8, I was working in a word document, and wanted to use Microsoft  equation 3.0 editor as I used to do it with my new laptop for nearly a year, but to day suddenly it is not responding. When I go to : insert, object , in object type box  there is a message says " Insert a new Microsoft equation 3.0 object in your computer". in fact  I noticed that this message is repeated for all items in the object type box . Can any one please help me?

Creating a conditional question on within a fillable form word 2010

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 06:05 AM PDT

I have a drop down menu question with 5 options. If a user selects one of 2 of the 5 options I want a subquestion to appear 

Numbering the text boxes on a sidebar

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 02:50 AM PDT

I inserted a sidebar with the chapter number on the margins of a document, as part of the header, so it repeats on the corresponding pages. For example, Chapter 2 has a corresponding sidebar "Chapter 2" on pages xx-yyy.

As I add new chapters and re-adjust the titles in the text boxes in the sidebar, the chapter numbers in the text boxes do not follow the ordering of the chapters but rather the ordering of the text boxes themselves. For example, where there is Chapter 3 in the title, the sidebar says "Chapter 8" (see the screenshot). I tried to delete it and add a new text box, but then it says "Chapter 11". As this is obviously a matter of ordering text boxes, how can I order them? Here I do not mean dragging them from one page to another but rather changing the way they appear in a document.

Thanks,

Lana

Track changes and change user name

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 01:14 AM PDT

Hi everyone

I received a document with track changes on. As expected, the changes were red. When I added my text, they were blue (so far, so good). Unfortunately, what seems to have happened is the colours have reversed so now I'm the first author (my changes are in red) and the original editor's tracks are in blue.

Now my text is purple (as a third editor). I have added other names in the "change user name" in the track changes box to try and fix it. That's made things worse. There are now five reviewers.

Question: Can the reviewers added through the "change user name" be deleted so I am back to square one? No additional names. 

Any help appreciated with this.  

Changing the display and help language of Microsoft Office 2010

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 12:53 AM PDT

Hello there

I have recently purchased a new laptop from Taiwan and I am currently having difficulties trying to change the display and help language of the pre-installed Microsoft Office programs (such as Word, Excel etc.)

The language of the Microsoft Office programs were pre-installed with traditional Chinese, and I would like to change it to English UK. I've done quite a lot of research on how to change it but none of those solved my problem. The picture below shows the language options within tools in Microsoft Word:

I've set English UK as my primary editing language (in the first line of the editing tab), but in the tab below (the display and help languages) the only 2 options were "match Microsoft Windows <default>" and "Chinese (Traditional)". I have also changed the language and location settings of my laptop to English.

Much Thanks

Word, excel have stopped working after latest update

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 12:39 AM PDT

so added to outlook having gave up 2 weeks ago and there seems to be no one that can fix the problem, today after the system had once again updated itself I now get this message

I also received this message for word and pressed the yes button and now word has disappeared completely from my system.

I am extremely hacked off with these products!!!!!!!

Can anyone help in a clear and understandable English, I am not an expert on MS products nor on the workings of programming I am a simple end user.

change language pasted text

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 12:36 AM PDT

How do i prevent word from dealing pasted text as english when it is Norwegian? Example: I copy text in safari or firefox and paste that text into word. The hole paragraph are then treated as english spellchecking. Looks like word gets some kind of wrong info from the browser..How do I either paste it as Norwegian or make word discard that meta info. The word-document is set in norwegian but that single pasted paragraph get changed to English. Thank for any help.

Problem with pictures pasted from powerpoint to word

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 11:52 PM PDT

I have faced a problem with Block Diagrams that I created in Powerpoint and pasted in Word. I pasted the diagrams using default paste(using destination theme). After pasting, the text in the textbox of one diagram combines with the text in text box of another diagram. I am at a loss to understand how this is happening. 

Please let me know why this happens.

Thanks

Anuradha

Word 2010 numbering pages

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 11:34 PM PDT

I have been been trying to add page numbers to my book 180 pages, I am not putting the numbers on the first page. I follow the directions to the letter and all it does is add number 1 to the first page and that is that. I am trying to add themto the center footer, that's all just the numbers. I am ashamed to say I have been working on this for 4 hours. I miss my Word 2000..

Link Textbox control

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 11:20 PM PDT

Hi,

I inserted a textbox, after which I'd copied it and "paste special" => "Paste link" so that when I update the former, the latter will be automatically updated.

But the strange thing is, not only do (1) I have to manually right click, update link, (2) after I've saved and opened it, the objects disappeared (when i right click, there is no "Update link"  option.

What have I done wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Word 2013 COM automation fails to open file when offline

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 11:16 PM PDT

I'm getting a weird error the I'm guessing may be related to OneDrive integration in Word 2013.

I've got a Python script that uses COM Automation to get Word to open a .DOC/.DOCX file (the script should then paste something into the very first line, save the document, and close it).  When I'm online everything works great.  While using Word 2010 everything worked great, online and offline.  

When I'm on the bus (and, therefore, offline - there's no WiFi/Clearwire/etc for my laptop) the script fails, and it fails specifically at the  line where I try to do the following:

wordapp.Documents.Open("path_To_File\file.doc");

The directory that contains the file is in OneDrive; it is marked as being "Available Offline".  

My guess is that when Word 2013 is not on a network it's having trouble with the OneDrive integration.  

I'd love any advice on either fixing this or what to look for next to better diagnose this problem.

MS word 2013: Paste is exrcuciatingly SLOW (8 seconds)

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 10:02 PM PDT

Paste is very slow in MS words. It can take 8-10 seconds.

I usually copy and paste from a website into MS words document. It could be any amount of text from a few words to the entire web page. Paste is very slow in MS words. It can take 8-10 seconds. To bypass the delay, I just paste into a notepad and then copy paste from notepad into word document.  It has been like this for MANY YEARS for me with MS word.  If I paste into NOTEPAD, it goes band, instant. I am still using the same delay-bypass for many years.

Note: When I tried to paste the same text off the webpage in a new email in Windows Live Mail, it took whopping 30 seconds. Obviously the process of converting original text from website to text suitable for MS products is faulty.

Today I got sick of it and tried to do something about it. Guess what, there is nothing I can do to fix it.

It is MS windows 8.1, MS IE explorer, MS website, MS office, MS words 2013, MS clipboard and MS productivity suite of products which take 8 sec to copy paste from MS website contents into MS words. 

MS, please fix this bugs which wastes my time.

Problems printing multiple pages in Word 2013

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 07:35 PM PDT

When I request printing multiple pages in Word 2013 I only get one page printed each time.  Excel 2013 prints multiple pages properly.  Anyone have a fix?

Can't open my Microsoft Office programs.

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 05:43 PM PDT

I can't open Word 2013 and open any documents I wrote using Word 2013?

Word Page Breaks

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 05:13 PM PDT

I have a document in which there is a organizational chart created with text boxes.  I need to insert a page break after the boxes.  How?

Just Installed Word 1013 and it will not open documents

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 04:51 PM PDT

I have been using Word Starter 2010 on my laptop for a while now. Today I decided to purchase and download Office 365. The Powerpoint and Excel seem to be working fine. I tried to open Word 2013 and I see the options (blank document, flyer, etc). When I click on blank document, I get an error message saying there was a problem and it closes the window. So, I cannot access Word at all and I cannot access my "old" files in Word Starter (I can view them in Word Pad) but that's about it.

Using old MSWord Webdesign program-- but installed Windows 7

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 04:44 PM PDT

I have used MSWord Web program for ten years and it has served me well for my limited knowledge. I just update it every month with new pictures and data and run it in Compatibility mode and it works fine. Although some readers can't see the pictures.

Today I uploaded to the site and it all turned into Chinese.. YIKES what is going on? I have checked, rechecked and check again and can't find anything I am doing wrong. I have upgraded from XP to Windows 7 but I have used the program for three months and it worked fine.

 PLEASE help.. this is an important website for a non profit.

Problem with the Word document buttons on the Windows 7 Taskbar

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 04:05 PM PDT

A major repeating headache when working with Word is the following problem, which has to do with the Windows UI but for me occurs when working with Word. So I apologize if this is the wrong section for asking this question.

When I have several Word documents opened (and many other windows from several applications), the Word documents are displayed as separate buttons on the Windows Taskbar (which in my case is placed on the left side of the desktop). Now I have an auto-start macro installed in Word which displays the whole file-path in the Word title-bar instead of only the file-name, which for me is very important to distinguish documents which may have the same file-name but are in different directories.

This makes it impossible to distinguish which Word document belongs to which taskbar button, because the taskbar button displays the Word title-bar content (which in my case is the whole file-path), so every Word document taskbar button looks the same, and initially I always have to try and click each Word document taskbar button. This of course is cumbersome and time-consuming and not an efficient way to work.

But even when I would uninstall the before-mentioned Word macro it is not easy to distinguish the Word documents in the taskbar as their names may start with similar words, although the taskbar has a width of 100 pixels.

An additional problem in this context is: The Windows 7 taskbar has a very poor (almost none) visual contrast between the taskbar button which belongs to the currently focused window and the other taskbar buttons. Also, when I hover the mouse pointer over one of the Word document taskbar buttons, the text in the document names  popup also has a very poor visual contrast with the popup background (it's almost the same color). However I don't want to use a "High contrast" Windows theme, as I am not visually impaired.

Is there a GOOD solution for this problem? Is it possible to customize the Windows 7 taskbar to make it look like I need? This would be:

  • Customize the color contrast between the current and the other taskbar buttons
  • Customize the color contrast in the taskbar documents popup
  • Customize the taskbar to show only the document file-name, not the whole path
  • Maybe a smaller Word icon in the taskbar buttons with wrapped text inside the taskbar button, to show as much as possible to identify the document.

How to get "y", in Page x of y numbering, to ignore certain pages in it's total?

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 04:01 PM PDT

Hi there,

I have a document where the first 2 pages do not need to be included in the page numbering, but I need to page numbering for page three and beyond to have "page x of y" page numbering format. My issue is that, while I can get "x" to start at 1 on page three, I cannot get the "y" part to stop listing the first two pages of the document in it's total count. How do I get "y" to start at 1 from the third page?

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bad ISO's

Posted: 27 Aug 2006 09:44 PM PDT

Leo wrote: 

Considering the group he is posting in, I would assume he is running
some variety of *nix. Plus, he said he tried two operating systems.

Mounting remote samba share with differing uid's

Posted: 27 Aug 2006 10:48 AM PDT

Grant <com> writes:
 

That would be possible, but it shouldn't be necessary. I expect it
would require changing both of our uid's; in addition the uid's are
different between her Mac and our Mac notebook and I'm not clear how to
choose uid's on OS X.



--
Bill Mitchell
Dept of Mathematics, The University of Florida
PO Box 118105, Gainesville, FL 32611--8105
ufl.edu (352) 392-0281 x284

why does linux suck

Posted: 26 Aug 2006 12:29 PM PDT

Suicyco wrote:
 
Didn't Einstein say that 'insanity' was repeating the same action while
expecting different results.
If the first couple of disks failed to burn then you have a problem,
somewhere, which is not solved by continuing to burn disks.

You should indulge some fault finding procedures, maybe test burns of known
installables on re writable media - cheaper that way.

I've been guilty of screaming at the computer too, but the bastard never
responds. It is better to go for a walk and a think

--
regards faeychild
(Registered GNU/Linux user #374302)

linux sucks

Posted: 26 Aug 2006 12:28 PM PDT

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:31:09 +0000, Matt Giwer wrote:
 

Matt, and anyone else reading this:

Thanks for participating in this thread and though my computing goes back
26 years this past May I'll defer to your greater experience with on-line
activities.

Still, I feel the very best response to all these postings is absolutely
no response. None. Not from anyone. Not to refute. Not to correct. Not
to inform.

I'll invoke the psychological principle that behaviors go to extinction if
they aren't reinforced. Obviously, this is poor policy in many situations
- yes a charging rhino will eventually get bored and go away, but sadly
you'll not be able to enjoy satisfaction of your exercise of restraint!

However, in this case, and in those of all other newsgroups I haunt, I
have never seen any response to a purely provocative posting accomplish
anything but encouraging and usually inflaming the original poster as well
as the all-too-easily engaged partisans on either side of the issue.

I'm sure you have something specific in mind by your referring to
"aggressive responses" but what those might be in the case of a posting
with the subject "Linux sucks" I can only imagine:
 

I don't even want to speculate on what self-image is implied by the handle
"Suicyco" but the only logical response to this message given a
willingness to overlook its ignorance and trollsomeness is simply "You
don't" but why bother.

Frank

X crashes, black screen (video signal still there), and have to shutdown and power up.

Posted: 25 Aug 2006 09:49 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.hardware Unruh <ubc.ca> wrote: 
 
 
 

# /etc/inittab: init(8) configuration.
# $Id: inittab,v 1.91 2002/01/25 13:35:21 miquels Exp $

# The default runlevel.
id:2:initdefault:

# Boot-time system configuration/initialization script.
# This is run first except when booting in emergency (-b) mode.
si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS

# What to do in single-user mode.
~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin

# /etc/init.d executes the S and K scripts upon change
# of runlevel.
#
# Runlevel 0 is halt.
# Runlevel 1 is single-user.
# Runlevels 2-5 are multi-user.
# Runlevel 6 is reboot.


Are you saying id:2:initdefault: should be id:3:initdefault:? It's at 2. Isn't that low enough?

 

Oh well. I am still researching it. It might be a software problem, but that shouldn't even
take the whole X server down hard and requiring a power off.
--
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linuxrc, initrd and shared libraries

Posted: 25 Aug 2006 02:19 PM PDT

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:19:26 +0200, Jiri Skiskibowski wrote:
 
The initrd must be complete enough to act as a root filesystem. Any
commands which will be issued, need to be available and have no broken
library links. One simple way to test an initrd is to chroot to it. If
there are no errors and you can issue commands, then you can try booting
using it. But if that fails, you will need to fix broken links,
probably by adding libraries. Another quick way of building a more
complete initrd is by compiling and using busybox.

This example corrects one common mistake, bad library dependancies.

Assume you have an initrd mounted on loopback at /mnt/initrd-test

# ldconfig -r /mnt/initrd-test
# cd /mnt/initrd-test
# chroot .
:
:
:
# exit

--
Douglas Mayne

change from lilo to grub results in kernel panic

Posted: 25 Aug 2006 03:16 AM PDT

Jürgen Schöpf wrote:
 

When I struggled with grub, I always thought "Well,
if I were German, all of this would be obvious".

Now I know better!

Roby

Here you can read books free and buy all tickets

Posted: 24 Aug 2006 11:06 PM PDT

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Sorry folks. Normal programming will now resume. :)
--
http://dotware.co.uk
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change
something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

MS Windows Linux Distribution?

Posted: 24 Aug 2006 05:22 AM PDT

Michael James wrote: 

Try Xandros. I installed it on my wife's computer recently. Everything
worked, almost right off the bat - wireless (but only after I noticed it
was listening on the wrong channel), fonts, scanner, HP printer, movies,
annoying virus scanner popups so you feel right at home, flawless
installation of MS Office, disk sharing, remote logons, openoffice,
thunderbird (almost flawless pickup of old windows data - it missed the
password file), reads and writes to ntfs windows partitions, and doesn't
have that annoying top task bar that you get with ubuntu. On making a
new user, it asked whether their home directory should be encrypted.
Also it uses kde by default, which was a pleasant surprise. The only
hiccup in getting up and running: the latest firefox won't read
amazon.com book previews properly, and I had to scout out another
browser on the xandros site just for viewing amazon.

The premium version comes with crossover office, which worked perfectly.
I set up a bit of networking so I am now able to edit word docs on my
debian machine via a shared partition running Office remotely on my
wife's xandros machine under crossover office and feeding back to my X
server while she does other things without interruption. And it was
close to trivial to set up, but that did need a smattering of tech
knowledge. My biggest beef is that, being slightly techie, I like to
edit fstab, and that file on xandros has a warning that it is
computer-generated and will be overwritten. I think all such files
should have begin and end markers for the overwriteable part.

From being a 100% windows user, my wife hasn't had to boot windows once
since I installed xandros for her. But she has found some settings,
mostly in openoffice, that are not what she expected, and wasted some
time in the first few days.

But it is not perfect; it has two serious bugs: the CD drive spins
whenever a disk is in (so take it out when through) and the
xandros-branded reworking of the package manager is very
counterintuitive, lacks options, and I am not convinced it is
error-free. The xandros people need to look closely at these issues, but
nevertheless I am very impressed with the amount of work that has been
put in to integrate things well - and I like that it is debian-based.

--
Ron House edu.au
http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house
Ethics website: http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house/goodness

rsync

Posted: 23 Aug 2006 04:09 PM PDT


amit wrote: 

Use the 'z' option for compression. See 'man rsync'.
 

Use the 'log-format' option. See 'man rsync' and man 'rsyncd.conf' (for
format options).

Boot floppy with Networking and ntfs compatiblity

Posted: 23 Aug 2006 08:34 AM PDT

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:19:34 -0700, mydejamail wrote:
<snip> 
rawrite will work, too. The file is a standard 1.44M boot floppy image
(when expanded).

rawrite instructions are found a lot of places, including here (for
reference):
http://www.slackware.com/install/bootdisk.php

Kernel Panic Dell Inspirion 670

Posted: 23 Aug 2006 03:59 AM PDT


com wrote: 

Is there any other error message?

Usually it says something about not being able to mount a drive or find
a partition, etc.. If it was running fine and then failed on a reboot
my guess is either hardware or a corrupt partition/file system,
assuming you didn't do a kernel rebuild and leave something out.

Strange sndstat - please help

Posted: 23 Aug 2006 12:10 AM PDT

Feranija wrote: 

And cat /dev/sndstat still say "No such device". If somebody is
interested, this is Debian 3.1 and kernels 2.4.xx (2.4.18 and
2.4.27). Crazy.
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