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Microsoft Word - How to change Citation in Word 2010

How to change Citation in Word 2010

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 02:48 PM PDT

Hi,all I am using 'Harvard' bibliography in Word 2010. I have added two papers with the same first author and year (both appear to be 'Li,et al., 2012'), but I want to change them to be 'Li, et al.,2012 a' and 'Li, et al., 2012b', so I am wondering how to do that. I tried to edit the source, but could not find a option for editing 'Citation' as seen in preview.

cheers

 

Font will not change text in document (Normal is already set)

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 01:45 PM PDT

I am trying to change the font of text I have copied and pasted from another word document. My default normal is currently set (this is set to a different font then I am trying to use) 

I have selected all text and tried the drop down, I have tried going straight into the font window to change it here. and no matter what I select it just does not change the font its like it is locked to its current font. 

This is not a installed font from another source it is Miriam font in size 10 current font is simsum I believe its called.

I have also gone into the advanced tab and everything is as it should be in that portion of the font window as well.


This is not the first time this is happened, so I am interested to know the solution to stop it from occuring

Any thoughts as to what this could be ?

Word just crashed--Lost every document

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 01:06 PM PDT

I was trying to convert files that could not be opened in Word to PDF to print, and an error message said Word had quit working.  Clicked try to fix several times--didn't work.  Then got message suggesting I try to save my existing 100s of Word docs--back them up i.e.  When I did that, I lost every single document on my laptop--this is Windows 8--purchased computer +_ office just a few months ago...any thing I can do to fix this disaster?????

Mail Merge - Switch Column Headers to Rows

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 01:00 PM PDT

I have a Word document with fields throughout the document.  Those fields are reapeated information.  The data form, which is in Excel, has headers and the information is filled in below the column headers.  Is there a way to have the Word document read the information from left to right instead?

Currently:

Date Lessee Name Lessee Name   (Short) Prior Lessee Lessor Name Owner Aircraft Make Aircraft Model
 8/25/14  United Airlines  United  American Airlines  Investor Camp  Junk Yrds  Airbus  A330-200

Preferred:

Date  8/25/14
Lessee Name  United Airlines
Lessee Name   (Short)  United
Prior Lessee  American Airlines
Lessor Name  Investor Camp
Owner  Junk Yards, Inc.
Aircraft Make  Airbus
Aircraft Model  A330-200


My file coversion encoding dialogue box never opens when I choose the "save as" option in Microsoft word

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 12:23 PM PDT

I need to save a .docx file as a plain text. file. In order to do this, this file conversion dialogue box needs to open. i need to tick the windows box, choose utf 8, tick the box that says" insert line break and i need to choose the "lt only" option in the box below that. when i click to save as, i choose the option "plain text" and click save. this is when the file conversion box should open, but it does not. the file just save without the file conversion box appearing. i dhave no idea what to do. I desperately need help.

Can't custom print in Word 2013

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 12:06 PM PDT

It won't let me print custom print in Word 2013. 

I have a 223 page document  and only want to print pages 40-75 and it won't print.

Create a style for a numbered list?

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 11:38 AM PDT

How do I create a list style (A, B, C, D) so that it automatically restarts a new list at A?

I am creating multiple choice questions so I need to be able to restart the list of answers at A for each question. I can create a style for a numbered list, but it will generally continue numbering from the previous list. I then have to manually restart it.

I have tried various methods and end up with a whole mess of styles. Sometimes a style seems to work, but not consistently. I've also managed to mess up some of the questions I've previously formatted correctly so they are all answers are numbered with the same letter.

 

Word 2010, when using the menu open file, word closed

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 11:09 AM PDT

i dont remember when it begun, but yesterday i try to open a file, throu the open file menu, and word close.

Prevent pages from printing?

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 08:22 AM PDT

Hello,

I have a document that is ~200 pages.  Pages 1-50 are the Body, and the remaining 51-200 are an appendix.  Is there a way that, if the user goes to File--> Print (or any other method of printing), to not include pages 51-200?

There could be a few ways - maybe have a message box notifying the user that there are 150 pages of Appendices, and to select only 1-50 for the main document.  Or, have the default print settings have print 1-50 only....etc.

Basically, I just want to prevent the user from going to File->Print (or CTRL+P, or some other way) and then print 200 pages when they really just want the 1-50 pages.  I have read about maybe using "hidden text" but I would like the user to be able to see the text when reading the digital document - I just want to prevent them from printing all of the document accidentally.

Even if I broke it into sections, that could still print the whole thing.  I am familiar with Macros/VBA (via Excel) if that helps.  Thanks for any ideas!

Disable Mini Toolbar Right Click

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 07:45 AM PDT

I have disabled the mini toolbar in Word 2013 through the Options section for highlighted text. However, the mini toolbar still appears whenever I right-click. Can I stop this?

IRM set up for Office 365

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 04:13 AM PDT

I'm attempting to create a template with some drop down lists and check boxes, currently when people open the document I created they can't actually select anything from the drop down list. an article suggested that I should Restrict the editing of the document. When attempting to do so I get the following error: "Your machine isn't set up for Information Rights Management (IRM). To set up IRM, sign in to Office, open an existing IRM protected message or document or contact your help desk"

 

Please assist if you know how this problem can be solved

 

Kind Regards

Lana

Error in Plugin Installation For MS Office 2013 on Windows 8 and 8.1

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 02:00 AM PDT

Hello,

We have developed an installer for MS Word and MS Excel plugins. So far it has been working fine for MS Office 2003, @007 office etc. but since I have upgraded to a Windows 8.1 machine with MS Office 2013 installed, the plugin installation is giving error.

The installation failes and an error dialog appears with Error Code Type: Error, Error:1, Owner:30a.

 The installer works well for MS Office 2010 on Windows 8/ 8.1 machine or MS Office 2010 on Windows 7 machine.

Change Default Colour Of WORD Text To Something Other Than Black - How?

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 01:34 AM PDT

How do I do subject?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Word 2013 display issue

Posted: 25 Aug 2014 12:26 AM PDT

Any idea why the display shown as below? Small file size is working normally, but this file size is quite big with 17MB. 

Saving office documents onto a wireless flash drive

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 08:59 PM PDT

Hi,

I recently purchased office 365 personal so that I could edit office documents on my iPad, which I could previously not do.  I also purchased a wireless flash drive so that I could use the same documents on other machines than the iPad and PC at work.  I can open documents from the flash drive on my ipad, but I cannot seem to be able to save them back to the flash drive, only OneDrive or a sharepoint site...any way to get around that and be able to save to my wirless flash drive?

microsoft word 2010

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 07:17 PM PDT

i have a sony vaio laptop i installed microsoft word 2010 about 1 yr ago with my product key. it was working properly but all of a sudden it started asking me to download and for the product key when i try to access a wrd doc from a shortcut. when i go to the start menu then to the wrd 2010 menu it starts properly. can any1 tell me what is happening here and how to fix this

Still no Office 2013

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 05:44 PM PDT

Ok....I need my Office 2013 fixed. Just like everyone it is broken. I don't want to long fix from Microsoft that doesn't work. I want someone to call me and fix it for free. I am not uninstalling and reinstalling. Take ownership Microsoft, it is your product.

Using keyboard shortcuts only to navigate in the open dialog box.

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 04:54 PM PDT

The cursor is automatically in the file name box when you ask to open a file. I need to find a way to get to the left hand pane, I guess the directory tree (not sure what it's called) using the keyboard, then get to the files listed in the right hand pane once I have picked the correct folder. In Word 2003, my fingers never left the keyboard to open a file, and I am trying to find a way to do that in Word 2013. Half the time I cannot even tell where the cursor is in the dialog box. This is driving me crazy. I spend enough time clicking with the mouse as it is.

Question on the Thesaurus feature in Word (Office 2010 Starter Edition)

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 03:40 PM PDT

This really is an odd question pertaining to Microsoft Word. I often use Thesaurus. When I use Thesaurus (Shift + F7 key) the Thesaurus opens. However, when I then click on "All Reference Books" on the second window of the drop down menu, I get a Windows Security pop-up that says to enter my credentials. I have made no changes to my computer or downloaded anything new.

What is this all about and how do I get rid of it so that I can access "all reference books" again? 

It only asks me for this in the above specific situation. I have made no changes to my computer in years, and the above issue was not the result of a new program or anything like that. So I cannot figure it out at all.

I use this feature a lot in connection with my work, so I do need it....it is not a minor issue for me although it may appear that way.

Thank you.

Inputting answer on preexisting line

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 03:40 PM PDT

I have a downloaded Word document that came with questions and a line to place your answer in. 95% of the document works perfect, it asks a question and I can place my answer on the line with no problem. However, several lines are giving me an issue and I can't figure out the reason why. Example: What is your favorite color?   ___Blue____, on 95% of the lines "Blue" would rest on top of the line instead of separate the line. I'll click on a line that I know works right and compare it to the settings box of a line that isn't working and haven't found anything different. However, I may not be looking in all the available settings! Also, simply highlighting the "____Blue____" and underlining it may put a line under the word but it's noticeably different from the rest of the document and looks trashy. 

To Suzanne

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 03:39 PM PDT

You saw a combination of my original question and Jay's reply. I intended to include my (grateful) answer to him, but somehow my answer did not get included. I still don't know why it got deleted. I know better than to just repeat an earlier post.

Also, thank you for your excellent answers to my past questions.

Steve Gray

AKA tap17 and SBG

Is the Microsoft Office Starter 2010 update genuine?

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:58 AM PDT

Since I started using WORDS and EXCEL using the program MICROSOFT office starter 2010, I keep on getting a pop-out saying :

""""

Click to run

An update for Microsoft Office Starter 2010 - English is now available on line. Please remain connected to the internet for the duration of the the update.

Do you wish to start downloading the update now?

                                                                                             OK            Cancel

""""

This doesn't look like a Microsoft notification. I did not click on OK or CANCEL. I just click on the X at the top right of the window to remove it.

Please inform if this is e genuine Microsoft notice. Many thanks.

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What current Linux will work on an Pentium 1 processor? - Forums Linux

What current Linux will work on an Pentium 1 processor? - Forums Linux

What current Linux will work on an Pentium 1 processor?

Posted: 19 Nov 2006 10:24 PM PST

In article news:<com>, David wrote: 

I've run a fairly current Debian ("Sarge" I think, I don't have the machine
here to check) on a Pentium I with MMX instructions. I think it should run
on any '586. That hardware is a bit inadequate for other reasons (2GB HDD,
64MB RAM) but Debian does run with KDE ... albeit slowly.

I had to create a swap partition before it would even install, though.

Cheers,
Daniel.

Download FC

Posted: 19 Nov 2006 05:57 PM PST

"Fei" <com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 

DVD iso images can get as big as 8.4G. If you are on a Windows machine
and using FAT32, the file size limit is 4G.

later.....

Setting up a blog server?

Posted: 19 Nov 2006 06:47 AM PST

On Nov 19, 2:47 pm, Neil Jones <com> wrote: 
I guess this is not a question I would expect in this group. But I
think you need to search and read some articles on setting up LAMP
(Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP), with database and PHP support it is
quite easy to install a blog server (e.g. wordpress, serendipity) on
your web server. 

Installing Linux on a remote machine and *locally* running it

Posted: 19 Nov 2006 03:00 AM PST

Baho Utot wrote: 

That's certainly not an option. In the worst case, I can simply go ahead
with the hdd images as described in my original post.

Fabio

Ubuntu and Windows dual-boot

Posted: 18 Nov 2006 06:05 AM PST

<com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 
it. 
have 
on. 
for 

First of all, look here, it has enough info on how to fix your problem:
If not, google boot.ini commands.

http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

Generically, have the boot.ini point to the second partition so
Windows will boot.

Second and I am trying to be kind, your partitions are "goofy"
for a dual boot Windows/Linux machine. Since I don't know
the history of this computer, I will go through what I would
do if I were in front of it.

1. back up all relevant data for reinstalling later.
2. use a diag program on the hd to make sure is it good
3. wipe the drive
4. install Windows and have it create the first partition where it
will reside and don't have it take up the whole drive, leave
enough space to install Linux. If you need to share files between
Linux and Windows, create a second partition and format it
FAT32, it does have a file size limit of 4G.
5. Install other Windows programs as needed.
6. Once Windows is installed, install Linux with the appropriate
partitions. Use the Windows loader and don't install GRUP in
the MBR, install it in the /boot partition. With newer versions
of Linux this setup part should be a no brainer.
7. Re-install the data and away you go.

The above assumes that your motherboard/IDE controller is LBA-48
compatible. If it is not, then the install configuration is a bit trickier.
Windows is brain dead when it comes to other os's. It likes to be
installed in the first partition although it can be installed on others. So
the easiest install process is to do Windows first and Linux second.
Windows also likes to assume that it is the only os on the computer.
Virtualization will change that.

If you don't want to go through the above, you can edit the boot.ini
file and change where it points to for the Windows partition but to
learn the format of that line try google. If that doesn't work, repost.

Fedora installer wont start with two hard disks

Posted: 17 Nov 2006 03:51 AM PST

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:38:45 GMT Matt Giwer <remover.rr.com> wrote:
| net wrote:
|> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:40:03 GMT Matt Giwer <remover.rr.com> wrote:
|
|> | com wrote:
|> |> I managed to install Fedora. But the IO is ridiculously slow. I dont
|> |> know why.I upgraded the kernel. Even then when i try to boot the system
|> |> without ide=nodma i get a kerel panic
|
|> | Get a drive cable and install the second disk on the other socket as a second
|> | master. Put the jumper back to master or leave it in autodetect. The slave has a
|> | slower I/O but usually not noticable. However CD and DVD drives do not suffer
|> | from slave status.
|
|> You can lead the jumper set to slave and it will be /dev/hdd instead of
|> /dev/hdc if you want. Works fine in Linux, although maybe some legacy
|> installers in some distributions might get confused.
|
| Not can't argue but he said the I/O was slow and the only thing I know that can
| cause slow I/O is the slave it automatically slower but as I said, usually not
| noticable. I do not know what happens if slave on the end, vice middle,
| connector. Have you tried it?

I've never see any difference between master and slave speed, nor between
end and middle speed. But I have seen differences in I/O errors with the
middle getting more.

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| Phil Howard KA9WGN (ka9wgn.ham.org) / Do not send to the address below |
| first name lower case at ipal.net / net |
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linux and usb audio (OT??)

Posted: 17 Nov 2006 01:06 AM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup Mike Scott <stopper.scottsonline.org.uk>: 

I'd suggest to take a look at Fedora Core, the community version
of RH (http://fedora.redhat.com/). AFAIK FC 6 is recent, I have
one box here running FC since FC2 to FC5 now. Any hardware,
anything USB (including audio) plugged into the machine just
works with no user interaction required. Did install FC5 on some
recent laptop (FSC iirc) lately, any hardware including wireless
lan was picked up on install and setup automatically.

Just be sure to run 'yum update' after installing and run it from
time to time, there is a cron job that can automate this for you,
if 24/7 online.

A few tricks to get the most out of FC6 with the least effort,
especially to get around some problems with audio (mp3) not
working out of the box, due to license problems:

http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/fc6-tips.php
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc6.html

Good luck

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magnetic interference

A newbie - What are differences between Red Hat Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Posted: 16 Nov 2006 10:38 PM PST

Matt Giwer wrote:
 

FC _THAN_ EL
 


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will playstation3 run linux?

Posted: 16 Nov 2006 05:23 PM PST

Looks like a smart move from linux ...might be a big break through.
To bad I am a hardcore lightwave fan no experience with blender... But
running it on a cell cpu would make it lightning fast. Any ideas if someone
succeeded running lightwave on linux ? Sorry but i am going to post this
question in other linux channels also (dont want to spam but someone maybe
knows about lighwave and linux :P

Thanks for already some answer.

Is this a BIOS problem, a kernel problem or a user problem :-)

Posted: 15 Nov 2006 08:36 PM PST

com wrote:
 

Apologies. I'd forgotten about the Xeons <slaps head>

Ubuntu confusion?

Posted: 15 Nov 2006 09:26 AM PST

Right shell prompt. Shell prompt. I got it, it's a shell prompt.

Shellllll prommmmpt....

John Hasler wrote: 

Linux RH9 installation problem

Posted: 15 Nov 2006 02:34 AM PST

com did eloquently scribble: 
 
 

How old is this laptop?
Because redhat 9???? That's been obsolete for over 3 years now.
Try installing windows 95 on a modern machine. I think you catch my drift.

You need a more up to date distro. Try Fedora 6 (fedora 1 was the first fork
off redhat 9, so it goes to show how far you are behind)
 
 

My advice... Don't.
Is there any reason you WANT to install a dead distribution that's been out
of date for 3 years?

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Permission denied when starting xterm

Posted: 14 Nov 2006 11:17 AM PST

On 15 Nov 2006 23:03:30 -0800, farseer
<net> wrote: 
/home/<myhomedir> is not a command. If you omit -e and everything after it,
xterm should start your default shell. If you add the "-ls" option, xterm
should start a login shell, executing your .profile or .bash_profile.

 

xterm -geometry 80x24



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Microsoft Word - Error message

Microsoft Word - Error message

Error message

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:41 PM PDT

I am getting an error message when I try to open Microsoft office programs such as exel and word.  The message reads "We are sorry by word (exel) has run into an error that is preventing it from working correctly.  Word (exel) will need to close as a result.  Would you like us to repair now?

When I select "repair now" nothing happens.

Thank You!

wildcard search question for Word

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:30 PM PDT

I have a very large word document . Within the document are instances of a word pattern like this:   apple:apple    I wish to find all instances of this pattern within the document . The two words within the pattern must be the same. Is this possible using "find" in Word?

Fonts size changed from 12pt to 8pt in all documents

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:16 PM PDT

I started a new document in Word 2013 and notice the fonts in this document were about 8pt or less, even though I had Comic Sans set to 12pt. I opened older documents and the fonts size in them also were about 8pt, even though the select size was 12pt. 

I could select all the text and then choose a font size of 18pt or higher and the text enlarged where it looked normal.

I tried creating a new blank document and the same results as in the first paragraph above.

I tried searching online and followed several tips on creating a new blank document and got stuck where the instructions;

"If you do not have a document open, create a new document that is based on the Normal template. To do this, clickFile, click New, click Blank Document, and then click Create."

There never was a "Create" button to click on, it just opened a blank document.

Is there a solution?

Respectfully,

How do you run spell check to check for errors in your track changes comments in Word 2013?

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:08 PM PDT

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to run spell check on my track changes comments in Word 2013?

Thanks in advance.

larrymoody

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:57 AM PDT

since i am a member of this forum, why can't MS send out an email response to these queries???  these are legitimate concerns!! PLEASE, MICROSOFT, send out an email if this update is OK to install!!

Reply to Jay Freedman

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 11:36 AM PDT


Answer

I'll try to answer at least some of your questions. I don't have answers for all of them.

a. Is there a way to prevent automatic unwanted format changes to  complex tables? Every time I open the document, a few tables are changed. They are too complex to be assigned one style. Is it possible that if a table has no Style, Word feels free to change its format?

In Word, just as every paragraph has some style, every table has some table style. In the same way that Normal is the default paragraph style, Table Grid is the default table style. However, table styles are flaky and have been ever since their introduction in Word 2002. Refer to Shauna Kelly's article for an excellent rant.

Although table formatting should never change just because of reopening a document, the conversion of Word's memory-resident image to the XML in the disk file could have a bug that's triggered by particularly complex formatting. If you can isolate particular tables that are unstable, I can pass them to the Word developers to investigate.



b. Why does displaying the XE fields completely change the page numbering and page layout? Can this be prevented? If not, it was a horrible design decision. They should have handled it like the Review notices off to the right.

XE fields are comparatively old constructs in Word, and they behave like all other fields -- their code displays inline. Tracked changes and comments came along later, and they use a different display mechanism. I doubt that Microsoft would consider rewriting the indexing code to accommodate your suggestion, as good as you and I think it would be.

Every XE field is automatically formatted as Hidden. You can avoid changing the layout by going to Options > Display and unchecking Hidden text. This is absolutely required before you generate the index, to avoid getting incorrect page numbers.

c. Why doesn't Advanced Find have a backwards search or a count of instances found?

It does. To search backward, click the More button to expand the dialog, and change the Search dropdown from All to Up. To get a count, click the Find In button and click Main Document (or one of the other choices if available). The count appears in the dialog.

d. I think I've noticed that Find does not work 100% of the time. True?

That's not my experience, with one exception: If you use a wildcard expression when the "Use wildcards" box is not checked, or you use a non-wildcard expression when the box is checked, the search probably won't find anything.

e. The lines of text differ in length between Draft and Print views. This is very inconvenient because Print view shows the final layout but repaginating is very slow.

The original purpose of Draft view in early versions of Word was to minimize the load on the slow CPUs of the time (8086 and 80286 processors). Later, it morphed to a view that minimizes the temptation to fiddle with formatting when you're supposed to be paying attention to wording and organization. Neither of those things has anything to do with line breaks.

When you switch to Page Layout view, it's supposed to be What You See Is What You Get. Almost any reasonably modern processor should be able to keep up with repagination in real time, although those complex tables you mentioned might slow it down -- especially if they're damaged in some way.

f. Why does repaginating have to happen all the time in Print view even when I make a change that can't affect it? Very annoying.

Print Layout view repaginates whenever you aren't actively editing. It has done that in every version of Word, because it's trying to be WYSIWYG.

g. My book has three levels of organization: Parts, Chapters, and Sections. When I go to update the page numbers for cross references or TOCs, doing it at the Part level does not work. It keeps asking whether I want to update everything or just the page numbers. Doing a Chapter or Section is OK.

I don't know what you mean by "Part level" -- and neither does Word. The largest functional grouping in Word is the document, and the next largest is the section. How are you defining your Parts, and more importantly, how are you trying to get Word to understand them?



h. I thought that the entries in a TOC were hyperlinked, so that if you click on one it goes there. Mine don't do that.

If you use one of the "Automatic" tables on the Table of Contents button, the entries should be hyperlinked. You do have to click somewhere inside the content control that contains the TOC before the tooltips will appear, and by default you have to hold Ctrl while clicking to make the jump. (To change that, go to Options > Advanced and uncheck "Use Ctrl+Click to follow hyperlink". Note that this affects all hyperlinks in all documents on your computer.)

If you really don't have hyperlinked entries, press Alt+F9 to display field codes. In the code of the TOC field, add the \h switch (documented here) and then press F9 and choose to update the whole table.

i. At seemingly random times, when I click Home > Paragraph > Numbering, Word hangs up for as much as ten minutes! Any ideas?

Nope. But if you're numbering headings (rather than numbered lists), avoid the Numbering button like the plague. Instead set up a Multilevel List numbering scheme according to this procedure. Anything else is asking for trouble.

j. Why are the Quick Styles not in a sensible order?

The snarky answer is that it is sensible -- to someone. The real answer is that there are many sensible orders, depending on what you're doing and how you prefer to work. You can define your own order. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to open the Styles pane, and click the Manage Styles button at the bottom. Go to the Recommend tab of the dialog. In turn, click each style you want to see on the Quick Styles gallery; if it's gray, click the Show button; and click the Assign Value button and give it a value. The lowest values appear first on the gallery, and higher ones farther to the right and/or down to the next row.


k. Is there a way to find out what styles are actually used in my document? It would be nice to delete all those that are not used, in one quick step.

Not really. For one thing, you can't delete any of the built-in styles -- Word just won't allow that to happen. You can delete custom styles, either those defined in the document itself or those defined in the base template. If there is any text formatted with a style that you try to delete, you'll be warned; if you continue, that text will be formatted with Normal style.

You can affect which styles are shown in the Styles pane, if you care. On the Styles pane, click the Options button. The "Select styles to show" dropdown claims to let you choose "All styles" (but not really all; only Paragraph, Character, and Linked), "In use" (but that shows some styles that aren't assigned to any text), "In current document" (but this shows the same list as "In use"), or "Recommended" (according to the settings on the Recommend tab of the Manage Styles dialog).

l. Is there an easy way to remove lots of the styles I never use? Deleting one at a time  is  very  slow.

If these are custom styles rather than built-in styles, then yes, you can write a macro to do it. The gist of it is that, for each custom style, the macro does a Find. If no text with that style is found, then the macro deletes the style. If you ask Google, you'll probably find that someone has posted such a macro.

m. Are any of these things improved in Office 2013? If not, why buy it?


If these are your only criteria for whether to buy Office 2013, then you won't find any of them are different in Office 2013. The major focus in 2013 is on integration with the Cloud (particularly OneDrive) and on collaboration with co-workers. There are some very nice new features, but none of them are in the areas you asked about.

Graphics messed up in all Office programs.

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 09:54 AM PDT

I've updated my graphics driver.  I had the problem with office 2007 and just purchase office 2013 with the same problem.  

Pop-up Editing Bar Word 2013

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 05:19 AM PDT

There is an annoying (to me) task bar (?) with editing options that covers up text while I am trying to edit that text. The same editing functions exist on the ribbon. How do I stop Word 2013 from popping up this small task bar?

Tiling New/Open Windows in Word 2013

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 05:14 AM PDT

How does one prohibit Word 2013 from tiling new or opening documents? I would prefer Word to open doc and overlay previously opened documents.

Change Default Hyphenation Setting

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 04:47 AM PDT

How does one change the default setting for hyphenation to "automatic"?  I have searched "options" but cannot find anything relevant. Must I turn on "automatic" each time I open a new document?

Gidouen

Posted: 24 Aug 2014 01:58 AM PDT

Since I started using WORDS and EXCEL using the program MICROSOFT office starter 2010, I keep on getting a pop-out saying :

""""

Click to run

An update for Microsoft Office Starter 2010 - English is now available on line. Please remain connected to the internet for the duration of the the update.

Do you wish to start downloading the update now?

                                                                                             OK            Cancel

""""

This doesn't look like a Microsoft notification. I did not click on OK or CANCEL. I just click on the X at the top right of the window to remove it.

Please inform if this is e genuine Microsoft notice. Many thanks.

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Problem in specifying page borders

Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:36 PM PDT

Hey, I'm a user of MS Word 2013. I have to do my Industrial training report with the following specifications. The page borders should be 40mm from the left edge and 25mm from the right, top and bottom edges. Since word doesn't take spacing more than 31pt(which is way less when converted to mm), I'm unable to get the required page borders. It's kinda urgent. So, any solutions please ?

Changes to Normal Template in Word

Posted: 23 Aug 2014 04:46 PM PDT

If I change the Normal Template (for example, by changing the default font or font size), do past documents based on the (prior) Normal Template change? Or does changing the NT only effect future documents?

WORD 2010 - How to Centre text and a text box across a page...

Posted: 23 Aug 2014 03:30 PM PDT

Can anyone tell me how to go about this?  Basically, I have the text "Now" then a rectangular shaped text box which is for a tick, then "In the next 4 years" then a another text box, then "In the future" and another text box - this is all across 1 line.  I'd like this entire line to be centred including the text boxes.  Every time, I try and highlight this line, its only the actual text which is being centred.  The text boxes are staying where they are and I'm not sure how to do this.

Thanks for any help :)

Autosave is Disabled: iOS Word App

Posted: 23 Aug 2014 06:15 AM PDT

iOS Word app on iOS 7.

Word 2013 (from Office 365) on Win 8.1.

Updating a document on both platforms.

Make a change on the Windows platform.

On the iOS app I get a pop up that says 'Autosave is Disabled - This file is being edited by other authors. To save your changes, go
to the File menu and tap Save and Refresh.

I can't find a 'File' menu in the iOS app. I have Home, Insert, Layout, Review, and View.

I do have 'Autosave' enabled in the iOS Word app.

Thanks for any help or advice. 

sendmail hanging - Forums Linux

sendmail hanging - Forums Linux

sendmail hanging

Posted: 13 Nov 2006 04:49 PM PST

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:34:05 -0600, dotcom wrote:
 

Hoy

See, that was easy.
 

Then run your own caching DNS server, it's not hard. You can try
http://www.google.com/linux and search there.
 

No, I use KDE. Just learn the command line and where and how things are
configured, it's much easier that way. vim is your friend :)
 

Ok,Ok, goto http://www.tldp.org Lots of Howtos there.

--
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Problem with grub

Posted: 11 Nov 2006 09:55 PM PST

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:15:17 -0600, Bit Twister wrote:
 

Good guess

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Are you White & Nerdy?

Posted: 11 Nov 2006 06:52 PM PST

faeychild <com> wrote:
 

works fine on OSX.

funny stuff.

Switch between desktops using keyboard? (KDE)

Posted: 11 Nov 2006 11:01 AM PST


Thomas Overgaard wrote: 



Thanks much!

comp.os.linux.setup, comp.os.linux.hardware, alt.comp.hardware, linux.debian.user

Posted: 10 Nov 2006 03:57 AM PST

com did eloquently scribble: 
 

Why would you run a command like "fdisk -l /dev/sda*"?
sda is the base device, you're not meant to run fdisk on individual
partitions. Just on the base drive itself, so "fdisk -l /dev/sda" should do
the trick.

 
 
 
 

<snip>
See? that's what you get when you try fdisk -l /dev/sda1
HINT: Don't do it.
:)
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Installing new Linux from Windows or Ubuntu w/o CD or FDD

Posted: 09 Nov 2006 05:36 PM PST

<com> wrote in message 

1. If you had another computer and a laptop drive adapter you could
take the hd out of the laptop and put it in another computer that has
a floppy and/or cd and update it there and then stick it back in the
laptop.

2. Get a bigger hd for the laptop, add the os's to it you want and then
stick it in the laptop.

3. Find a FD and usb cdrom for the laptop and boot to the FD with
usb cdrom driver and install from it.

4. If the laptop has "PXE" booting capability, build a boot server and
boot and install from it.

later.....

Kppp Wizard Q

Posted: 09 Nov 2006 09:19 AM PST

Moe Trin wrote: 
Thanks for your input. I think you have given me some good leads.
Chris

Automated linux install

Posted: 09 Nov 2006 04:11 AM PST

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Domenico Testa wrote:
 

Linux installation : http://www.partimage.org/

This utility can be used to install many identical computers. For
example, if you buy 50 PCs, with the same hardware, and you want to
install the same linux systems on all 50 PCs, you will save a lot of
time. Indeed, you just have to install on the first PC and create an
image from it. For the 49 others, you can use the image file and
Partition Image's restore function.

Linux distribution : http://www.centos.org

CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources
freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise
Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors
redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS
mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.)
CentOS is free.


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set default session to KDE ?

Posted: 08 Nov 2006 07:51 AM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup mitch <rr.com>: 
 

Fire up 'switchdesk-gnome' from the next xterm, make your choice.

Good luck

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All video -> external monitor on laptop

Posted: 07 Nov 2006 02:44 PM PST

Hmm... this doesn't work for me... but thanks for the suggestion
anyway. :)

Also, "TwinView" is nvidia-specific. "MergedFB" is the radeon
equivalent, but I'm not using it because it does not support monitors
of different resolutions.

For the record, I have contacted Dell and they seem to think that the
screen is altogether broken, which caused the X300 to redirect the
video output to VGA... seems plausible to me.

François Patte wrote: 

Most Efficient Directory Structure?

Posted: 07 Nov 2006 04:03 AM PST

Doesn't Work At McDonalds wrote:
 

Some variant of extendible hashing might do the trick.

--
It's turtles, all the way down.

chkconfig

Posted: 06 Nov 2006 11:53 PM PST

Hi Mike
i've resolve logging rc script.

The problem was very simple.
In my em script i touched on /var/lock/subsys NOT "em" BUT "em10g"
So rc test failed and em script wasn't executed.
I've modified my em script to touch the correct file and now all is
run.

Thanks for all.

Mike

Grub boot loader error 21

Posted: 06 Nov 2006 01:34 PM PST

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:02:56 -0800, sd wrote:
 

What makes you think that the UDMA setting refers to the second hard
drive, rather than the first, or both? We need details. None of us can see
your machine; only you can. We need to know what you see, if we are to
help.
 

For homework, a good start is here;

http://tinyurl.com/fx7q6

For help, it would be nice if you could tell us exactly where you
installed Ubuntu, as in which partition on your second hard drive. Did you
make a /boot partition, swap partition, separate /home partition? Do you
know exactly which ide controller your second hard drive is connected to?
Are your drives jumpered master/slave, or cable select? Your Ubuntu CD is a
live Linux CD, which you can use to mount your / partition, and copy/post
your /boot/grub/menu.lst. Do so. Along with the answers to the above
mentioned questions, we might be able to spot where the problem is. Also,
as root, enter the command;

fdisk -l (that's a small L, not a number)

Post the results, along with your /boot/grub/menu.lst. I don't have a
Ubuntu CD, but it should have the Pan newsreader on it, so you can
copy/paste into it, so that we can see the exact results.

--
imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
month or two, but never lost."

Getting a list of pacages one CAN install?

Posted: 06 Nov 2006 08:15 AM PST

On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:15:20 GMT, ***** charles
<com> wrote: 
aptitude in interactive mode.


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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
-- Fran Lebowitz, "Social Studies"

Formula Question using Calendar Microsoft Project

Formula Question using Calendar Microsoft Project

Formula Question using Calendar

Posted: 30 Aug 2005 08:51 AM PDT

If you want calendar days, just use some simple math.

IIf([Finish]-[Current Date]>180,"More than 6 months",IIf([Finish]-[Current
Date]>90,"More than 3 months",IIf([Finish]-[Current Date]>0,"within 3
months","overdue")))

Only use the calendar if you want to calculate days according to Project's
calendars, otherwise it is simple subtraction. Note that order is important.
The statement will stop at the first condition that is satisfied.
--
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http://masamiki.com/project
or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html



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which 
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is. 
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Resource across projects

Posted: 30 Aug 2005 01:47 AM PDT

Hi Helen,

Why Sad? If you knew the kind of questions I myself asked here 6 years ago..
I never felt sad about that!

A la prochaine..

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Tracking Purchased Costs and Project Labor

Posted: 29 Aug 2005 07:47 PM PDT

Hi,

TASKS can have material resources and material resources can have per unit
costs.
You can have totals of labour costs PLUS material cost on tasks, roll them
up into summary tasks, etc.
BUT you cannot have material cost and labour cost separately.
HTH

(IMHO for AXAPTA you need about 50 times the learning effort than for
Project)

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to 

Revised Target (Finish) Dates

Posted: 29 Aug 2005 02:12 PM PDT

Adding on Jan De Messemaeker's suggestions, you may also:
1. Click on the Split Task button
2. Drag the unfinished part of the task to the resource return date

or

1. Select the task
2. Tools> Tacking> Update Project Plan
3. Select the second option (Replan uncompleted work so it starts) and
select the date when the resource returns
4. Select Selected Tasks and OK

Hope that help.

--
Stéphane Dubé, M.Sc. Adm.A.
GO Project Management
www.go-project.com
514-912-7765


"toast88" wrote:
 

Import Dates and Duration from Excel

Posted: 29 Aug 2005 01:52 PM PDT

Here is what I am trying to do:

I have an excel sheet with 5 columns, task ID, task name, start date,
duration, and another text field. When i try to import the data into MS
project I go to the import wizard and merge data, I have the ID field as the
primary key. all the fields import OK into project except the start date and
duration. basically nothing changes on these 2 fields in MS project. for
example, if the start date for the task is 1/2/06 and i try to overwrite it
with 1/31/06 from excel, after the import is complete the date is still
1/2/06 (nothing changes). The task name comes across alright so does the text
field.

"Steve House [Project MVP]" wrote:
 

Text fields with <CR> <LF>

Posted: 29 Aug 2005 01:49 PM PDT

OK. It's just that I copy some text to Textn variables using VBA. If the
original text contains special characters such as <CR>, <LF>, <TAB> then I
get an error message.

I got round my problem by using the following line(s):

Str=replace(Str,vbCr,";")
Str=replace(Str,vbLf,";")
Str=replace(Str,vbTab,";")
Task1.Text6 = Str

It is a bit heavy but works. The special characters become ";"

Thanks again
Kamil

"JackD" wrote:
 

Open project files in read-only by default?

Posted: 29 Aug 2005 09:26 AM PDT

This looks promising, I'll pass it on! Thanks!

"Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:
 

Consolidated Resources

Posted: 28 Aug 2005 07:13 PM PDT

Thanks for your help. I am able to see the names now.
--
ECD


"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

Model for Litigation Matters

Posted: 28 Aug 2005 06:25 PM PDT

Haris:

Thank you for the insights and links.
--
Craig


"Haris Rashid" wrote:
 

Constraining Specific Tasks Exclusive of Other Work

Posted: 27 Aug 2005 10:34 PM PDT

Hello John & Harris,

Thanks to both of you for two very thoughtful suggestions. I found both
methods to make sense with my limited knowledge and will probably try both of
them out to determine which works best for my specific situation.

Thanks,
Allen

"Haris Rashid" wrote:
 

Why is Project so RUBBISH

Posted: 27 Aug 2005 02:04 PM PDT


Hi Jason,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine at this site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the articles before leaving the site, :)
Thanks.)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Brian K - Project MVP wrote: 

Multiple milestone within a specific task

Posted: 27 Aug 2005 12:55 PM PDT

That would be several distinct tasks. I know you don't want to do it but
the work involved in development is quite different from the work done, for
example, in testing. A proper task breakdown takes it to the level of
detail where a signle task is one block of work done by one skill set
resulting in one deliverable. Milestones are also distinct tasks, the
"gates" that occur at the end of performance activities. So the proper
model in your situation is a minimum of a summary task with at least 6
sub-tasks indented under it. In the real world, each of the perofrmance
subtasks would probably be a summary in its own right with a number of
component activities detailed out indented underneath it. The rule of thumb
is that if the duration of a single task exceeds 80 hours you probably need
to break it down further. You need to get to the level that a single task
represents ONE thing done by ONE person or team working together. You've
called this a "software package" - at the very least each component part of
the package would be a separate task or series of tasks.

A: Software Package Development
1: Develop Software
2: Development Complete (milestone)
3: Test Software
4: Testing Complete (milestone)
5: Rewrite Software
6: Debug Complete (milestone)
--
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MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Jason Cocking" <com> wrote in message
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How do I setup a supply chain?

Posted: 27 Aug 2005 09:53 AM PDT

Haris Rashid wrote:
 

it might be a little premature to say that Project Server will serve this
persons needs. I agree that they should look into it but all we have right
now is two very (VERY) limited paragraphs giving a 100,000 foot view of
their situation. A true solution would be down around 100 feet. There is a
TON of detail needed before anyone should feel comfortable saying that any
application WILL provide the solution this customer needs. Be careful.

--
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http://www.projectified.com
--
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MS Project - Manage several hundred projects that have the same sc

Posted: 26 Aug 2005 08:09 PM PDT

Rod,

What about reports covering all locations? Is 1) the only one that can
accomplish this as all locations would be located in one file?

Also, what about using Project in its Enterprise mode? Several (remote)
people would need access to Project. Are there any limitations to 1), 2) or
3) when using Enterprise?

..........Rick

"Rod Gill" wrote:
 

Customizing Calculations

Posted: 25 Aug 2005 01:18 PM PDT

If I understand your question I believe the solution is in how you enter the
type of change to get desired result. Remembering the formula D(uration) *
U(nit) = W(ork) you fix one variable, change a second variable (e.g. work)
and Project calculates the third variable.

In your case is sounds like you you want Fix Work, not Duration, (e.g.
prevent it from changing) change the Duration so the Project recalculates
Units for you.

Hope this helps.



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