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Microsoft Word - SOMETHING WENT WRONG

SOMETHING WENT WRONG

Posted: 21 Sep 2014 03:07 PM PDT

I have Microsoft 2013 and I tried opening it and it says "We couldn't start your program please try starting it again.  if it wont start try repairing office from programs and features in the control panel." or go online for more help .....I tried fixing it myself with control panel but I'm not that much of a "computer wiz" I don't know the problem I let best buy install everything on my computer including word so I'm not sure how to restart the program. I need help I am a college student with deadlines

Launching Word 2013 causes UAC to ask for permission to make changes.

Posted: 21 Sep 2014 02:38 PM PDT

Hello,

I have been having an issue when I launch Word 2013 it always asks for permission to make changes to the system. I have tried to run the compatibility wizard to fix the problem, since Windows 8 no longer has the compatibility tab in properties, and sometimes I can get it to stop asking, but after a few weeks it will start asking again. Or another issue I run in to is certain settings in the capability wizard will cause windows to no longer allow me to open documents downloaded in the chrome browser because an error comes up saying I need to repair Microsoft Office, which running repair doesn't fix the issue. The UAC prompt is just an annoyance and would be nice to no longer have it ask for no reason. It only asks when launching Word and not any other of the office suite programs.

OS: Windows 8.1

Office 2013 Student

UAC setting: Default

 

Why Does a .docx Created in Word 2010 Open in "Compatibility Mode" in Word 2013?

Posted: 21 Sep 2014 02:33 PM PDT

I have documents originally created in Word 2010 and saved in .docx format. These documents have never been opened in anything other than Word 2010 and have never been saved in anything other than .docx format.

When I open these same documents in Word 2013, Word says they are in "Compatibility Mode." Why should they be in Compatibility Mode if they have always been saved as .docx?

Office (2000) fails in Win 8.1

Posted: 21 Sep 2014 01:04 PM PDT

OK, my version of Office Pro is old (2000, SP3 with all updates till support stopped), but I paid for it and it does the job so why pay $s for the latest? 

I installed and used it in all modes (except for some of the ODBC drivers missing) in Win 8, no problems.

Now "upgraded" to Win 8.1.  (Bad move)

I can open Word or Excel and use [File][Open] and select a file OK and all the other functions work but, if I double click the .doc or .xls file in a folder (or right click and [Open with] although Word or Excel window opens the file does not open.  Instead I get a popup window with the message "There was a problem while sending the command to the program".

It cannot be access rights as I can open the file from the menu.

I have tried un-installing and re-installing (after removing all traces of Office) but still the same.

I have tried setting compatabilty for all users, no go.

Have MS done a nasty in the upgrade to "promote" sales?

Oddly, Visio works fine.

Can anyone suggest a reason/solution?

Regards

How come as soon as I open Microsoft Word 2013 and start typing it freezes then insists on closing?

Posted: 21 Sep 2014 08:09 AM PDT

Hello and thanks for your assistance!

As stated above I have encountered a very frustrating error on Microsoft Word 2013. Every time I open my document and begin typing it suddenly freezes then displays a dialog box saying "We're sorry, Microsoft Word has encountered an error and needs to close." The box has 3 buttons including "repair" "help" or "close." I chose repair and it just caused it to continue to freeze before closing. I am at a complete loss and as I am a college student this is becoming increasingly troublesome. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Word 2013 will not open

Posted: 21 Sep 2014 06:12 AM PDT

I have a Windows 8.1 Laptop and I am having issues with Office 2013. I am unable to start Word yet My PC is up-to-date and I tried re starting the computer. I went to Control Panel and selected the "Quick Repair" For Microsoft Office and discovered "A problem caused the program to stop working correctly..." (Microsoft Click-to-Run issue). What should I do? I am stuck on this click-to-run issue.

ScreenTips missing

Posted: 21 Sep 2014 06:10 AM PDT

Hi - I'm using MS 2010 on Windows 8.1. I have selected "Show feature descriptions in Screentips and "Show document tooltips on hover." Any suggestions?

[Split from the thread at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-display-of-comments-footnotes-etc-within/a3ac1a67-fea1-4865-957f-9809d2205b3d]

Difficulty with Share icon on Microsoft Office 2013.

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 11:44 PM PDT

Hello, I am currently having difficulties with the share icon on Microsoft Office 2013 in the sense that I can't invite friends to be coauthors. Every time I try to send my friends a document via email it brings up this notification stating that OneDrive needs authentication, so I go through the process of authentication but it still doesn't send. I don't know what to do can, someone help me out, please and thank you.

Have Office 365 and all of a sudden I can not download Microsoft Internet pix or clip art????

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 09:58 PM PDT

Had this problem once before and was told that it was with Internet Explorer and to get an older version... this does not seem feasible.

Transform Tab not where it should be in Word Art

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 09:49 PM PDT

Hi All.

I would appreciate some help on this one. When workin in Word Art under the special effects tab where I am suppose to find "Transform" I believe. On my machine this is missing.

I do have the others such as Preset, Shadow, Reflection etc but no Transform tab.  Any help on why this may be the case to assist me in getting there would be appreciated.

I am running Win 8.1 64bit, with Office 2013 SP1 32bit.

Many thanks

Dave.

Can't open Word Documents 2010

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 07:50 AM PDT

Whenever i try to open a word document this message comes up:

Word experienced an error trying to open this file.

Try these suggestions

*Check the file permissions for document or drive

*Make sure there is sufficient free memory and disk space

*Open file with text recovery converter

I can't work out what the problem is, i know i have enough memory and disk space, i've tried repairing Microsoft office,  i've tried the "Repair and open" option, i'm just not sure what to do.

My school uses "Studywiz" for saving documents, and opening them at home, i wondered if it was a problem with that, but my brother can open all his documents and his word is from the same disc as mine,

Please help!!!!!

microsoft word

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 02:59 PM PDT

Hi! When I go to microsoft word It doesn't allow me to type. It says modification is locked. I do I unlock it?

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Posted: 17 Jun 2007 08:26 AM PDT

I would still suggest you go back to the supplier and explain the situation
to them. At this point you've spent money for something that you cannot use
and it's up to them to either make it right or refund your money.

--

JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375



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Installing Office Enterprise 2007, Error 1913

Posted: 17 Jun 2007 07:19 AM PDT

I would because you know it's causing problems.

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MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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Various re when switching computer on

Posted: 16 Jun 2007 04:14 AM PDT

Answered in the OTHER newsgroup

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cannot show "My recent docs" under Office button

Posted: 15 Jun 2007 11:26 PM PDT

Some security suite programs can suppress the recently used file list
like TweakUI. Look for the registry key mentioned in KB284896, check
the value, and change it if necessary.

LAD wrote:
 

Running both Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007

Posted: 15 Jun 2007 03:23 PM PDT

Only if you have 2 OS partitions or are running a Virtual Machine. VMs are the way to go IMHO. The one from Microsoft is free but VMWare also has VMWare Workstation which does cost $$.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, cpetek asked:

| I currently have Outlook 2003, but want to run Outlook 2007 to test
| the new features and I don't want to use the free download trial.
| Can I have both installed and switch back and forth?

Need to reinstall Powerpoint and Access from MS Office Small Busin

Posted: 15 Jun 2007 02:44 PM PDT

Thanks a lot! Thanks to those who responded! It worked!

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:
 

Microsoft Beta

Posted: 15 Jun 2007 02:17 PM PDT

My laptop won't let me remove the files. How can I manually remove the files?

"Mary Sauer" wrote:
 

Purchasing Office 2007

Posted: 15 Jun 2007 10:55 AM PDT

There is no upgrade version available for Outlook alone so that's out. It
runs about $109. To be honest with the the cost of HSE + Outlook as a
standalone will cost you less than if you return the HSE (assuming you can)
and buying Office Standard. Plus you'll have PowerPoint and OneNote.

This assumes that you are using it for non-commercial use, of course.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


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Hard drive space required

Posted: 15 Jun 2007 05:28 AM PDT


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Well, i heard its the common misconception that frequent defragmentation is
necessary to maintain adequate system performance. Although it may produce
substantial file system speed improvements in some cases, for the typical
Windows user the overall performance improvement is minor or unnoticeable.
Defragging the disk will not stop a system from malfunctioning or crashing
because the filesystem is designed to work with fragmented files. So there
is limitations of defragmentation. Does windows XP automatically defragment
in a background process like Windows Vista?

Office 2007 SBE license / Activation.

Posted: 14 Jun 2007 03:41 PM PDT

I am accustomed to the "old way". I;'ve beedn using it for many years now
but I'm forcing myself to learn the Ribbon. I still have a few years until I
retire (not as many as I need to earn enough money but too many years before
I can sleep in late) - I can't afford to be left behind.

Patrick Schmidt has an add-in that you can purchase and download which will
give you something akin to the old style menus.
http://pschmid.net/office2007/index.php

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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Multiple Activation Issue

Posted: 12 Jun 2007 11:19 AM PDT

Start here:

Call Support Customer Care:
1-800-936-3500 (U.S. and Canada Only)


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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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Microsoft Word - Office 2013, new files don't open onscreen and can't be opened on the toolbar from under a primary document - Word, Powerpoint, and Outlook

Microsoft Word - Office 2013, new files don't open onscreen and can't be opened on the toolbar from under a primary document - Word, Powerpoint, and Outlook

Office 2013, new files don't open onscreen and can't be opened on the toolbar from under a primary document - Word, Powerpoint, and Outlook

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 03:10 PM PDT

I'm using Office 2013 on a Windows 7 computer.  When opening a word file (with one already open), the new file used to open and display on screen.  Now it does not do that, but opens a new window on the toolbar (so I have two Word windows to alternate between on the toolbar).  When I try to toggle to it on the toolbar, the second window doesn't display a "preview" of the content like the other one and clicking on it causes nothing to happen.  So essentially, I can't toggle to the secondary window at all.  Sometimes it works ok with two windows but messes up on the third.  This also happens in Powerpoint and if I open multiple messages in Outlook.  I have not had multiple excel files open in awhile to test it there.

Why is Office behaving this way?  I need to be able to toggle between multiple open files and until recently I didn't have a problem.  Is this maybe a result of a recent update?  How do I fix this?

Thanks,

Jessica

Wordpad

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 02:04 PM PDT

I made changes to a Wordpad document and 'saved' it.  I then reopened the file and the changes had not been made.  What did I do wrong?

Add empty lines to word template

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 01:54 PM PDT

After struggling to create a MS Word template for my letterhead, and succeeding (thanks to this group!) ... I have one more stumbling block to request help on.

After creating a large header to accomodate my preprinted letterhead stationery, I added a fixed date just below the header, using

Insert\quick parts\field\createdate

So my date is already inserted when I start my document based on this template. But my cursor is on the left side of the same line as the date, which is to the right on the same line.

I would like to put a couple of lines after the date field, so that I can start the recipient name, address, etc as soon as the document is opened.

I tried entering paragraphs. No help.

Any advice would be appreciated. I am close to completing this project!

Many thanks.

Jack

Can't Start Office

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 12:18 PM PDT

MS WORD won't start!  How can I fix this?

Turn off grammar check

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 11:26 AM PDT

Split from this thread.

My problem is that I am writing a Religious Book, and having to use many different Bible verses, and this is an example:

Isaiah 28:9-11

9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. 

It keeps telling me that the "and whom" should be "And whom" and that the "them that are" should be "Them that are". But this is what the Bible says and I do NOT want to correct it, I want to leave it as it is. So I keep using the "Ignore once" feature and it stops with the squiggly green line for a bit but before I know it, it is right back there again. It is SO annoying! I have to put up with this with every chapter that I write. 

Why can't you just tell it to IGNORE that, and have it STAY ignored in that particular document at least? It is really distracting and all I can do is to turn off the Grammar checker altogether, which is not good, since then I have to remember to keep turning it back on again to check for other mistakes. 

Run Time error 429 ActiveX can't create object

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 09:34 AM PDT

I receive a Run Time error 429 ActiveX can't create object every time i close a microsoft office 2010 word document. how can i fix this problem it causes word to freeze up and i lose my work. please Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Office 7

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 09:11 AM PDT

I'm having problems opening both a word document and an excel spreadsheet.  More so with the word document.  What happens is when I try to open a new document or an existing one, it does not allow me to edit it.  When I do "control-alt-delete" and choose the task manger, a window pops up and shows Microsoft Bootstrapper and Word Document for tasks to end.  As a last resort, I've uninstalled Office 7 and reinstalled and it works fine, for awhile.  After a little over a week, it's right back to the same old problem.  I've uninstalled and installed at least 6 times over the last month or so.  Any idea what the problem might be?

Encryption for Office for Android

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 06:43 AM PDT

Why doesn't the Android mobile app allow me to open encrypted documents, or save them? Just a heads up devs, this is why I don't use OneDrive or the mobile Office app. Without encryption, it is useless to me.

While we're at it, how about the ability to save to a local folder? Or alter the default template?

English numbers converted to Persian

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 04:53 AM PDT

Split from this thread.

Hi Suzanne,

i`m vahid from iran. *** Email address is removed for privacy *** and vahid in instagram

u`r a proffessional in ms word. i`m amazed really.

i have a problem that badger me for a long time. pleas help me.

when i save as pdf a doc in word2013, it deform and convert eng nombers to persian like end notes.

i can send u sample file.

thank`s a lot

u`rs sincerely.

please save me skirt madam.

v.eini

Font colors are not retained when Paragraph styles are applied against Table cells in Microsoft Word

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 04:28 AM PDT

Hi,

I am experiencing an issue in Microsoft Word 2007/2010 wherein font colors are not retained when I apply paragraph styles (like Body Text, Normal) against table cells.

I noticed that this is happening even when the font color is "Automatic" for the paragraph styles

The same is not happening when I apply table styles against table elements.

Is there a restriction against using paragraph styles against Table cells?

Underlining won't print on areas of word Document

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 04:18 AM PDT

I use Mircosoft Office Home & Student 2007 and am having problems when printing out 'Word' documents

Where I have areas on a document that are underlined, the underlined areas are not showing at all or only one area is showing when printed out.

I initially thought this may be a printer problem but have tried every suggestion that has been made to me from the printer forum and everything was showing up normal

It was suggested that I print the documents in another format, so I pasted the content of the word document onto One Note and Powerpoint and in both instances the underlined areas printed out correctly which leaves me to believe that there is some error with the Word programme. I have also forwarded the documents to a friend for them to use their printer and again this was produced correctly

Can anybody come up with suggestions of what the problem may be

Display only images names and suffix in DOCX

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 04:12 AM PDT

Hi!

I would like to display only images name and suffix (ie. image1.jpg), so that i can identify in DOCX which image is showing where...

Is this possible?

Thanks.

Highlighting a words in 'Find' and saving the document with the highlights

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 03:59 AM PDT

Is it possible to

1. save the document showing the highlights?

2. after saving the highlights, search, find and highlight another word in a different colour and save that to

I'd like to come back to the document the following day and edit

Word 2013 Mail Merge

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 03:39 AM PDT

I am having a problem with the results of my email merge.

Everything works, it sends to each recipient, but it sends a copy of everyone's email to everyone.   When you scroll down, you see the next person's greeting and message, scroll down and see the next person's greeting and message, etc...   What am I doing wrong?   I think it is at the end when I finish the merge.

Legal Style Headings

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 02:56 AM PDT

I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question; however, it is as good a place to start as any I suppose.

First, I am a long time "LaTeX" user which gives me absolute control over my documents. I am now working in a position that requires me to use MS Office. Since I create mostly "legal" documents, I have been having all sorts of problems crating properly formatted material.

For instance, a new chapter in a legal document usually begins for example:

Article 1

Control of Noxious Growth

Now, try as I might, I cannot create that type of heading using any of the built in heading styles that Office has. I can create the formatted size, but not the LF/CR between "Article" and "Title". The numbering configuration page only gives an option for "Tab", "Space" or "Nothing". There should be a line feed option also.

Also, for some insane reason, Office insists on placing "Article" in the TOC. That is plain dumb. It should only place the number then the title. It is things like this that drive me crazy with Office.

I would appreciate any assistance available. I have tried Googling, but came up empty.

Microsoft Word ignore once feature

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 01:19 AM PDT

My problem is that I am writing a Religious Book, and having to use many different Bible verses, and this is an example:

Isaiah 28:9-11

9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. 

It keeps telling me that the "and whom" should be "And whom" and that the "them that are" should be "Them that are". But this is what the Bible says and I do NOT want to correct it, I want to leave it as it is. So I keep using the "Ignore once" feature and it stops with the squiggly green line for a bit but before I know it, it is right back there again. It is SO annoying! I have to put up with this with every chapter that I write. 

Why can't you just tell it to IGNORE that, and have it STAY ignored in that particular document at least? It is really distracting and all I can do is to turn off the Grammar checker altogether, which is not good, since then I have to remember to keep turning it back on again to check for other mistakes. 

I am using Microsoft Word 2002 and have a Windows 8 computer.

Thanks, Claudia

WORD 2013 READ ONLY?

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 07:11 PM PDT

Hi,

anytime I open my word doc, it's read only,  when I save it, I was told to save under different file ! MS OFFICE 2010, didn't have this problem

I did UNCHECK  from the option : not open as  "read only"

.

is there any way I can disable read only so I can save  under the same file ?

Thanks

Microsoft Word on Surface RT

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 05:42 PM PDT

I have a Surface RT 1 generation Until today, MS Word has work excellent, but today, I loose my header, and by default when I open a new blank document, the cursor star in the first line, (on the header).  I've looking to reinstall the program but I cant.  I try to set default margins size and I cant.  How I can repair it? (Sorry for my English).

Selecting bold adds bold and italics to text

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:28 PM PDT

Since last week, any formatting in which bold is applied now displays as bold italics. Any attempts to add bold formatting also adds bold italics. Trying to de-select italics has no effect. It seems the style definition for 'Bold' is now 'Bold Italics' and thus cannot be changed in the style editor (since it only has 'bold' format selected, but defines bold as bold with italics). If I try to create a new style definition with just bold, it also creates bold with italics (since it now thinks 'bold' includes italics).

How do I restore normal bold (without having to do a system restore, if that would fix it) or resetting all Word settings to default (undoing all of my custom settings)?

Thanks for your help.

Problem with page orientation.

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:04 PM PDT

I have written a fairly long thesis which includes numerous sketches. When I go back to revise and edit it, I find the whole work is in landscape mode. Also many of the sketches do not appear. I have copied and pasted a small selection to a new page in word and the work appears in portrait with the sketches intact.

How do I return the whole work to normal portrait mode. I have clicked on the landscape/portrait button but nothing happens.

Mail Merge with Linked Datasource

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 03:09 PM PDT

I'm doing a mail merge with a linked data source (Excel 2010) and I'm having trouble with it updating. I update the data, but it doesn't update in the merge document data table. I've heard that linked databases do not update if the database is saved on a shared drive. Is this true? My database is saved locally, and it's still not updating. 

Microsoft Word - What is causing this mysterious box and how can I remove it?

Microsoft Word - What is causing this mysterious box and how can I remove it?

What is causing this mysterious box and how can I remove it?

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 02:28 PM PDT

I had someone show me this empty box at the bottom of the table on their Microsoft Word 2013 document and tell me that they didn't know how it got there or how to remove it. 

I know it's not a cell from the table above as when I right click on it, it doesn't bring up options for dealing with cells.  I've tried selecting it and deleting it and then right clicking on it and cutting or deleting it, but no luck.  What is causing this and how do I remove it?

Document crashes Word

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 12:56 PM PDT

Split from this thread.

The document in question has come from SharePoint online and has some heavy formatting.

Can we send in the word doc in question? I suspect it will crash whatever machine it runs on.

Cannot uninstall or re-install Microsoft 2010 home & student

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 12:19 PM PDT

My Microsoft 2010 does not work, it keeps telling me the user will not let me. I had it yesterday and today it will not let me access it.

I am so confused. I did put myself and girlfriend as an administrator and put myself as a local account. It also says cannot verify the license and should repair the office program in control panel. I have tried this and it does not work. What do I do now? I had office for four years not it is telling me they cannot verify my license what is with this, I am totally confused. Please help me I need my office!

Thank You

Home and Student 2010 problems

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 11:20 AM PDT

So I bought Microsoft Home and Student 2010 a year or 2 ago for my laptop. It was working fine up until I had to get my laptop repaired numerous times for hardware problems. I eventually got it repaired a month a go, I installed Office Home & Student (for 3 pc's and I'd only installed it once on my laptop) and it seemed to be working. However when I tried to get some work done and open documents I keep getting the message of it being an unlicensed product. I tried putting in the install disc again to try and repair features and see if that made a difference, it didn't. I went to Google and saw some suggestions like changing the settings because Publisher isn't a part of it so wan't working, I did that and it too made no difference. I saw other people saying to remove and re-install it and other people saying there is no need. I've also seen people saying you have to upgrade. I've already spent almost £200 on it, surely I don't need to upgrade again, do I? If anyone out there can possibly give me some hope of fixing this issue I will be very grateful.

Andy

Do drawing canvases prevent photo compression?

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 10:11 AM PDT

Hi all -

I'm using drawing canvases to group pictures in word and I keep ending up with extremely large file sizes that are leading to issues with saving. I have been individually compressing each photo, but it doesn't seem to make a difference as to the file size. Any help? 

'Set proofing language' has a mind of its own

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 09:28 AM PDT

Word 2010 on a Windows 8.1 computer, Spanish hardware and keyboard setting, software purchased online in English from Spain.

i have removed every reference i can find to the Spanish language, and i have set every place i can find to 'English' as default.

Still when i start an email or a Word document, the system insists on checking in Spanish first, even though i use English predominantly.

i have been to 'Set proofing language' where SpaNISH IS HIGHLIGHTED, CHANGED THAT TO eNGLISH, TICKED 'SET AS DEFAULT', clicked the option to 'change every document based on Normal template, and still if i click 'Set proofing language immediately (or on next opening a document) it proof reads in Spanish

i have been through every 'help'topic i can find on the subject, and am currently considering whether my first floor office is high enough to completely destroy my computer and its software if i throw it out!

Help!

Keith Mason

Automated Table of Figures

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 08:57 AM PDT

My figure captions have long, explanatory notes, which continue on the same line as the actual figure number and main caption text (this is a requirement of the document - I can't change that). Is there any way of applying a style to part of a line and not the rest of the line/paragraph? I just want, e.g., Figure 1 Blah Blah Blah to appear in the automated table of figures but the style I apply is taken up by the entire text that follows this piece. Thanks in advance.

Very strange disappearing text and paragraphs in Office 2013 Pro

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 08:46 AM PDT

Okay, I swear this question has never been asked before. I've spent the better part of my life for the past two days scouring the internet for this issue.

First, qualifiers:

  • I am running Windows7 and Windows8.1 when this issue occurs.
  • I have Microsoft Office Professional Plus
  • It happens regardless of whether or not I have copied/pasted or typed manually
  • I am not using the overtype feature
  • I am using OpenType Features and alternative expert fonts (such as Linux Libertine, Minion Pro (Adobe), Calluna)
  • It happens regardless of whether or not I have OpenType features enabled.
  • It seems to not promulgate by the default font Calibri (tested in one place on one paragraph).
  • I have not experienced this behavior in any of the other Microsoft Office products other than Word (Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Access).

Next, the behavior:

  • It happens at seemingly random times. When I'm typing, or copy/paste, a number of things will happen. First, my cursor will disappear, and part of a paragraphs text will be randomly missing from the screen. When I try to highlight the affected body of text, the "highlight gray" that covers the text also partially disappears. When I try to click and move my cursor to within the affected body, it also does not appear. When I go to remove part of the paragraph (usually the beginning), the missing text magically appears.
  • It also occurs when I'm returning to the beginning of a line. When I press enter at the end of any given paragraph, the end of the paragraph will disappear with the start of a new one.
  • When I go to print, the text also is not present. In fact, in many things I've done, my numbers, fractions, and list numerators do not appear in the print, even if they are present on the screen.
  • The problem is also present when exporting to a PDF of any kind.

Help?

Missing Insertion Cursor in Word 2007

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 07:51 AM PDT

In Word 2007, I am missing the insertion cursor and macros are not running anymore either.  I have read multiple post on this issue.  Tried almost everything from uninstalling to repair to word options and cursor rates.  It has not worked.  Need help!

Word 2013

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 07:05 AM PDT

I now have Word 2013 as part of a new Office Package.

It opens properly  and it is easy to use. However, I am finding that when a file is saved and closed it reopens in word 2003 mode ( not compatibility Mode) the next time I want to work on it .

I still have Office 2003 on the computer,

My question is, how can I stop recently created files opening in the old Word style and appearing in the folder with the old Word icon?

Do I simply remove the older program from the computer. If so how will that affect older files created before Office 2013 was installed ?

Result Chain Smart Art

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 06:53 AM PDT

I have been searching a better way to draw Result Chain smart in word with no success so far. I have seen Result chain diagram in wikipedia. Can some one suggest me to draw in these type of diagrams. Thanks in advance.

Microsoft Word 2013

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 05:19 AM PDT

Microsoft Word 2013 is not working properly. I've done the following;

1) Run > winword /repair - nogo

2) Same as above - winword  /safemode - nogo

3) Uninstall Reinstall - nogo

Not sure what else to do. Ran a microsoft fix it, nope.... 

The problem, is that when I open it - everything is blank. Other Office 2013 products work just fine. I can't see text, I can't see menu items, and when I try to download templates everything but the image is blank. I can't even see the ribbon. Not sure what else to try at this point...

Thanks in advance!

Pictures not displaying in Office (Word) for Windows Phone 8.1

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:47 AM PDT

I am a new user of Windows Phone 8.1.

When I open a document (created in Office '93 for example) in Office on my Windows Phone, the pictures and word drawings in the document do not display, I just get the old Windows picture icon.

Is there anything I can do to get this to display properly?

Short footer.

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 08:34 PM PDT

The footer on side of my mirror document is shorter that the footer on the other page.  How can I make them equal in size?

Word has run into an error that is preventing it from working correctly

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 07:40 PM PDT

Word:

 

Version: 15.0.4641.1003

Error Code: -1610612703-8

ERROR_BAD_CONFIGURATION

1610 (0x64A)

The configuration data for this product is corrupt. Contact your support personnel.

The uninstall and change both failed to complete.

Word Form - Buttons Stop Working

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 05:46 PM PDT

I have a Word form that has been used for several years, but doesn't work correctly in Word 2013.

There are a number of content controls and 2 buttons, one that emails the document and one that does a validation of the information entered. When we open the file in Word 2013, after working through the fields, when one scrolls back to the buttons, they do not work.

It's not that the code is failing, the button simply doesn't respond in any way to the mouse. ie, It doesn't appear to move, instead the outline and sizing handles appear around the button. This makes it impossible for the user to submit the form. It works perfectly in earlier versions of Word. There are two content controls near the buttons, and they too stop working. No cursor appears when you click in them, and no text appears when typing.

The only way to get the buttons to work again is to disable Protection, go into Design mode, then exist Design mode and re-protect the document. The two buttons are in an unprotected section of the form.

I need to find out how to get the document to work reliably in Word 2013.


Thanks

Gordon

In word 2010, text converted to non-standard bottom border

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 05:05 PM PDT

I don't know what I must have done.  I'm proofing a large file (800 pages of mostly text) of short stories.  There are many places in the stories where a scene break exists - consisting of '***' centered on its own line.  These have ALL been replaced with a non-default bottom border, ie, a 3 point wide dotted line (small squares, actually) across the entire width of the line above. To be very clear, it is not an underline.  It's hard to believe that I somehow made such a global change, particularly because I'm still trying to replace the bottom border with the original line and aren't finding a find/replace for borders. 

I'm running 64-bit windows 7 and 32 bit Word.

For example:

These are the words before the scene break (denoted by ***)..

                    ***

These are the words after the scene break. 

And, to a small degree, it now looks like (except the underline is really a big fat border):

These are the words before the scene break (denoted by ***)..

These are the words after the scene break. 

My questions:

1.  how could I have done this (or could the change to bottom border be something in the document that was masked over and I hit the switch)?

2.  How can I fix this in a replace-all way?

thanks for any help you have to offer.  I spent some time looking for a previous question but didn't find anything useful.

Joan

Where can I download some free, virus and adware-free, music symbol font sets?

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 04:50 PM PDT

Just like it says on the top. I want to change the lyrics to a song for my own use, not to record or anything.

How to mark a task as complete without adjusting the actual work Microsoft Project

How to mark a task as complete without adjusting the actual work Microsoft Project

How to mark a task as complete without adjusting the actual work

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 10:44 PM PDT

I want the task to be checked (Completed!!) and i want to be able to say
that i was able to complete this task in half the time and tell the boss that
i saves this much money on this task.

I use a view that includes a custom task field (number) that is the exact original estimate.
It is a non calculated enduring value. Baseline does the same thing and is nice because of the native
Gantt chart representation but sometimes that is too sophisticated. As Jan said the reporting comes
in; in your case; 
The custom task field has an enduring value of 4 which is the original work estimate, with no need to
understand baselines. I did it most for the convienence of not having to explain baselines to other users.
then just made them nice reports that show "We beat estimate!" on this task or "We went over estimate
on this task" Almost immediately there was a gain in focus on each assignment to beat estimate. PM's tightened
estimates, resources responded, and a balance was struck. "TRUE" estimates became visable, not ones with built in
bloat, trust was built between resource and scheduler. Resource started looking for root causes of why an assignment
would take longer or shorter. Almost always it had to do with someone messing with their flow, That is interruptions OR waiting
on a needed preconditon.



"Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote in message news:%phx.gbl... 

Milestones linked to summary bar

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 06:35 PM PDT

Hi,

Quote:
"I don't like seeing Milestones with its predessesor the summary bar to
which
it belongs"
Good news, that is impossible to do. When you try it you get the message:
"You cannot link a summary task to one of its subtasks".

HTH

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620
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which 

Customized Who Does What When

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 05:27 PM PDT

Hi John! I think I'm making this harder than it has to be. I went into the
Customize Fields screen and changed the values of the 20 flags to Yes. (Yes,
I have multiple resources on multiple tasks). But then I'm lost.

In the Resource Sheet, it shows all 20 custom fields under each resource
name and then in the Gantt view, no fields show.

If you have time, can you walk me thru this? I'm getting frustrated with my
inability to figure out what is probably an easy puzzle.

Thanks,
Patti

Seemingly simple question about scheduling resources

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 03:30 PM PDT

Yeah, I see what you're saying, but without the program in front of me, I
can't check. I will check first thing in the morning. Thanks for the input,
and I'll keep you posted.

Doug

"Brian K - Project MVP" wrote:
 

Remote Connections from Project Pro

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 03:22 PM PDT

Dave Lugo wrote:
 

well best case the server and the project Pro client are not on the same
box, for performance reasons but I suppose that would work. That box is
going to get a little busy.

--
Brian K - Project MVP
http://www.projectified.com
--
Senior Trainer - Electronic Arts
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QuantumPM Associate
http://www.quantumpm.com

Change windows behaviour

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 11:08 AM PDT

aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAHHH!

:-PP

Cesar



"JackD" <momokuri@gmail> wrote in message
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Sorry,
You can't change this behavior.

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in 
just 

Schedule gaps

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 10:45 AM PDT

Hi,

So far so good!

Just a precision: don't be afraid of clear leveling.
Leveling introduces delays ands stores them on assignment level.
Clear leveling just puts them to zero.
That is why clear leveling is so much faster than leveling itself (can take
minutes on pools with many files); it is so much simpler.

Hope this helps.

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620
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it 
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HELP: Task Calendar won't have any effect!

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 08:26 AM PDT

Dear Julie,

Yes, it's my mistake not having chosen all monday to Friday column! Thanks a
lot advicing my careless mistake!

Best regards,
Teres
"JulieS" <passport6847 at maine dot rr dot com> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D:%phx.gbl... 

How do I accomplish this kind of budgeting/resource allocation?

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 06:47 AM PDT

In article <phx.gbl>,
"Patrick Allmond" <com> wrote:
 


Patrick,
Well I'm glad you went back to proofread what you wrote - even if it was
after the fact. Many people just don't care. I even had one guy tell me
it was too much effort to bother with capitalizing. And these people
work in a professional environment? Wow.

Sorry, it's kind of a hot button with me.

When users put together a plan to secure budget there is always a
certain amount of "gaming" going on between the performers and the
providers. Unfortunately it is a no win situation. It might work the
first time but pretty soon management (or a customer) figures out the
the numbers are padded and they set or negotiate a budget accordingly.
So the user pads the next plan a little more and so it goes. In the end,
the plan isn't worth much because it doesn't represent anything and no
matter what the project the budget is never enough anyway.

I'm not sure there is a real answer because you're going against human
nature. The best scenario is to establish a honest working relationship
among the performers, management and the customer. Communication is the
key. My suggestion - put together the most honest plan estimate you can.
Don't shortchange yourself but also don't "pad" the plan. If you
management and customer are worth their salt, they will respect the job
you need to do to make the plan successful, and that is a win-win
situation.

That's my two cents anyway.
John
Project MVP
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