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Microsoft Word - Gradient Text Locked and Unusable

Gradient Text Locked and Unusable

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 02:04 PM PST

I recently downloaded Microsoft Office 2013 onto my laptop. When I go to change the font color of my text, the Gradient option is greyed out and unclickable. When I make the font category bigger, Text Effects is also faded out.  I feel like something is disabled but I don't know what. How do I fix this?

Word crashes when working with a drawing canvas

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 01:03 PM PST

Split from this thread.

Hi,

Unfortunately since we migrated from Word 2010 to Word 2013 I experienced a lot of similar problem when working with drawings and canvas ..... in a lot of cases completing with a complete Word crash. I could even generate a Word crash creating a new Word document and doing only two single canva operations.

I observed several times thie same problem, in fact each time I forgot to not use object groups with embedded text. This is just not working with Word 2013.

I assume that Microsoft have an OOP bug in their text managemnet copying only the pointer to the text in place of copying the whole content leading to the observed behaviour that change the text in one object changes the text in all object copies.

Workaround:

- Use another program

- If you have to use Word like I have never copy object with embedded text, i.e. create each text instance individually.

Regards

TOC crashes on update unless Word runs in Safe mode

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 12:26 PM PST

Split from this thread.

Actually I am finding that WORD 2013 cannot do a simple TOC update in normal mode - it crashes on every attempt. I can only manage a TOC, list of figures, or tables if I start WORD in Safe mode.

Download

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 12:07 PM PST

Our computer crashed in November and we lost Microsoft Office.  

Can I use the original program download to re-stall Microsoft Office?

The program and the computer are from 2007.

Computer problem with Word 2010

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 11:16 AM PST

Computer  problem with word Document.

A few weeks ago my computer was going slow and my son offered to see if he could sort it out for me. He was able to clear malware off the computer and copy my files to an external hard drive. When I got the computer back everything   looked fine and the computer was working much faster. Problems arose when I open a file and later closed it. It then seemed to create a copy file . The word logo appears in the folder as a lighter version on the normal  logo that indicates the flag type.

If I try to print a copy of the doc from what looks like the genuine one or the fainter one,  it will not print . If there is a watermark on the doc it will print the watermark only.

An email will not print either although the Epsom  window on the computer will show as normal as will the print page and  the printer window on the printer. I have enclosed a photo of an example  from a word folder and as you will see the file name changed from 10 to a sideways s and what appears to be a $ sign. In addition the normal appearing file contains 1.21 mb, while the fainter one indicates  1.62 bytes.

My computer operates on Windows 7 and word 2010 which got about 2 years ago. Is there a setting that is making my files save as docx and if so how do I change it and restore my files.

"Microsoft word document" is how my files were tagged in the file index.

Any assistance how I might solve this problem would be most welcome.

N. B. I do not have much technical knowledge but can follow instructions.

Regards TB

Setting a word limit

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 11:05 AM PST

Can I create a form that sets a word limit that can be entered by the user?

word multilevel outline-- lock numbers??

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 11:05 AM PST

I have created a 200+ page document w/ outlines and multiple numbered lists and multiple multi-level lists.

Is there a way to "lock" or "freeze" the list numbers?

I want to allow others to edit the content but not change/delete/add to the numbers on the various lists.

Can you help?

Swapping documents in side-by-side view

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 10:05 AM PST

I'm using MS Word 2010 and looking at 2 documents using the side-by-side feature.  I'd like to change the positions of the two documents from A-B to B-A.  Doing this by dragging and resizing windows is awkward.  Is there a more elegant or simple way to do so?

Typing in Vietnamese using Arial in Word 2013

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 09:49 AM PST

While placing Vietnamese text from a Word 2013 document into InDesign, I noticed all characters printed using the Microsoft font Arial. It appears to support more glyphs than some other fonts.

I was asked how people can type in Vietnamese using Arial --- do they use different combinations of modifier keys or do they need a special configuration of either Microsoft Word, their computer, or their keyboard?

David Swanson

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 09:43 AM PST

How do I print labels  using Windows Vista Home Basic?  Will it be the Mail Merge feature of Word?

Table text appearing as symbols and numbers

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 08:35 AM PST

Hey guys,

I've just been sent a word document by a friend who has a deadline for a proposal and and most of the document has changed to a series of characters. I have tried all the typical methods to reverse this i.e. converting and reconverting from text and rtf, opening in a 3rd party work program, deleting final paragraph and extracting it in fragments into a new document, but alas nothing seems to help. It appears that the problem is stemming from the tables...

I have attached a screenshot outlining the problem. Any advice would be very much appreciated. 

Many thanks, 

Jeremiah.

Word 365 recent documents default location is Onedrive

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 08:20 AM PST

Everytime I open Word the recent documents list is always the files located on OneDrive, even though they have not been synced or updated.  I am looking for a way to enable all recent documents to be displayed, not just those on the cloud.

Word 2013 - fill-in forms, same value in fields

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 06:04 AM PST


Trying to create a fill-in form where several of the fields will be the same answer/value. It's simple with Adobe Forms to do this with the property name being the same. Help. I've read some articles but can't get it to work. Any step by step instructions would help. Using Legacy Tools, Developer Tab.

Splitting, selecting and deleting words by unknown colour

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 05:52 AM PST

Hi

I have a document pasted from the internet that contains several hundred lines.   The names are in a purple colour (not sure exactly which shade) and the job titles are in black (see example below).

I want to split out the first name, surname and job title into three columns.

Here's what I have to work with.

The first name and surname are in purple and separated by a space.   

The job title has no space between the surname but is separated by colour (ie it's black!)

Any pointers would be appreciated!

I'm thinking search by colour might work but I don't know the shade? 

I've tried "select by similar format" but it picks up the whole line.  

Cheers

Alan



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Copying a text from a website that has a narrow textbox, and pasting it into word.

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 05:29 AM PST

Whenever I copy a text from a website where the textbox is narrow, pasting it in Word will always cause it to follow the same narrow formatting instead of being continuous. 

Example:

year and on weekly earnings in the previous year. No significant impact was

found on the labor force participation rate or the employment to population

ratio in the census week or the number of weeks worked in the previous year.

The magnitudes of the coefficients imply that a 1 percentage point increase in

the percent of foreign-born in a city reduces the unemployment rate by

0.23 percentage points; reduces the number who worked in the previous year

by 0.25 percentage points; and reduces wages of unskilled natives by

1.2 percent, at most.

Instead of:

year and on weekly earnings in the previous year. No significant impact was found on the labor force participation rate or the employment to population ratio in the census week or the number of weeks worked in the previous year. The magnitudes of the coefficients imply that a 1 percentage point increase in the percent of foreign-born in a city reduces the unemployment rate by 0.23 percentage points; reduces the number who worked in the previous year by 0.25 percentage points; and reduces wages of unskilled natives by 1.2 percent, at most.

Is there any way I can paste the text and edit it to make it flow in one continuous line without any breaks?

Sorry if I'm not explaining it clearly. English is not my first language.

Office 2013 over Windows Server 2012 RDP World Add-On Macro/Template Error

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 03:51 AM PST

I have a new Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop environment for about ten users (not R2) with the latest Office 2013 Pro installed.

The users all have an add-on word template in Word for Office 2013.  That add-on was installed as administrator and ONLY works as administrator.

When any other user (even if they are local administrators, domain admins, etc.) opens Word, they are immediately prompted with the following message:

"Could not load some objects because they are not available on this machine."

If a user "runs as administrator" it runs fine.  Obviously, I don't want that.  I have been searching and searching and thought maybe there was a group policy or Office setting someone may know that I just can't find.

Any help would be awesome!  Thank you.

Restart after level question

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 02:32 AM PST

I have set-up a customized multilevel list where I have associated paragraph styles with 7 levels that seems to be working properly.  My document has other paragraph styles that may be mixed in with the multilevel list and are not part of the multilevel list so I would think they would not have an effect on the list. My question concerns Restart after level.  It seems to me that any higher level would reset a lower level numbering, but from experimenting a lower level will only restart after the specified level.  Am I correct?

Cannot open word file

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 02:22 AM PST

I have this file that I have shared on Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/s/3dlywyvhbxf0juf/FindersKeepers.docx?dl=0 and somehow I cant open it. Could someone check it out for me please. Thank you.

Avoid printing a worksheet object

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 12:11 AM PST

I have a word document with an inserted excel worksheet object in the footer, how can I avoid getting the excel icon printed when I print the word document?

WORD why does it automatically go to 11pt.? 12pt. is the norm. why do some WORD documents show 8pt. asviually different sizes?

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 10:17 PM PST

Although some if I copy and paste a smaller looking 8pt. to page it is bigger those letters become bigger. Is it from using the same document over and over adding info.?

Quick selective copying in Word'10

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 08:15 PM PST

Hi,

I wish to know short-cut to copy text from

(1) a particular line to a particular line. Say the doc has 200 lines and I wish to copy from line#56 to line#112. What is the short cut?

(2) similarly a particular line to end of the doc.

Thanks in advance!

Word for iPad upload pending forever to OneDrive

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 07:48 PM PST

Was excited to switch to Word for iPad, but quickly found it extremely slow saving and retrieving from OneDrive. My 2-page Christmas letter w 6 pictures hangs indefinitely at "Upload Pending". After 24 hours of not updating, I deleted and reloaded the app, losing my letter, of course. Re-wrote the letter. Same problem. It's been a couple days now, and it's still pending. Documents without pics do save to OneDrive, but seems sluggish compared to Pages. Help?

Word 2013 & Exel problems

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 07:36 PM PST

 I have monthly newsletter that I have written using a template in Word 2013.  When I bring up previous months newsletters, the formatting is all very messed up.  I also noticed that when I bring up an Exel document from early December all the cells are unformatted.  What in the world is going on ????

Please answer asap!

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

I'm trying to do a project and i want to put in a footer to show the pages. My problem is that the first page will say one, but then i have to put the footer in again on the next page. When i do this, the third page will say two as well. If i change the third page to say 3, the second page will then also say three. How do i get it to automatically change number with each page?  I had the exact same problem earlier today on another project but i asked my teacher and he said it didn't matter. My current project will have 20+ pages, so I don't really want to put it in manually. I also don't feel like it would let me anyway, but I haven't tried to do this with more than three pages.  

Opening files

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 04:00 PM PST

Hi today I downloaded Office Home and Student. Before there were some files I cldn't open, Now I can't open any. Neither can I open attachments from emails. Windows just stops working. Help! 

Thank u, Irene

Link picture to Word 2010

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 05:22 AM PST

word 2010 automatic updates to excel links working but not to jpg links. Under the dialogue box showing links the "Update Method for selected link" is available for excel links but not for jpg. The jpgs were inserted as link to file.

Original Title: Word 2010 Link to file

error with home and student install - Microsoft Office forums

error with home and student install - Microsoft Office forums

error with home and student install

Posted: 18 Apr 2008 06:13 AM PDT

Hi checked out the prior posts, but don't think its the same problem. I never
had MS Office, and am not upgrading Works. I purchased the Home and Student
2007 Office package CD - not an upgrade version. Shouldn't it install as any
other program, regardless of MS Works? Should I uninstall Works?

"DL" wrote:
 

Can´t install Office 2007 enterprise

Posted: 17 Apr 2008 05:55 AM PDT

Try and contact the IT person at the Company from where you got your Enterprise version through the Home Program. They are the ones that can help you since they hold the volume license for your Enterprise version of Office

--
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Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

"Kattman" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... 

office 2000 network install

Posted: 16 Apr 2008 09:01 PM PDT

Other than beg steal or borrow, any legitamate key will work, theres no
online activation, Ebay for a legitimate Office2k cd with key

"saskman" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

Attn: Microsoft will you support me?

Posted: 16 Apr 2008 10:49 AM PDT

That's the funny part: they send me to the technical support, who say
they don't have to answer my question. Even though I have an access code
and am entitled to phone support incidents. :-/

Peter Foldes wrote: 

How can I tell if my Office 2007 can be unlocked with an OEM key?

Posted: 16 Apr 2008 05:23 AM PDT

If your laptop paperwork didnt contain a key for Office, and you didnt pay
the significant sum of monies for Office then its a trial
If you buy an OEM version of office its locked to that Laptop, and dies with
that PC
If your laptop had Works or similar installed, you may qualify for an
upgrade version
Buying from eg amazon.com may be cheaper than other places
*Uninstall any trial prior to installing any other version*

"Cornfleek" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

installing Office home/student edition 2007 on PC

Posted: 15 Apr 2008 12:58 AM PDT

Thanks LVTravel...will go track all the info down!

thanks again, --bill

"LVTravel" wrote:
 

undo a Office 2003 with SP3 deployment.

Posted: 14 Apr 2008 08:05 AM PDT

Thanks for your reply. It is a very strange problem but i think it is by
design. The files that remain on my machine are all the files of Service
Pack 3. Office 2003 is uninstalled but all the newer (SP3) files like
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.exe and XLCALL32.DLL ect,
ect. remain on the drive.

To test this problem i have build a new lab (windows 2003 standard server
and a windows xp client) and deployed office 2003 with sp3 slipstreamed.
Same result. It drives me nuts... I also installed Office 2003 from the cd
and removed it and that went ok (everything is removed). But if i install
Office 2003 from the cd and than manually install Service Pack 3 and than do
a uninstall all the SP3 files remain on the drive.

The installer information on the drive and the user information is not the
problem this information may resist on the drive but it are the program
files that bug me...

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> schreef
in bericht news:phx.gbl... 

cannot uninstall office 2003 after upgrade to 2007: Missing Patch

Posted: 13 Apr 2008 04:50 PM PDT

If you have the Office 2003 H&S cd you should be able to use this to
uninstall 2003
If you post the full err.msg there are some KB articles refering to various
'missing patch' err.msgs

"John McDonald" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

How can I buy a product key for Microsoft Office 2007?

Posted: 12 Apr 2008 08:21 AM PDT

I have a question my friend just got a lap top with his student loan and it
has the trial of office 2007 and what price will he pay for a copy he just
need the bare bones version of it for school

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
 

How to hide the status bar in Office 2007? Slow message sending.

Posted: 12 Apr 2008 02:35 AM PDT

Hi Dima,

Note that Shane's macro to hide the status bar appears to work in Excel 2007 but not in Word 2007 :(

===========
<<"Dima" <ruDelete> wrote in message news:phx.gbl...
Hello!
How to hide the status bar in Excel 2007 and in Office 2007?
Why does Outlook 2007 send message window appear in 30 seconds after sending
a small file from an Office program or choosing the send command from the
file context menu?
Sincerely,
Dima >>
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MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Creating Office source media for end users

Posted: 10 Apr 2008 03:01 AM PDT

Hi Gary,

You may be able to do that as well. If on Windows Vista, if you scroll down that same page, near the bottom is a link for the
customer to 'Roll Your Own'. :)

==============
<<"Gary D" <fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:com...
Thanks Bob ! I was lead to believe we could create a CD image.

Gary >>
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MS Office System Products MVP

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Debian apt search - Forums Linux

Debian apt search - Forums Linux

Debian apt search

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 12:10 PM PDT

The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c> wrote: 

You can also use dselect.

Mark.

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Quinton, BIRMINGHAM.
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REQ: Distro recommendation for a newbie

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 09:17 AM PDT

"Ralink RT73 chipset"

OK, but the problem is, one USB stick I have already tried is Ralink RT73
based - and didn't work under PCLOS2007 / Ubuntu (or several others whose
names escape me again). Still, I can try the actual Dlink version.

Thanks for the updates.

DDS

Linux Partitioning Layout

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 08:26 PM PDT

Well, how about this one:
I am planning this layout for PRODUCTION SERVER(Linux,Apache,
PHP,MySQL) - about 4 websites with MySQL backend
and around 10 websites with static content, so I am trying to optimize
it for MySQL.

Server has 16GB RAM.

Based on your advice and some googling I have this layout so far.
Please feel free to critize it( + explanation so we all can learn
something)

================================================== =====
Device | Mount Point | File System | Size |
================================================== =====
"RAID 1"(hardware RAID) capacity 146GB (2 x 146GB Serial-Attach SCSI)

/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 100 MB
/swap swap 16 GB
/dev/sda2 / ext3 40 GB
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 40 GB


on "RAID 10"(hardware RAID) capacity 146GB (4 x 73GB Serial-Attach
SCSI)
I create separate partitions for security(and protect from
overflowing)
and performance reasons.

/tmp tmpfs 10 GB


Primary partitions
/dev/sdb1 /var ext3 20 GB
/dev/sdb2 /var/lib/mysql ext3 60 GB
/dev/sdb3 /var/log/mysql ext3 20 GB


Extended partition
/dev/sdb4 ext3 20 GB
Logical partitions in sdb4:
/dev/sdb5 /var/tmp ext3 6 GB
/dev/sdb6 /var/spool ext3 6 GB
/dev/sdb7 /var/mail ext3 6 GB

Keymap Issue

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 06:54 PM PDT

Chuck writes: 

Sounds like some idiot hard-coded the Wyse keys into his application
instead of using the curses library or least using terminfo directly. This
was, unfortunately, common. I no longer remember the Wyse codes and don't
have any references on hand, but you may be able to dig what you need out
of the terminfo data base. You can either try to find the source or use
the infocmp command to reconstruct it. On my Debian system
'infocmp -B /usr/share/terminfo/w/ -L wyse60' does the job.
'man 5 termcap' for the format.

--
John Hasler
gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

Fedora Core 2 on x86_64 with 4GB RAM

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 01:01 PM PDT

John Hasler <gt.org> wrote: 

Not entirely certain... It depends on the age of the motherboard (and
relevant chipsets in the machine)...

FC2 is 5 years out of date now. So any newer hardware might be a bit of a
struggle to get working.
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Multiple USB serial ports

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 09:04 AM PDT

I'm interested in serial ports rather than storage devices or
ethernets, so anything that uses data on the disk (label) or
the host-ID won't work.

I managed to do what I wanted with something like this in
a udev rule file:

ID=="1-4.1:1.0", MODE="0666", SYMLINK+="gpsusb3", OPTIONS="last_rule"

I got the magic ID text by watching /var/log/messages while plugging
a device in. (There is a hub in there on an extender cable.)

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any linux distro that sets up like windows?

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 11:42 PM PDT

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<com>, Grant wrote:
 
 
 

No personal experience with it - neither of the companies where my wife
and I work use windoze, and we got rid of it at home before microsoft
discovered the concept of multiple users on a system. I'm always
hesitant to write to a non-native filesystem (especially a proprietary
one). Make sure you're using a kernel newer than 2.6.26, as there have
been several problems with the FUSE including one specific to NTFS-3G
corrupting files. See commit 78bb6cb9a890d3d50ca3b02fce9223d3e734ab9b
which actually dates from May 12, 2008.

Old guy

Printing PDFs through CUPS

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 03:26 PM PDT

Everything appears to look OK, and the doent dimensions are correct
in print previews or doing a `pdfinfo` on the file.

The label size is defaulted to 4x6" in the printer options, and the
IPP class just sends the PDF directly to CUPS.

The "re-size" is apparently happening during one of the CUPS filter
stages, as I get this in the error_log initially:

D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] width = 300, height = 500
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] PageSize = [ 216 360 ],
HWResolution = [ 100 100 ]
(...)
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] Updating PageSize to [216
360]...
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] size = w216h360

Which then changes later on in the log:

D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] Updating PageSize to [612
792]...
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] size = Custom
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] margins[] = [ 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 ]
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] Reallocating memory, [612
792] = 1725x2233 pixels...
(...)
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] width = 1725, height = 2233
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] PageSize = [ 612 792 ],
HWResolution = [ 203 203 ]

Which leads me to think one of the filters is misreading/not
interpreting the doent dimensions and defaulting to US letter
(we're in a North American locale so this would make sense).

Thanks,

Phil.

On Sep 20, 6:08am, donottypethisbit.com (Mark
Hobley) wrote: 

when is the file /etc/profile and /etc/environment loaded

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 11:44 AM PDT

Mark Hobley wrote: 

Some of us prefer to keep such settings in /etc/profile.d, where most Linux
systems allos them to be set on a file-by-file bases by including them from
/etc/profile.d if they end with *.sh.

Manually setting /etc/profile on a system by basis is fraught with hazard.

Using Linux in RAM...

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 09:01 AM PDT

Pascal Hambourg wrote: 

And I thank them for correcting me.
 

Technically, that's true. But perhaps as an effect of the prioritising
of pages for swapping, combined with typical usage patterns for /tmp, it
is often much faster to use tmpfs for /tmp even though you may need a
larger swap file, as compared to using the same space for a /tmp partition.

Another reason I mention it is that use of swap space is one of the big
differences between tmpfs and other ram disks, which typically are
allocated non-swappable memory.

Microsoft Word - Captions retain chapter numbers but lose sequential numbers between users in Word 2007

Microsoft Word - Captions retain chapter numbers but lose sequential numbers between users in Word 2007

Captions retain chapter numbers but lose sequential numbers between users in Word 2007

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 03:03 PM PST

Greetings.

I am sharing a large Word 2007 file with another office. When they open the file, sequential numbering in captions is lost, but the chapter number and hyphen separator remain. Does this have something to do with user settings? Any suggestions for resolution are very much appreciated. Thank you. 

Microsoft office books

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 02:22 PM PST

I am more of a beginner in microsoft office, but may inch into a little of intermediate with word. I would like to know the best books to get to help me at home. I am on a very strong budget, so I need the most economical  way. I was thinking of getting John Walkenbach "Excel 2010 Bible".  I have microsoft office 2010 with windows 7.

I am trying to change my career since my industry has declined in the past 10 years. I hope someone can help.

word error

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 01:57 PM PST

word cannot open the file because the file format does not match the file extension (C/...... /// docx)

The above error message appears when I download a word doc as view or save .. the existing docs on my computer open correctly..

Please Help Roy

Word 2013 will only open in "Read Only" when opening from Ektron CMS400.net

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:53 PM PST

Ektron CMS400.net allows users to edit word documents by opening the file in Word.  While this worked for Office 2010, the Word 2013 files will only open as "Read-Only."  I've tried changing the "Trust Center" settings but nothing works.

Any ideas?

Can I use clip art

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:51 PM PST

In the past I have made cards for family and friends and have sometimes included the clip art on Microsoft Word. I am currently considering selling some of my handmade cards and was wondering if I am allowed to use these clip art images?

Word 2010 - Can a fillable form have a digital signature?

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 10:45 AM PST

Can a fillable form have a digital signature?  If the answer is yes, once the first signature is sign; can the form be locked?

Outlook converting Word and Excel attachments in "All files" and changing their name

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 10:43 AM PST

User reported that emails from certain contacts have their word and excel attachments converted from their default format to an "all files" one, and their name is changed to one single capital letter (I, S, J), just as they were the link to the C: drive.

However, the attachments can be opened if Word / Excel is selected from the Open With.. menu. The issue was experienced with 2 external senders (both from the same company). I noticed that all messages were in Plain Text format, while others that successfully displayed the attachments were in HTML. Still, after asking the end user to send some test emails in HTML format, the problem still occurred. 

Other steps I undertook were running Outlook with the "/safe" switch, clearing up the Content.Outlook files in the Temporary Internet Files folder, and changing the contacts' Outlook Properties to "always use Rich Text format".

Also considering checking the file associations in Control Panel, although an improper setting there shouldn't also rename files.

Any suggestions of what might cause this problem, or any possible solutions?

Many thanks in advance.

MS Word "Command Button ActiveX" tool no longer availble to be used

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 09:37 AM PST

Hello,

If I execute the following steps

  • Developer tab
  • Controls group
  • Legacy Tools tool
  • Command Button (ActiveX control)

I receive the message "The program used to create this object is Forms. That program is either not installed on your computer or is not responding. ....."

I used the Command Button tool during the beginning of November and it worked just fine.  I rebooted the computer and restarted MS Word and it still is not working.

Additionally, all past buttons that I created using the Command Button tool are no longer working.  Clicking on a previously created Command Button no longer runs the macro that is assigned to it. (Note - These Command Buttons have been added to a Locked Form that is saved as a Macro Enabled Document in MS Word.)

This same issue is happening to most of the computers at my work site as well as my home computer.

How can I resolve this problem?

Thank you

Mark

Malfunctioning form/template created in Word 2007 and 2010 developer tab

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 08:30 AM PST

Hello there,

Amongst other things, my organisation puts together questionnaires using the developer tab in Word, which external users complete and return to us.

We use text boxes and drop down boxes, and restrict the documents' formatting so users can only alter certain parts of the document when answering questions e.g. add text, select from drop-downs.

Late December 2014, all of our online versions of the questionnaire documents lost fidelity, in particular, we could no longer place a cursor in the text box answer spaces. This also happened to completed questionnaire documents we hold on our system. External users have not been able to manipulate the text boxes in the documents they downloaded from our site since then either.

I have tried to create new forms, but the functionality of the text boxes I create is still imapired i.e. once I restrict the formatting, I am unable to put the cursor in the text box amd type anything.

Our internal IT team suggested that one of the automatic updates that Microsoft suggest they roll out to our licences could have created this issue. Has anybody had a similar experience and/or know of anyway to rectify this issue? Happy to provide further information if necessary.

Thanks in advance for responses.

Jack 

Tab problem with Microsoft Word 2013

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 08:21 AM PST

Hi there,

A document I've been working with for ages with no issues has just started doing alarming things with tabs.

I am indenting each new paragraph with what should be the default setting (1.27cm I think). However, I press tab once and the cursor jumps right to the end of the line.

Also, if I want to tab an existing paragraph so that the first line indents to 1.27cm, I hit tab and the first line indents as it should - but the next three or four lines sort of jump off to the right of the page, beyond the margins and beyond the visible page boundaries.

Would appreicate any advice!

Fixed continuous Section Break

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 07:50 AM PST

Since Word seems to require sections be established prior to working with headers and footers, and the breaks actually control the behavior of these, it stands to reason that if you want to ensure that your headers and footers remain as you want them on certain pages, then you need to be able to insert sections breaks that do not move.

I'm working with a template that has a specific header on the first page, and a different header on the second page, and no headers from this point forward.  The continuous section break at the bottom of page 1 permits me to insert this second header on page 2, but if the amount of material on page 1 changes, then this can kick that section break over to page 2 and now all my headers are hosed.

In my template, 'sections' are not determined by content, but by position in the document.  Thus, 'section 1' stands for "everything which is on the first page of the document," and 'section 2' stands for "everything that exists on the second page of the document, and 'section 3' stands for "everything in the document which occurs after this point" because I have no headers starting on page 3.

So...what I need to know is one of the following:

1.  How to force section breaks to remain where they are on the page instead of relative to text.

-OR-

2.  How to set up pages which do not rely upon section breaks to be able to control the content of headers.

Thanks!

What is going on with scanning?

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 07:34 AM PST

I have recently, and probably foolishly, purchased a subscription to Office365, thinking I was getting an improved version of the software I have been using for years.

So I want to open a document and scan into it.   Big mistake.  The first thing I find is that there is nothing about scanning on the menus.  So I try the help:

What is this? "we have taking scanning out"?  Why? are you deranged or something?  You seriously want me to run two separate programmes to scan my documents into word?

OK, let's try doing it your way.  I click the link in the help page and I get

And that says 'Scanning isn't available if your are using the 64 bit version of OneNote on a 64 bit version of windows'    What?  I have paid, in total,nearly £150 for a 64 bit operating system and a subsription to Office 365 and I can't use my scanner with it?

How am I supposed to scan documents into your software?

Envelope prints in wrong place

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 07:22 AM PST

I am trying to print an envelope using the Envelope wizard at Mailings > Envelopes but try as I might it prints in the wrong place.  Using a Brother DCP7020 printer, the envelope has to be manually fed in the centre, between the guides.  This is also what the wizard specifies.  But no matter what I do or what settings I try, it prints to the left edge of the print area, as if I was printing on a 8½ x 11 piece of paper.  The Print Preview looks correct.  There is no other way to insert the envelope into the feed - it has to be centred, there is no way to feed an envelope on the left edge. I tried reinstalling the print driver but it wouldn't let me, since it's a USB printer and says the driver is already up to date.

How do I print properly centred on the envelope?

All word and excel file extensions corrupted, any way to get them back?

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 06:56 AM PST

Hello,

My coworker recently had her computer worked on by a supposed technical support. Now all of her documents, workbooks, and PDF's have been resaved with a wonky file extension I have never seen, and will not open anymore. They are all saved as "filename.docx.DXYMJOB"   We have no idea where the DXYMJOB came from, and nothing came up on a google search. I tried renaming a document, removing that extension and leaving it as just .docx, but it still won't open. 
Has anyone had this happen before? We tried doing a system restore to before this all changed, but it did not repair any of the documents. 

Thank you for your help,


Erin

Word 2010 Link to file

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 05:22 AM PST

word 2010 automatic updates to excel links working but not to jpg links. Under the dialogue box showing links the "Update Method for selected link" is available for excel links but not for jpg. The jpgs were inserted as link to file.

Quotation marks are inserted in wrong font

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 04:25 AM PST

I'm trying to edit an existing document that was created by someone else with Mac Pages.

One paragraph style uses 16 pt Iowan Old Style font. But if I insert a quotation mark in such a paragraph, it gets inserted in Arial Unicode MS font! (That doesn't seem to happen with any other characters.)

I used the Style Inspector on that paragraph style and found that it indeed has BOTH of those fonts defined for it:

Font:
   (Default) Iowan Old Style
   16 pt
   Font color: Black
   (Intl) Arial Unicode MS
Language:
   English (U.S.)

This totally threw me. How can a paragraph style have TWO different fonts defined for it? And why is one marked "(Default)" and the other one marked "(Intl)"? And why does the "Intl" style only happen with quotation marks?

Auto Scaling not working in word 2013

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 02:54 AM PST

I try to paste a screenprint, or a copy of an image into a table in word.

Unfortunately, it always gets pasted (even in both paste special options) to 100%, and not to column width. If I allow column width to vary, the colun may become a bit bigger, but a) the images may exceed one page in width and b) I want my columns to be fixed.

I read about this problem also for word 2010:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/graphics-pasted-in-from-the-clipboard-do-not/122113f9-ab5a-4f63-8297-c2160e25ae54?page=2

and

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/82023079-f911-4e23-9ac5-f2e0ae120826/scaling-an-image-while-pasting-word-2010?forum=word

But I cannot reproduce the autoscaling as described, even using Sue's svg and using "copy image" instead of screenprint or snipping tool.

Question, thus:

How can I paste any image into a table in Word 2013 so that it automatically fits itself into the margins (i.e. downscales)?

Autocorrect self deletes

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:36 AM PST

Hello

I put a lot of frequently used words in MS Word 2013's auto-correct feature.  Frequently it "forgets" the words I've put in it.  Why?  I've been saving documents as a template sometimes but i'm not sure why i'm doing that.  I work from one document for about three weeks.  Why, when i open it the next day has it forgotten some of my new auto-corrects and what can i do about it?

Thank you for reading this.

Importing Pictures

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 12:14 AM PST

Can Microsoft Office Picture Manager tell me the image resolution of a photograph in Word 2003?  If so, how do I import the picture to it?

Make a fillable Form with fixed text content in Word 2013

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 10:54 PM PST

I want to make a form in word that has fixed size fillable elements.

for example the user can type his name in 20 characters only and if his name was more than 20 characters, the size of font automatically decrease and fit in text content.

Is there any solution with MS Word 2013?

Thanks.

Normal.dotm Word 2007 problem

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 09:22 PM PST

After some Windows updates my Normal.dotm started to open up with different settings. I deleted it from its Template location several times, hoping that Word restart would go back to previous settings but it didn't.

Even more confusing is the fact that if I use opening option "New" by right-clicking on the Template it will give me corrupted file but if I use "Open" option the file with correct formatting will open. This means every time I open Word using any desktop or menu shortcut, it will open corrupt document. This is after I manually changed my shortcuts as well, just in case.

By "corrupt" I mean completely different settings than default should have and this is without previous manual alteration by me. I always use "Print Layout" view and it has no ruler on left side and cursor starts right at the top of the page with zero margins. When I check the settings for "Top Margins" it is set to 1 inch as the default should be.

Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

office 2013 guides

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 09:00 PM PST

When I try to open any of the office 2013quick start guides, or the office touch guides it tries to open in word pad and a failed to open message appears. Shouldn't it open in the reader app or word 2013. Do I have a computer setting wrong?  i'm using windows 8.1

Accidentaly delete all content in MS WORD, close and save. Please help its my thesis :(((((

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 08:43 PM PST

I super accidentaly delete all content of my thesis and hit close and save button,

my thesis deadline is 1 weeks from now :(. 

can somebody please please please help me, its my everything, 

is that some kind of application like restore point, but can also affect files ?

heeelllpp T_T

MS Word encoding seems to have changed on its own...??

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 06:32 PM PST

A relative of mine has spent hours working on a report for college, only to come back to the computer and be meet with garbled text that used to be her 2500 word document.

After spending some time playing around with encodings and the like (with a copy, not the original file) I haven't been able to recover anything.

Aside from the obvious moral of the story that is: always keep a backup elsewhere, would anyone be able to possibly help recover the document, or has it become corrupted and thus irretrievable??

I've included a screenshot as an example, can provide a copy via Google Drive if anyone would prefer:


Any help would be greatly appreciated, 

- Josh

MS Word scroll jumps around when switching windows

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 05:15 PM PST

When using Microsoft Word on Windows 7, if I have a long Word document open and I scroll down or up to a different page without setting the cursor there and switch to a different window, when I switch the focus back to Word, it will jump back to (or scroll back to) where the cursor is rather than staying where I last left it.

When returning to the Word window, I want to return to it exactly like I last left it regardless of where the cursor is.

For example, I open a 75-page document and write something on page 15. Then I use the scroll-wheel to scroll down to page 65 without clicking anywhere. Then I switch to a Chrome window that has text I want to copy and paste into page 65 of the Word doc, which I highlight and copy. When I switch back to Word, it will jump back to page 15 because that is where I last left the typing cursor. Then I proceed to curse at my computer as I try to find the spot I was at before.

I usually try to remember to put the cursor on my active page before I switch to something else, but this seems like an unnecessary workflow chore. When I forget to do this , it is incredibly frustrating - especially in 100+ page documents.

I've looked for a fix all over. Does anyone know of a settings / tweak / anything that would fix this behavior?

Grouping images and text boxes

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

How do I group images and text boxes together? I know how to do it on my computer, but not on my iPad. 

Word 2013 crashing every 5 minutes

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 03:44 PM PST

I just downloaded office 2013 (via office 365) on a brand new computer and word is crashing every 5 minutes with this message: 

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: BEX

Application Name: WINWORD.EXE

Application Version: 15.0.4673.1000

Application Timestamp: 54588338

Fault Module Name: unknown

Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0

Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000

Exception Offset: 000013d2

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Data: 00000008

OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48

Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:

LCID: 1033

skulcid: 1033

How to start a Word document with page 1 starting on second page

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 03:31 PM PST

I want a document template to have no page numbers on the first page, and on the second page, let the numbering start with 1 (and the third page would be numbered page 2, etc.). I went to this page (http://libanswers.walsh.edu/a.php?qid=162649) and followed the instructions but my second page still has the number 2. I have selected the Different First Page option already.

Any suggestions?

Microsoft Word 2010 password error (using copy and paste)

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 03:24 PM PST

Hi all

First ever post on a forum like this but majorly hacked off so needed to ask!

Using MS Word 2010 and I password protected an important file for work.

Knowing that I can not recover the file if I lose the password I thought I would write it down in excel first, which I did. This was 17 characters long and contained a space.

To ensure I then had this correct when creating the password via File> Permissions> Protect document - I pasted the password into the field. Thinking it was sensible to do so (which it most def is not) I then manually typed this when it asked for me to re-enter the password.

Word accepted this and saved the document. On closing and re-opening, this is where the issue arises!

1 - I type the password in manually, no luck, the password is incorrect! (I have tried c. 100 times and varied this etc incase of a typo - but bear in mind I have the exact phase I copied and pasted saved too!)

2 - I copy and paste the password in, same result!

The file is broke! Surely I must of made an error, or the password was to long, or something... So, I did a few tests, creating new documents (with no important content!) and repeated and tweaked the process using the same password and a shortened dummy password:

Same Password:

Test 1 - Same as above - same result, can not open!

Test 2 - Same as above except I manually typed the password BOTH times - file is fine, password works! 

Test 3 - Same as above except I copied and pasted the password BOTH times - file is fine, password works!

Dummy password:

Test 4 - Same as above except I changed the password to "A Bc" - password does not work... can not open!

Test 5 - Repeat 2 but with short password - same result, works!

Test 6 - Repeat 3 but with short password - same result, works!

So I have eliminated it being an issue with my password, but it is an issue with the method in which I entered and MS Word accepted my password, but now will not open!

Try this for yourself, I suspect you will have the same result...

This has caused me a lot of time and stress, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Kind reagrds

Luke

Decision to suppress a block of text or print the text

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 01:28 PM PST

I have a document that is printed daily.  Within that document is an instruction set that only needs to be included in the document on the last day of the mounth.  It is a rather large block of instructions that is currently being printed every day and it is just a waste of space.

I know I could make a second document that contains the instruction set and then have the person select which document to print based on the day of the month but I was hoping to do this from within the existing document.

1) Can it be accomplished with either a macro or a VB routine?

2) Do I have to create 2 documents and then have to edit each document when the documents need to be updated?

Don
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