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Microsoft Word - Issue with Word 2013

Issue with Word 2013

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 11:18 AM PST

I have a reoccurring problem with Word 2013 on my laptop.

I am a college student so I am constantly downloading Word files for my classes or other needs. 

Every time I open a file, of course, it opens it in the protected view.

However, if I try to enable editing in order to do anything to the document, the program freezes and comes up with the error message "Not Responding".

It does this every single time and I'm a bit annoyed since I've already tried to uninstall and reinstall multiple times. 

My initial hunch was that there is a compatibility issue between different versions of Word, but I have no clue how to fix it.

Can anyone tell me what the issue is? Thanks.

Line spacing

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 10:45 AM PST

Working with Word "Starter" 10.  Line spacing is double.  How do I get the program back to single line spacing?  Thank You.

Microsoft Word 2010 - get a mail merge error

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 09:33 AM PST

When I try to mail merge the word document in a Blank Document I get an error that states: Agreement Data Base should be opened as read-only unless changes to it need to be saved. Open as a read-only?  I click Yes, but nothing happens. The document is blank. I'm not sure if the document that I'm trying to merge is corrupt or what. 

What happened to the online pictures from office.com in Word 365?

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 09:22 AM PST

Hi,

In Word, when working on a document, when I clicked on "insert" and then "online pictures", I used to get a "search at Office.com" option.  Now, the only options shown are "Bing.Com", and "OneDrive personal".  The option for searching pictures at "Office.com" is no longer shown.  It literally disappeared.  How can I search for the royalty-free pictures from Office.com to use in my documents in Word?    

Word 2013: How come the symbol of 'Show/Hide Editing Marks' looks different than earlier Office version?

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 09:02 AM PST

Hi,

For both the Ribbon button and inside the document, the paragraph mark of the traditional 'pilcrow' (¶) symbol is now replaced with a symbol that looks like a carriage-return.

Is this normal?

(Using Word 2013 build 15.0.4675.1002)

Office 365 Personal - Surface Pro 3

Sticky Notes always on top?

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 08:56 AM PST

Believe it or not I just discovered the sticky notes... is there a way to pin a particular not to the desktop and have it remain on top of all other windows? or perhaps someone may know of a third party app that does the same thing???

Looking to be able to use with Win-7 Office 2010 and 2013 (enterprise)

Publishing blog posts to WordPress--what has changed?

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 08:27 AM PST

Since June of 2008, I have been publishing a blog at https://walkthoughts.wordpress.com/. I have used Word (first Word 2007 and then Word 2010) to publish the posts. Lately my posts have included a lot of photos, and I've learned that Word displays a Contacting Blog Provider dialog for each photo uploaded.

In the past couple of weeks, however, I've been getting this message:

I get this message once for every photo. The content is bogus: I have used only 1% of my allowed storage space at WordPress. Moreover, I tried publishing a post from which all the photos had been removed (it was just 147 words of text), and I got the same message.

Clicking Cancel on the Contacting Blog Provider dialog accomplishes nothing. The Help and More Information buttons are equally useless. All I can do is keep clicking OK until it's tried the last picture, and then I get this message:

The native WordPress editor is rubbish, with no provision for formatting headings except by editing the HTML, but pasting from Word (other than as plain text) introduces a lot of garbage that overrides the formatting of the WordPress template. I would really like to be able to publish directly from Word again. I would be reasonably satisfied if I could even publish the text, as adding the photos from the WordPress editor is not too difficult (though an extra step I'd prefer to avoid). I can now sympathize with the frustration of users unable to publish from Word to Blogger.

Does anyone know whether something has changed in Word or at WordPress?

Formating an index

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 08:25 AM PST

I am typesetting a book at the moment in Word 2013. At the end, I want to include several indices (for references, subjects, modern authors etc.). Some of these indices have to be formatted differently (other orientation etc.). Hence, when I insert this category of indices, I chose another paragraph style "Index 3" ("index 1" and "index 2" are paragraph styles which are used for another type of indices in my document.)
So I follow step 2 here: https://support.office.com/en-sg/article/Create-an-index-and-update-an-index-cc502c71-a605-41fd-9a02-cda9d14bf073. The problem is that after chosing this style, settings go immediately back to the default style, "index 1". Where can I change the style permanently? So that a specific index will always use "index 3" as style, even if I update it?

converting a wav file into text

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 08:17 AM PST

can office professional plus 2013 convert a wav file into txt?

Read Only Options in Word 2010

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 06:54 AM PST

I have a problem. Word 2007 let users save a doc as read-only.  If a user opens the doc, they can make changes, but they cannot save it. They have to save it as a new doc.  I cannot find this option in Word 2010.  In Word 2010, I can restrict editing to read only, but then no changes can even be made to save as a new doc. It doesn't let you edit or enter anything. You would have to open the doc as a copy first, which is extremely annoying and time consuming. Please let me know of any suggestions you have, or if you need any further clarification of what i'm trying to accomplish. thank you.

Seemingly random language change

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 06:13 AM PST

In the middle of a document, Word tells me I have a misspelled word. The word is not misspelled. I right-click on it and Word suggests several French words for the correct spelling. For some reason, Word thinks this word is French. The word is "procurement." Word suggests five similar French words. The entire document is in English; nothing was cut-and-pasted from another source. When I check my editing languages French is installed, as are Spanish and UK English. U.S. English is set as the default.  I type "procurement" on another line and Word is fine with it -- it does not suggest that it is a misspelled French word. The word after "procurement" is "documents." Word does not suggest this is a misspelled French word.

Does anyone have any ideas about why this might be happening?

unique id for different chart style

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 06:01 AM PST

When I apply a chart style on a chart in MS-WORD and convert this word document to a zip file, then I got a chart style id in the following location of zip folder word/charts/style1.xml (e.g. <cs:chartStyle xmlns:cs="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2012/chartStyle" xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main" id="213">in this document I got id as '213') .

My first question is whether this id is unique for different charts styles in different charts i.e. for clustered column or stacked column, clustered bar or stacked bar this id is unique or not ?

Second question is if this id is unique, then is it system dependent or not i.e. if I send this document to other person will this id get change ?

I have MS 365 and Word requires login every single time, not every 30 days

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 05:48 AM PST

I have MS 365 and Word requires login every single time, not every 30 days.  Have looked at all discussions and no cure.

I cannot login when I do not have internet.

Office 365 Word spell check not working

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 04:14 AM PST

When I run Word in Office 365, Windows 8.1, the spell check does not work.  When I open a new document, mis-spelled words are underlined, but in my existing documents, they are not underlined.  Even when i highlight all text and run spell check, mis-spelled words are not identified or corrected.  

When I go to Review/Language/Set Proofing Language, the box continues to be checked for Do nto check spelling and grammar.  Even when I uncheck it and hot OK, it reverts back to checked by itself.  

This is very frustrating.  How do I fix it?  I have already run the repair program in the Control Panel/Program options. 

Word could not create the work file

Posted: 26 Jan 2015 03:13 AM PST

Check the temp environment variable.  How?

<Moved form Microsoft Band>

Merge field code for Date Calculation

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 11:15 PM PST

Hi,

Kindly help me with the Mergfield code. I want to enter any date the code should convert it to the last date of the month, add 45 days in it and display the date. Help me if someone have any idea.

Thanks

Bullet list in Word 2013

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 07:07 PM PST

I designed a custom bullet list in Word 2013.  Now, whenever I start with a blank document the first level bullet appears in the upper left corner of the document.  Is there any way to prevent this?

Keeping the format of a shape

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 04:42 PM PST

Hi All,

My problem is just this.  I can format a shape in Word 2010 and keep it as a default in a particular document BUT what I cannot fix is the position on the page.

Each time I set the shape position in the layout box to be fixed to the page that setting does not save, it always reverts back to column an paragraph.  Is there a way to override this setting.

Best Rgds,

Dave R.

save as issue office 2013

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 04:00 PM PST

When I attempt to save as a document and then select browse, the dialogue box opens up half ways without being able to chose which folder to save to...

Any help would be appreciated.

Another Windows Installer problem - Microsoft Office forums

Another Windows Installer problem - Microsoft Office forums

Another Windows Installer problem

Posted: 07 Jul 2008 04:32 PM PDT

I did figure that out and I was running it as administrator.
I tried opening an office app from safe mode and received the following
message
The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if the
Windows Installer is not correctly installed, Contact your support personel
for assistance.
It would not load the program.

One other issue I have found is that the search function seems to be broken
as well. I am getting a message this file does not have a program associated
with it for performing this action. Create ab association in the Set
Associations control panel.

Stuart

"SC204" wrote:
 

Small Bus Office authorization

Posted: 07 Jul 2008 10:41 AM PDT

NewEgg (after hours of calls to Acer and Microsoft) has agreed to give me a
refund since it is obvious that what I was sent is not what I ordered and
paid for. I disputed the purchase so that they won't even get the benefit of
my money while they dither over the refund.

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
 

Office Home Student 2007 - How to uninstall One Note

Posted: 06 Jul 2008 03:36 PM PDT

You change them to 'unavailable'

"xylophone" <co.uk> wrote in message
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Problem entering my product ID into the registration window

Posted: 06 Jul 2008 02:28 PM PDT

It should be on a yellow and white label that says Product key and has a
little picture of a key. (I'm looking at a Vista box and making an
assumption that Office keys are in the same location.) Open the case, turn
it around, the label should be stuck to the back of the inner section.)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



"barry" <com> wrote in message
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Removal Tools for Office Products

Posted: 06 Jul 2008 12:44 AM PDT

Hi, DL.

I appreciate the help and will proceed as you suggest; kind regards David.


"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
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How do I keep my documents private in microsoft office word

Posted: 05 Jul 2008 10:01 PM PDT

In addition to the other suggestions, you can buy a little USB drive.
They are cheep, small enough to stick in your pocket and if you secure the
device you data is secure. You can use it on almost any modern computer.

"Confused" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Dia 's Muire duit

I just bought a Toshiba laptop, it says I need a product key

Posted: 05 Jul 2008 09:32 PM PDT

A Media License Kit (MLK) must be acquired separately before you can use the software.
Contact the manufacturer of your new computer for assistance.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows Vista Enthusiast

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"Big RonG" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com...
I am having the same problem with an Acer laptop. The auth card (included)
clearly says "Because you are buying a Microsoft Office Ready PC, you new PC
has Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 preinstalled. The key on the front
of this card is the product key." But no SBO shows to be installed. The
only authorization screen is for the trial - no instructions to get to the
other. NewEgg says 'not our problem' and MS wants to charge me more money.
HELP!!

"product key" wrote:
 

"Save As" menu not available on MS Communicator 2005

Posted: 05 Jul 2008 10:37 AM PDT

Hi Bob,
I just did it..
Thanks Bob... I did not find this discussion group when I posted my message.
Cheers
BB

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
 

Converting Office 2007

Posted: 05 Jul 2008 07:50 AM PDT

History meaning your files that you created ? If you saved them they can be

--
Peter

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

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

new installation

Posted: 04 Jul 2008 11:48 PM PDT

Hi Faidi,

For MS Office Accounting you may want to also post in their discussion group, using the link below.

===========
<<"Faidi" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com...
Dear DL,

Many thanks it is working now with the original software. I have other
question I download office accounting pro2008 trail when I want to install it
give me the serial number is expired, and that serial I get from the
Microsoft site do you have any help?

Regards
Faidi <<
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Please let us know if this has helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office Products MVP
 

LINKS

A. U.S. Editions of MS Office Accounting
-news/discussion group via newsreader software
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.sba.general
or
-news/discussion group via web browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.sba.general

B. U.K. Editions of MS Office Accounting
-news/discussion group via newsreader software
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.uk.moa
or
-news/discussion group via web browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.uk.moa

C. MS Office product 'Community' discussions via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com

Problems moving MS Office Ultimate '07 from one computer to anothe

Posted: 04 Jul 2008 10:25 PM PDT

If you have your receipt for the purchase you can obtain replacement media
from MS

"mc_razza" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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installing 2nd office 2003 license on laptop fails

Posted: 04 Jul 2008 02:55 PM PDT

DL

Your suggestions got me started.

The installation completed, but no software was visible because I still had
to cancel out the Product Key pop-up.

After that I did a repair installation. It seemed to work. When I clicked
on activate it said the product was already activated.

Thanks very much.

Doug
--
Doug


"DL" wrote:
 

Customize Office 2003 installation not working properly

Posted: 04 Jul 2008 01:14 AM PDT

Hi Bob

Thanks for your reply.

I just added the UNC path to SP3 and added the neede parameters. I have read
the link before and it doesn't help me.

I have just tried extracting all the files from the original SP3.exe file
and when I run ohotfix.exe manually it updates Office without any problems. I
then added the extracted SP3 files and ohotfix.* to the .MST file.
After adding the files and doing a new installation with the new .MST file I
found some ohotfix logfiles and I can see that the ohotfix failes because
Windows Installer is already running, and it's running because of the Office
installation :-)

How do I add SP3 to the actual Office 2003 source files?

/Lasse

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
 

my product key is not working. if i enter.

Posted: 03 Jul 2008 05:21 PM PDT

Computer manufacturers often install a trial version of Microsoft Office.
If you are getting a prompt to type in a Product Key when opening a Microsoft
Office program, it is likely the trial period is over and you'll need to purchase a
license (product key) for Microsoft Office.

The product key affixed to your computer is for Windows Vista (the operating system)
and not for Microsoft Office.

Please review the following:

How to determine whether you have a trial edition of a
2007 Office suite or program installed:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927920/en-us

How to convert a trial version of a 2007 Office
suite or program to a full retail perpetual license version:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927756/en-us

How to buy the 2007 Microsoft Office suites:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/FX101678741033.aspx?ofcresset=1


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows Vista Enthusiast

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"govind" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com...
I brought a laptop HP windows Vista basic.Every time when I try to use
microsoft word,a message want me to type in the product key,I found it in the
back of the computer,but it said was wrong(I also tried many times).

Now I can not use microsoft word,this is crazy.
Please someone help me! what I have to do?

office plus 2000

Posted: 03 Jul 2008 10:56 AM PDT

Wipe your hd, why?
After you reinstalled win, did you then install your drivers, and not from
winupdate.
Did you then run winupdate, before trying to install anything else?

"kurt" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Installing Office XP upgrade on new laptop

Posted: 03 Jul 2008 09:33 AM PDT

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=external+floppy
eBay probably has cheap drives.

--
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http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

"Maggie" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Office 2007 won't load on a XP Pro machine

Posted: 03 Jul 2008 08:31 AM PDT


"IDA Dave" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

If the machine you are attempting to upgrade does not have at least XP SP2
installed the error message is NOT bogus. You need SP2 or later for XP to
install Office '07.

Unknown video mode 0x31a - Forums Linux

Unknown video mode 0x31a - Forums Linux

Unknown video mode 0x31a

Posted: 20 Jul 2009 08:40 AM PDT

Allen Kistler wrote:
 

I resolved it quite easily! But needed long time ;-)

I recognised late night yesterday that I had still a memory card of my
digitl camera in the device slot (I have a flopy disk with memory card
readers for different formats). The card was in when I booted and then I
got that error message.

I unplugged the card - error gone! Strange though - Dos anybody have an idea
what happened?

Regards,

NoKo

--
"Careful with that VAX, Eugene!"

initrd + "no space left on device"

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 07:27 PM PDT

On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:29:40 -0400, Doug Laidlaw <org> wrote:
 
 

The term initrd stands for "initial ramdrive".

The initrd file stored in in /boot, contains an image that is copied
to the initial ramdrive (in ram) during bootup.

In addition to the contents from the file, there will be some free
space, that is used to create the temporary /dev and /tmp files,
that are needed before the real root filesystem has been checked,
mounted read-only, and then switched to read/write.

I've never used mondo. A regular boot cd and dd works fine for me.

My guess from the above, is that when mondo creates a bootable backup,
it needs more free space in the initial ramdrive for it's /tmp files
then is available (for the op). Note that this is the in ram drive,
not the on disk image of the drive.

zgrep "RAM_SIZE" /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=32000

This shows the kernel's default size in kbytes. It can be overridden
with the ramdisk_size boot parameter. If it isn't specified in
the .config file, or in a boot parameter, it defaults to 4096kb
or 4 MB.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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(nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for
use in usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.)

Monitoring and securing outbound connections

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 08:25 PM PDT

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:08:22 +0200, Aragorn wrote:
 

communism maybe, socialism nope. There is a big different.
Like commune and cult.

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days.

yum is needed by package yum

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 08:57 AM PDT

On Jul 9, 11:57am, Guillaume Dargaud <fr> wrote: 

Rip yum-rhn-plugin and yum-updatesd ithe hell out if if you are using
local yum repositories, rather than calling back to the mothership.
Registering with the RHEL mothership is useful: it gets you notices of
security updates, and sitewide update management with yum-updatesd.
But yum-rhn-plugin is *NOT* a normal yum utility: it is "up2date"
dressed in grandmother's clothing, waiting to ignore yum directives
and replace your locally modified packages with RedHat's officially
provided ones, and it is *nasty* if you work with RPMforge or EPEL
packages or modify your kernels to support NTFS.

I approve of registration, so people pay their license fees and reward
RedHat for their hard work. But if you have a broad kickstart
deployment policy, or install Beowulf clusters or virtual machines and
don't want to individualize the machines even if you have enough
licenses, set up one machine with a license and use the 'reposync'
tool to download all the packages to a local HTTP repository, run
'createrepo' on it, and point your local machines to that much more
manageable yum repository.

Copy picture of Resource Graph to Word Microsoft Project

Copy picture of Resource Graph to Word Microsoft Project

Copy picture of Resource Graph to Word

Posted: 02 Feb 2006 10:12 AM PST

Hi,

AFAIK Copy Picture allows the setting of the visible timescale

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Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620
"Dave" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:com... 
I 
months. 
resource 
but 
but 
to 

Successor task (T2) start day same as predeccessor task (T1)

Posted: 02 Feb 2006 09:29 AM PST


"Gérard Ducouret" <fr> wrote in message
news:%phx.gbl... 

Actually they will need 10FS-1day
Ypurswillwork only if 10 is a 1 day task.
 

task linking and successor dates

Posted: 02 Feb 2006 09:00 AM PST

Thanks Gerard and Jan. The suggestions worked.

"Gérard Ducouret" wrote:
 

how do I customize MS project fields summarizing period costs

Posted: 02 Feb 2006 08:59 AM PST

In article <com>,
"Still Learning" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Still learning,
Are you simply talking about fiscal years or are you talking about
custom accounting periods (e.g. 4-4-5 accounting month sequence)?
Project (all versions) WILL show costs by fiscal year if properly
configured but no version of Project will show cost by customized
periods.

To view fiscal year costs first go to Tools/Options/Calendar tab and set
the start of the fiscal year. Then on the timescale for either Usage
view (Resource or Task) check the option to use the fiscal year.

If you need custom accounting month costing or if you simply need to
view cost rollups for a non-standard calendar period (e.g. 16 months),
then Jan is exactly right, the only way to get there is with VBA.

Just for reference, VBA is the Visual Basic functionality that is part
of all Microsoft applications. VBA can only be run from within an
application. On the other hand, Visual Basic also exists as a standalone
application. The most current version is VB.net and standalone versions
run independent of the target application.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP 

Priority work vs. reg. work

Posted: 01 Feb 2006 02:09 PM PST

Yes, you can call it that.


"DavidC" wrote:
 

Text Edit in various places

Posted: 01 Feb 2006 01:11 PM PST

Michael,
try using the formula - Str([Outline Level])+" "+[Name] - in a custom test
field and then displaying that on your gantt next to the bar.



"Michael Vestel" wrote:
 

C++ & Project 2003

Posted: 01 Feb 2006 01:07 PM PST

As far as doentation, you should start with the Project 2003 SDK. To get
there fast, Google pj11sdk2003.exe and it should be high in the search
results.

I agree with Rod, though; you should probably think about doing it in VB.

---
Brian Leach
Steelray Software
http://www.steelray.com

"Ivor Evans" <com> wrote in message
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How do I create a resource calendar for someone who works flextime

Posted: 01 Feb 2006 11:46 AM PST

Try setting the work as being the 'duration time' , set the resource
availability to .2, as that is the total time per 'normal' working week they
are available to work, and the duration will then be calculated from the work
and units. Hence a 16 hour task will show as 80 hours duration, which is two
working weeks, and that equates to two working weeks for the employee.

Hope this helps you

Regards

DavidC
"Robin" wrote:
 

can project 2000 update project 2003 resource pool

Posted: 31 Jan 2006 08:56 PM PST



"Rod Gill" wrote:
 

Multiple Projects with Staff Assignments

Posted: 31 Jan 2006 10:17 AM PST

In article <com>,
"RDS design" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 
RDS,
I'm not familiar with the templet (template) you reference so I don't
know if it is appropriate or not for what you want to do. However from
what you describe I suggest one of two approaches. If each of the 30
projects is relatively small (i.e. 100 tasks or less), you might simply
want to put them all in a single Project file, enter your 6 staff
members on the Resource Sheet and once the resources are assigned to the
tasks you will be all set to review staff loading in a variety of ways.

If on the other hand, each of your 30 projects has more than 100 tasks,
you would probably be better to set up each project as its own Project
file. Then create a master file that combines the content of the
individual files into one single viewing file. Your 6 staff members
could be on the master Resource Sheet or they could be put into a
separate resource pool file.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Microsoft Word - Replace with nothing

Microsoft Word - Replace with nothing

Replace with nothing

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 02:36 PM PST

Leaving the Replace With field blank says to replace the Find What contents with itself, except for formatting. But sometimes I want to replace the Find What contents with nothing. The only way I've found is to clear the Clipboard and in the Replace With field, choose Special > Clipboard Contents. There is probably an easier and more obvious way but I don't know what it is. ??

Optimize a same document for different paper size (A4 size and smartphone screen)

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 12:29 PM PST

Hi,

Does Microsoft Word has a way of optimizing a same document for viewing on desktop/tablet (Letter/A4 size) and mobile screen (say, iPhone screen)?

For example, I want to have my fancy header and footer displayed when viewing on desktop/tablet but, when the document is viewed on iPhone, the header and footer is not shown so that content is display as much as possible in the small screen size.

Where did the ONLINE PICTURES option go in WORD?

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 10:32 AM PST

A few weeks ago, I clicked on Insert:Online Pictures in Word and the only two options that appeared were a Bing Search Box and a One Drive (Personal).  There WAS an additional option above these for Microsoft Online and now it has disappeared.  Is this something I have done to my computer or something that can be fixed with a setting?    It if helps-I am running Office 2013 from a Windows 8 operating system.

It is comforting to known there were images to use without the hassle of accidentally engaging in copyright infringement through the Online Pictures Option and now this option has disappeared.  We are unable to produce our flyers and educational powerpoints without this option.  It diminishes (for me) the need for Word specifically for organizational purposes as a word processing software.  However, I love it for writing research papers and collaborating with peers.  I am forlorn.

Has this happened to anyone else?  Is there a new practice in 2015 and I missed the memo?  

Thanks greatly to any responders. 

word 2013 help - Error in instructions.

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 10:05 AM PST

Trying to figure out the keyboard shortcuts in Word 2013. I click on the "?" and get to word help. Enter "keyboard shortcuts," press enter. 

At the Intro section, it says:
To expand all sections of the article, press TAB until Show all is selected, and then press ENTER. Press ENTER again to collapse all sections.

When I press and hold tab down, it just toggles through the whole document. When I press it once, it goes to the next heading. It never does show me a command "show all."  But, if I expand the first section "finding and using keyboard shortcuts," it expands all of the sections.  Clearly not what the instruction says.

Also, if I hit SHIFT-TAB, it expands all sections and goes to the bottom of the page. Hitting tab again takes me to an unnamed icon, which collapses the whole article. Maybe that is the mystery "show all" icon, but not likely, as it doesn't appear until all sections are expanded.


My take is that whoever is doing the help section needs more than a little bit of proofreading and testing, particularly from the point of view of people unfamiliar with the program. (I am in no way a newbie, but found this process to be quite frustrating.) 


I may just be a creature of habit, but I also miss the table of contents.

Can't run apps because "all online content in Office is blocked"

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 09:54 AM PST

How do I unblock it? It says Go the the Trust Center to change your privacy settings, but I can't figure out what to change. I've tried changing the settings that sound like they apply, but nothing works.  I'm trying to run the Merriam-Webster Dictionary so that when I right click on a word a select "Define" it pops up to the right with definitions, synonyms, etc. 

highlighting text copies it to clipboard

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 09:29 AM PST

a weird bug just started showing up in Microsoft Word. I'm using office 2013 in Windows 8 64-bit. Suddenly, just highlighting text copies it to the clipboard, which means that I can't copy a piece of text, highlight what I run to replace, and hit paste – it just shows me what I highlighted. I've looked through the program and searched and can't seem to find any sort of option to enable or disable this. it's wasting a lot of my time. Any of you smart folks out there know how to fix it?

how to turn off flashing grey highlight when navigating through a document

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 09:25 AM PST

Just installed Word 2013, not the 365 version.

When I navigate through a document (for example arrow up), the entire document above where my cursor is highlighted in grey, for a flash, and then goes away. 

Visually, this is very distracting. I just want to be able to arrow up and have the cursor go up the document without anything else being highlighted or greyed or anything. 

How do I turn off this "feature?" 

Thanks in advance,

Word for iPad keeps trying and failing to connect

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 08:38 AM PST

I've been using word for iPad for months. Recently, when trying to save to one drive, the software will try to connect, then stop, then restart, over and over. Here's a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCAFXclpLjE

The the onedrive client for iPad office apps (and not the onedrive app itself) has never been able to navigate down the directory tree, but at least it would let me save in the root directory so I could later move it. Now, it won't even do that much :/

Word start up problem.

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 07:28 AM PST

Microsoft Word 2013 will begin to load and then present an error message that Microsoft Word has encountered a problem. The error asks if you would like to repair now but when you select "Repair Now" it does not work.

Can anyone help?

Office 2007 help files do not display properly

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 07:27 AM PST

My local computer help files in Office 2007 are not displaying properly.  The html source is shown and the message


This message might not be displayed properly. The content of the webpage does not match the type specified by the server.Click for options.


If I click and select Show Restricted Content, the page renders properly.  However I have to go through this process each time I request information. The ONLINE version of help also displays the same message briefly but then renders the correct information.


I am using Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit and also have Office 2000 installed. I have tried


1. Renaming Microsoft Help folder in Program Data and then using Office diagnose and repair. This rebuilt the Help file but did not eliminate the problem.


2. Uninstalling Office 7 and Reinstalling it. This did not help.


3. Adding office http://office.microsoft.com and https://office.microsoft.com to trusted internet sites in Internet Explorer. This did not help.

Is there some fix for this?

iPad apps keep signing out

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 06:42 AM PST

Every time I open Word on my iPad, it is not logged-in to my 365 account. When I log-in, it works, but if I leave the app and come back, sure enough, I'm logged-out again. This is PAINFUL, since the login process is so laborious. This didn't used to happen, seems only in the last few weeks. I'm running the current iOS and apps (no updates available for either). 

this relates to the iPad, but I had to select "iPhone" in the drop down box when posting this question, since iPad is bizarrely absent from the list.

Macro Doesn't work

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 05:29 AM PST

This macro fails at the last line. It has always worked in the past.

Set shtFun = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Fund_Contributions")

shtCon.Range("E8:J8").Copy 'Copy total general funds to Fund summary

        shtFun.Range("U1").PasteSpecial Paste:=xlValues
        shtFun.Range("U1:Z1").Replace What:=0, Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlWhole

        With shtFun
            Set rngFound = .Range("T10:T61").Find(What:=.Range("T4"), LookAt:=xlWhole) 'Find current Sunday date
           .Range("U1:AC1").Copy Destination:=rngFound.Offset(0, 1) 'Insert in proper date line

        

When I stop the macro at the next to the last line and hi-lite +mgFound I get

rngFound.Offset(0, 1)= <Object variable or With block variable not set>

Just ran macro - now I get

rngFound.Offset(0, 1)=55 but it doesn't copy the data to any line

Header not showing up when opening a new document

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 05:15 AM PST

When I open a new document, my header has disappear.  If I view the document in page preview, I can see it.  But to see it in page layout view, I have to go to "insert header" and then it appears.  Can someone tell me what I might have inadvertently checked or unchecked.  I tried making changes to the normal template (opened up the normal template, inserted the header and then saved it, but when I open up a new document, I still can't see the header.)  Any help would be appreciated.

Word (Office 2013)

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 03:38 AM PST

Problem resolved

Words are not wrapping even to bottom margin

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 02:52 AM PST

Hello:

I'm working on a novel with no images inside...strictly words, and the text is not wrapping down to the bottom margin. I'm having to break up paragraphs to fill up that space because Word is somehow taking that whole paragraph and putting it on the next page as a whole, not wrapping the text onto the next page.

For example, I'll have a long paragraph:

I've been a hunter long enough to know short cuts. I jumped over shrubs as I headed in the direction of the village. Fear kept me going although my legs now felt like jelly. I still hoped this was but just a dream. I pinched myself and I felt pain. This wasn't a dream. At least I knew why the murderer was after my life. But what about the other two? 

It won't just fill up that last line on the bottom of the page with, for instance, this section below (it's a 5 X 8 book size), and put the remainder of that paragraph on the next page.

I've been a hunter long enough to know short cuts. I jumped over shrubs as

It's taking the whole paragraph over into the next page, creating a big blank space on the previous page. Is there some setting that I can turn this off?

Thanks to everyone who answers! I'm using Word 2013.

 

Defining a list style in Word 2013.

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 07:48 PM PST

When defining a new list style, is there a way of specifying paragraph spacing, i.e., the spacing between the levels of the list?

Create a multilevel list

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 06:04 PM PST

I am trying to create a multilevel list definition for a formal document with the following structure--

ARTICLE I

GENERAL PROVISIONS ...

1.1. Topic a1 ...

1.1.1. Subtopic aa1 ...

1.1.1.1. Subsubtopic aaa1 ...

1.2. Topic a2 ...

1.2.1. Subtopic aa2 ...

.

.

.

ARTICLE II

MEETINGS ...

2.1. Topic b1 ...

2.1.1. SubTopic bb1...

2.2. Topic b2 ...

.

.

.

After the level 1 with I, II, III, ..., I would like the level 1 to be represented as numbers on the follow-on levels (2-9).

I've tried several time with no success with no success.

How can I show cancellation in fractions using "Equation"?

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 03:40 PM PST

Consider

I am using Equation in Word07.  How do I show the 'x's I cancelled?  On a whiteboard I would draw 'slash' through them.  I don't see that in Equation.  Have I missed something simple again? :(

Insert Clip Art Issue

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 11:23 AM PST

When going to the Insert tab and choosing Online Pictures, the option to insert or search for clip art is not shown.

I have performed an Online Repair.

I have talked with two Microsoft representatives. The second wanted me to pay for him to remotely assist me and perform a troubleshoot. He told me he would send me links on how to troubleshoot by myself for free, but never did.
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