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Microsoft Word - Update Labels is greyed out so I can't update labels for formatting. Help!

Microsoft Word - Update Labels is greyed out so I can't update labels for formatting. Help!


Update Labels is greyed out so I can't update labels for formatting. Help!

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 12:10 PM PDT

I have Windows 7 64 bit Office 2013.  I want to create a sheet of labels.  I have watched the video multiple times and am doing exactly what they say to do.  But when I try to Update Labels for my formatting changes, that option is greyed out so is not available.  Help!

Page numbering is not correct on Individual Merge Letters

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 11:32 AM PDT

I have used Word 2010 and Graham Mayor's "Individual Merge Letters" tool to split mail merge "letters" fed by an Excel 2010 spreadsheet.  It worked great a handful of times in the past.  Today, I can not get the page numbering to work on the individual Word documents.  It will say "1 or 3" for each page, even on the second, third, fourth, etc. 

I am sorry to post but I haven't found what to try through my web searches.  Thank you!

Missing Themes in Word 2013

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 10:08 AM PDT

My IT staff installed 2013 on my instructor computer, but they don't have all the themes installed.  Is there a way to get these themes from Microsoft so I can install them?

I have students who will need the same information.  Any help would be appreciated.

Will works suite 2002 or Office XP run with Windows 7 and 8?

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 09:38 AM PDT

Hi I have windows 7 pro on one pc and 8.1 on a laptop

I have 3 questions which  are;

will office XP pro 2000 work on either of the OS's

and

will Works suite 2002 work on either of the OS's

and the bonus question will either of the above work on windows 10 when it is released for upgrade 

Thank you

MS Word, Office 365, Auto-Correct Stopped Working for New Entries

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 08:44 AM PDT

I use Office 365, and in Word, I've created several auto-correct options for different letter combinations to expand into common words that I use.  For instance, I have qq set to expand to Defendant, etc., etc.  

This has been working fine until this morning.  When I opened a document that I had saved last night, and tried to use the different letter combinations, several of them did not work.  So I thought they had been un-added somehow, and redefined them in the Auto-Correct Options menu.  

Still, these particular entries are not expanding.  Strangely, some of the older existing entries are working, but when I redefine those, they stop working.  

Any ideas what could be causing this?  There are no exceptions that I can see (and it's the same problem even in new documents) and all the appropriate Auto-Correct options are checked.  

I'm about to reinstall and start over but hope someone can give some suggestions!

VBA CODE TO REMOVE FINAL chr(13) character from text in Word tables.

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 08:42 AM PDT

Hi all,

I have tried to devise some VBA code to remove the trailing chr(13) character from text in word tables.

I I have come up with this:

Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
    Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = "^13"
        .Replacement.Text = " "
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        .Format = False
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchWildcards = True
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll

Which basically replaces chr(13) with a <space> character.

My problem is that the script is not selective: it should remove chr(13) only from the portion of text I have selected and only from the text in the word table cells I have selected. (that "with selection" does not seem to work), whereas it removes it from the whole word table column. Also, it should remove only the *last* chr(13) in the selected text (to maintain correct text formatting).

Any suggestion on how this can be accomplished?

Thank you so much for your help!

Need Solution to bring Corporate Templates into Office Gallery

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 08:38 AM PDT

We need a solution to get corporate templates into the Office gallery. They need to be available online and outside our company firewall. Preferably available locally yet sync with any updates to SharePoint storage location. SharePoint seemed a perfect solution.

The safest method seemed to be XML - we were able to bring local/network templates into the gallery but were unsuccessful referencing a SP folder in XML.

We then tried uploading corporate MS Word 2013 templates to SharePoint, using group policy to set the Workgroup template folder and pulled the templates into MS Word templates gallery through SharePoint/OneDrive and it has worked - sort of. 

1. The first problem is that the SharePoint rights required for users to access the templates (Contribute) also allows them to post back to SharePoint and not only edit the template files (!) but other folders are inadvertently appearing, such as Document Themes. This is a deal breaker for us if we can't set permissions to allow them to use the templates but not have write access back up to SP.


2. The second issue is that the Document Properties box pops up every time a template is used from SharePoint. This is annoying, but more importantly as in problem 1, users can then edit the document properties which are posted back to SP.

We tried making the templates available with user rights set to Viewing or Download levels (which were the read levels), but had to move up to Contribute (edit) to get it to work. I tried posting this to the SharePoint forum with no replies.

Help and other options are much appreciated!

Search and Replace at Beginning of Each Line of Comma Delimited File

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 08:07 AM PDT

I opened up an ASCII comma delimited file with Microsoft Word 2010. I would like to insert the text "w,p," at the beginning of each line throughout the file using Search and Replace command but I do not know how to search for the beginning of each line. Does anyone have any ideas how I can automatically insert "w,p," at the beginning of each line throughout the entire file?

Thank You,

Mark R. Searles

need text visible only on screen, not when printed

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 07:39 AM PDT

i need to insert text in such manner that it is visible only on screen, but when printed, it doesnt appear. for eg., when we send documents to client and need to show where to sign, it may be a great help

Removing Section Breaks after mail merge into a defined table

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 07:09 AM PDT

I am doing a mail merge and have set up the merge fields in a table.  I have set the merge template for 1 record followed by the merge field <<next record>>. I perform the merge and then try to delete the section breaks that are created and I am not able to.  If I do the same merge without the tables I can successfully remove the section breaks.  is the inability to remove the section breaks because I am using tables or is there a different way to remove them?  The method I use is "find and replace" so I identify the section break special character and replace it with a blank.

Preserve fidelity when sharing this doc not applicable to dotx templates?

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 04:35 AM PDT

I am creating a simple template with the footer saved in a custom font. If I save the file (embedding the font) as a docx it is preserved. If I save it as a dotx, every new document based on that does NOT carry the font. Is it by design?

Even selecting "all new documents" instead of this document does not preserve the font.

Links to other documents fail on re-open

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 04:35 AM PDT

I'm attempting to utilize the linking functionality where text from an external Word document is inserted as a link into a document. This feature works fine until I close both documents, then try to re-open the document. The link fails and looks like the following:


Error! Not a valid link.


The link can be created a couple ways, but the easiest is to open both documents, select the text to insert/link to, then Right-click & drag to the document that is referencing the original. You get a link that looks something like



What is the reason for this failure?

Idea for cross references

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 02:06 AM PDT

I had idea that would greatly simplify using cross References in a Word document.

After adding a caption or heading or similar, it would be good if you could highlight it, right click and have an option "copy cross Reference" then move the cursor to the location you want to create the cross Reference and paste.

For the pasting operation you could include a "paste special" to Select what type of cross-Reference you want, where the "label and number only" should be the default.

The whole cross Reference module in Word should be updated anyway. It is very clumsy as it is now.

Mystery line in document

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 01:58 AM PDT

 I have a template ( click here ) which has a mystery line at the bottom of the page.

Can someone please tell me how to get rid of it.

Thanks

Word 2010 on Windows 8 creates a much larger PDF file than Word 2010 on Windows 7

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 12:52 AM PDT

I have a word 2010 file with a size of about 3M. My operating system is windows 7. when I convert this file to pdf , it gives an out put file size of about 10 M. However When I convert this file on another computer with windows 8 [ word 2010] it produces a pdf file of about 22 M.  can Any body suggest to reduce the file size to 10 M

Moved from Windows 7

Original title: creation of pdf file

i cant log into my word program i do not have a product key and the thing is not recognizing either of my email accounts

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 11:33 PM PDT

i cant log into my word program  i dont have a product key and it is not recognizing me email addresses

can the 'page' in WORD get moved to see horizontally?

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 08:42 PM PDT

can the 'page' in WORD get moved to see horizontally? I would think you see what I have by the choices I picked to send this. 

Office 365

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 08:18 PM PDT

My computer was restored in China and I want to re install my Office 365. I have a product key. Ho w do I reload it on to the computer?

encrypted word doc

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 07:36 PM PDT

I have Office 365 on my Samsung Galaxy Note Pro. I use a word doc with fill in box's and drop down box's, but when I open it with 365 it tells me part of the document is restricted. I am unable to add text to the fill in box or utilize the drop down box. 

Word won't let me convert to Adobe pdf

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 06:46 PM PDT

I am doing a Cover Letter and Resume in Word for a college class and the instructor wants us to convert our Cover Letter and Resume to Adobe pdf. So, I converted the Cover Letter and had no problem, however, the Resume isn't working. I click change to pdf and it says it has to save first, I click ok and it says it cannot convert to pdf. I tried it again and now it doesn't save at all, it gives a message saying it cannot convert to pdf format because Adobe is not activated. I know I didnt change any settings or anything from the hour prior to this when I successfully converted my cover letter, can anyone help me please?

Stacy Witt

Adding a new heading in the middle of a document with outline heading numbering

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 05:50 PM PDT

Hello

I am using Word 2013 on Windows 7 to write documents with numbered headings.

I used Shauna Kelly's lovely instructions at http://shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/numbering20072010.html. I followed her instructions exactly, and my documents have nice heading numbering that mostly work well.

My problem happens when I need to insert a new heading into an existing document. I type a new heading in, then I apply the correct style and select my List style from the Multilevel List list, just as Shauna said to do. Sometimes this goes smoothly. and sometimes it doesn't.

When it doesn't, the new heading does not recognise that it has been inserted into the middle of an existing numbering scheme. It has the right style (e.g. Heading 3), and the right numbering scheme (I called mine Headings, as Shauna suggested). I right-click on the number in the new heading and select Continue Numbering. The number does not change, and stays stuck at 1.1..1.

As a last resort, I have tried the Set Numbering Value option, but I can only update the last digit.

Let me know if you have any suggestions.

Thanks,

Melanie


MS Word to PDF

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 05:04 PM PDT

Hi Community,

I am interested to know the best method for converting Word to PDF without losing the formatting. I had a free trial converter that was working well for me but had my PC upgraded and lost it including the setup.

Appreciate your help on this.

Thank you in advance.

Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 - Microsoft Exchange

Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 - Microsoft Exchange


Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

Posted: 02 Dec 2008 04:48 AM PST

:)

"Andy David {MVP}" <com> wrote in message
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Internal relay domain issue

Posted: 01 Dec 2008 05:42 AM PST

OK, have now gotten this figured out. My other collegue opened a case with
MS but was able to figure this out and the MS rep. stated this was an unknown
bug that will soon be publicly listed.

When in an existing email address policy there are two of the same domain
and in this case the one to be changed from authoritative to internal relay,
if the SMTP domain name are not identical it will cause this problem. So say
you have an email address policy where you have %com and a secondary
of %com it will cause the change of the accepted domain to show a
“The value ‘smtp:domain.com’ is already present in the collection” error
message.

If you simply go in and make sure all the domains are exactly the same in
the email address policy then this error will not occur. Appears it is case
sensative.

"Oliver Moazzezi [MVP]" wrote:
 

Exch 2003 re-enable disabled user account

Posted: 01 Dec 2008 01:04 AM PST

Hi FD,

Thanks fro your response.

When the Exchange server and AD sync has not been performed, which means if
the mchUserAccountControl attribute has not been set by the Recipient
Update Service, in this case, the information store treats this mailbox
still as disabled and all local delivery attempts fail with error message.
This process may take several hours as it depends upon the size of the
domain. However, for the Recipient Update Service, we may manually modify
the update interval to "Always run". You may try "Update Now" or "Rebuild"
to update the RUS sync with AD. However, if you run the Recipient Update
Service, and the mchUserAccountControl attribute is still not set, there
may be an issue with the Recipient Update Service.


Please see if the following articles helps:

Non-Delivery Report Is Generated When You Send a Message to an Exchange
Mailbox
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/273363/en-us

You receive a non-delivery report when you send a message to a disabled
account
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319047/en-us

Thank you.


Best regards,
Robbin Meng(MSFT)

Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support

imaging or cloning exchange os drive

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 09:19 PM PST

Goku 316 <com> wrote: 

I have to agree with Goku's suggestion here. Either use something that is
designed to work with image-based backups/restores of Exchange, or ditch the
idea and just go with disaster recovery. Your company is going to have to
spend money somewhere!
 



After move to 2007, need help with last step

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 07:07 PM PST

Glad I could be of help.

Oliver
 


Unable to uninstall EMC (Exchange 2007) from PC

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 12:18 AM PST

Hello,

Thanks for your post and Andy's input.

Based on my test, I installed EMC management tool 32 bit on one Windows XP
SP3 domain client. After that you can find it in Add/Remove as "Microsoft
Exchange server 2007". If it is corrected installed, there should be
"Change" and "Remove" two buttons, please make sure you click the Remove
button so that the EMC console (Management tool) is listed and you can
uncheck it to remove it from your Windows XP client. Please don't choose
the Change button, it is for users to add server roles.

Hope it helps.


Best regards,
Robbin Meng(MSFT)

Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support

External use of Exchange distribution lists.

Posted: 28 Nov 2008 12:45 PM PST

That's what I suspected. Thanks Lanwench.

--
tim.

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Issues replicating public folders from 2003 to 2007

Posted: 28 Nov 2008 11:45 AM PST

I remembered that we have an Exchange EDB file recovery tool made by Nucleus
Technologies. So what I did was dismount the old public folder database, run
the tool to create a PST file, opened the file in Outlook, and copied the
folders into the Public Folders area.

It would have been nice to get it working, but oh well.

Thanks


"Andy David {MVP}" wrote:
 

OL looks for GAL Server outside its site - [WP]

Posted: 28 Nov 2008 06:37 AM PST

http://blogs.msdn.com/stephen_griffin/archive/2008/11/17/referral-madness.aspx

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Prepopulate New Users Mailbox

Posted: 28 Nov 2008 02:36 AM PST

Thank you for the reply, will repost accordingly.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
 

Internet Email Retry Timeout interval?

Posted: 26 Nov 2008 05:25 PM PST

"James Yeomans BSc, MCSE" <microsoft.com>
wrote in message news:com... 

Thanks!


Blackberry Desktop Redirector messages marked as Junk Email

Posted: 26 Nov 2008 02:46 PM PST

Oh yea, Happy Thanksgiving to you too!

"Martin Blackstone [MVP]" <com> wrote in message
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Can NTBackup capture a live state of the Exchange mail store while the Store is running?

Posted: 25 Nov 2008 04:42 PM PST

NTBackup can and will do an online backup.
Check this out
http://www.mchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-2003-Backup-Restore-NTBACKUP.html


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Office 2003 Product ID - Correct amount of numbers in it? - Microsoft Office forums

Office 2003 Product ID - Correct amount of numbers in it? - Microsoft Office forums


Office 2003 Product ID - Correct amount of numbers in it?

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 11:35 AM PST

Thank you for your help.

"DL" wrote:
 

Microsoft Office Compatability Pack uninstall

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 10:50 AM PST

Best of luck finding a resolution.

--

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



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Installing 2007 Office H&S over 2003 Pro

Posted: 04 Nov 2008 08:45 PM PST


"Wickiup" <com> wrote in message
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I noticed one thing in your post -- "I can use the 3 installs....." You
have used one of the installs for the machine that has the upgraded programs
(the current install.) You only have two additional machines to install on
left as you can't split part of the suite on one machine and part on another
according to the EULA.


Outlook 2003 and Office 2007

Posted: 04 Nov 2008 12:48 PM PST

You might also try, in explorer, locating outlook.exe, rt click>run as
administrator

"jrs" <net> wrote in message
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Office Ultimate 2007 Product ID

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 09:59 PM PDT

Peter,

This question is still unresolved.
Erik


"Peter Foldes" <com> wrote in message
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Multiposted and answered

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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.

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Thank you for your help.

Finding Product Key

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 06:52 PM PDT

Presumably you purchased on line via Digital River, thats the place to look.
Its also the case that you would have been sent an email confirmation

"PhillyPhan" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I've lost my COA. is there any way to replace it?

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 05:04 PM PDT


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

You took the DVD out of the case and then threw away the case? If not, the
product key is on the case. If the case is gone use the link that Milly
gave you.

If purchased online and downloaded the key is on the email you received from
Digital Locker for the purchase.

If the product is still installed on a computer you can use the newest
version of Keyfinder from www.magicaljellybean.com or Belarc Advisor to
retrieve the key prior to clearing the program.


Determining number of uses

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 10:04 PM PDT

The only version of Office that allows for more than 2 installations (3 to
be exact) is the Student version of Office, either Student and Teachers'
Edition for and 2003, or Home and Student for 2007.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Les asked:

| Maybe I'm thinking of a different version but I believe it states on
| Microsoft website that you can use for home use on up to 5 computers.
| I would have to look again but I think I saw that earlier tonight & I
| could have sworn that we used this on more than just the 2 computers
| but maybe I need to look at the other computers again & see if they
| already had Office from a different source. Obviously since it is
| 2003 it is a few years ago & I could be losing it but I didn't think
| I was quite yet. :)
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Office Professional allows installation on 2 computers, one desktop
|| and one portable. Where did you get the idea you can use it on 5?
||
|| For exact details, read the EULA available from any Office Program
|| Help menu.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|| How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
||
||
|| After furious head scratching, Les asked:
||
||| I have Office Pro 2003 which I purchased separately & have used it
||| on a couple home computers (since you can use it on up to 5). I am
||| not sure if I used it on 4 or 5. One computer is now out of service
||| so if possible it could be removed from that one and the usage
||| reused on another. Is there a way to tell how many times I have
||| used it? I need to send the software to my daughter who is in
||| college and want to be sure there is a license remaining before I
||| do so.


Installing office professional 2007 trial

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 07:31 PM PDT

I am having the same problem - i "supposedly" downloaded the free trial (by
supposedly, i mean i clicked on download now, registered, and then nothing)
and was emailed a key, but there's no program/free trial anywhere to be
found. I think MS is having a problem. And I'd like to know how to fix it
so i can get my homework done on my new computer! ugh.

"DL" wrote:
 

Office 2007 Professional (Trial)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 05:22 PM PDT

If you have a previous version of Outlook installed, you need to uninstall
it and then run the setup again for Office 2007, do a custom installation,
and make Outlook available.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Ham Floyd asked:

| After downloading the program, I discoved Outlook was not there. I
| went back to reinstall the progam and "Add" it in, It said "Not
| available". The primary purpose for having office is to use Outlook.
| I am working with Windows XP 2002, service pack 3. If outlook is not
| going to come with the trial, I don't want it.


Activating Office 2007 Problems

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:33 PM PDT

Nuthin, doesn't say it is, or isn't activated, just nuthin....

"JoAnn Paules" wrote:
 

Upgrading Office Home and Student 2007 to Office Standard 2007

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 10:50 AM PDT

You're going to need something but I'm not sure what in your case. (I don't
use OEM software.) Maybe someone else can give you that answer.

--

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


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Office 2000 setup doesn't install license/reg info

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 05:14 PM PDT

If you mean spec. MS registry files, I haven't seen any recognizable ones in
my Office folder, no...all other files seem to be intact, incl. winword.exe.

"DL" wrote:
 

Installing both 2003 and 2007 on Vista 64bit

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 09:10 AM PDT

It's possible and easy.

Install office 2003 first obviously, update it and what not.

Then when you install Office 2007 just choose custom and Keep all previous
versions and you're set. (I wouldn't recommend keeping Outlook 2003 though).

"AndyC812" wrote:
 

Microsoft Word - Need to modify a Macro that uses a loop to find text in Word documents

Microsoft Word - Need to modify a Macro that uses a loop to find text in Word documents


Need to modify a Macro that uses a loop to find text in Word documents

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 01:53 PM PDT

Microsoft created the following macro that uses a loop to find text in Word documents. In this instance I've modified it to find "word1" and insert "NOTE=" for every instance of "word1" in the document. I have many different words to find, for example, "word2", "word3", "word4" etc. but would prefer to reference a list of words rather then create a separate macro for each word. Possible?

Sub FindWord()
    With ActiveDocument.Content.Find
        .ClearFormatting
        .Text = "word1"
        Do While .Execute(Forward:=True, Format:=True) = True
                With .Parent
                    If .End = ActiveDocument.Content.End Then
                        .StartOf Unit:=wdParagraph, Extend:=wdMove
                        .InsertAfter "NOTE="
                        Exit Do
                    Else
                        .StartOf Unit:=wdParagraph, Extend:=wdMove
                        .InsertAfter "NOTE="
                        .Move Unit:=wdParagraph, Count:=1
                    End If
                End With
        Loop
    End With

End Sub

Original source found at this location: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306338

Removing graphical artifacts from bulk scanned documents -- any best way with Office?

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 11:19 AM PDT

I'm currently involved with a batch file book-scanning project.  The scanner we're using does a great job of converting scanned documents to formatted RTF files save for one problem -- numerous graphical artifacts.  If a page isn't aligned perfectly, you can get a black triangle at one corner, for instance.  If you eliminate the artifacts manually, you're left with EXACTLY what you want (there are no graphics with the pages I'm scanning).

Naturally, I'd like to automate this process.  I've tried doing a search and replace on graphics (^g), but it only gets rid of some of them -- there's still plenty left.  You can FIND the remaining ones using the search pane and selecting graphics from the pulldown list, but you can't delete them.  I've also had no luck deleting them all using a macro to step through the shapes in the document.

I also can't seem to find any straightforward how-to after a lot of web searching.  I suppose what I'm asking is, "is there an easy way to purge graphics from an RTF file using Word 2013?"

text from a file in word 2007

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 11:18 AM PDT

Hi all

i have a project were i need to be able to replace data from were the cursor is with the contents of a file. i have found the insert text from a file but i can't seem to be able to overwrite instead of insert.

Printer settings versus document settings

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 11:10 AM PDT

Hi,

Would I be right in saying that Page Layout settings in a Word 2010 document will automatically be changed depending on what printer you are using? i.e. you would have to re-configure each document to suit the printer even if the paper trays are in the same place e.e. Tray1 plain Tray 2 Letterhead...

This seems bizarre when the Microsoft site seems to suggest the opposite - that the document settings will supercede the printer settings!

Would be grateful for any help with this as we have 2 teams each with a different make of network printer accessing the same lot of template letters and forms  day in day out. 

Thanks

mary

Is there a way to find multiple letters sent to multiple people without knowing their names?

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 09:32 AM PDT

I work for a non-profit and I've been asked to find letters sent to donors over the past couple of years with the goal of discovering how many donors received the same letter over and over again, no matter how often/how much they donated.  Unfortunately I do not know any of the donor's names that may have received the same letter over and over, and most likely, this will apply to numerous donors.  All the letters sent are in a file on a shared drive.

I'm probably asking for something that is impossible, but thought I would post this just in case someone could help me.

File tab menu options different for users in Office 365/2013

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 08:37 AM PDT

We've noticed that users are seeing different options when they click on the File tab in Office 365/2013. More specifically, when they go to Open or Save As

When clicking on "Open" or "Save As" some people see SharePoint as an option where as other people do not see the SharePoint option.

We have some people that are trying to Open and Save OneNote files to a SharePoint site, but since they do not see this option, they are not able to.

This is very random where some people see it and some do not. All of them have MySites content personal sites.

In troubleshooting I installed Office 365/2013 on a new computer and the first time I launched Excel it said "loading services". I am not able to determine where these services were loaded and what variable is different for the users missing the SharePoint option in the File tab.

Thank you.

Windows 7 Pro 64 - Won't print MS Office and other files

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 08:11 AM PDT

I have a computer running Windows 7 Pro, with Office 2010. When trying to print from Office or Adobe, the job gets stuck in a status of "spooling" and will not print. I have one printer directly hooked up (Brother HL-2270DW), and I've tried it with the same brand of printer, but over the network using a print server. It will print from Notepad, but not Office or Adobe.

I have run all the updates, gotten the latest print drivers, tried all of the other suggestions I could find... stopping/starting print spooler service, deleting all the files in the system32\spool\printers folder, taken ownership of spoolsv.exe, removed the printers, uninstalled the drivers, reinstalled the drivers, re-added the printers, used the troubleshooter in the control panel... you name it, I've tried it. It's still not working. Every other pc on my network with an identical platform has no problem printing anywhere.

I've noticed other people that have had this issue, but none of the solutions given were of any help in my situation. Any information is appreciated. Thanks.

table of contents right tab with indent not working with A4 paper

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 07:11 AM PDT

This only seems to be a problem with non-standard paper, like A4. We set up our table of contents to have a right-tab, dot-leader indent and text with a right indent of .5" so it doesn't go all the way to the number. With A4 paper, it will not set the tab beyond the indent marker. It cannot be set with the ruler or in style settings and stay as set. With standard paper, we have to set it in settings--it won't work if you try to slide the indent to the left of the tab--the tab jumps to the indent marker.

The only thing I've found to work, but only sometimes, is to change the paper size to standard 8.5x11 and then back to A4. But that only works some of the time. Some of our documents are very large so it's a loss of productive time trying to get this to work or manually fix the lines.

Thanks

Word 2010 In Word Highlight a number in a range then highlight with Turquoise

Posted: 09 Mar 2015 02:43 AM PDT

Hello from Steved

Ok in "Word" why will the below not find the number "7" in a range that I've chosen by highliting it, then highlight with Turquoise. Thank you

Sub testing()
    Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
    Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = "Ch1"
        .Replacement.Text = ""
        .Forward = False
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        .Format = False
        .MatchCase = True
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute
    Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdLine
    Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdLine, Count:=1
    Selection.Extend
    Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
    Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = "[0-9]{1,} - [0-9]{1,}"
        .Replacement.Text = ""
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        .Format = False
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchWildcards = True
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute
    Selection.MoveUp Unit:=wdParagraph, Count:=2, Extend:=wdExtend
    Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = "7"
        .Replacement.Text = ""
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContine
        .Format = False
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute
    Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdTurquoise
    Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdTurquoise
End Sub

Sign in message in Word

Posted: 08 Mar 2015 07:23 PM PDT

Hello...I recently purchased MSOffice and have been using Word for a writing project.  With my new laptop, I keep getting a message at the top of my document: "UPLOAD FAILED: You are required to sign in to upload your changes to this document."

There is a small box that says "Sign In" that seems to be a link, but when I sign in, nothing happens.

I know I am signed into MS with my account. I can get to OneDrive and see the documents I have stored there, but I cannot seem to do the reverse: save a document to OneDrive because it thinks I'm not logged in.

Unless there's a step I don't know about when it comes to logging in here? 

When I go to the Word screen that lists my recent documents, it says my changes were saved but could not be uploaded because I'm not signed in to the server. The "Resolve" box doesn't help; it also gives me the sign in option, but when I click on that, nothing opens.

I have looked on Microsoft's OneDrive help pages but I cannot see this addressed anywhere.

Thank you in advance for any help you might be able to provide.

Word and Excel (and possibly other apps) do not open - BEX error

Posted: 08 Mar 2015 06:23 PM PDT

The template screen will appear, but if I try to open a new document or even an old one I get the following error:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: WINWORD.EXE
Application Version: 15.0.4691.1000
Application Timestamp: 54ab960b
Fault Module Name: unknown
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Offset: 0040d3fc
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

I have uninstalled, deactivated, reactivated, reinstalled, and restarted.  I do not have this problem on any other system.  I am running Windows 7 SP1, fully updated.  Any thoughts?

How to change default spacing between a bullet and text in a table in microsoft word 2010

Posted: 08 Mar 2015 04:55 PM PDT

Hi all........I'd like to do two things:

1. In a Table, change the default space between a bullet (or number) and the text. I'd like to make it smaller........the extra spacing wastes space in my table.

In other words, the default bullet spacing

Default table bullet spacing looks like this

  1.     1st level

                      2.      second level

I'd like it to look more like this

1.  1st level

     2.  Second level




ie starts like this

  •    text
  • I'd like it to look more like this (less space between the bullet and the text, but saved as a default for the document I'm working on and all documents.

2. Change the Default setting on all my Word 2010 documents for bullet spacing

it looks like this now

  1.     Text
               a)       second level

                                     b)  third level

And I'd like it to default to something like this

1. Text

    a)  second level

         b)  third level

Can you help?

Thanks!!

Office Word 2013 Will Not Open

Posted: 08 Mar 2015 04:19 PM PDT

I just Downloaded Office 2013 to my computer Thursday. Now none of the apps will open. I don get a message or anything. Every time I click on an to open it, It just takes me to my desktop screen. I have tried doing it in "Safe" mode and still nothing.

Proofing tool (spanish) isn't recognized by Word 2013 after installation

Posted: 08 Mar 2015 11:04 AM PDT

I'm writing a spanish text and I wanted to use the Spanish spellchecker from Word.

So I downloaded the Spanish proofing tool. The installation was successful, but in Word I still get the message that Word can't check the spelling.

When I check the options in Word and go to Language, I see that the language Spanish (Spain) isn't installed even after I just installed it.

The things that I already tried:

  • Restarted Word
  • Restarted computer
  • Installed the proofing tools as an administrator

Can someone please help me solve this problem?