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Posted: 05 Nov 2013 01:43 PM PST

Hi

 

Don't want to sound stupid but I have new computer and it has windows 8.

What programme do I need to install for word and excel.

 

 

Thanks

 

Oh and any idea how much we are talking. I am in the uk not sure if this site is for uk.

 

Leigh

Office Starter

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 01:14 PM PST

I have Office Starter installed in my computer. When I try to open  a word document, I get a message that office needs to be installed. Can you help?

New 2013 Word table style doesn't retain banding colors

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 12:59 PM PST

I'm working in Word 2013 and created a new table style based on Grid Table 2 - Accent 5 and named it CLVS Colorful. I changed the header row to blue, changed even banded rows to tan, and the odd banded rows to no color. The new style displayed in the Table style gallery and tables assigned the style looked just as I wanted. However, as I continue to work in the document, the odd banded rows change to blue as in the original Grid Table 2 - Accent 5. All other attributes I assigned the new style are retained. What am I doing or not doing?

 

Thanks!

Debbie

Problem With Return Address Margin When Printing Envelopes

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 12:46 PM PST

I recently got a new computer at work that is running Windows 8.1 and Office 2013. When I print an envelope (size 10), my return address is cut off. The margins are set to "auto", and when it prints there is a 1/2 inch margin, but the first few characters of every line are missing. Yes, I can change the margins to 1 inch and all the characters are there, but it looks stupid because the address is so far to the right. Anyone have any ideas...before I bang my head against the wall? ;)

Why Filepath automatically displays in footer? I did not insert it.....

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 12:24 PM PST

Hello,

 

I have inserted the document property [Comments] in the footer so I can display office branch address based on user selection from my Visual Studio C# app using MS Office Runtime.

 

It was working fine until I print preview and the FilePath is auto inserted next to the [Comments] field and this only happens on the 1st page of the entire document.  Would appreciate any hints as to how to turn it off or how I "made" it appear in the 1st place?  I did not insert any QuickParts in design mode or programmatically.  Thanks in advance......

 

I have pasted a picture of this below

 

Word 2013 on Surface Pro- Inking with Pen and not finger?

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 11:49 AM PST

I would like to use my Surface Pro and the included Pen to fill out information on a form and only have the pen write information on the document, so I can use my finger to do things like swipe up to scroll, pinch to zoom in and out, etc.  But when I touch the screen with my finger, it is recognized the same as the pen and puts a black line across the page.


OneNote does this without any problems, how can I set Word to act the same way?

Display of Unusual Unicode Characters

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 11:27 AM PST

Ladies & Gentlemen,

I use Microsoft Office 2010 and Windows 8. I have just downloaded a font called "Junicode", which has a number of unusual characters in the "Private Use" area of the character chart. However, in Microsoft Word, a lot of these characters display as white question marks inside black rectangles. Can anybody suggest what the problem might be?

Many Thanks,

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In Word 2013, track changes not showing individual editors--all are now "author"

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 11:17 AM PST

I don't know what happened, and I can't seem to find any setting to fix this. When I make edits, my name shows up with the changes I make. But after I save it, my name disappears. This happens for anyone else who is editing the doc as well. I checked the advanced track changes settings and they are set to distinguish different authors' edits by color. What went wrong?

Word 2013 Mailing function

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 10:47 AM PST

I'm running Windows 8 on a new Lenovo Ultrabook.  The Mailings function in my Word 2013 has trouble with envelope and label addresses.  In each address line, the first letter registers and appears but the rest of the letters in the line don't appear for up to 2 minutes.  It takes a very long time to address an envelope or label!  Is this a settings problem or something more serious?  Thanks.

Word macros

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 08:39 AM PST

I am trying to record macros within a Word 2007 document.  I can edit the document with no problems, but

as soon as I press "Record a Macro", a "cassette" icon appears, and I cannot do anything within the document.

Does Word 2007 actually allow recording macros (MS-Excel 2007 has deficiencies in macro recording), and

if so, is there a parameter I need to set to allow the document to be edited?

Office Word 2013 Tables

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 07:56 AM PST

The table resize handles in Office Word 2013 DO NOT show up when my cursor is in a table, or I hover the pointer over the table. I can do the same thing on my desktop (Windows 8.1 Word 2010) and the handles show up, but not on Windows 8.1 Office 2013 on my Surface Pro 2. How do I enable them?

I am in print layout view. The online help says, "In print layout view, rest the pointer on the table until the table resize handle appears on the lower-right corner of the table." Well, does NOT show up.

Cant print from word

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 07:17 AM PST

When I send my documents to the printer they cancel themselves before they print. Cant print from anywhere like excel or internet. Little printer pops up in start  menu and says 1 document pending, then it deletes itself.

How do I change my files from WinRAR to Documents?

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 06:47 AM PST

I have Windows 7, Open Office 4.0.  Somehow my saved documents  are now WinRAR and I can't open them.  How do I get them back to Documents when I save?

Split Microsoft Word (Office 2010 and Windows 7)

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 05:12 AM PST

How can I split a MS-Word File into multiple documents, based on a "Title" rather than specific number of pages.  We receive documents than contain multiple documents within the file that must be "split" apart.  The pages of the files vary, but each have a unique heading in them.  The workstations use Windows 7 and we use MS-Office 2010, but will also be migrating to Office 365 within the year.

 

Thanks,

How do I 'Print to Fit Page' in Word 2010?

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 04:07 AM PST

In the past I always had the 'print to fit page' option in the print set up. Which I use when I need to print an A4 document in A3 size. In word 2010 I can't find it! Please help I use it all the time

Can't save as from Word Windows 8.1 RT

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 03:22 AM PST

Hi all,


I can't save as from word any more. I select the option from the menu. Any location I select does not open - it highlights for a short time then nothing happens. It's the same when I try to browse too. Nothing happens. Any help appreciated.

underline or border styles

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 03:06 AM PST

hi

 

is it possible to create a text style, or by using borders, to create a double underline, with two different colours applied to the underline?  I want to create a heading style that uses two different colours, without using a jpeg that I would need to position everytime......

 

thanks :-)

Is there a way to iterate through and examine links in a Document?

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 02:02 AM PST

Hello,

If I have an MS Word file linked to several Excel spreadsheets, is there a way that I can step through each link in the Word file, and then see to which source file (and/or cell) the link refers?

Many thanks!

Unable to use proofing

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 01:11 AM PST

I am unable to use any proofing.  I get a tick at the bottom.  I do not get red or green underlining for incorrect spellings or styles.  This problem started suddenly just a couple of days ago.

 

I read some solutions online, and accordingly uninstalled Microsoft Office 2007, rebooted my PC, and reinstalled Microsoft Office 2007.

 

This did not help.  The same problem continues.  I am begging for a solution.

incompatibility problem between documents in microsoft word version 7 and word for mac 2011 version 14

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 12:18 AM PST

Hi
I am hoping that someone will be able to help me with a problem. I am not brilliant with technology so please allow for that!
I have sent some documents to a client. I have used microsoft word version 7 whilst my client uses a mac - word for mac 2011 version 14.
When my client tries to update the table of contents on her mac they become jumbled and out of line.
The really strange thing is that when she emails a copy of jumbled text back to me it displays perfectly on my pc screen.
She has even uploaded a copy to dropbox but again when I display it on my pc it is perfect.
Any advice or guidance would be very much appreciated.
Kind regards
Lynne
 
[Edited to update "Applies to" data]

Recent docs list for Excel and Word

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:27 PM PST

Before I installed Office 2013 yesterday I had a long-time issue (I had Office 2010) where the recent documents would not show up in the task bar or start menu for Excel and Word. By task bar I mean the little pop up you get when you click on an Office application and drag up.

I thought installing Office 2013 would fix the issue, as it'll be brand new software, but the recent documents STILL won't appear. What's even more annoying is how it works for Powerpoint but not the other two, Word and Excel

I've tried to follow this solution, but it didn't work...

Any other suggestions on how to fix this issue?

No Synonym menu on right click

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:10 PM PST

Running Office 365 Home/Small Business on Surface Pro, Windows 8.1. When I highlight a word and right click I get a menu that shows font size, etc but no menu that permits selection a synonym or ability to add a word to my dictionary.  I can do this on one of my desktops which is also running Office 365 as part of the shared package of 5 installs. The right click menu feature does not work on my wife's Surface Pro or on her desktop system.  Anyone have a thought or similar experience

Hidden Text Pages printing blank

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 06:14 PM PST

Certain pages within my document are completely made up of hidden text. Each page commences with Heading 2 style and starts on a new page.
The Table of Contents updates and removes each hidden page, however, the page itself is still printing - as a blank page.
How can I stop these pages from printing?

Microsoft Word 2013 -not able to open files

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 05:49 PM PST

Hi,

I recently bought Word 2013 and have been saving documents created on it on both my laptop and Skydrive. It creates docx files, which I then can´t open again in Skydrive as it can´t recognise the file -even though I´m using the same laptop I saved it on only a few minutes previously-, or anywhere else it seems.
Is there a way around this to make the files standard Word files? I also have problems opening Word documents sent to me via email with older Word formats, which is making life pretty difficult considering I need to use this every day.

I´ve never had this problem before, Word is Word is Word, is it not?!

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Content Control Check Box

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 04:43 PM PST

Am I able to set up a Check Box Content Control so that when it is checked a piece of text is inserted at a specific point elsewhere in the document?

Can PDF files be merged/combined using Office 2013/365?

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 04:16 PM PST

Can PDF files be merged/combined using Office 2013/365?

changing the default in a word doc final review

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 03:22 PM PST

I would like to know how to get my word documents to open (as a default) in a final view rather than in a final mark up status. I have unchecked all options in the 'show markup' dropdown, but it does not save them. This does not happen on all word documents, just some.

 

If I forget to go into reveiw and choose FINAL, then i print documents that have all the edit marks.

Need help reading IDE drive data that is imaged from a SCSI drive - Forums Linux

Need help reading IDE drive data that is imaged from a SCSI drive - Forums Linux

Need help reading IDE drive data that is imaged from a SCSI drive

Posted: 08 Mar 2005 07:22 AM PST

I tried "mount -o loop,blocksize=620 -t ext3 /dev/hdb5 /mnt" and some
other fstypes, I got the following error message:
================================================== ============
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
================================================== ============

I know it's an IDE device, but how do I use sr0 or sda?

Thanks

Using TV set as a monitor

Posted: 08 Mar 2005 06:25 AM PST

Davide Bianchi wrote:
 
Thanks Davide. I will look into it. The talk is a free service to the
retirement village where we live, so I don't want to spend too much. There
is an associated video, so a VCR will be available. This makes prg's
suggestion worth looking at. (Actually, the pictures are supplementary.)
I am told that transparencies for overhead projectors, as we call them,
(the things with a glass screen and a lens and 45 degree mirror or prism)
can be made from the prints. They can go into the kit. I wouldn't look
for better definition than with the VCR, if I can get everything to appear
on the one screen.

What is a "beamer"? I am not in the industry, and it may have a different
name here in Oz. I know that there is a projector that can show a
presentation on a screen. I really need to see what is available here at
the village (the manager is on holidays and there is no equipment visible)
and run through the complete talk with my wife. I was just "brainstorming"
at the moment.

Doug.
--
ICQ Number 178748389. Registered Linux User No. 277548.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- Thomas Edison.

Suse 9.0 & Windows XP dual boot

Posted: 07 Mar 2005 08:39 PM PST

mercedes909 wrote:
 
Hello,

windows is not able to boot from a slave drive. You either have to switch
the disks or make M$ think it is booting from a master drive. You can do
this with grub in the menu.lst.

Alex

Updating BIOS with thumb drives or from Linux

Posted: 07 Mar 2005 08:20 PM PST


"mjt" <ru> wrote in message
news:linux.local...
 

That page describes, in detail using a CD drive. These things don't *have*
CD drives. They do have USB, and they do have network, but using a floppy or
CD would invilve taking them out of the rack, opening them up, installing CD
drives, etc., etc. Not a good idea in a production environment.

[snip] 

This page describes PXE, but never actually tried it. I've done PXE boots
and tried it, but attempting to run the BIOS flashing tools from a PXE
loaded floppy image simply crashes the machine, even with a floppy image
that works on the one machine that actually is out of the rack and has a
floppy and CD drive (I've tried both).

I need an example of someone actually *doing* it. Network installation would
be good, but USB drive would work, too. A tool that could install the BIOS
on various modern motherboards from the Linux operating system would be
ideal, but I'm afraid that's not working except with LinuxBIOS enableed
motherboards or their ilk, and I don't have such a BIOS for these systems.

Currently dual-booting, want to get rid of Windows

Posted: 07 Mar 2005 10:22 AM PST

ido50 <com> wrote: 

Instead of moving around and merging partitions, you could also use LVM.
You can leave the partition table as it is, backup the data in your sda5
file system, mark both partitions as 'Linux LVM', create a volume group
that contains sda5 and the Windows partition, create one big logical
volume out of that, create a file system on it and mount it in the place
where your sda5 used to be.
Then restore the data onto that file system.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

How do I install SuSE Linux on a Maschine with SCSI Raid 2120S if I have only this controller working

Posted: 07 Mar 2005 08:15 AM PST


"Jan Wielemaker" <xs4all.nl> wrote in message
news:xs4all.nl... 

Agreed. I'd also jump to SuSE 9.2 given any opportunity.

[Newbie]GRUB issue

Posted: 07 Mar 2005 03:30 AM PST

In article <d0he0e$8c4$usc.edu>, DJP wrote: 

<cross-posts trimmed>

After you did "linux rescue" with the boot CD, did you let the installer
mount the root filesystem (which then shows up on /mnt/sysimage)?
If not, mount it.
If your /boot isn't a separate partition, you can now:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
Now, you will see /boot/grub/grub.conf. At that point, you should be able
to:
grub-install /dev/hda
(if I recall correctly).

(If your /boot is on a seperate partition, you'd have to mount in on
/mnt/sysimage/boot before you 'chroot'.)

--
Dave Brown Austin, TX

how to deploy an iso image ??

Posted: 06 Mar 2005 01:49 PM PST

Alternately, install it over NFS, if you have another machine.

a) Us the other m/c as an NFS server. Mount the iso image on a loopback
device.

mkdir /mnt/iso
mount -t iso9660 image.iso /mnt/iso/ -o loop

b) Create a linux boot floppy or cd

c) Stick the floppy in the m/c to be installed, reboot. Select NFS
install option

Newbie-VMWare 4.5c. - ISO files do not install on reboot.

Posted: 05 Mar 2005 09:32 PM PST

com wrote:
 

I will confine myself to my point. I use Mandrake, and the rest is beyond
me.

What burner program did you use? As I said, I have Nero, and the fourth
menu selection is the one you want. Go to the "Disc image" menu item on
the opening screen, then browse to the image you want to burn, (Nero
defaults to looking for the extension for its "saved projects" and you need
to change this in the "file type" box. Tell us what you used, and someone
who uses it will be able to help you. For future reference, have a look at
www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html If you follow the guidelines
there, you will find it easier to get answers. I have been caught out
because I gave only the info that i thought was needed, and omitted some
vital detail.

Doug.
--
ICQ Number 178748389. Registered Linux User No. 277548.
Love doesn't make the world go 'round, love is what makes the ride
worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960).

Adding users in Fedora Core 3

Posted: 05 Mar 2005 09:01 AM PST


"-pbh-" <com> wrote in message
news:JyIWd.45697$texas.rr.com...
 

Pshaw. You're not "opening up" anything, they were already there. Keeping
the admin level tools in /sbin and /usr/sbin is to distinguish them from day
to day operational tools, but hardly makes them unavailable to non-admin
users.

udev eating parallel printer

Posted: 05 Mar 2005 08:06 AM PST

Hello,

On 05 Mar 05, Luka Vuletic wrote to All:
 
LV> Udev tends to do such things... You may edit
LV> /etc/udev/scripts/make_extra_nodes.sh
LV> and add a line or lines somewhere in that file to add your printer link
LV> everytime system boots...

That did the trick, thank you!

LV> I had similar porblem, beacues udev insisted in creating /dev/cdrom
LV> -> /dev/hdd instad of /dev/cdrw -> /dev/hdd.

I just noticed that I have neither /dev/cdrom nor /dev/cdrw. But that is
less important at the moment :)

Regards,

Hans.

jdh dot beekhuizen at duinheks dot xs4all dot nl

wget --mirror is not downloading the contents of a directory?

Posted: 04 Mar 2005 09:04 PM PST


"moma" <net> wrote in message
news:VnnWd.780$e.nsc.no... 

It's cool. I've re-written the tools in question to use lftp, which is a
sweet little tool for doing mirroring once you get past the extremely poor
documentation.

Remote control after install

Posted: 04 Mar 2005 02:24 PM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup Markus <com>: 
 
 

My condolences.
 

Should be no problem if you had installed with autoyast, started
VNC server with the install or did a (text) install and you have
serial/LAN connection to the system through some kind of service
board common to modern x86 server.

--
Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94)
mail: echo qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
#bofh excuse 261: The Usenet news is out of date

Importing\Exporting MS Exchange 2003 Custom Recipients - Microsoft Exchange

Importing\Exporting MS Exchange 2003 Custom Recipients - Microsoft Exchange

Importing\Exporting MS Exchange 2003 Custom Recipients

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 11:49 AM PDT

Todd,
Thank you for your suggestion. I was able to figure out why the contacts
were not importing as lastname, firstname in the title and the e-mail address
was not displayed in the e-mail address field when I imported them. For some
reason when I exported to .csv the lastname was in a row entitled name, the
firstname was in a row entitled e-mail address and the e-mail address was in
a row entitled display name. When I imported the .csv into my Outlook
contacts I needed to select Map Custom Fields and manually tell it where each
part of the contact should go. Then I was fine.

Cheyenne

"Todd Hawkins" wrote:
 

Posts in Public Folders, rather than emails?

Posted: 10 Aug 2005 02:31 AM PDT

Hi

This KB should help you out:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=817809

--
Mark Fugatt
Microsoft Limited

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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

Exchange SPAM filter

Posted: 09 Aug 2005 10:22 PM PDT

We use NetIQ's product, "Mail Marshal". It sits in as your public SMTP
gateway, and filters your spam before it ever touches your exchange server.
It's very configurable to your specific needs. One of the places I've seen it
helps us immensely is filtering "bad addresses"... ie: addresses that don't
exist in your org. It's amazing to look at the log and see message to
com, com com, com, etc.... it's amazing
how much of this junk your server has to face if you don't filter it early on.

Great product!

"Matty" wrote:
 

Redundant DNS MX record

Posted: 09 Aug 2005 09:33 PM PDT

There are two ways of load-balancing mail between two mail servers. The
first way is the one you have in mind...two MX records with the same
priority. While researching this recently, I found info that said some mail
servers (such as sendmail) as part of their code will split mail traffic
between two MX records of equal priority when sending mail. For the record,
I don't know what a sending Exchange server does with MX records of equal
priority.
The other way is to have one MX record but two A records for the same FQDN
that point to different IPs. I'd personally go with the two MX records.
As for your last question, the only thing a sending mail server knows is the
MX record for a particular domain. It doesn't know "which mailbox server
the message is going to". If you have mail for the same domain name split
across two different mail servers, sending mail servers have no way of
knowing which addresses are on one or the other. The mail will go to one or
the other based on the MX record lookup and Exchange will have to route it
to the correct server.

todd

"Jon Doe" <net> wrote in message
news:com... 
records 
on 
that 
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2000/maintain/13x2kadb.mspx 
currently 
enable 

Block spam bouncing

Posted: 09 Aug 2005 07:26 PM PDT

Thanks, I'll pass this on to our firewall guy.

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:
 

Backing up MSS.Log in Exchange

Posted: 09 Aug 2005 07:16 AM PDT

Cheers Mark.

What does the file actually contain if it is constantly locked or is this
not a normal state?

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:
 

Update Rollup for Exchange 5.5 (KB841765

Posted: 09 Aug 2005 06:13 AM PDT

Remove online. from my Microsoft address.

--
Mark Fugatt
Microsoft Limited

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Paul Digby" <co.uk> wrote in message
news:ddgbpe$k8k$1$demon.co.uk... 

"Rule can't be saved message" in OWA

Posted: 09 Aug 2005 04:48 AM PDT

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote: 

Well, I've done some more testing since my initial posting, and found
that this is only affecting rules when I try to use the "forward" option
(which is what I was trying to do when I found the problem).

If I set up a rule in OWA and and choose "Forward it to", I get the "Rule
can't be saved" when trying to save it. If I choose to Move/Copy to a folder
or Delete it, it saves just fine.

This happens to everyone, including myself, who is a Domain Admin and has full
access to Exchange. It doesn't matter if you have a few existing rules or if
you have NO rules, you can't save if you choose "Forward to" as the action.

But, I can save a "Forward to" rule just fine using Outlook 2003.

Thanks for the reply.

Moving SBS Exchange 2003 Databases and Logs

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 03:52 PM PDT

OK got it thanks
--
Regards
Cass Shelver
Truth Chemical
281-292-6900
com


"Andy David - Exchange MVP" wrote:
 

GAL Phones/Notes "Toll Free" field.

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 02:15 PM PDT

OK - just in case anyone else has a similar issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;285887

the GAL will only show single-value LDAP attributes by default - the latest
exchange service pack has to be installed, and you have to use the /forestprep
switch on the service pack to fix the GAL, and then choose the templates
that you want to revert to - which will blow away any customizations that
you have done, and then redo the customizations. This *should* make things
work - but this seems to be the answer.

--Ian
 

Email Archive Software

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 02:08 PM PDT

Anyone using GFIMailArchiver for Exchange?


Thanks,
Fred


"Fred Yarbrough" <com> wrote in message
news:phx.gbl... 
maintain 

Cannot deliver email to one to domain

Posted: 08 Aug 2005 07:02 AM PDT

Just to confirm that port 587 has nothing to do with "normal" mail
delivery. The only thing required is SMTP on port 25.

If they do receive an email from time to time - then it is most likely
that they have some spam filter like IMF and for one reson or another
it is triggering the false positives.
It could be something in your user's signature that IMF at the remote
site does not like.


There is actually little you can do to fix tis except get back in
contact with the IT guy there and try to figure it out.
If it wasn't working at all - you would expect either an NDR or you
could think that you somehow got onto some of the infamous IP blacklist
servers. Since it is intermittent - it is most likelt the spam filter
on the other side.

Hope this gives you a starting point,

___________________________
Nebojsa Djogo,
VP, Software Development,
Digiportal Software
www.digiportal.com
_________________________________________
Spam now accounts for 75% of all emails.
Protect your server and your users with ChoiceMail

Exchange 2003 storage limit issue

Posted: 05 Aug 2005 03:23 PM PDT



In news:googlegroups.com,
student <com> typed: 

True, dat. 

Try it...
 

Yes, it is indeed supposed to do that. Are the users even seeing their
warnings, etc? 

Microsoft Word - Word will not open .doc files downloaded from Dropbox

Microsoft Word - Word will not open .doc files downloaded from Dropbox

Word will not open .doc files downloaded from Dropbox

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 01:33 PM PST

Hello, I am having an issue when I try to open .doc files. I download a .doc file from Dropbox and save it on my computer. When I try to open it in Microsoft Word, it attempts to "convert" the document, and opens it with symbols instead of the document. I have tried downloading multiple copies and the issue persists. This has also occurred with other files that are not from Dropbox. However, if I get on another Windows computer, download the same file from Dropbox and email it to myself, I can open it without a problem. The exact same .doc file. Other Windows computers can download and open the same Dropbox .doc file without any issue. I have also verified that Microsoft Word and Windows are completely up to date.

Why can't my computer open these files? Why is it trying to convert a .doc file?

How to create table template with two header rows

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 01:24 PM PST

I would like to create a table template in the table gallery that has two shaded header rows that repeat. In my restricted Word 2010 template, I already have a table template in the table gallery that has one shaded header (that repeats across pages). Initially, I thought that users could use the primary table template (with one shaded table header), and simply use the layout tools to add a second, repeating shaded header (Table Tools > Layout > Repeat Table Header). Unfortunately, when I save, close, and reopen the file, the second header shading is gone! Am I misunderstanding this feature?

I also read in another post ("Word 2010 tables forget multiple header rows upon closing file") that it may be possible to add a "building block" table to the style gallery? Is a "building block" table the same as a table template such as the one I already have? In that other post, it sounds like it may be possible to create a table and then add it to the table gallery instead of doing what I did: Open Table Tools > Create New Table Style.

Not able to save as .PNG or .JPEG

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 12:43 PM PST

Hello,

Sitting here with Office 365 Home Premium.

Created some nice pictures and thought i'd save them as .PNG and use them for some programming.

However I am not able to save as .PNG. Not even as .JPEG.

Any ideas why it doesn't work? All I found searching was that it should work. Sorry about the Swedish by the way...

Home Ribbon

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 12:42 PM PST

When I'm working in a Word 2010 document the default ribbon is File so I have to keep clicking on Home everytime I do something in a document.  I have no clue why it's doing this as Home has always been the default ribbon before.  I read a previous post from someone with the same problem; however, the response was that the ribbon had been minimized which is not the case.  Thanks in advance for any help.

SkyDriver Word Web App error message "The Service is Unavailable"

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 11:42 AM PST

Hello,

I don't know if the Word Web App in SkyDrive is having the problem but when I try to open documents inside my SkyDrive I get a "The Service is Unavailable" message. Has anyone seen a similar message while opening the Word Web App in SkyDrive today?

Thanks for your assistance.

I am using OS X Mavericks 10.7 and running Safari 7.0.

how to change a first pg section in mid-document

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 11:35 AM PST

I have a document with a different first page layout, which is what I want. However, later in the same document, when I insert a next page section break to make a section landscape, the section takes on the layout of the different first page. I can see in the header it shows, "First page header, section 2." How can I make the document have only one different first page header/footer?

 

What I find is if I try changing the header and footer in First page header, section 2, it also changes on my document's first page.

 

This is making me a bit crazy....

Find and Thesaurus not working right

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 11:06 AM PST

Both my Find function and Thesaurus stopped working correctly at the same time and I don't know why.  I am using Word 2010.

 

Normally when you click on Find a rectangular box appears on the left hand side of the screen where you can type in the word you want to find.  Then it tells you that you have XX instances of the word you are looking for and you can search through them to see which one you want.  This box doesn't show up.  I can still click on Find and Replace and do a search that way so the function still works, just not by using the rectangular box.

 

I have a similar problem with the Thesaurus.  Normally when I click on Thesaurus I get a rectangular box on the right hand side of the screen that gives me choices.  Now, the only thing that happens is the word gets highlighted.  I can still get a few suggestions by right clicking on the word and going to Synonyms, but that list is very short and doesn't give me enough options.

 

So, the functions appear to work, but the boxes don't come up to help me.

 

Can anyone help with this?  I have tried doing a Repair on MS Office but that didn't do anything.

 

Thanks.

grids appearing in all word documents

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 10:41 AM PST

I installed office 2013, now all my word documents have these "ugly grids" on every page. the same thing appers when i open any new blank document.. how do i remove the grids???

Office 2013 deployment : Using OCT to deploy custom ribbon & Quick access toolbar

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 10:22 AM PST

Hi,

I am trying to deploy a custom ribbon & quick access toolbar with office OCT for Office 2013 but i can't find anywhere in the documentation saying how to do it.

There is an article for Office 2010 about this... but i'm not to sure if it would work for Office 2013. ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee704589%28v=office.14%29.aspx#odc_office14_DeployCustomRibbon_ExampleofficeUICustomizationFile)

It talks about *.officeUI files or some other articles talk about *.QAT but when i export the configuration that i want to use for Word 2013 i get a *.exportedUI file.  Do i rename manullaly the file to be *.officeUI ?

Is there any unattended way to deploy this file so it is going to be applied for every users using a computer? 

The users profiles are stored locally and they use Windows 7.

Word 2003 - Clipart Error

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 10:10 AM PST

User that I'm trying to support is unable to insert clipart in Word 2003 document.  When searching for clipart, all results show WMP icon adding clipart results in error: word cannot obtain the data for the file ...wmf.lnk categories appear as dglxasset...

Clipart options was the only option checked under Search for clipart pictures.

Please help.

Thank you.

Lontajo

My cursor at the top left opening page of a word doc is no longer showing any white space from the top.

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:50 AM PST

My cursor at the top left opening page of a word doc is no longer showing any white space from the top. It's printing correctly, but looks wrong on the monitor.

 

Any thoughts ???

Repairing Office/ Office is busy

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:39 AM PST

I recently got a new laptop with Office 365 University that includes: Excel, Word, Power Point, and One Note. I only use Word for right now. It was working just fine up until last weekend. Every time I opened Word, that little orange box kept coming up and said to repair it. I've tried repairing it by clicking the options it gave me, but it literally took all day and still nothing was fixed. Please, I need help with this. I am a student in college and I write a lot of essays. Please let me know how I can fix this! Thank you!

Not starting

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:32 AM PST

Why dose Word not start i have the 60 days trail that runs out next mounth

Microsoft Word - how to re-install

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:21 AM PST

MY PC crashed a few weeks ago.  Despite my levels of security, a bug got in and ate HAL.DLL in the Root.  The technician to whom I take my PC when I have big problems, rebuilt the Window XP(SP), and I subsequently successfully update to Windows XP(SP3), which is where I was before the crash. I have had to download various items that didn't make it during the rebuild  One of the was Microsoft Word.  Does anybody know how I can re-install this?  I had it before the crash.  Thanks to all for your time and efforts.  Tim *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

 

Word 2013 - Comments appearing in reviewing pane, but comment bubbles missing from right of text.

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:17 AM PST

I have a document that I'm working on with several other authors, but because not everyone has Word 2013, I'm working in compatibility mode. I've done this with several other clients and have never had an issue. This time, though, the comments by one of the other authors are failing to show up in bubbles to the right of the text. I can view the comments in the review pane, but that's a huge pain since it takes forever to scroll through it (this is a 60,000 word project with a lot of edits). 

Because I've done this numerous times before, I don't think it's a compatibility issue, and I've made sure that all changes from all authors are shown. In-text edits are showing up just fine. Does anyone have any idea what might be going on?

How can I embed the SharePoint 'Version' column value in a Word document?

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:08 AM PST

I'm using SharePoint 2007 and Word 2007.  I want to include the SharePoint 'Version' column value in a Quickpart field in a Word document template, which is published on the SharePoint site as a content type.  By viewing a number of posts, e.g.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/508229/how-can-i-include-value-of-sharepoints-version-column-in-a-word-document
I got to the situation described below:

  1. On the site content type, that I had named 'Project Document', I included the Core Document Column 'Version'.
  2. I created a policy on the site content type, I enabled labels and then specified the label as {Version}
  3. In the document template Project Document.dotx, which resides in the Forms folder of the document library, I inserted the QuickPart document property named 'Label' after which the text {Version} appears in the inserted field.
  4. When I use the New button in the library I can see a blank property box 'Version'.  However when I save the new document into the library there are two columns headed 'Version', one containing the SharePoint version number which increments on each check-in, and the other the showing the value from the document and which can be any value I choose to type into the Version property box.
This is not what the post above described.  So the question remains, how to get the SharePoint version into the policy label?

The baffling thing about this issue is that I would have assumed that many SharePoint users would want to do this to take advantage of SharePoint's document management capability.

Stan

Can't add "Table" caption -- no dialog box opens to select Label type (Word 2010)

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 09:01 AM PST

Hello,
When I click the "Insert Caption" button on the "References" tab, all it does is insert a "Figure" caption and it changes the paragraph style to caption.  No dialog box opens where I would normally select the label type if I want use "Table" and create a separate List of Tables.  Is there an option to turn this action on and off?  Thanks for any help!

180 Day Free Trial

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 08:55 AM PST

For my CIS 111 Course I had to get the 180 day free trial. I installed it and it was working perfectly until recently and it wont let me do anything in word and says I need to buy the real version even though I haven't had it for 180 days yet. Can someone help me out?

Word 2013 - Your Organization's policieis are preventing us from completing this action for you.

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 08:51 AM PST

New Windows 7 Pro 64Bit Install

Office 2013 Home & Business 2013

Outlook 2003 also installed.

So I installed this new machine today, all is well and working.

However we have a Word (.doc) document with a list of other documents hyperlinked within it.

When the user (who has local admin rights) tries to CTRL+click any link in the document (or any document) he gets the error

Microsoft Word: Your organization's policies are preventing us from completing this action for you.

I have searched and searched and tried so many fixes and suggestions that I am going square eyed:

So far I have tried:

  • Microsoft Fix IT 50388 - Run's but at the end says "Microsoft Fix it failed to process"
  • Registry fixes for doc types
  • Default file associations
  • Reset Internet Explorer settings
  • No alternate browsers have been install (No chrome/firefox/opera)
  • Removed Office 2013, re-installed Office 2013
  • Ran all Windows / Office updates
  • Rebooted about 30 times after each step
  • Given user local admin rights
  • Given user domain admin rights
  • Howled at the waning moon on the 3rd day after all hallow's eve.
  • Spoke to Microsoft Support who were less than supportive.
Please help I am completely out of ideas what to try here. 

Please Note: I have seen lots of things relating to Outlook and fixing .htm/.html file associations.  This is NOT an outlook problem, this is not a problem with .htm or .html files (although they probably dont work either)

Office default save to local folder, NOT Sky Drive?

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 08:50 AM PST

Since installing Windows 8.1, my default save location is now always Sky Drive\Documents.  Changing the save location in any Office program (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook) to the local folder does not cause a new document to default to save to the local hard drive folder, it always defaults to the Sky Drive folder. 

I do not want to save anything to Sky Drive. I want to save locally.  I do not use more than one computer, no one needs to collaborate with me, and I do not want any of my documents in a cloud location for anyone else to potentially access.

So how do I change this default so that when I save a new document in Word or Excel, etc. that the default location is always C:\Users\My Name\Documents and NEVER Sky Drive\Documents?

MS Word - pictures captions HELP!

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 08:50 AM PST

Hello!

So I have a problem. I need to make table of figures (list of my pictures), but it must be name NUMBER and then LABEL.
Now I can only get label and its number.

I would appreciate help.
Please answer me as soon as possible.

word isnt working

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 08:40 AM PST

hi, i want to open a document in word, however, my computer is telling me that i cant use it right now because office is busy. how do i check on what it is that office is busy doing? is there a way to pause whatever its doing so that i can finish up with my word document?

Office Home and Student 2013

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 08:17 AM PST

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help, I have just upgraded to the above and find I can no longer open any document or spreadsheet.

I get the message saying Excel has stopped working or word has stopped working. I have tried a repair as well as uninstall and reinstall but I still end up with the same message.

I have also uninstalled my antivirus  but I still cant open any documents.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. 

Office 365 online version of Microsoft Word vs. Microsoft Word Web App included in SkyDrive.

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 08:09 AM PST

Hi, 

 

Is the online version of Word in Office 365 different than the version of Microsoft Word Web App included in Skydrive or is it the same product? 

 

Look forward to responses. 

 

Best - BostonDan

 

 

microsoft word not working

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 07:47 AM PST

I have just installed microsoft365 home premium and my Microsoft word is not working.

Any help please. thanks

Formatting with Bullets & Captions

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 07:43 AM PST

Did you manage to fix this (see below)? I seem to be having a similar problem in Word 2010 - I have bullets and captions which look fine when in Word but then I click on 'print' (either to printer or PDF) and the formatting goes haywire. Some bullets are missing - extra spaces between paragraphs etc. When I go back to the Word document it has kept this formatting.

Thank You

---------------------------

Hi all -- 

 

When I print from Word 2010, the formatting of the document changes drastically. The spacing between lines expands, so that my 24 page document becomes 32 pages.  My figures are also disrupted in that 1) they are no longer positioned to minimize white space and 2) some of the multi-part figures are torn apart.

 

This happens when I print to a printer, or when I print to PDF.  

 

When I am finished printing, the word document remains in this new format. But then various actions cause the format to revert to its original state - for example this has happened when I closed and reopened.  If helpful, my primary font is Palatino, though I use Calibri for some figure captions, and I am using Windows 7 on a dell Latitude.

 

If I could just keep everything in one format or the other, this would be fine.  But bouncing back and forth is making formatting a nightmare for me!

 

Many thanks in advance for any help.   -P

Word 2010 will not retain the Recent documents list

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 07:37 AM PST

I have Word set to display 25 recent files, but none show up. I have addressed this before by following the online discussions and messing with the Registry, but that solution only lasted a short time before Word returned to its old tricks.  I would rather not go that route again. Can't Microsoft come up with a patch to deal with this issue?

pasting problem

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 07:20 AM PST

When I copy and paste, even a few words, I get a message;  "the information you copied exceeds the size limit for pasting into the word processor.  Try reducing the size of your selection then copy and paste again??"   What is the problem?  This just started a couple of days ago.

Word

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 07:05 AM PST

My Microsoft Word is not working.  A box appeared asking me if I wanted to repair it.  I clicked yes.  It sent me here. 

My free was active for 2 weeks and it expired three weeks before time

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST

who can help me

Font in Word 2007 is too large

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 05:47 AM PST

While editing a document in Word 2007, the font suddenly changed and is way too big. I tried to set it to my normal font - Trebuchet MS 12 - but it now thinks the large font is Trebuchet MS 12. How can I change it?

Microsoft Word 2010 - Problem opening docs

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 05:33 AM PST

I cannot open word docs anymore. I get a msg that the program needed to open to the doc is not available etc. If I move the cursor over the doc name I see "OOBE.doc" without quotes.

How can I fix this problem?

How do you use mail merge?

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 04:13 AM PST

thanks

Unable to open read-only file

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 03:22 AM PST

I have a word 2007 doc which is read only, I have closed the doc although it still shows that I have opened the doc for editing.

I have since shut down and reloaded my pc although the same message appears, how do I disconnect please.

Microsoft word issues

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 03:05 AM PST

MSA word has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for any inconvenience

Formatting Pages Help Needed

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 01:59 AM PST

I am creating a long "living" document that I am adding new pages to all throughout the document.  I would like to know if there is a way to format my document that will keep the pages I already have in the document from moving. 

 

For example, when I add a new page to my document, I have to go through the entire document after that point to put everything back where it is supposed to be on each page.  I would like to be able to add new pages without having to reformat the rest of the document.

 

Thanks!

smarioncp

Unable to open files; files corrupted

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 01:13 AM PST

Computer had a heart attack when I got it back to 2 folders are having problems

When document is opened I get the message

Office open XML file password cannot be opened because there is a problem with content.  Click on detail box to get message  file is corrupt and cannot be opened.

The other word document I am having problem with said I had a problem with MSWRD632 I downloaded this and now the page opens to little boxes arranged neatly across and down the page.

I downloaded converter files,

What can I do?  I am using a legitmate microsoft office.

 

with thanks if any one can solve this as they are the two files I really wanted.

 

Lorelle

have word 2013 but need 2010

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 12:51 AM PST

I have office 365/university with word 2013. One of my classes requires word 2007 or 2010, software is not compatible with 2013. Do I have to buy word 2010?

Dictionary Not Working is Ms office 2013

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 12:38 AM PST

Sir any one Please help me sir my Microsoft office 2013 dictionary is not working Plzzzzzzzz help me !!!! ?????

Change the default bullets in Word 2007

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 12:08 AM PST

We have specific guidelines for creating documents in our organization. One of the specifications is the use of bullets in a document.

In MS Word 2007, I need to know how to change the default bullet used by Word for each level of indentation.

By default, the bullets used by MS Word are at the first level is a black dot, second level is a circle, third level is a filled square, etc. The first can remain a black dot, but the second needs to be an empty square, third level a dash.

I can make a style for each of these, but indenting the text later will not apply my next level of bullet. (at least I don't know how to)

Also, I would like to change the default levels of indentation provided by MS Word.

Each level, by default, is .25" from the previous level. Can this be changed to .2", or .15"?

Thanks
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