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Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:23 PM PST

I did a upgrade from windows 8 to 8.1 and now office 2010 won't work and it did  under windows 8

Conditional Formatting a Word Document with Merged Fields from an Excel Document

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:02 PM PST

Hi,

I've tried to read the answers to similar questions and I don't understand all of the formatting slang so I'm asking my own question. 
 
I have a word document that includes merged fields from an Excel file.  I have used the "insert merge field" command in word to merge the appropriate fields from my Excel file.  These fields have conditional formatting in Excel as follows: if the number in the cell is 40 or higher, the cell will filled in with yellow; if the number is 10 or lower, the cell will be filled in with blue.  I would like to get the same result in my word document.  Can someone give me simple, step-by-step instructions to do this in the word document?

Thanks A LOT in advance.

Mark B.

office is busy

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 01:12 PM PST

I have been trying to open files in Word and Excel for the last hour and keep getting a pop up saying Office can not be used right not because we are busy or updating.  Is this normal?  Very frustrated I can't get into my files.

Which fonts were omitted from 2003 ?

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 12:57 PM PST

I need to know the fonts that are no longer in Word 2010, because I think that caused a change in a brochure, which makes it not useable as it is.

Brochure does not open correctly in 2010

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 12:51 PM PST

change in font when opening trifold brochure created in Word 97-2003.  Moves all -- 3 pages now instead of 2.  Want to print from old, how do I make look the way it was?  If I ever get it right without having to redo the whole thing, will PDFing it keep it?

Using controls and conditional formatting

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 12:33 PM PST

This would be for Word 2010. I have a two-page letter that has one paragraph that changes per subject category and action.  I have four categories with checkboxes. I have four actions with checkboxes. Depending on which box is checked for the category and then which is checked for the action would determine the paragraph that would pop up in the letter.

 

Any idea how this can be done?

 

Thanks!

Extra paper printed

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 12:06 PM PST

Whenever I print a letter, which has a header and a footer, I always get an extra paper printed.  This is a waste of paper.  Also, whenever  I construct a header and a footer on a single letter head, the footer get copied to the second and third page, when I scroll down. Please help me to correct these problems.

Thanks

How do I detect if a save is manually by the user (Save button or CTL+S) or called by AutoSave?

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 12:02 PM PST

I do not want cancel the "BeforeDocumentSave" event if an autosave.  How do I determine if it is an autosave?

Dialog box pops open when a template doc is opened.

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 11:37 AM PST

Hi, 

I'm using a template document, and editing it. When I open it to edit by right clicking open, the dialog box does not come up. Once I'm happy with the .dot document and save it, I go to double click to open it as Document 1.doc, and this box pops up. 


I have no idea how to get rid of this box. 
The only thing I have done is basically retype the entire document into a brand new word window which is obviously not ideal. 
I do run Word 2007, however, I have to save as .dot / .doc as some staff uses word 2003, and it seems to work better. 

Windows 7 the exception unknown software exception (0xe0000002) occured in the application at location 0x75aec41f for Word?

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 10:34 AM PST

I just helped a student download microsoft office 2010 to their Acer laptop. Before the installation we uninstalled the trial version of windows on his computer.

After we downloaded office he then tried to open word2010 and got the error message in the subject line:

 

the exception unknown software exception (0xe0000002) occured in the application at locatino 0x75aec41f.

 

What steps can be taken so that he can use Word 2010? Everything else works fine including: Access, powerpoint etc.

 

When I click on Word what happens is I get a "User Account Control" message asking "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes on this computer? Program name : Microsoft Word/Verified Publisher: Microsoft Corp/File Origin:Hard drive on this computer

 

I then try to open a file that was started in word and this message occurs: Microsoft word is trying to recover your information.  This might take several minutes.

 

Then I get Microsoft word has stopped working: A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

How to find words marked "Do not check spelling or grammar"?

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 10:16 AM PST

There must be a way to find words you've marked "Do not check spelling or grammar" under Language | Set Proofing Language. I say "must" because such words are noted under Language in Reveal Formatting. Ordinarily you'd wait until almost your last step in laying out pages before you'd mark such words (to prevent Word from carrying a whole line over to the next page). However, revisions happen. It would be handy to be able to sweep through a file and quickly find such words.

I tried cancelling all such markings, but selecting an article and turning off "Do not check spelling or grammar" has no effect on words already so marked.

They could, I suppose, be given an unusual, visible attribute for finding and removing later.

Applying Changes / Additions to Word Styles to "Old" Documents

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 09:33 AM PST

I have made a lot of changes to my styles and even added and deleted other styles.  

How do I automatically/en masse apply the new/changed styles to already existing documents?  I am familiar with VBA if that helps.

TIA

boxes around each paragraph

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 09:05 AM PST

Just "upgraded" to Office 2013.  When I open a file in Compatibility Mode, the document displays normally.  If someone sends me a file that was (presumably) created not in Compatibility Mode, every paragraph has a squiggly border.  How do I get rid of that border once and for all? 

'Find and Replace' Font question.

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 08:45 AM PST

Hi I wonder if anybody can help.
I use Word Starter 2010.
I translate using a specialist font 'Gardiner' which uses two characters (U+A723 and U+A725) that do not appear in most fonts such as Ariel. Before uploading what I've done I have to do a mass 'find and replace' to replace these symbols with others. Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to change the font used in Microsoft's 'Find and replace' dialogue which means that I cannot use that dialogue to find and replace them - is it possible to change the font used in this dialogue? I havealready tried changing teh font in the normal template.
Ned

Desktop shortcut icons for Word files

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 07:58 AM PST

I have created desktop shortcut items for several of my files. Suddenly, the other day, they stopped working, and the files won't open from them. Also, I can no longer move the icons around on the desktop; they will not respond to the mouse at all. I don't know what I did or how to undo it.

Equations

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 07:24 AM PST

Hi!
my office (2010) is crashes whenever I use the equation editor of the word.
For example, I opened it (alt+=) and just wrote "=", and it was crashed. I don't know what to do as it worked before and since this week it doesn't...
Perhaps it is related to the Windows 8.1 I installed (instead of windows 8)?
What can I do?

Thanks,
Neta

Microsoft Word suddenly stopped working and close when i start to use it.

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 07:22 AM PST

When i trying to open microsft word or excel is appearing a dialog box with the following message "Microsoft stopped working" A problem cause the program to stopworking correctly windows will close the program and notify if you solution is available. I would appreciate your assistance in how can i resolve this matter

Source manager in Word 2013

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 06:43 AM PST

Hello

Please could someone explain why the source added to the document via Add a Placeholder route and then Edit the source doesn't appear on the Master List in the Source Manager?

By default, all sources cited/created (using Add a new source) are showing automatically both in the Master and Current list so there is never any need to copy any sources from the current list to the master list as all sources are already there. The source created via add placeholder seem to be an exception. I have read numerous tutorials on bibliographies and citations/sources but none of them states what is the reason for such source not appearing in the Master list. They all mention that it is possible to copy sources from current to master list and the other way round but the explanation is never provided.

Would be very grateful for the response.

Thanks

Anna

Open a File

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 06:29 AM PST

I'm am curious if there is a way to turn off the open file feature in Word 10? It has a ridiculous amount of clicks to get to a file when all I want to do is open another doc quickly from a different file and/or drive. This feature has you clicking almost five times before you can get the dialogue box open. I used to be able to go straight to the dialogue box with the shortcut key or with two clicks (File>Open), which must have changed since it's not opening this simply now, or I have a setting that needs to be changed?

 

Thanks

Toolbar missing when opening documents containing tracked changes through interop

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 06:21 AM PST

The problem is that anytime a word document containing tracked changes is opened through the help of Interop the toolbar goes missing. All of the tabs like File are gone and there is no way to restore them. The only options available are the right click menu and minimize/maximize.

The strange thing is that if you have word running already when you open the  same document through Interop it doesnt get this problems and all the toolbars are fully visible. Same thing if you open the document without using Interop.

The shortcut commands doesnt work either (Since the toolbar isnt even there). So my question is, what could cause this problem and has anybody had any similar experiences with Interop?

Office 2013 Running Slow and Laggy

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 05:53 AM PST

I have Office 2013 installed on two machines right now. One is an old underpowered laptop, and the other is my very recently built workstation with high quality components (read: fast computer). Lately, Office has been extremely laggy on my workstation; windows take several seconds to catch up when I move them, the file menu is AWFULLY slow to respond, and Excel tends to crash when I scroll down a sheet. Even Word will hang up for a few seconds when I scroll occasionally. It's not a problem with the computer itself, because all other programs run very smoothly. What confuses me is that on my old laptop everything runs perfectly fine! No lag, no crashing, nothing. I've reinstalled Office on the desktop, disabled hardware acceleration, started programs in safe mode, and disabled add-ons to try and get things running well but I've had no luck. Things seemed to slow down around when I upgraded to Windows 8.1, but my laptop is on that as well with no problems. Does anyone have any thoughts on what may be causing this? 

MS Office Trial version

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 05:24 AM PST

On the downloaded free triql version of MS Office I can't open Word. Message  "This App can't run on your PC". Other Office elements seem OK, Excel/PPoint/Outlook. PC is new and runs Windows 8 (not sure if 8 or 8.1). This suggests a problem with Word and isn't a great advert for MS Office - what is the fix for this? 

Home 365 download

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 04:14 AM PST

I bought Office 365 Home Premium on 9/30/13 and installed it on 10/7/13. Somehow my laptop saw my download as the 30 day free trial and the software, supposedly, timed out on 11/2/13. I have my Product Key and would like some advice on getting this product downloaded correctly.

office 2013 will not start

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 03:20 AM PST

office 2013 came ready to use on my new Hp laptop (windows8). after using it successfully for a couple of times it suddenly will not open and a message saying "sorry a problem has occurred we couldn't start your program" comes up. it also suggests repairing office 2013 from the control panel but actually I cannot find it in the list of installed programs, please help.

Macro to crop all titles of Alt+PrintScreen in a Document

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:58 AM PST

Hello,
I've a document with a lots of screenshots of Alt+PrintScreens pasting. I want to crop the title line of the window of those screenshots .
Can it done by a Macro?
Thank You

Windows 8 / Office 13 REALLY???? !!!!

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 01:14 AM PST

Dear Microsoft - UGH.. ya know you guys always want to blame it on the end user--- "we don't know how to do things"... "we don't like change"... c'mon!!! REALLY???  - just step back for a moment and pretend you have respect for the people buying your products and writing to you ... ---  I love learning new software and am hardly afraid of trying new things and I find making mistakes to be a learning experience.  But Windows 8 is a Looooser!!!! And Office 13 is a SCAM!!! I am so very sorry I bought it and hope to heaven enough people complain so you will just get rid of it.  Stop trying to compete with Apple and be Microsoft will ya.  And YOUR Answer about Microsoft Picture manager being omitted from MS office suite was a very poor attempt to placate one of your customers, or should I say hostage - figuratively speaking!  What a crock!!  You insult us!!!! - Boy, you really have us don't you.  We have to buy the only products you put out, we have to buy your updates and we HAVE to be signed into the internet or email account so that we can use our computers.  I think you are awful people.  I will return this computer and buy one from Craig's list or something.  You should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves.. but you don't give a darn about your clients... you are making a ton of money and have partners like ... I don't know, who?? .... you tell us!  So angry - you have no idea.  Maybe APPLE IS the KEY to all this... after all, that is why you destroyed your brand.... to be more Apple like is it not???  BTW, YOU CAN be innovative and make a substantial profit without being an A _ _ !! Try it sometime. - and get the "kids" out of the decision making chair!

Help with Mailmerge to Individual Documents

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 12:39 AM PST

Hi

 

I am trying to mailmerge from an excel data file, with each record being saved as an individual document. We are running Office 2010.

 

I have downloaded the excellent add-in from Graham Mayor and all works fine, except for the filename.

 

All the documents are saved with the name NoName Record.... rather than the filename from the filename column in the data file.

 

Ive checked the format of the filename column - there are no illegal characters.

 

The filename is in the format CCC - NNCccN

 

where C is a character and N is a number.

 

I think I must be doing something obvious wrong, but don't know what!


Any help would be appreciated.

Spaces not appearing

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 11:07 PM PST

Hi all,

This has happened a couple of times now, and i managed to fix it or it fixed itself the first time but i have no idea what is happening. Recently whenever I'm typing in Word 2013 (Professional Plus) it will at some time or another stop showing spaces. When i say this i don't mean they do not show up between words, or they appear as dots, but as i come to the end of a word and hit spacebar, the cursor will stay at the end of the word and not move on a space. It does not matter how many times spacebar is pressed, the spaces will not appear until a letter key is pressed. This is really frustrating me while I am writing essays for University and I'm watching a I type because i waste so much time thinking i haven't pressed the key properly and end up double or triple spacing and having to fix it!

If anyone knows what Word is doing, or how to fix it, it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Peter

Cannot Call Distributed "Fix Text" windows out

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 09:36 PM PST

Hi,

May I know how to call the fix text windows when I highlight partially or full text & click on distributed button in Ms Office 2013 or Ms Office 2010?

How to retain italics, bold when applying styles in Word 2010

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 07:00 PM PST

I understand that Word drops the character italics/bold, etc features if more than half of the paragraph appear as such. This is a real problem. I'm re-styling bibliographic references (to make them hanging indents) and most have a majority of italicized words in the lines.

Some folks suggest a workaround of subbing ALL italics to highlights, applying the new paragraph styles (which usually wipe out the italics) and then subbing italics in at all the highlighted text.

Please tell me there's a more efficient way. I've tried removing "Regular" from the font description in the paragraph style I'm using. that didn't work. and even when I took the time to apply direct formatting of the italicized words before applying the style, it was still wiped out.

very frustrating. and a waste of time. can anyone help?

Microsoft Word 2010 wont open

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 06:50 PM PST

I have issues with my Windows 2010 it wont open it was fine and now it wont open. I have Windows 7 Home 64 bit. I have tried the registry way and delete the HKEY OFFICE 2014 DATA and allow the system to rewrite it. Didn't work.  I tried to restart it in safe mode it wont open in safe mode. So I was told that a third party app may have messed with the registry. I've ran my security program didn't work still wont open. It states c://programfiles/microsoft office\office14\wwwlib.dll is either not designed to run on windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support. I've tried to reinstall but my computer for some reason wont delete and reinstall it. But anyway it wont work, but excel, access, powerpoint 2010 works and can access it. Please Help.

Obtaining Names of Word Documents via VBA for a DropBox Control on a UserForm

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 06:18 PM PST

I need to obtain a list of all Word documents in a specified subfolder ("c:\letters\Boilerplate") to include each document name (using .addItem) into a Userform Dropbox control (the control is named "WhichOne").

How is this done?

TIA

MSWord 2007 crashing after saving or "saving as" a document

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 05:44 PM PST

Hello!  All of a sudden Word is crashing as soon as I try to "save as" a document.  Sometimes if I'm fast enough I can save it with a new name, but then the program crashes.  Any advice?  I'm using WINDOWS VISTA operating system.  Thanks!

Microsoft Word "Not Responding"

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 04:51 PM PST

I've been using word recently, and I have found that every so often it stops working. 
It doesn't freeze as I would expect eg showing 'Not responding'.
It just doesn't allow me to continue typing, or even click on the word document. I have to wait a minute or so for it to continue working. 
So far I haven't lost any of my work, however it's not convenient when trying to write an essay to keep stopping and waiting for it to work. 

I have windows 8 and microsoft 2013 and my laptop is under a year old, so I can't understand where the issue is coming from.

Has anyone else had this issue? Does anyone know why it is occurring or how to solve it?

Problems with DNS12.5

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 04:42 PM PST

I am running Dragon Naturally Speaking version 12.5 on a Dell laptop.  I loaded Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013.  DNS will not dictate onto a Word document unless I use a Dialogue Box.  I followed your advice to try to enable the Natspeak Addin, but whenever I try to enable it, I get the message 'No items match your search'.  
Any ideas?

Thanks

Peter

Word 2010 Organizer

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 04:23 PM PST

In 2010, when I use the Style Organizer, on the right side, it does not show all the styles in my normal.dotm It only shows Default Paragraph Font, Heading 1 thru 5, No List, Normal, Normal Indent, Table Normal.  How do I get all the styles in Normal.dotm (global template) to show up?  I've used the Style Organizer for years in 2007 and I always had all the styles showing. Thank you for your help.

external dependencies with projects in different folders Microsoft Project

external dependencies with projects in different folders Microsoft Project

external dependencies with projects in different folders

Posted: 03 Jan 2005 12:45 PM PST

Hi Dave,

Glad to know you got it worked out. Thanks for the feedback.

Julie

"Dave Barr" wrote:
 

How do you change the default year from 2004 to 2005?

Posted: 03 Jan 2005 11:15 AM PST

You're welcome Morgan. Thanks for the feedback.

Julie

"Morgan" wrote:
 

Editing Text w/in customized column

Posted: 03 Jan 2005 11:10 AM PST

Hi Gerry,

Can you use your arrow movement keys (left arrow) instead of the backspace
key to move the cursor? The backspace key will delete text as it moves to
the left, the left and right arrow keys should just allow you to move within
the text without deleting.

Hope this helps. Let us know if you need further assistance and thanks for
the feedback.

Julie

"gerry myers" wrote:
 

can't outdent inserted projects

Posted: 03 Jan 2005 09:32 AM PST

That worked Jack - thanks for your help


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Color & Thinkness of Today's Date Line in Gantt Chart

Posted: 03 Jan 2005 07:54 AM PST

Right click on the gantt area, select gridlines and format the "current
date" line the way you want.


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Date of project

Posted: 03 Jan 2005 05:35 AM PST

Hi M,

Sorry, didn't realize you were looking for the VBA answer. I have *very*
limited knowledge of VBA, but when I recorded the steps for setting the start
date, the resulting code was:

ProjectSummaryInfo Start:="1/10/05"

Hope this helps.

Julie


"M" wrote:
 

Round bar to whole days

Posted: 02 Jan 2005 06:18 AM PST

I'll concur with Julie. When using the US English version of Pro without
Server a double-click on the selector button beside either the resource name
in the task usage view or by the task name in resource usage view brings up
the Assignment Information form and the contour field and pull-down is on
the first page of both. Is the entire field missing from the pop-up form in
your version or is the field on the form but the picklist of options is
empty?
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


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Totals when reporting by month

Posted: 01 Jan 2005 11:30 PM PST

Hi Glenn,

Thanks for the clarification. I begin to understand better now your
scenario and see why you were having difficulty. The milestone report is not
a time-phased report such as the Cash Flow or Who Does What When Report which
can easily show column totals of data by month based upon the time-phased
data.
When you format the milestone report to show you milestones by month,
Project is just grouping the milestone tasks by month for display purposes.

If I understand you correctly, you want to be able to run a count by
grouping (per month)based upon your criteria and then a total for the entire
report. To the best of my knowledge, totaling by month in this type of
report is not possible within project. The only suggestion I can come up
with is an export to excel.

Perhaps there is someone else within the community who sees something I don't.

Sorry I wasn't able to assist further. I'll keep pondering and repost if an
idea strikes.

Julie

"Glenn Eldridge" wrote:
 

Project 2000 - Can I lock down cost information in Project from us

Posted: 31 Dec 2004 07:03 AM PST

Adding to my other response, I've always felt that if a user is high enough
in the organizationto have actual access to the plannig file, they were high
enough to see the cost data. If not, give them a PDF of the portion of the
information that concerns them.

--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

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Integrated MS Project 2003+BUg Tracking+Attendance management

Posted: 31 Dec 2004 02:44 AM PST

Thanks - I'll look it up

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MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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Managing dependcies when using Multiple Projects

Posted: 30 Dec 2004 04:59 PM PST

In article <phx.gbl>,
"Dave Barr" <com> wrote:
 

Dave,
I'm not sure why you say it was painful. That almost sounds like you
manually entered the full path for each external link. If that is the
method you used there are much easier ways. The method I have used is to
set the view to display both the source and destination tasks so they
appear on the same screen (a filter can be used if the tasks are many
lines apart). Then click and hold your mouse on the center of the source
Gantt bar and drag to the center of the destination Gantt bar. The link
will be made automatically including the path if appropriate.

John

Project keeps crashing

Posted: 30 Dec 2004 12:59 PM PST

It sounds like there are some files that Project is missing when they're not
connected to the network through their docking stations. Without knowing
the specifics of what is different in the whole package when they are in
their docking station versus when they're not it's impossible to say what is
happening. Are they connecting to the same server when they're not at the
their docking station? Are the drive mappings the same? Do they have
access to all the same folders on the server? Does the docking station
contain their network card, an additional hard drive, that sort of thing?

There's nothing in Project that prevents it from running on a laptop without
a docking station - I do it all the time. There is something about your
specific installation that changes when they're undocked that is the key to
the problem. So to track it down, find out exactly what is different.

Hmm - a thought. Go to one of the users with the problem who is able to
connect when the laptop is in the docking station. Undock the laptop.
Unplug the network cable from the docking station and plug it into the
laptop network card directly. Can it load Project or not?
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

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Project 2000 - 1,048,000 rows in a project message.

Posted: 28 Dec 2004 06:43 PM PST

Hi Don,

If you can't open the file at all, then you have no option but to go to a
backup. Sorry


Mike Glen
Project MVP

toast88 wrote: 

Microsoft Word - Sending an email document form Word 2010

Microsoft Word - Sending an email document form Word 2010

Sending an email document form Word 2010

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 12:57 PM PST

Can anyone help me with this please?

I am using Home & Student Office 2010 and want to send a document as an email.

When I click on "Select recipients" under the " Mailings" tab and then "Select from Outlook Contacts" I get an error message that no email programme is associated to perform the requested action. It suggests going to create an association in the Defaults Program panel. I have looked high and low through Default Programs via control panel but don't see, (or don't recognise) what I have to do.

Am I missing something simple or is this no longer possible since I was changed to Outlook automatically a little while ago?

Any help gratefully received.

Alan

Why do I keep getting the installation Wizard coming up when I already have a yearly subscription and an installation already running?

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 12:40 PM PST

This is the third time this installation wizard has come up in as many months despite having a 12 month subscription.  I am about to have an 'unlicensed product' again which I have already paid for and has involved over 4 hours online with a tech guy taking over my computer through no fault of my own.  When this happened the last time (exactly one month ago) the tech guy said it would not happen again - BUT IT HAS.  Will Microsoft please sort this issue out as I am fed up with spending hours trying to use the system I have already paid for.   HELP ME SOMEONE.  The most annoying thing is that it works great until the installation wizard appears again!

Why can't I format just one line?

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 12:30 PM PST

I wonder who the brain dead person was that implemented this utterly stupid "feature"?  

I highlight one line.  I do something to it.  (Centering it).  But it formats several lines below it as well.  I didn't highlight those lines.  Why are they affected?  To think the software maker actually got paid to do something like this is just beyond comprehension.  Why does Microsoft try to think for its customers?  Are their customers really so incapable of making decisions themselves?  Please:  NO Microsoft links.  They are utterly useless, written by people devoid of English communication skills.  There's got to be an easy solution to this.  Under Options I disabled whatever I could find that could be connected to this.  I am not very knowledgeable in Word I admit.  I just expect logic from software though.


I should mention that I always use Shift_Enter when working with text like this.  

Word 2013 design elements/limitations

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 11:54 AM PST

Two years ago I bought a laptop with office starter on it and came to really like using word to create graphics. The motherboard on that laptop died so we had to buy a new one and a new office 2013 with it. I'm disappointed I can't do some of the same things I could do with the starter. For example I can't view the selection pane and I can't manipulate the blur or gradients as much as I could with the starter I had. Is there any way to use the licensing I had with my old laptop to get the starter I had before put onto my new laptop? (I still have the working hard drive from my old laptop) Or can I trade in the office 2013 I just bought to get a version that will be able to do those graphic design options I need? Please let me know as soon as possible. Thank you.

Key Code

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 10:46 AM PST

Just Purchased a new computer with Windows 8 and want to install Microsoft Office Suite 2005 but I do not have the "Key Code"

 

 

Any suggestions

can't edit ms word 7 documents

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 10:40 AM PST

sir i can't edit/ open passward protected ms word 7 documents
give me solution to open ms 7 docs.

Works 6-9 Converter will not install on Vista

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 09:07 AM PST

I have some old Works documents which I would like to open in Word 2007.

When I try, Word says I need a more recent version of the converter (for Works 6-9 files) and offers a link to the download.

I download the file, click on Run, the Install Wizard opens but almost immediately closes, without doing the install.

Please can anyone suggest why, or what I might do to get it working?

Can I just buy Word!

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 08:54 AM PST

I am considering buying a new laptop with Windows 8.1.  I would buy Microsoft Office which is expensive when all I want is 'word' and 'Publisher' Am I able to buy these on there own?  I know Publisher is sold separately but not sure about Word.

Convert word citations/bibliography to endnotes

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 08:31 AM PST

Hello,
I'm sure this question has been asked before, but I can't find the answer.

Is there a (hopefully, simple) way to convert MS Word citations to endnotes in the same document?

I don't want to lose the bibliography, but my publisher has asked if I can make my citations as numbered endnotes in the same document.

I'm hoping to avoid going to a third-party software, but I'm a tad desperate -- I'll happily go that route if that's what's necessary.

Help,please!

Thanks,
Carlos

Word 2013: Setting Layout for 6"x9" CreateSpace Book

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 07:35 AM PST

Admittedly, MS Word is a (way cool) word-processing app, and not a page-layout app, yet untold numbers of writers use it when writing and designing self-published books. I just completed a 200-page biography and need clarification regarding inner margins in page layout.

To do this layout, I do the following: Page Layout > size > more paper sizes > page setup > margins. (This after setting the paper size, at 6 by 9 inches.) After much research, I've determined the settings I will use for my book. Problem is, I do not understand the need to specify settings for BOTH inside margin and gutter. I thought for a book (as opposed to, say, a two-column newsletter), inside margin = gutter. No difference. Yet when I viewed a YouTube video on CreateSpace, the video showed on one screen the alleged default settings for CreateSpaces's master book template, which had separate settings for inner margin AND gutter.

My question: Do I need to set both values--IM and gutter? If the inner margin/gutter needs to measure .75 inches of white space, does it matter what settings I have for inner margin and gutter, as long as the total equals .75 inches? For instance, will the outcome be any different if I: (a) set IM at .5 and gutter at .25, or (b) set IM at .75 and gutter at 0.0?

Thank you in advance.

MIDATLANTIC

Word 2013 changes saved document to .tmp file

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 06:21 AM PST

Hi - I have only had office professional 2013 a short time, working on a Dell with windows 7 64 bit, recent new documents I have created have disappeared (although they show in "recent" list), when I try to open it says "file cannot be found" - I then search my documents folder and find a TMP file there, I can open this in word and it is my missing document! - why is it renaming it to a TMP file? - renaming the document to what it was before and saving it cures the problem, I have seen other posts regarding this but they are all on older office and windows versions and don't really give me an answer.

Opening Template file

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 06:05 AM PST

Recent phenomenon.

I have a few Word templates in a folder at My Word/My Templates.

If I right click over a template icon and click on 'open', one document opens on desktop.

If I double click on the template icon or if I double click on a shortcut icon to a template file, two documents open on the desktop.

Is this easy to cure?

Microsoft Office not responding, very slow

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 05:26 AM PST

Hi 

I have Microsoft Office 2013 and recently downloaded Windows 8.1 update. Everything was working fine until this last week. Now Word & Excel documents are taking a very long time to open, and repeatedly freezing while working on documents. Outlook is also 'not responding' at times as well. After a couple of minutes the documens recovers itself and you can continue working but within a few moments the same problem will occur. Other times the document is forced to close. If I have more than one document open at a time it effects all of them. This is making doing any type of work extremely frustrating and tiresome. At first I thought this problem was due to Skydrive as all of these documents are saved via Skydrive. However today I transferred documents to my computer so no longer saving or opening from Skydrive. The problem still continues. 

I have been researching these issues and tried several solutions:

  • Opened word in safe mode - opens quickly 
  • I have disabled all add-ins on Word & Excel
  • I have disabled hardware graphic acceleration 
  • I have ran an Microsoft Office online repair
None of these have had any effect.

Please can you help with find a solution.

Thanks

Folders and sub folders in Office 2013

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 03:33 AM PST

On occasions I open up a main folder from my computer which has several sub folders inside. However sometimes I open up the main folder to find that all the sub folders have disappeared but all the documents from the sub folders are still in the main folder. Any suggestions on why this could be happening?

Unprotect range within a word document

Posted: 06 Nov 2013 10:47 PM PST

Hi, 

I've a word macro enabled document which uses several FormFields and content Controls with the document being protected and only "Filling in Forms" allowed, so that the user is only able to edit within the formfields or content controls and no other part of the document. 

But in this document there is a table where I want the user to copy-paste rows from a different document. For this, I was thinking may be I can unprotect this entire table (ONLY), so that, this way the user will be able to do any kind of editing ONLY in this table and anywhere else in the document the user will only be able to edit the FormFields and Content Controls.

How can I unprotect only a certain table in the document, so that user can make any changes here? 

Thanks.

Why is this happening: Word is Converting OnlineCertDB.xlsx...?

Posted: 06 Nov 2013 08:50 PM PST

I use office for Mac and also have it on my VM with Win7.  I recently made changes to an Excel spreadsheet that I duplicated in a corresponding one used for merging data into Word docs.  On both I get either the "Word is converting...(see above) or the Win7 circle just spins and nothing merges.  Any ideas as to why all of a sudden this happens with both?

Why won't this File open

Posted: 06 Nov 2013 05:58 PM PST

Hello from Steved

 

1. Save File Named "Dictionary2"

2. While 'Dictionary2" is open Run a macro called "Dictionary"

3. Select the Whole Document, then cut, then open a file called "Dictionary"

4. Goto end of the "Dictionary" document that I have opened and paste.

5. Now close and save the file called "Dictionary"

5, Close the Document called "Dictionary2" without saving it

 

   ok the above is fine here is where I have the Problem, I now want to open "Dictionary2",

   so please what do I need to do to open this file called "Dictionary2"  as I want to run another macro called "Trainers"

 

In a nut shell with the document "Dictionary2" I want to run two Macros "Dictionary" 1st and then "Trainers" 2nd.

 

 

Sub test()
    Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
    ActiveDocument.SaveAs2 FileName:="Dictionary2.docx"
    Application.Run MacroName:="Dictionary"
    Selection.WholeStory
    Selection.Cut
    Documents.Open FileName:="Dictionary.docx"
    Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdStory
    Selection.TypeParagraph
    Selection.PasteAndFormat (wdFormatOriginalFormatting)
    ActiveDocument.Save
    ActiveDocument.Close
    Documents.Open FileName:="Dictionary2.docx"
    Application.Run MacroName:="Trainers"
End Sub

Formulas in tables: returning blank cells

Posted: 06 Nov 2013 04:43 PM PST

Hello,

I have been trying to specify a formula where, in case cells have no values, the result is a blank cell instead of 0.00 . I have tried:

=IF(D4*E4=0,"",D4*E4)

and

=IF(D4*E4>0,D4*E4,"")

But I get a syntax error.

Also, is there any way to refer to columns D and E  generically, so that I can copy and paste the same formula in each column? As in, D1*E1 for row 1, D2*E2 for row 2, etc.

Thank you.

Word 2010 Display Paragraph Marks

Posted: 06 Nov 2013 03:49 PM PST

All of a sudden when I force a page break, a paragraph mark appears at the 3" on the ruler.  When I delete this paragraph mark the tabs for the 1st line after the break are affected.  How do I fix this?

Microsoft Word

Posted: 06 Nov 2013 03:46 PM PST

I have had Microsoft word 97 running for some time with no issues, then a month ago it converted my files & said if I do not buy or try free trial I could not receive my documents.
Now it is saying that my subscription has expired & that as of Fri 8th Nov most features of word will be disabled & that i have to choose an option of either Buy, Enter Key or Sign in?
Why do I have to purchase again? Is this a scam? Will I lose my documents? This has happened to several friends as well.
Any advice appreciated.

Slow respones to key press

Posted: 06 Nov 2013 02:33 PM PST

I created a document using Microsoft word. Now when I go back to add on to this document my computer is very slow responding to my key strokes. Only happens while I'm  In this document, when I am using my computer elsewhere it operates fine. My laptop is only a month or so old. I put a lot of work into this document and would hate to start over. Thanks in advance....
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