| Subject | Date Asked |
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| how to print gridlines in Word 7 | 11/20/2009 |
Q: I activate rulers and gridlines when I use Word 7. How can I print these gridlines? Thank you ...
A: Sorry I wasn't able to help further - as I mentioned, if I knew what form of document you were ...
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| Importing charts from Excel into Word | 11/19/2009 |
Q: I'm importing charts from Excel into Word and when I paste them into the Word document the bottom ...
A: In that case I'm at something of a loss - clicking once on the chart and copying (I use ctrl C) then ...
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| how to print gridlines in Word 7 | 11/19/2009 |
Q: I activate rulers and gridlines when I use Word 7. How can I print these gridlines? Thank you ...
A: Rulers and gridlines are there to help you layout the document on screen, but they are not part of ...
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| word 2000 / Windows 7 | 11/18/2009 |
Q: Word 2000 loads ok with Windows 7 but when the programme is opened there are no tool bars and any ...
A: the Normal.dot file is the default template and will be in the template location - but as you canot ...
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| word 2000 / Windows 7 | 11/18/2009 |
Q: Word 2000 loads ok with Windows 7 but when the programme is opened there are no tool bars and any ...
A: I've no experience of word 2000 with the latest version of windows, and of course Microsoft have ...
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| MS word 2003 | 11/13/2009 |
Q: I have been using word 2003 for the past 8 months with no problems. I type letters for doctors. ...
A: I’m not quite sure why this would be – POSSIBLY a change to the normal style, but that doesn’t ...
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| Microsoft Word Bullets and Tabbing | 11/10/2009 |
Q: http://www.allexperts.com/user.cgi?m=6&catID=1058&expID=105045&qID=4780260 I have just asked this ...
A: I'm not familiar with the macOS but the description of the problem doesn't sound like something I've ...
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| cursor jumping while entering text | 11/9/2009 |
Q: I'll be typing in Word and Outlook and all of a sudden the cursor/text is in the middle of previous ...
A: This is almost certainly computer related - but you didn't specify what form of computer it is - IF ...
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| 10pt spacing on Mac Word 2008 | 11/5/2009 |
Q: I am currently having a problem with sentence spacing using Mac Word 2008. Everytime I open up a ...
A: I'm not familiar with the Mac platform but it is basically a case of changing the defaults,which ...
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| Printing Labels - Using mail merge | 11/4/2009 |
Q: We have a excel spreadsheet where I have stored the address of all my customers with there names, ...
A: The mail merge SHOULD consist of a page of labels, each one one cell in a table and each one EXCEPT ...
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| urgent and desperate! I have to recover a word file | 11/4/2009 |
Q: I opened a Word document that was attached to an email message (in my yahoo account) with Word 2007. ...
A: It MAY be there, but you probably are out of luck - we have a similar problem in my office, though ...
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| urgent and desperate! I have to recover a word file | 11/4/2009 |
Q: I opened a Word document that was attached to an email message (in my yahoo account) with Word 2007. ...
A: As the attachment was opened directly, it will be in one of the temporary locations - but it will ...
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| Forms in Word | 11/4/2009 |
Q: I am making a Form in Word that has to work for word 2000-2007 users preferably. The form is 2 ...
A: The only way I can think of to do this would be via VBA, though if I was using VBA I probably ...
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| closig | 11/2/2009 |
Q: Wean i open one word doc and minimize.Then open other word doc in that time that minimized word doc ...
A: version of word might help, but I'm not 100% sure I follow what it is that is going on - I realize ...
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| skipping around | 10/31/2009 |
Q: I bought a new dell laptop in march and am having an issue with the cursor jumping around when I try ...
A: This is an issue with the laptop rather than the software - as I haven't got a dell I cannot be ...
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| MS Word Table | 10/29/2009 |
Q: I am required to produce a template for a number of manuals but am having difficulty with the TOC. ...
A: You can try to use the modify button against the relevant headings and set the style that way – I ...
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| Conditional page break in mail merge | 10/29/2009 |
Q: I'm wondering whether you can help. I have created a one-page letter for mail merge where some of ...
A: As long as you set the view to view field codes (tools, options view, then check field codes in ...
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| MS Word 2003 | 10/28/2009 |
Q: Ms word 2003 does not recognize my HP photosmart C6380 all in one printer and does not print. Ms ...
A: As far as I know, all Office programs print to whatever printer is selected using the driver in ...
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| Word 2007: chapters in headers across master documents | 10/27/2009 |
Q: Right, I’m using Word 2007 and I’m getting to that stage where I need to start thinking about my PhD ...
A: I'm almost certain Word will be able to do it, but it's outside my area of expertise- I work very ...
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| WORD 2008 for Mac, Line Spacing | 10/26/2009 |
Q: WORD 2008 with Update 12.2.1 Aidan, My Paragraph setup refuses to give me single line spacing. It ...
A: I’m not familiar with that version of Word – but that shouldn’t matter – I’m not sure what steps you ...
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| MS-Word 7 hyperlinks point to previous page | 10/26/2009 |
Q: A MS-Word 7 document has many hyperlinks, some working correctly and some pointing to the text ...
A: Not sure which version of word you are actually referring to as Word 7 is from memory Word 95, Word ...
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| change normal template in word 207, Vista | 10/26/2009 |
Q: I am trying to change the default font and page layout in Word 2007 (Vista). Apparently I have done ...
A: The picture certainly helps - this is the NEW menu, which is fine for creating new documents - the ...
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| Microsoft Office | 10/26/2009 |
Q: Hey, I have installed Microsoft office on 3 PCs in my home, which is the maximum number. If i were ...
A: I hadn't come across three as the maximum number, but if you uninstall it from one PC it is fine to ...
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| Pagination - 2007 Word Home/Office | 10/24/2009 |
Q: I have a 9 page doc to paginate. On page 1, the text is formatted 2.0" at top margin, and "1" must ...
A: I've always found the page number options to be slightly unhelpful - SO I tend to use the page ...
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| change normal template in word 207, Vista | 10/23/2009 |
Q: I am trying to change the default font and page layout in Word 2007 (Vista). Apparently I have done ...
A: The official guide to this is at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100307561033.aspx There ...
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| Re: Microsoft Word 2003 | 10/22/2009 |
Q: For some reason, the Microsoft Word 2003 on my computer do not have the "Spelling and Grammar" under ...
A: It MAY be that the option is still there but a hidden menu choice - if so, look for a downward arrow ...
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| Microsoft Word Language setting problem | 10/22/2009 |
Q: Mr. Heritage, While typing a normal Word doc in English, I accidentally pressed some kind of ...
A: The left point “black flag” sounds like a paragraph mark – tools, options, view and uncheck this. ...
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| MS Word problem printing on envelopes. | 10/21/2009 |
Q: My name is Lenny and I'm having this problem with Microsoft Office Word 2007. This problem relates ...
A: I can find nothing to explain this despite a lengthy search - my own printing preference for ...
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| dual documents | 10/21/2009 |
Q: When I'm working with two documents at once - moving info from one to the other - something strange ...
A: It sounds to me as though this is likely to be a memory issue as the document itself is fine, but ...
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| read-only, box unchecked | 10/16/2009 |
Q: I know that a lot of people complain about files suddenly appearing as read-only files in Vista. I ...
A: It's PROBABLY a vista issue rather than Word - a lot of folders are set at a level that only ...
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| Microsoft Word and other Office 2007 slow to open and operate. | 10/16/2009 |
Q: I have had this issue with Microsoft Word and Excel for nearly three months now. I have tried ...
A: I have not been able to find an obvious answer - there MAY be add-in issues, or perhaps indexing ...
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| Inserting Page Numbers has disappeared | 10/16/2009 |
Q: I have Microsoft word 2004 for Mac. I have used this program for about two years now and have never ...
A: I am at something of a disadvantage here in that I've never used a mac - this site ...
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| Format Painter Question in Word 1007 | 10/15/2009 |
Q: I have a manual that I need to change. It has headings, then numbered subheadings. Some of the ...
A: You could try selecting a paragraph that has the format you want, then click on the button to the ...
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| Scan problems | 10/14/2009 |
Q: I ask Dale but he was unable to help me. I can not scan in to word 2007 Insert does not give the ...
A: this sounds as though it's a printer specific problem - the scanner is not being recognized by ...
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| MS Word Spacing Issue | 10/14/2009 |
Q: my question is how in the world do I get MS Word 2007 (not any other version) to correct spacing ...
A: Not sure what issue you are having - a justified paragraph would automatically fill the space ...
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| Odd symbols in Microsoft Word document | 10/12/2009 |
Q: Every time I open my senior thesis document at school, there are sections that turn into strange ...
A: Word should be happy enough opening the older version on the newer, and I'm WONDERING if the ...
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| interactive word doc | 10/9/2009 |
Q: I am looking to create an interactive word document that may be edited by more than one party. Or ...
A: I'm not sure what the best way to go about this would be - my inclination would be to almost get the ...
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| deletion methods | 10/9/2009 |
Q: For all the many years of using Word, I have not had this happen before and it drives me crazy! I ...
A: You have PROBABLY turned on WordPerfect help/navigation keys - tools, options and then (I think) the ...
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| MS Word Page Numbering | 10/9/2009 |
Q: Is it possible to print numbers on a single page you need to print fifty times? I need to number ...
A: Interesting question - I wasn't able to find an easy and obvious answer to this online - my ...
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| cross reference word 2007 | 10/7/2009 |
Q: Sometimes when a Table or Figure is cross referenced and the document is sent to print it inserts a ...
A: I've not been able to find any explanation of this in searching, but it MAY be that the document is ...
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| directories | 10/5/2009 |
Q: Somehow I have reversed the alphabetical order of all the directories on my C: drive. How do I get ...
A: Not a problem - simply change your view to a DETAIL view in the file open dialog box, then click on ...
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| Word Toolbar | 10/4/2009 |
Q: Edit, View etc across the top. The top line was a series of boxes, first box on the top left was ...
A: It was Word 2007 - it's the new look, and without add-ins you CANNOT change it to the old way - most ...
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| autochanges in Style (don't want) | 10/1/2009 |
Q: When I type something on a new blank page, after the first line Word2007 automatically changes the ...
A: The normal style will apply usually - and if you choose a different style, this would apply to that ...
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| Set cell size in a table in Word 2003 | 9/30/2009 |
Q: I would like to restrict the number of characters that can be typed into a cell in a table in Word ...
A: Not directly - you CAN set a cell height which would restrict the characters by virtue of the user ...
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| Microsoft word problem | 9/30/2009 |
Q: When I open Microsoft office, the last document with typing appears and I have to delete the typing. ...
A: You didn't specify version of word BUT you either have a corrupted normal template file, or you file ...
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| Borders | 9/16/2009 |
Q: I want to put my cover letter and resume into one document. I do not want to put a border around my ...
A: No problem - after the cover letter insert a section break (other than word 2007, insert menu, ...
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| Hi | 9/16/2009 |
Q: I have a microsoft word 2007, but it have a problem of typing, when I typing the carsor jump back ...
A: This would need OCR software - the language isn't relevent to that - most scanners come with some ...
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| Using merge field in If statement in Word 2007 | 9/14/2009 |
Q: I am using application Pegasus Opera II. There is a CRM module and with this you can set up User ...
A: I think the solution is in the fact that you have mergefields shown with numbers and not names, so ...
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| mail merge wizard for envelopes | 9/12/2009 |
Q: When I print the envelopes the recipient address doesn't stay together. The house address and ...
A: I don't tend to use wizards, but I don't know which version of word you are using so troubleshooting ...
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| Can you assist w/ a MS Word 2007 trouble shooting ? | 9/11/2009 |
Q: I have Windows Vista installed and am using MS Office Professional 2007. Over the past week I have ...
A: I would think it's a Word problem - I have had reports of similar problems - the FRST thing I would ...
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| Hyperlink problem | 9/10/2009 |
Q: Good day Aidan Heritage, Thank you for taking my question. I am using MS Office Word 2003. How do I ...
A: I'm not clear here, but it seems that possibly your changes are altering the hyperlink to normal ...
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| how to activate page numbering | 9/8/2009 |
Q: I have installed Microsoft Word 2007 but page numbering is off. How can activate it. Thank you ...
A: I have not been able to find anything at microsofts knowledge base to explain this in a release ...
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| Mail Merge in 2007 | 9/2/2009 |
Q: I have a user that has Win XP\Office 2007. In Word, she created an envelope mail merge which she ...
A: IF the data source still exists, it would be easier to re-merge - selecting just to merge records ...
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| save each page as seperate document but retain header and footer | 9/2/2009 |
Q: i have this macro to save each page as a seperate document file, but in this macro header and footer ...
A: This macro has come directly from microsoft and as they themselves remark it has that feature - not ...
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| inserting a image into word | 9/1/2009 |
Q: I want to insert an image (JPEG) into a word 2003 document. I know how to insert an image but have ...
A: Images can be hard to work with in Word - it's POSSIBLE that using Publisher may be a better option ...
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| Updating a UserForm | 9/1/2009 |
Q: unfortunately I think I put the wrong e-mail address. I have created a macro, which is attached to ...
A: I don't actually get to see the email address, it's only used to send you the confirmation - so I'll ...
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| User Form Editing | 8/31/2009 |
Q: I Have created a MSWord 2003 template and within the template I have created a macro that would ...
A: I don't actually get to see the email address, it's only used to send you the confirmation - so I'll ...
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| Applying two styles to one paragraph in Word 2003 | 8/30/2009 |
Q: I need to create paragraphs that have automatic numbering (several levels), followed by a short ...
A: Sorry, but a style (as far as I know) has to apply to the paragraph - which is (to word) all text ...
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| Paste Function | 8/27/2009 |
Q: I am having trouble pasting into Word from the internet and other programs. I have Microsoft Word ...
A: Can you be a little more specific - in what way are you having problems pasting - this information ...
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| MS Word templates | 8/26/2009 |
Q: I saved a word document as a template in the My Documents file. The document has 37 text boxes in ...
A: It looks as though it IS the number of text boxes that is the issue (see ...
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| Printing from word | 8/25/2009 |
Q: wonder if you can assist me. When printing from word I am unable to print in black. I have checked ...
A: options, and the print tab, so I've done some research online and not got very far - I've not come ...
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| Word 2007 page numbering | 8/25/2009 |
Q: I am working in a document someone sent to us, a scientific report set up with styles, but I am ...
A: I certainly agree with you about fixing things that aren't broken - I still struggle to find things ...
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| Footer does not appear over picture | 8/24/2009 |
Q: I am using Word 2002 to create templates for our team. We have a picture set up to create a ...
A: does the letterhead have to be on additional pages? If so, I'd put it into the header area - but ...
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| Word 2007 blank doc | 8/23/2009 |
Q: I am using Vista and Word 2007. Each time I open Word a document comes up that I already wrote. I ...
A: When word starts, it bases it's default document on the normal template - so if the document that ...
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| Active hyperlinks in a Word mail merge | 8/12/2009 |
Q: I have active hyperlinks in my Excel spreadsheet that I am using as a data source for a mail merge. ...
A: Not directly as hyperlinks, but if the merge is being printed that shouldn't matter - if they HAVE ...
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| sending an email attachment with endnotes | 8/12/2009 |
Q: I have Microsoft 2007 and I would be very grateful for your help. I am trying to send an email ...
A: I'm confused - if your document is saved with endnotes, and you attach it to an email (or send to ...
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| Quote Form | 8/11/2009 |
Q: I need to create a quote form that allows me to type in the quote form field without the document ...
A: examples don't make it through on this system, but you are welcome to email me - ...
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| Microsoft Excell 2003 and 2007? | 8/11/2009 |
Q: I've been having a problem with Microsoft Excel. The company I work for uses Excel 2003 and I and ...
A: I think this is a simple compatability issue, and I haven't been able to find any answer to it ...
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| alignment problem | 8/9/2009 |
Q: I am trying to print party invitations on 5.5" x 8.5" paper. I've set the paper size to custom sized ...
A: I would be INCLINED to blame the printer here - paticular for what is perhaps non standard paper - ...
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| Usable Forms in Word | 8/5/2009 |
Q: I have created a checklist/form and want to set it so the information cannot be changed by others. ...
A: No problem, you need the developer ribbon (Office button, then Word options - click the button for ...
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| [Word 2002] Dependant drop down menu | 8/5/2009 |
Q: I'm attempting to have a section of text 'appear' depending on the selection made from a dropdown ...
A: Yes, you can do this - it would be an IF field, using the bookmark name of your dropdown list to ...
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| copying emails from Outlook to Word | 8/4/2009 |
Q: Is there any way to prevent Microsoft Word from automatically changing e-mail addresses to name only ...
A: I use macros to copy data from outlook to Word, but I’m not aware of any way of doing this without ...
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| Usable Forms in Word | 8/4/2009 |
Q: I have created a checklist/form and want to set it so the information cannot be changed by others. ...
A: You didn't specify version, so I'll assume NOT 2007 - view, toolbars, forms - then use the checkbox ...
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| Interactive quiz in word | 8/4/2009 |
Q: I want to create a quiz for people they can do in word. The basic idea is a question with 3 or 4 ...
A: Difficult to do via the medium of AllExperts as I cannot give you sample files – basically though, ...
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| Equal Character (===) | 8/4/2009 |
Q: Hello and I wish that you are doing well. Thanks for your last recommends. My question is: After ...
A: it's auto format as you type which is kicking in here - you can undo previous action as soon as it ...
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| How do I save letterhead. | 8/3/2009 |
Q: I am in outside sales for a forklift company. A lot of the work I do is from my laptop. I scanned ...
A: having scanned it and emailed it it's already mostly done I imagine - I ASSUME that you effectively ...
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| reporting a typo on your page | 7/31/2009 |
Q: "Mircrosoft Office Word" on this page: ...
A: I realise that you spot the mistakes but not the detail - the detail in this instance was that the ...
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| Word Templates/Master Pages | 7/31/2009 |
Q: The company I work for has a large number of Word documents containing training material. They are ...
A: I can sympathise - our company has been bought out a number of times, so we've rebranded more times ...
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| Interactive quiz in word | 7/29/2009 |
Q: I want to create a quiz for people they can do in word. The basic idea is a question with 3 or 4 ...
A: I would do this completely via a userform I think - this would require VBA but would be fairly easy ...
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| protected form | 7/29/2009 |
Q: I just completed formatting a form and protected it with no password in Word 2003. Now it is not ...
A: Did you protect it only for forms? You will basically need to unprotect it and then protect it for ...
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| Linking a word in a word document to lead to a cell in Excel | 7/29/2009 |
Q: I have a series of numbers in a Word document which relate to single-celled captions to photographs ...
A: Yes, much more easily - you could then use data, filter, autofilter to get the items you wanted, or ...
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| Word2003/07 | 7/28/2009 |
Q: I have a document saved as a doc. and when I open it in compatibility mode in 2007 only 18 of the ...
A: Word 2007 seems to be fussier about document formatting - see ...
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| Form in word 2007 | 7/28/2009 |
Q: I was tasked to create a form in word 2007 i have made it but my problem everytime i filled it the ...
A: I'd do this by putting the data in a table, and setting the row height to a fixed size - after ...
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| paging a booklet in microsoft work | 7/27/2009 |
Q: I have created a booklet, in landscaped format, 8.5 x 14 (legal paper), with 2 columns on each page. ...
A: Not sure which bit you are stuck with - I THINK the first thing you need to do is use the page ...
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| Linking a word in a word document to lead to a cell in Excel | 7/26/2009 |
Q: I have a series of numbers in a Word document which relate to single-celled captions to photographs ...
A: I can make sense of the requirements, but I'm not quite sure how to go about it - you effectively ...
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| Re-Writable CD Question & Memory Sticks | 7/24/2009 |
Q: I am so frustrated! And aparently Dumb! I have written and saved files on Memorex CDRW disc ...
A: Any memory stick should do the job - it will give you the freedom to edit your document on any ...
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| Re-Writabe CD's | 7/24/2009 |
Q: I am so frustrated! And aparently Dumb! I have written and saved files on Memorex CDRW disc ...
A: I'm afraid this isn't a word question - it is related to the method you use to write to CD - BUT ...
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| Word 2003 and Word 2007 together | 7/23/2009 |
Q: I've another question for you. I have Windows XP and MS Word 2003 and Excel 2003 on my computer. ...
A: It is possible, I had both on my computer before I upgraded the operating system - I found I had ...
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| graphics | 7/23/2009 |
Q: how goes it? I have files with loads of graphics, each captioned, and I also use cross-references. ...
A: I haven't found anything to directly explain this, although I've had to search generally as I'm not ...
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| MS Word on Vista | 7/23/2009 |
Q: I know this is going to sound like a really dumb question and probably pretty insignificant in the ...
A: can you define "Avery" - if it's simply labels, then (assuming it's office 2007) you need the ...
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| Mail merge excel to word not formatting | 7/22/2009 |
Q: I run Office 2007 - when trying to merge data from Excel to a Word Doc the formatting of the cell in ...
A: I'm not going to make comments about Microsoft, but the best manual on doing mail merge was the one ...
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| Hourglass hanging up typing in Word | 7/22/2009 |
Q: I read your answer about the hourglass hanging up typing in Word. In her case, it happened on the ...
A: Based on the information given in the question, all I can do is give you a google link ...
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| Find and Replace | 7/22/2009 |
Q: I have a large amount of data that was exported from an Excel spreadsheet to a text file. Each row ...
A: I'm not aware of a way of doing this - if the data was three rows and a blank line, then that would ...
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| convert MS Word 97 merge data files to 2007 | 7/21/2009 |
Q: per your explanation before, looks like issue not clearly laid out. Merge files set up in MSW97 ...
A: It WILL work, although in vista the file locations have changed - which is possibly why it cannot ...
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| Preparing legal document | 7/21/2009 |
Q: I need to add a vertical line and numbers on the left side of a legal brief. How do I do this using ...
A: Not sure exactly what is required - so possibly format, tabs and set a bar tab - which gives a line ...
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| Reusable document | 7/21/2009 |
Q: I would like to know how to make a document template (or some type of document I could reuse) for ...
A: a template is a template - that's what it's called. In word, file save as, files of type, ...
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| Org Chart in a locked form | 7/20/2009 |
Q: I have created a locked form in Word 2003 (standard). In one section I want to put in an editable ...
A: I'm afraid I don't - if you look at the insert options in a protected document, you will notice that ...
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| About MS Word forensic feature or tools | 7/17/2009 |
Q: I am in a project that requires me to locate any tool that can help to trace how many version ...
A: I'm not sure such software exists or could exist - if I copy all the text of a file, paste to a new ...
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| Office 2007 TOC | 7/17/2009 |
Q: I have inserted a TOC in my document but do not like what 2007 is doing with regard to formatting. I ...
A: I haven't had cause to work with TOCs much in any of my documents, and certainly not in Word 2007, ...
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| Word Fails to Open Document | 7/17/2009 |
Q: Whilst using Word to try to continue writing a saved document the document disappeared when an ...
A: The NORMAL explanation for this would be that ctl A was pressed followed by pretty much any other ...
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| page numbers and header - word 2007 | 7/16/2009 |
Q: The document I'm working on needs page numbers in the right corner and a header on the same line ...
A: As seems to be the case a lot of the time, this used to be easy, but in making it "user friendly" ...
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| Word 2007 document saving/coping | 7/14/2009 |
Q: I need to be able to put a word document into several folders in one action and cannot figure out ...
A: If I understand the problem correctly, it relates to the multiple document interface - which you can ...
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| Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003 | 7/12/2009 |
Q: When I try to use the custom size for the envelope 4 3/8 x 5 3/4 I get the message "the requested ...
A: I've not come across the message, but did find a similar question asked of one of the other experts ...
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| Insert hyperlink into Text Form Field | 7/10/2009 |
Q: I am trying to insert a link into a text form field. I need keep the form protected so that users do ...
A: Not sure of an easy way round this - I suppose converting to an acrobat file could be one way round ...
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| end note numbering | 7/8/2009 |
Q: I have a large Word file containing several chapters of end noted material. I would like the end ...
A: Insert a section break at the end of each chapter -this then gives you a document with Breaks that ...
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| Word 2007 Automatic Updates on Subsequent Pages | 7/6/2009 |
Q: I am trying to create a 2007 word document so that information entered in will automatically ...
A: so my apologies for the delay in replying - you can use bookmarks to mark text, and then ref fields ...
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| Hi | 7/3/2009 |
Q: I have a microsoft word 2007, but it have a problem of typing, when I typing the carsor jump back ...
A: The files you have linked to are in the format GGB as you have stated - but these SEEM to be files ...
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| Word 2000 - Footnote Cross References | 7/2/2009 |
Q: I am working on a manuscript. When I click on Insert - Footnote - OK, the reference number that ...
A: I think the instructions are probably badly worded, and yes, it does appear that you would have to ...
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| Style | 7/2/2009 |
Q: How does one replace all occurrences of a particular style with another style? Thanks
A: find and replace, then click on more, and the format button - you can then select the style you want ...
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| word 2007 | 7/1/2009 |
Q: How can I add word art to a picture when a picture style has already been applied? I know you can ...
A: We are all fairly new to word 2007, and my knowledge goes back so far with other versions that you ...
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| Copied text from the web | 7/1/2009 |
Q: Quite often when I copy information from a web site,I often have small circles embedded. It makes ...
A: The problem with web pages is that although they appear as text, they are written in a markup ...
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| embed tiff file in word 2007 | 6/28/2009 |
Q: How do I embed a tiff file in word and have the icon look like a package. I tried the paste special ...
A: Just for once, this option remains exactly the same as far as instructions are concerned as earlier ...
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| Word 97 Placeholder Text | 6/26/2009 |
Q: I hope this is an easy one. I can't find out how to insert what I believe is called placeholder ...
A: The fields are macrobutton fields, but I'm not sure if they existed in office 97 - haven't got it ...
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| Saving a document to two diffeerent folders | 6/25/2009 |
Q: I often work on a document that I would like to save to two directories.I realize that I can "save ...
A: The only way would be via VBA, but I wouldn't set it to Ctrl S as that's the standard save ...
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| MS Word | 6/24/2009 |
Q: Does anyone know how to do straight quotes, and to find and replace all the quotes with straight ...
A: you can turn them off - you didn't specify version - but other than 2007, tools, autocorrect, ...
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| Microsoft Word 2003 - Formula Question | 6/24/2009 |
Q: Can you please help me!! I am trying to put in a formula in a cell in a table in word, that works ...
A: I haven't been able to find an answer for this either - I TEND to avoid using fields in this ...
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| word | 6/22/2009 |
Q: can you take a scanned document..save it as a file...and then go in to file and make changes if the ...
A: You can if you have OCR software on your machine - that would come with the scanner, and the ...
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| Word 2007: Drop Down list update | 6/22/2009 |
Q: I have a form that has a drop down list that the user can select. I would like to have another drop ...
A: I don't tend to work with fields within Word, preferring to use UserForms - this would then be a ...
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| word and vista | 6/21/2009 |
Q: I typed stuff on MS Vista and when I go to read it in MS Word itis unable to read it even when I ...
A: MS Vista is an operating system, but I'm GUESSING you are referring to Office 2007, which uses a ...
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| Microsoft word keep showing 'not responding' | 6/19/2009 |
Q: Whenever I open Microsoft word, after a while, it goes not responding. Even if it is reponding, ...
A: Difficult to answer as it could be any number of things, but I would suspect that there are too many ...
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| Word Art | 6/18/2009 |
Q: I am trying to print wordart and when I print there is nothing on the page. Why is this?
A: probably have the option to print drawing objects turned off, or are printing in draft mode. You ...
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| Inexes, TOCs, TOAs | 6/17/2009 |
Q: I am creating a manual that needs an Index, Table of Contents, Table of Authorities. I have ...
A: There is a style for TOC, so I would guess that that might be the culprit - it's hard to tell though ...
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| Word 2003 - Multi IF / Else | 6/16/2009 |
Q: Good morning. I use Office 2003. In Word I have a statement where if I would like to use IF; ELSE; ...
A: You don't need the REF - the if statement is if condition is true, trueText, FalseText - so {If ...
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| Word Thesaurus on Toolbar | 6/15/2009 |
Q: I am trying to convert myself from WP to Word 2003, but as an author I am addicted to WP's toolbar ...
A: sorry, probably not very clear - customize, then click on commands, under categories scroll down to ...
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| VBA code | 6/13/2009 |
Q: Sir, I have three different word files on different topics with 30 questions in each file. I want ...
A: As I've mentioned, a macro (i.e. computer program) will follow a series of logical steps to arrive ...
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| Word 2007 | 6/11/2009 |
Q: I am computer illiterate. While doing a long paper I must have hit a wrong button, because I lost ...
A: not sure if this just applies to one document, or all - but paragraph is right, however, click on ...
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| WORD forms | 6/10/2009 |
Q: I built a form/template in WORD 2K3 that I use to request a service. I insert create date at the ...
A: I'd do the whole thing with bookmarks and not form fields, but I'm guessing that Text23 is actually ...
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| Microsoft Word | 6/10/2009 |
Q: When I open an existing word doc (from My Documents) all that opens is a grey screen, I can then ...
A: I've come across this before but with Excel - however, I haven't seen a solution anywhere in my ...
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| Pasting images/graphs into locked forms in Word | 6/10/2009 |
Q: Using Word 2007, I created locked forms for users to fill out. My question, the contributors using ...
A: I think I would be inclined to use section breaks and only protect the document in the non pasteable ...
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| spacing when printing an envelope | 6/9/2009 |
Q: When printing a document in Microsoft word 2007 the spacing is saved as single spacing and prints ...
A: It SHOULD be set by the envelope address style - though by default this is set (as far as I can ...
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| word97 on winXP | 6/9/2009 |
Q: Till now I worked without trouble with my old MSOffice97 on my WinXP and as from today when I try to ...
A: I've not managed to find anything (other than previous allexperts answers you have received) to ...
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| word97 on winXP | 6/9/2009 |
Q: Till now I worked without trouble with my old MSOffice97 on my WinXP and as from today when I try to ...
A: Are you SURE the OS is XP as this message seems to be more appropriate for Vista? Note that office ...
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| Word 2003 mail merge to Outlook 2003 in html | 6/4/2009 |
Q: I have a new computer with XPSP3 and Office 2003 SP3. I am using Outlook with Exchange. When I ...
A: I haven't managed to find anything to explain this either - I have written macros that can ...
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| MSWord | 6/2/2009 |
Q: When I try to e-mail a document from MSWord it automatically take me to MS Outlook, not Outlook ...
A: odd if you haven't changed anything that it does this - however, it MAY be that somehow your email ...
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| Insert Paragraph Mark After Specific Word | 6/2/2009 |
Q: I have an RTF doc (saved as 97-03) that has table and column formatting making it almost impossible ...
A: There are wild card search and replace options, but I have a suspicion that this MIGHT not resolve ...
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| 2 pages per sheet | 5/31/2009 |
Q: no matter what i do...word will not print two pages to a sheet. it's driving me crazy. it doesn't ...
A: Oddly I have had to fight with documents like this recently to do the same thing. The only way we ...
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| mail merge | 5/29/2009 |
Q: I am wandering if you can assist with a mail megre I am trying to set-up to go out as an email. The ...
A: You didn't say what the data source was, nor which version of office - however, when doing this ...
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| Word 2003 Picture Placeholder | 5/26/2009 |
Q: I created a sales flyer in Word 2004. I placed two picture boxes with an image as placeholders so ...
A: I think you've answered your own question - it's not an option in that version of Word. I think if ...
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| Keyboard Language-Office 2007 | 5/25/2009 |
Q: I am not sure what I am doing but every once in a while my keyboard seems to change - for example ...
A: I have the same thing sometimes in Excel 2002 - my keyboard is UK based, but it switches to US ...
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| Word Not Responding | 5/23/2009 |
Q: I have Word 2003 SP 3 and recently it stopped responding in the middle of a document. All my ...
A: I would have thought that answers from 2006/7 could still be relevent for software released in 2003 ...
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| captions | 5/22/2009 |
Q: You've been very helpful to me in the past, and I hope you can help me again. I'm a heavy Word and ...
A: I've not done any work with captions, so I'm working slightly blind - a google search ...
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| Microsoft Word Mail Merge - 2003 & 2007 | 5/21/2009 |
Q: I'm doing a mail merge and sometimes the data being merged contains / characters. These characters ...
A: Well, that SHOULD be ok - I TEND to use comma delimited but any character SHOULD work OK - and a ...
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| corrupt doc file in ms word 2000 | 5/18/2009 |
Q: I have saved many documents in MS Word 2000. yet when i try to open one specific doc all the text ...
A: as far as I can tell, GPW is a Quattro Pro Project File extension - so opening the file in that ...
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| Text delimited file | 5/17/2009 |
Q: Not sure if this is the right area but maybe you can help. I would prefer not to use access but a I ...
A: wouldn't the small app be called the mail merge? Obviously I have limited infomation to go on here ...
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| Booklet format in Word for Mac | 5/16/2009 |
Q: I saw your answer regarding setting up a document for printing booklet style in MS Word, but cannot ...
A: I have two disadvantages here - firstly, I've not used a mac but secondly and more importantly you ...
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| Word 2007 labels | 5/14/2009 |
Q: We have had 2007 Word for several months. Recently every time I print a label all that appears on ...
A: You have me beat - my search of the knowledge base and google reveals nothing, and of course it ...
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| MS Word 2002 | 5/14/2009 |
Q: I find that I can not move the cursor with the mouse. I can move it using the keyboard. The problem ...
A: Can think of nothing that would be the obvious cause of this - the ONLY thought I have is a macro ...
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| Word 2007 labels | 5/13/2009 |
Q: We have had 2007 Word for several months. Recently every time I print a label all that appears on ...
A: Very odd - I PRESUME that the label itself appears OK in the layout section, it's just when printed? ...
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| macro | 5/12/2009 |
Q: I am trying to create a macro in excel which first select a cell, go to formula bar, click in ...
A: which part of the current macro isn't working - your example should work fine ...
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| macro | 5/8/2009 |
Q: I am trying to create a macro in excel which first select a cell, go to formula bar, click in ...
A: I don't follow what you want the macro to do- a macro would directly edit a formula without using ...
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| Table Format in MS Word | 5/7/2009 |
Q: I saw in one of your answers that you weren't familiar with Mac's - but experience has shown me that ...
A: if the table settings are set to EXACT then I would agree that the size should be locked in place ...
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| microsoft word question | 5/7/2009 |
Q: .. i have microsoft office 2007 and a document to 2215 pages there are email addresses of the ...
A: I think it would need to be a macro - can we assume that all the emails are on a line on their own, ...
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| Pagination problems | 5/6/2009 |
Q: I have read the answers previously provided about this issue (by AllExperts), but nothing is ...
A: I'm not familiar with Macs, but I haven't seen this issue on PC's - it MAY be related to the printer ...
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| Word 2007 Footer Macro | 5/5/2009 |
Q: I am attempting to add page numbering to a specific section of a Word 2007 document. I can record ...
A: try this version Sub Macro2() ' ' Macro2 Macro ' Macro recorded 06/05/2009 by ' If ...
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| Word 2007 Footer Macro | 5/1/2009 |
Q: I am attempting to add page numbering to a specific section of a Word 2007 document. I can record ...
A: what you haven't done is given me the recorded macro - the macro I recorded SHOULD I think do what ...
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| making wide tables | 4/30/2009 |
Q: I need to make a wide table. is there a way to do it so it will print side by side on 2 pages? ...
A: The entire page would need to be LANDSCAPE which I think is what you needed, but as long as you can ...
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| moving data from excel spreadsheet to word | 4/28/2009 |
Q: I have a large amount of data in an excel spreadsheet that is laid out vertically and need this data ...
A: Not totally clear how this data works - is it simply a single list (one column) of records? If so, ...
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| Page numbering in the table of contents | 4/28/2009 |
Q: I have a Word 2007 document with 4 heading levels - Headings 1, 2, 3, and a custom heading level ...
A: I very rarely work with TOC's and havent' used them at all in Word 2007, so the best I can do for an ...
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| Envelopes in Word | 4/28/2009 |
Q: I'm desperately trying to print envelopes in Word from an Excel spreadsheet with all the names and ...
A: Rather than fight word, which is determined to do what you don't want it to, play it at it's own ...
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| Drop down Menu's in Microsoft word | 4/27/2009 |
Q: I hope you are well! I am creating a form in Microsoft word (2003) and am using a drop down menu ...
A: I like the thought -not thought of that myself - not sure what you are using for the drop down menus ...
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| Finding and Inserting into New Word | 4/27/2009 |
Q: Down beleow is my code I have generated. It is slow and cubersome. I know it can be done better and ...
A: I would probably NOT use the find option, simply work through each paragraph to see if it matches ...
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| Typing word | 4/25/2009 |
Q: I am having issues with my word. It will be fine for the majority of the time then randomly it will ...
A: Nothing much to go on here - I'm afraid - the google search ...
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| Cursor Skipping in Word 2007 | 4/24/2009 |
Q: Installed Microsoft 2007. In Word application, as I am typing, the cursor skips to a preceding ...
A: Not sure what sort of computer this is on, but googling SUGGESTS that if you are on a laptop with ...
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| Finding and Inserting into New Word | 4/24/2009 |
Q: Down beleow is my code I have generated. It is slow and cubersome. I know it can be done better and ...
A: you shouldn't have to activate two different documents to work with them - you have already given ...
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| Word 2007 columns | 4/23/2009 |
Q: 1. How do I set up columns within the body of a document? When I put the cursor where I want the ...
A: ASSUMING you want to stick with columns then use the more columns option at the bottom of the ...
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| running out of space on hd | 4/23/2009 |
Q: Computer painfully slow. It has 11 gb (old), trying to delete as much as possible, program files, ...
A: The hard disk is the storage area for the computer and although it contains files related to ...
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| MS Word 2000 Status Bar "at" measurement | 4/23/2009 |
Q: I am using MS Word 2000 with Windows Vista. When I am typing multiple pages in one document and ...
A: I've not been able to duplicate this in Word 2002 (the earliest version I still have installed) - ...
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| Check mark boxes | 4/22/2009 |
Q: Yes. That worked! I had to figure out how to put text after the check mark, but that was easy. I ...
A: Glad we got there - it's sometimes difficult to work out the level at which to pitch the answers - ...
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| Check mark boxes | 4/22/2009 |
Q: I want to ask you how can I insert boxes that you can check mark without protecting the document? I ...
A: Gradually more information comes to light - My other reply would seem to work - you have a standard ...
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| Check mark boxes | 4/22/2009 |
Q: Wiley: How do you insert boxes that you can check mark without protecting the document. I want to ...
A: I'm ASSUMING that you want the checkboxes to be in the document from the start? If so, control ...
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| Check mark boxes | 4/22/2009 |
Q: I want to ask you how can I insert boxes that you can check mark without protecting the document? I ...
A: (take a look at my profile picture - I'm pretty sure I'm Mr Aidan Heritage!) Simplest solution is ...
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| Check mark boxes | 4/22/2009 |
Q: Wiley: How do you insert boxes that you can check mark without protecting the document. I want to ...
A: You haven't specified version of Word, but my suggestion of using the control toolbar SHOULD work ...
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| Check mark boxes | 4/22/2009 |
Q: I want to ask you how can I insert boxes that you can check mark without protecting the document? I ...
A: see previous answer to the question you meant to send to another expert (I think) - another option ...
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| linking to other docs on a server in word 2003 | 4/22/2009 |
Q: i am trying to create a how to doc for my HR dept that links to other docs on shared folder on a ...
A: I'm afraid the picture doesn't help a lot as the text is too small to read - but the links should ...
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| microsoft word | 4/21/2009 |
Q: the word "private" is coming out on all my documents, I must have hit a key for this to happen and I ...
A: You didn't specify version, but assuming NOT 2007, then it's probably some change to the normal ...
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| Hyperlinks in Word | 4/19/2009 |
Q: I was sent a word document containing hyperlinks. It is an exercise as part of a job application. ...
A: it sounds as though the document is a 2007 format file, and the viewer whilst letting you view it ...
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| wordart | 4/19/2009 |
Q: Where can I find wordart in Windows XP? I have documents I need to amend, but can no longer find or ...
A: I THINK you may have answered your own question - I've never used Works, but unless it comes bundled ...
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| Word Search Function | 4/18/2009 |
Q: When I use the search function in Word (as well as the search/replace function), it recently always ...
A: POSSIBLY you have wild cards turned on? It should still find the literal text however - I've not ...
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| Word 2003 Mail Merge Problem | 4/16/2009 |
Q: I am trying to use Word and Excel (2003) to create a mail merge to fill out a complex form. My Excel ...
A: I hadn't come across a limit, and I THINK I've worked with more data than this on some of my files - ...
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| Microsoft Word Justified Right | 4/14/2009 |
Q: My computer crashed and after everything was reloaded, all is OK EXCEPT there is no justified left ...
A: Your title says justified right and the body justified left, but I ASSUME you are talking fully ...
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| template for candy wrappers | 4/14/2009 |
Q: I am looking for a template for Microsoft word 2007 vista system to personalize Hershey bar candy ...
A: I would tend to create my own templates, and as I'm in the UK I don't have one for Hershey bars - ...
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| Printout-print preview discrepancy with footer code | 4/13/2009 |
Q: On a number of company documents, we've inserted code into the footer to print part of the footer ...
A: I like the solution, and at face value it should work fine! The version of Word in use may help me ...
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| Margin error | 4/11/2009 |
Q: Using MS Word in Office Professional 2000, with XP (SP-3). Opened a word file from another source ...
A: Does indeed sound odd, and I've not come across it before, but I'd be inclined to suspect corruption ...
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| creating a data base with phone numbers | 4/11/2009 |
Q: I want to creat a data base including phone numbers. Can I then print labels from the database ...
A: I'd do the database in Excel personally as it allows for filtering - however,that isn't critical - ...
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| MS Word Save As %20 Characters added | 4/10/2009 |
Q: "Saskatchewan High Voltage Qualified Electrical Worker Assessment #2.doc" I am using Save As but it ...
A: The %20 is the code for a space - you might see this on web page code and in email links where a ...
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| Excel mail merge not working properly | 4/10/2009 |
Q: I have a large excel file that I am trying to create both a letter address block and labels from. ...
A: With the description as given, neither can I as this is contrary to the programming - are you at any ...
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| Printing Word Docs | 4/9/2009 |
Q: I have Office 2003 on my laptop. When I go file print in a Word doc the Print commands are grayed ...
A: On all documents, or only some? If some,then MAYBE they are protected - I suppose in theory if all ...
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| Merging like records into Table | 4/9/2009 |
Q: I would like to use a mail merge in Word to combine like records into a table using an Excel ...
A: You will need to insert a module and then add this code Public Function MatchEntry(MatchItem As ...
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| Word starting macro | 4/8/2009 |
Q: Since you are versed in both, Excel and Word, my question will hopefully be clear to you. In Excel, ...
A: Yes there is - it's AutoOpen if you want to do it with a macro, but that is only there for backwards ...
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| merge word fields TO excel | 4/8/2009 |
Q: Is it possible to merge from fields in word to an excel document? we have been typing them by hand.
A: not sure what you are referring to by fields - IF this is a form filled document, then save the ...
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| Endnote problems with MS Word 2003 on a PC | 4/8/2009 |
Q: HELP!! I get 13 paragraph markers at the top of EACH page of the endnotes, throwing them about half ...
A: From the description it sounds like something wrong in the header/footer area - but difficult to be ...
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| word automatically opens access | 4/7/2009 |
Q: When I open word 2000 on our new vista computer, it automatically opens two versions of Access 2000 ...
A: I would go with the files in the startup directory as being the culprits here - tools menu, then ...
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| Microsoft Office | 4/3/2009 |
Q: I have a Window Vista, and am thinking to purchase Office. But, I see many negative opinion about ...
A: I have used MS Office since about 1994, so am very comfortable with it - but it depends on what you ...
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| Word '07 now w/Vista - Can't see my laber borders anymore | 4/1/2009 |
Q: Our office expert upgraded me to Vista and I can no longer see the cell and margin boundaries when I ...
A: It's an office 2007 problem rather than vista, but I "love" them both (isn't it a fine line between ...
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| parsing a text string | 4/1/2009 |
Q: In Word, I created a text string that is the open document path and filename, using the field code: ...
A: Sorry about that - I tend to use MsgBox to demonstrate what a macro does, but should have mentioned ...
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| Large Documents | 4/1/2009 |
Q: I have a PDF to Word converter. As it converts the docment it sometimes creates a very large ...
A: This seems to be a fault of the PDF converter - the size of the document you can open depends on ...
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| Word 2003 font buttons using complex font | 3/31/2009 |
Q: I have a problem with my Word 2003 that has possibly appeared since an upgrade to Adobe Acrobat. It ...
A: I'd try deleting the normal.dot file first as it does sound like some form of corruption - without ...
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| parsing a text string | 3/30/2009 |
Q: In Word, I created a text string that is the open document path and filename, using the field code: ...
A: Sub helpme() Dim MyStr As String MyStr = activedocument.path & "\" & activedocument.name MyStr = ...
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| memo template date field auto-update turn-off | 3/28/2009 |
Q: When I open a memo I wrote using the microsoft template, the date field updates to the current date. ...
A: As it's a date FIELD it will update - that's what fields do. On the default template, the date ...
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| word 2007 legacy tools | 3/25/2009 |
Q: I have created a document in word 2007 using set text mixed with text form fields as well as ...
A: I don't know the answer, though I would imagine that a drop down list with limited choices would ...
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| problem of import word document in powerpoint | 3/23/2009 |
Q: I tried to insert a word document into a powerpoint, by using the Insert/Object/From file The .doc ...
A: Sorry, this is ACTUALLY a powerpoint question - my understanding is that you have an object which ...
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| Word Template - 'enter recipients name' | 3/21/2009 |
Q: quickI have built some templates which are to be sent to a number of people - but not a date base. I ...
A: I do this with macros and user forms, but I THINK you are after the ASK field - which is used with ...
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| Page numbers (total of combined sections) | 3/20/2009 |
Q: I have a Word (2003) document with several section breaks. I'd like to include some roman numberal ...
A: To insert a page number starting at the current section is easy enough - it's part of the insert ...
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| Word form Templete | 3/19/2009 |
Q: I scanned one of my forms I use daily and that needs to be filled out daily . I saved it has a ...
A: how did you save the scanned output? As a picture, or as OCR'd text - if text, then view, toolbars, ...
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| MS word | 3/19/2009 |
Q: Hope the below mail shall give u some idea of my requirement. I need to develop a program for ...
A: I follow the aim, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to achieve - basically it would need to find ...
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| File Conversion | 3/19/2009 |
Q: The word files that I am trying to open are saying that they need to be "encoded". It is telling me ...
A: It isn't telling you that they need to be encoded, it's asking you what encoding to use - the ...
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| Strange bolding in MS Word Table of Contents entries | 3/17/2009 |
Q: In the TOC for my document, for the TOC styles whose font is defined as bold, the numeral associated ...
A: I have tried to find an answer for this but haven't managed to do so - I searched ...
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| Controlling MS WORD 2000 startup behaviour | 3/13/2009 |
Q: I just had a reply from your forum with what should have been a solution to my problem but I'm sorry ...
A: Not a problem, my only concern was that these answers (and feedback) are searchable so it MIGHT have ...
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| Controlling MS WORD 2000 startup behaviour | 3/12/2009 |
Q: I just had a reply from your forum with what should have been a solution to my problem but I'm sorry ...
A: Firsty let me apologise on behalf of whichever expert gave this advice - office 11 is office 2003 ...
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| Hyperlink to "Printers & Faxes" in WORD | 3/11/2009 |
Q: I have a laptop that I take on the road with me, requiring, of course, that I unplug all USB ...
A: The printers and faxes folder isn't a folder, it's a program within control panel as far as I know - ...
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| no control over space after end of bulleted list (style:ListParagraph) | 3/10/2009 |
Q: I am using Word 2007 to edit a large document. In it, I would like the first and last elements in my ...
A: Without seeing the document I cannot answer this - I agree that normal documents behave, so there is ...
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| Converting Word 97 Mail Merge Data Form to Office 2007 | 3/9/2009 |
Q: I had previously used Word 97 to create a mail merge document. There are approx. 200 entries in ...
A: What you don't say is what the source format of the file is - I would IMAGINE it's a word document, ...
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| Oops! | 3/7/2009 |
Q: I deleted a 60 day Microsoft Office trial offer cause it expired. In doing so, it also deleted my ...
A: I don't know what the restore disk would contain, it MIGHT contain Word, but I suspect it wouldn't. ...
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| Oops! | 3/7/2009 |
Q: I deleted a 60 day Microsoft Office trial offer cause it expired. In doing so, it also deleted my ...
A: Office includes word, so if you uninstalled it (which is what you said) it would completely ...
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| Macro ti import text from Word to Excel | 3/5/2009 |
Q: Aidan. I am working on several Word documents which look like this: ...
A: Sub lookin() Set fs = Application.FileSearch Dim newbook, curbook, MyCount, myrange With fs ...
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| section breaks | 3/4/2009 |
Q: [Word 2007--the Devil's right hand] Section breaks baffle me. When I insert a "continuous" section ...
A: Apparently not I think - the old normal view would show the breaks, but it's not there anymore! I ...
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| odd & even pages off kiltre | 3/4/2009 |
Q: Yet another aspect of Word (2007) is driving me nuts! After my having laid out my book pages with ...
A: My guess would be a slightly subtle difference in that the headers are probably SLIGHTLY different ...
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| Format? | 3/3/2009 |
Q: I'm having a problem with the format of a text Here's a portion of the text I'm working with, I've ...
A: My email is aidan.heritage@virgin.net if it helps to send sample files. In theory, formatting the ...
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| section breaks | 3/2/2009 |
Q: [Word 2007--the Devil's right hand] Section breaks baffle me. When I insert a "continuous" section ...
A: I hate the program too - but then, I've known Word since version 2! If you use the office button, ...
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| activate windows | 3/2/2009 |
Q: my son rescently defragged my computer when he came to reinstall my windows it saya i need a code or ...
A: If you have no details of the transaction you are probably going to have problems persuading ...
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| activate windows | 2/28/2009 |
Q: my son rescently defragged my computer when he came to reinstall my windows it saya i need a code or ...
A: This is a question relating to the operating system - IF you purchased it via the the net you SHOULD ...
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| all caps for nouns | 2/27/2009 |
Q: is there a way to make all nouns with caps without having to hold shift or pressing all caps?
A: You can set autocorrect rules, but I don't think there is a rule that would apply to nouns - it ...
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| Follow up to wildcard | 2/26/2009 |
Q: Hey, first of all sorry to be such a pain but I wanted to do a follow-up and It said too many ...
A: Difficult to see from the email - but looking again at what I've written the paragraph mark would be ...
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| wildcard | 2/26/2009 |
Q: I've been checking out the wildcard function and I would like it if you could help me I've been ...
A: No problem - it's the replace bit that is the problem - I've put Selection.Text = ...
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| wildcard | 2/26/2009 |
Q: I've been checking out the wildcard function and I would like it if you could help me I've been ...
A: I have limited experience of wildcards, and although I think it should be possible have not managed ...
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| Problem with Ms. Word 2003 | 2/25/2009 |
Q: I need urgent help with Ms. Word 2003. I configured Windows 2003 Server, and allow my users to ...
A: It will be something to do with the user account being used for RDC, but beyond that I'm afraid I'm ...
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| adding percent | 2/22/2009 |
Q: I've attached an image for clarification. The number in A1, I want that number to multiply itself ...
A: This sounds rather more like an excel question - if so If you want the value in A1 itself to ...
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| dot leaders | 2/20/2009 |
Q: I'm using Word 2007 - how can I change the style of the dot leader? I want fewer dots/more space ...
A: I'm willing to be corrected on this, but I don't think you can change the spacing - I've not been ...
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| Tables breaking across rows for no reason | 2/19/2009 |
Q: Some of the rows in my table break in the middle of the page for no obvious reason. I checked table ...
A: I would also recommend checking the settings for the paragraphs to ensure that these are not set to ...
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| Align vertically two columns in Microsoft Word | 2/17/2009 |
Q: I'm trying to do an agenda or program for a convention. The structure that I'm using for it is two ...
A: The EASIEST way to do this form of document is to create a 2 cell table, but have it formatted with ...
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| Excel Chart printing | 2/16/2009 |
Q: I have a .xlxs spreadsheet that will not print the entire chart. It cuts off the bottom axis titles ...
A: It was PROBABLY related to the reduction and excel trying to fit to page - it was following an ...
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| Excel Chart printing | 2/16/2009 |
Q: I have a .xlxs spreadsheet that will not print the entire chart. It cuts off the bottom axis titles ...
A: It's odd that it shows correctly in print preview - I would therefore be inclined to looking towards ...
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| word form help | 2/16/2009 |
Q: Question is I have been trying to do the following: 1. I have a forum Scan sheet type with a (bubble ...
A: I'm not sure I follow what you want to do - and I'm not certain that a bubble check box exists (if ...
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| microsoft word 2007 help | 2/15/2009 |
Q: I had a 7 page word document that had been saved previously. When I clicked 'save' again, it said it ...
A: I would use the search option on the start menu to look for files with the name of the document, and ...
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| Microsoft Word 97 printing problems | 2/15/2009 |
Q: When I attempt to print a word document through the file/print option Word just closes. I am able ...
A: I'm not aware of anything that would cause this, but it MAY be a problem with the printer driver ...
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| MS Word | 2/13/2009 |
Q: I am unable to open any MS Word documents. Whenever I attempt to open a document a dialogue box ...
A: I'm fairly sure that this will indicate you have added a file as a file to be loaded at startup - ...
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| MS Word 2000 Line Justification | 2/13/2009 |
Q: I'm completely desperate. I thought I was an advanced user. I guess not. I'm typing a resume and I ...
A: the example doesn't work brilliantly well here, and I'm confused that tab won't work - I would set a ...
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| print problems with Word 2007 | 2/12/2009 |
Q: I have a new HP CM2320 MFP printer/fax. I was having fax problems so HP sent a tech to replace a ...
A: You didn't say what the Operating system is but I IMAGINE it's Vista - I'm NOT an expert in Vista ...
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| New document opening in landscape | 2/12/2009 |
Q: 1. Every time I open a new Microsoft Word document it is automatically in landscape. I can go to ...
A: (1) the settings for a blank document are based on the normal.dot file (assuming office other than ...
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| Macro to copy data from notepad to word. | 2/11/2009 |
Q: I have about about 1000 files in notepad and I want to merge the contents into a single word file. ...
A: Yes it is - ideally all the files would be in the one directory Sub bulkInsert() Set fs = ...
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| Question About Equations in Word 2007 | 2/11/2009 |
Q: I can't see the whole equation in Word 2007 because the equation box is to small (see picture ...
A: I'm afraid I'm not an expert at equations, but would suggest the first port of call is to switch to ...
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| Upload Picture in Protected Form | 2/11/2009 |
Q: How do I have end users upload a picture in a protected Word document? I know you can use VBA code ...
A: I'm not entirely clear on what is to happen here, but it SOUNDS as though you would want to get a ...
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| Word Art | 2/9/2009 |
Q: I'm trying to group 2 word arts together and also 1 clip art. I'm using the 2007 version. I've tried ...
A: Microsoft have as always made something that was easy, something that is NOT easy - the topic from ...
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| Microsoft word | 2/7/2009 |
Q: I am unable to change the default settings for font and line spacing on word. I do all the right ...
A: Default settings are held on the normal.dot file, so you will need to have change access to that ...
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| creating outlines | 2/6/2009 |
Q: how are you? In Word 2002 and 2003, it is possible to create professional-looking outlines in two ...
A: Microsoft make a big thing out of using styles, but a lot of users do not use them - the ADVANTAGE ...
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| saving revised document issues | 2/4/2009 |
Q: Lately I've been revising Word document and saving as same filename and file doesn't save. I can ...
A: I would expect to see a "document not saved" message if the file was NOT saved, so the lack of this ...
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| Adjust print position when printing labels / WORD 2007 | 2/4/2009 |
Q: This is a basic question about printing label sheets from WORD 2007. Often, when printing, the text ...
A: This sort of problem is generally down to the printer driver - the only thing you can do within word ...
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| Wordpad | 2/3/2009 |
Q: I have Windows Vista. When I try to save a file in Wordpad and name the file - a window appears ...
A: Wordpad isn't word, and this question is OS related, but apart from that - the message indicates ...
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| Fonts | 2/2/2009 |
Q: Can I find and download more fonts for MS Office 2000?
A: Fonts are simply a part of the operating system - which in turn means that you need to be careful ...
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| color on monitor vs color on printer | 2/2/2009 |
Q: I'm still trying to figure out why, all of a sudden, with no changes to preferences or options made, ...
A: No problem - as the question was in the "pool" I thought it best to try and give you some form of ...
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| Excel Macro to Word Macro | 1/30/2009 |
Q: I have an Excel spreadsheet with many rows and columns, and a word document that I am merging my ...
A: I'm not sure why a mail merge won't work, but I would move AWAY from DDE as although it works, it ...
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| Micrsoft Word for PC | 1/29/2009 |
Q: Feel so dumb... just updated Word, went from Mac to PC (Vista), and in F1 help the options they say ...
A: They are called smart quotes, you didn't say which version of Word so I'll give both - in word prior ...
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| Default textbox to current date on open | 1/27/2009 |
Q: I would like to know how to set a textbox to the current date as a default value on first open. I ...
A: Can you clarify what you mean by textbox? Is this a form field for example? If it's actually a ...
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| Index marks in Word03 | 1/26/2009 |
Q: Aidan, I have a document with many index marked areas; if I position my cursor on some text, then ...
A: I've not come across this and cannot see it referenced anywhere, but I would PROBABLY use the tools ...
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| Word 2000 Header and footers | 1/26/2009 |
Q: I am trying to break this document up. The problem areas I am having I have highlighted in Yellow ...
A: You need section breaks everytime you want a new header. You need to use the file page setup menu ...
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| Opening earlier versions of Word using Word 2007 | 1/23/2009 |
Q: I currently have Word 2007 and operating on Windows Vista. The majority of my Word Documents are ...
A: I suspect it MAY be related to Vista, and I'm not 100% sure that the executable of Word 2007 is ...
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| Word macro | 1/23/2009 |
Q: I got yor reference from Tom, I need a urgent help in macro writing, I can understand the how to ...
A: Seeing the file would help - I do follow the process, which is basically (I think) select each ...
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| Word macro | 1/23/2009 |
Q: I got yor reference from Tom, I need a urgent help in macro writing, I can understand the how to ...
A: I don't follow what it is you want to do - are you talking about splitting ONE file into multiple ...
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| Autotext | 1/21/2009 |
Q: Our transcription dept just upgraded from Word 2K to Word 2003 and now most but not all of their ...
A: as far as I know my answer to someone else ...
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| microsoft office | 1/20/2009 |
Q: I lost my installation cd. My hard drive crashed. Is there a way for me to reinstall without ...
A: You could try ringing them -I've never done it, but at least in theory they SHOULD hold details. ...
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| Micr. Word Question | 1/19/2009 |
Q: Good Afternoon! Not even sure if this is possible but here goes... I created a logo for my husband's ...
A: I'm not sure what you DO have in terms of picture editing software, BUT if the logo always has to ...
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| linking with in a form | 1/18/2009 |
Q: I am creating a word form and want to link information already inserted. I.E you put in your name ...
A: Could you send me the file - I can then give you tailored instructions - it basically a case of ...
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| Link fields to my numbered headings | 1/18/2009 |
Q: I need to create a style of a numbered heading in Word (I do not want to use one of Word's default ...
A: I would personally just modify the existing styles to get the format you want - but you can create ...
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| MsWord macro | 1/16/2009 |
Q: I need a macro that will replace the user id: which is either an 8 or 14 digit number (all commence ...
A: The simplest would be to do two replacements 'Replace_Customer_barcode Macro ' Macro created ...
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| scan documents to word for edit | 1/16/2009 |
Q: I am trying to scan a document to word . Iwant edit names and adresses with out changing how the ...
A: This is really a question that relates to whatever software you are using for the scan, but ...
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| How to send MS Word form data to an Excel spreadsheet | 1/15/2009 |
Q: I want to create a Purchase Order form in MS Word 2004 (Mac) and send the form data to an Excel ...
A: (1) create the form using form fields, and then set it to save data for forms (tools menu, options, ...
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| format Toolbar Won't Appear When Docs Are Opened | 1/15/2009 |
Q: I used to be able to open one of my documents and the format toolbar would be at the top of my ...
A: I'm at something of a disadvantage in that I'm a PC user and only have access to office 2007 as the ...
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| Cursor position in template | 1/12/2009 |
Q: Is there a way to create a template so that the cursor jumps to a specific line in the body of the ...
A: I tend to use VBA for all my templates, and this can select the appropriate bookmark to do what you ...
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| Arranging icons in Windows XP | 1/12/2009 |
Q: I recently changed from W-98-ii to W-XP. On arranging the icons in a window, with W-98-ii system, I ...
A: if you use the VIEW icon to change the view to details you can then click on any heading to have it ...
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| Mail Merge not merging all data | 1/9/2009 |
Q: I have a simple one-page letter which I am merging with an excel spreadsheet (130 names and ...
A: Could be a filter set in the mail merge recipients, could be a blank row causing data problems, ...
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| Page numbering in MS Word 2003 | 1/8/2009 |
Q: I am trying to prepare a document for publication but when I insert page numbers, the text pages are ...
A: AT a guess you've got a section break before the appendix, and specified that the numbering starts ...
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| Mail Merge with a table | 1/7/2009 |
Q: I saw you had answered a question like what I'm about to ask but I am to much of a rooky to really ...
A: I wouldn't generally recommend the next record field in these circumstances IN THAT that goes to the ...
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| UnDo feature in Word 2007 | 1/7/2009 |
Q: Out of curiosity, I used the Help feature in Word 2007 to look up when the Undo stack would clear. ...
A: Well, officially it's still claimed to be 100 items - don't forget that this isn't selective, it's ...
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| remove an auto format of * to dotted line | 1/7/2009 |
Q: While typing my document I typed several asterisk to mark my place. Microsoft Word 2000 ...
A: Put the cursor on the line ABOVE the dotted line, then use format, borders and shading to remove the ...
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| Mail Merge - data is a paragraph | 1/5/2009 |
Q: I have a monthly mailing in which the data source has thousands of contacts and many, many fields. ...
A: You didn't say which contacts, but presumably there is something in the merge that identifies them - ...
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| Writing in Arabic in Word | 1/1/2009 |
Q: My question is about Arabic script in Microsoft word. I have installed Arabic language in windows ...
A: As you will appreciate, this is a fairly specialised area - I have not had cause to write in Arabic, ...
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| Authorities page is truncated on left side | 1/1/2009 |
Q: First, I thank you for having this service available. You have probably saved a few lives ...
A: By margins I'm assuming we are talking the setup of the page, so the first thing I would check is ...
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| mail merge dollar values | 12/30/2008 |
Q: i am trying to do a mailmerge using a Word Form Letter and an Excel Spreadsheet. I have dollar ...
A: You will come across this with any numeric or date value - you can EITHER use a field in the excel ...
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| Printing labels from Excel using Word's Mail Merge Wizard | 12/30/2008 |
Q: I'm trying to print address labels from an Excel spreadsheet using Word's Mail Merge Wizard. The ...
A: I assume that the title field is a seperate field from the rest - if so, the wizard will have set up ...
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| TOC Generation | 12/30/2008 |
Q: First, I thank you for having this service available. You have probably saved a few lives ...
A: Without seeing the document it's hard to be sure what is going on, but the settings for the TOC ...
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| Excel Mailing List | 12/29/2008 |
Q: I am working on a deadline project and have run into a kink with an Excel mailing list. My address ...
A: I always try and work with field codes on when doing merges - I also view paragraph marks - your ...
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| Excel Mailing List | 12/28/2008 |
Q: I am working on a deadline project and have run into a kink with an Excel mailing list. My address ...
A: I'm not sure what the labels are supposed to look like, in that you have name on one line, and then ...
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| replace - when condition - ture | 12/27/2008 |
Q: replce when condition true: Using macro. a document which contains 2000 words in it. replace the ...
A: I cannot see the link in the same way you can, but here is the answer I originally gave ...
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| gray page when opening word document | 12/22/2008 |
Q: Upon opening a saved word document, the document opens all grayed and text is not visible. If I open ...
A: Sounds like a memory issue which I've come across before with limited success on resolution - IF you ...
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| How to add side marks to page margins | 12/19/2008 |
Q: I am writing a thesis that includes many chapters. I found that adding some labels to right page ...
A: The picture was attached but I find them hard to read - I've uploaded a file ...
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| forms and tabs | 12/18/2008 |
Q: I am trying to set up a form to use when taking minutes, I need to tab quickly between fields and ...
A: I'd probably do this as a table in word, type as you want in one cell and then press tab to move ...
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| Word 2000 Not Responding | 12/18/2008 |
Q: A couple of days ago I attempted to open a Word document and was unable to do so because hte system ...
A: If word isn't responding the LIKELY culprit is the normal.dot file, so use the start menu to find ...
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| excel to word format | 12/17/2008 |
Q: I am merging an excel data base (which has some formula calculations) into a word document (letter). ...
A: ah the joys of word merging - I would use a formatting switch on the merge field - I'll assume you ...
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| How to add side marks to page margins | 12/17/2008 |
Q: I am writing a thesis that includes many chapters. I found that adding some labels to right page ...
A: Use section breaks to seperate the chapters, and then use the heading area to insert text boxes ...
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| Adding a Heading Style | 12/16/2008 |
Q: MSWord by default has nine heading styles. I need to add another one. I've accomplished this, but ...
A: I think you've got me beat on this one - I havent been able to find anything to explain adding more ...
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| Delete | 12/15/2008 |
Q: All of a sudden, Microsoft Word will not let me delete in bulk. When I highlight a certain section ...
A: difficult to be sure - but it could be a setting on tools, options and then the general tab - I'm ...
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| merge | 12/13/2008 |
Q: i am trying to mail merge the address from outlook to word for envelopes ... the response i get is ...
A: I haven't done many merges from Outlook (actually, thinking about it I haven't done ANY for ...
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| Combining Word 2003 documents... | 12/11/2008 |
Q: I work with multiple Word documents on a daily basis and am wondering if there is a simpler way to ...
A: if you need to insert the entire document, then it's the insert menu, and then file - the entire ...
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| Email attachments | 12/10/2008 |
Q: Aidan: This is probably VERY elementary question for savvy computer operators, but this ...
A: As to the settings, it would be a question for AOL - I use Virgin media here in the uk, and to get ...
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| emailing resumes | 12/9/2008 |
Q: Aidan: This is probably VERY elementary question for savvy computer operators, but this ...
A: Ok, office ASSUMES you have outlook set up for mail - the message you indicate implies that you ...
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| emailing resumes | 12/9/2008 |
Q: Aidan: This is probably VERY elementary question for savvy computer operators, but this ...
A: You didn't say which version of Word you have got (or even that you have) - however, IF you have, ...
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| word-form | 12/9/2008 |
Q: We currently use a word application form but it's formatted so that candidates can only change ...
A: It would be good to know what the issues are, as a well presented online form should be fairly easy ...
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| Word | 12/7/2008 |
Q: When I enter the text *text*, Word changes it to text. How can I get Word to leave the entry alone?
A: This is the auto-correct feature kicking in - you can undo previous action (menu choice, or ctrl z) ...
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| Print button in the envelope window not highlighted | 12/4/2008 |
Q: when an address in Word is highlighted and then the print envelope option is chosen, the actual ...
A: I'm not exactly sure what actions you are carrying out here but it sounds as though you are in the ...
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| Mail Merge Program | 12/4/2008 |
Q: OK, I will try to explain this as simply as possible. I have a data query in an access database ...
A: There was no photo, but that shouldn't have mattered - I've not managed to find anything to explain ...
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| order of mail merge columns | 12/4/2008 |
Q: Aiden, You responded to a question on this topic way back (11/13/2006 ...
A: you can always learn more. The BEST instructions on mail merge were way back in the Word 2 manual - ...
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| order of mail merge columns | 12/2/2008 |
Q: Aiden, You responded to a question on this topic way back (11/13/2006 ...
A: I thought the original problem was related to the order of the ROWS (i.e the records) rather than ...
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| Printing in MS Word 2002 | 11/19/2008 |
Q: Is there a way to print a word document in MS Word 2002 so the formatting marks (paragraph, space, ...
A: I'm not aware of any way to do it through Word itself but I'd probably do it by doing to full screen ...
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| autoshapes | 11/17/2008 |
Q: I have XP. In using Word/labels, I use autoshape, specifically block arrows. I need to replicate ...
A: A label is simply a cell in a table - I would IMAGINE that you are selecting the shape and then ...
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| Printing more than one envelope w/ Word | 11/17/2008 |
Q: Is it possible to print the address on more than one envelope at a time (that is, print A LIST of ...
A: Yes, you need to do a mail merge (which will mean you will need to have the addresses saved ...
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| search and replacing text | 11/17/2008 |
Q: how does one search and replace text on word?
A: You didn't say which version, and you didn't give much detail about what you wanted to search for ...
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| add words to dictionary/auto correct | 11/16/2008 |
Q: I do medical transcription out of my home. Just recently I have been unable to add words to my ...
A: as the software works on another computer we can be fairly sure that the software of itself is fine. ...
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| Word in Vista crashes | 11/15/2008 |
Q: Aidan, I just bought a new machine loaded with Vista and upgaded to Office 2007. A few days ago when ...
A: I'm not familiar with vista, but AppCrash is specific to Vista - it's probably due to a conflict ...
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| Erratic text entry behavior | 11/14/2008 |
Q: I asked the following question in an XP section, but the answer was only to ask it in the Office ...
A: based on the symptoms you describe I would put this one down to HARDWARE - it's probably a sticky ...
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| Word 2007 Forms | 11/14/2008 |
Q: I have created a form in Word 2007. For a couple fields, I want the user to have the ability to use ...
A: As I mentioned at the start of the answer I rarely use online forms, but the instructions did show ...
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| TOC in footer | 11/14/2008 |
Q: I have a document. Have TOC on 1st page. Now on rest other pages apart from 1st page I want to ...
A: If it's in the footer, you'd have to activate the footer first, so I would say this is a LONG way ...
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| add words to dictionary/auto correct | 11/13/2008 |
Q: I do medical transcription out of my home. Just recently I have been unable to add words to my ...
A: it sounds as though the medical spellcheck is a stand-alone program, so wouldn't have anything to do ...
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| add words to dictionary/auto correct | 11/13/2008 |
Q: I do medical transcription out of my home. Just recently I have been unable to add words to my ...
A: I suppose it COULD be a problem with the normal.dot file - without word running, use the find option ...
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| Word 2007 Forms | 11/13/2008 |
Q: I have created a form in Word 2007. For a couple fields, I want the user to have the ability to use ...
A: I'm not too much of an expert in online forms, in so much as I don't use them - I use VBA to gather ...
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| add words to dictionary/auto correct | 11/12/2008 |
Q: I do medical transcription out of my home. Just recently I have been unable to add words to my ...
A: I suspect the custom dictionary may simply be full? From the online help:- Custom dictionaries I ...
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| Word doc problems | 11/12/2008 |
Q: I have Microsoft 98 2nd edition in my computer. Problem: On 2 of my Word documents when I draw and ...
A: No problem - I was a bit suprised by the 2 rating - all I have to go on in a question is what the ...
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| 5pt font size | 11/11/2008 |
Q: I have a specification that I need help with. My customer is specifying that I need to detect print ...
A: I think the best thing I can do is to refer you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography) ...
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| Macros and protected word documents | 11/10/2008 |
Q: I am trying to get a macro to run within a form to paste extra information however it is not ...
A: I'd probably have the section set as autotext and insert the autotext, but apart from that there ...
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| Microsoft Office not responding | 11/10/2008 |
Q: I am having the same error of Microsoft office not responding. First it was only word and not Power ...
A: It could be ANY of those things - not responding would usually point to some memory issue, but would ...
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| Work editing and lock down | 11/10/2008 |
Q: Here is the situation: I have created a document. In it, I require folks to place information in ...
A: various options - put the textboxes in cells of a table set to a standard height (this would be my ...
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| Macros and protected word documents | 11/10/2008 |
Q: I am trying to get a macro to run within a form to paste extra information however it is not ...
A: I've always found Word easy to program, but then that's probably down to the use I've had to make of ...
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| word perfect | 11/9/2008 |
Q: I had word perfect in my laptop with the icon on the toolbar. Now icon has disappeared. How do I ...
A: WordPerfect isn't Word, and the "icon on the toolbar" you refer to PROBABLY makes this an operating ...
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| Word doc problems | 11/8/2008 |
Q: I have Microsoft 98 2nd edition in my computer. Problem: On 2 of my Word documents when I draw and ...
A: You are welcome to speak to me, but I'm in the UK! See http://www.citikey.com/business/DGNL850/ for ...
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| Drop down list | 11/7/2008 |
Q: Is there a way to have several drop down lists, that when I choose something on the first list, will ...
A: I was wrong in my earlier reply as I used Excel as the source - hadn't spotted this was a word ...
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| Labels Document | 11/6/2008 |
Q: When I create a document for mailing labels the actual labels are not visible on my screen. What ...
A: You didn't say which version of word so my instructions may not work as typed, but you have ...
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| Automatic appendix numbering | 11/5/2008 |
Q: I have the following problem. For work I often write long reviews/memo's that include lots of ...
A: Sorry for the delay in replying - couldn't get to an office 2007 machien before now. I would ...
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| Word | 11/5/2008 |
Q: I am trying to add a new field to an existing data source in Word. I can't seem to find out the ...
A: What format is your data source? Also which version of Word? My data sources TEND to be Excel, but ...
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| Word Problem As Outlook Editor | 11/4/2008 |
Q: A user I support has Office 2003 with Outlook 2003. A change happened suddenly with any mail in ...
A: I've not come across this myself BUT I don't use Word as an email editor which MAY explain it - ...
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| Word | 11/3/2008 |
Q: I'm using Word on my MacBookPro (3 years old). I have a long list of document files and know how ...
A: I'm not a Mac expert, but this SOUNDS like an operating system question! In Windows, I would use ...
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| Bolded text becomes unbolded when pasting | 11/3/2008 |
Q: I am working with Tables in Word 2003. Some of my cells contain bolded text, while others do not. ...
A: It seems very odd, but I wonder if it is actually bold text as against light text on a dark ...
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| Microsoft office will not open | 11/1/2008 |
Q: For the couple months my Microsoft office will not open. When I try to open word a message comes on ...
A: memory and disk space aren't the same thing, so I would be INCLINED to think that it is a memory ...
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| Table of Authorities | 10/31/2008 |
Q: I work in Word Perfect, but sometimes corporate clients want us to use Word so I am trying to learn ...
A: Styles are a means of applying given settings across the document, but you don't have to work with ...
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| Use British dictionary by default | 10/30/2008 |
Q: Applies to Outlook using Word as the underlying editor. I have tried everything including setting ...
A: tools, language, set language - set to UK, click default and then ensure you say YES to changing the ...
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| Scrolling in MS Word | 10/30/2008 |
Q: Whenever I scroll upward in a MS Word document, the sentences start to repeat themselves and I have ...
A: It is indeed a display issue, usually caused by (in my experience) memory issues more than anything ...
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| Word 2007 Mouse Won't Click in Doc | 10/29/2008 |
Q: I have the same question that you got on 1/31/08. When I click in a Word document (ANY word ...
A: My answer hasn't changed from the answer I gave, which was a google search with a lot of reference ...
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| AUTOCORRECT in Word 2007 | 10/28/2008 |
Q: .. I am working at a law firm where a conversion to Word 2007 is now complete. As I help "support" ...
A: I've not come across this, but equally I've not used Word 2007 in an office/networked environment - ...
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| mailing from word problem | 10/27/2008 |
Q: For the last three days I have been unable to send mail from Microsoft word or excel. If I try to ...
A: I haven't experienced this problem but see ...
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| Multiple records on a form | 10/27/2008 |
Q: We produce CSV files that are mail merged in word. In one scenario, multiple rows relate to a given ...
A: The easiest way of doing it is going to be via the data source - not sure what that source is [other ...
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| Generating a TOC with Styles defined by Outlined Numbering | 10/25/2008 |
Q: I have a problem regarding numbering in TOCs. I have used Outline Numbering to set up the heading ...
A: A style applies to the entire paragraph, so it is going to be difficult if not impossible to resolve ...
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| Remove a page number from a TOC | 10/25/2008 |
Q: The author of a document wants the page number for a Heading to NOT appear in the TOC - only that ...
A: The TOC is an incredibly powerful field, and does have a number of switches - the easiest thing I ...
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| Tildes and other international accents | 10/24/2008 |
Q: I use Microsoft Office 2007. How do I create a tilde (such as in the Spanish word "senor" and other ...
A: (1) use the insert ribbon then insert a symbol (2) use the shortcut keys - these are shown on the ...
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| Multiple records on a form | 10/24/2008 |
Q: We produce CSV files that are mail merged in word. In one scenario, multiple rows relate to a given ...
A: Is there any logic to the multiple records (eg are we always talking 5 records represent one card?) ...
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| Address labels with pictures | 10/22/2008 |
Q: I have been able to use Word to get the proper size label but cannot figure out how to insert a ...
A: Insert the picture, then format it to be behind the text -you can then overwrite with whatever you ...
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| Changing one word | 10/22/2008 |
Q: If you have a document that you want to use for different customers, can you fill in the company ...
A: various ways of doing this that I can think of - Ask fields and ref fields, or mail merge being the ...
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| auto-formatting field references | 10/22/2008 |
Q: I'm creating a very lengthy document which is full of cross-references to headings, tables, figures ...
A: you actually want them to BE hyperlinks? If so, the only way I can think of (apart from as you ...
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| Word 2007 - Mail Merge Directory: Need Multiple Records on One Page | 10/20/2008 |
Q: I'm using Word 2007, trying to create a directory of businesses for a reference directory, and I ...
A: One of my pet HATES about Word is how they have made mail merge more "user friendly" as each version ...
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| Creating a Survey in MS Word | 10/20/2008 |
Q: I am trying to create a survey for use at work, which is to be completed via computer. Most of the ...
A: If you use the view menu you can find various toolbars (view, toolbars) one of which is the forms ...
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| Word 2007 Bulleting | 10/20/2008 |
Q: My tab button will no longer indent/move over the bullets in a list. How can I remedy this? Thanks
A: I don't follow - a bulletted list would be formatted as per the formatting of the bullet, and the ...
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| Can no longer see heading 3 in the normal view in Word for mac - only in outline view! | 10/17/2008 |
Q: I am currently writing a thesis using Microsoft Word for Mac 2004. I am using a Mac with OSX. I ...
A: sounds like some form of corruption to the heading 3 style - so just use the format menu to reformat ...
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| Filling in a template | 10/16/2008 |
Q: I would like to find out how to create a template in Word that will automatically allow me to fill ...
A: You can do this with ASK fields and REF fields Field codes: Ask field { ASK Bookmark "Prompt " ...
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| format changes when saving document in MS word X for mac | 10/11/2008 |
Q: When I open a Word document after I have saved it, many of the characters have changed ie ...
A: This SOUNDS like the files to open dialog is set to "recover text from any document" in the files of ...
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| need addition formula to work | 10/10/2008 |
Q: in the below example - hours are to be computed in quarterly increments. line 1 starts with the ...
A: I don't think it is going to be easily possible, as the only method I could think of involves Visual ...
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| Em dash | 10/10/2008 |
Q: Aidan In Word 2002, I’m having trouble converting two hyphens into an em dash. When I click ...
A: This feature works within words, so if you simply type two hyphens they won't correct - however, if ...
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| Merge Word Doc w/Excel Spreadsheet | 10/9/2008 |
Q: I have an Excel data base of 50 names. Have created a form that I want to merge with the data base ...
A: Based on the information supplied I'm puzzled - but lets back track -You haven't specified version ...
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| "Mail Merge" first, then a "Form" | 10/8/2008 |
Q: The Word doc (from a template) has two sections: Sec 1 is a "mail merge" with data source coming ...
A: There is no workaround IF you want to stick with this method - but alternatives are in existence - ...
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| forms | 10/7/2008 |
Q: I create an electronic file for new clients with blank forms. The forms will be filled in by ...
A: I'm not sure I follow the request - do you want to have the form partly populated, saved, then ...
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| Word 2003 indent problems | 10/4/2008 |
Q: I am working on a World War II chronology and I'm having trouble getting Word to put indents where I ...
A: I would agree that using tabs alone is likely to cause problems as when you re-edit the text, the ...
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| Can't print word documents | 10/3/2008 |
Q: can you please help me with printing word documents. I just recently moved and now I can't print ...
A: I'm not sure I have enough information to go on, but the first thing I think I would try would be to ...
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| Global resizing of a Picture | 10/2/2008 |
Q: I am using the "Send to" feature in powerpoint to create a Word document of a powerpoint ...
A: see http://en.allexperts.com/q/Microsoft-Word-1058/2008/9/Resize-Images.htm for a macro solution ...
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| how to add prompt box in word | 10/1/2008 |
Q: How can i add prompt box in a long word document so that user of the template do not need to locate ...
A: Various ways - ask and ref fields, form fields with the document protected, or bookmarks and a ...
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| bookmarks with shortcut button | 9/30/2008 |
Q: I use MS Word 2003 and would like to understand a nuisance that I am experiencing: When I use the ...
A: I don't have 2003 installed, which MIGHT be a problem, but I've NOT come across this in any version ...
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| Word background error | 9/23/2008 |
Q: a couple of days ago i've changed the background for a doc and made it blue. Now i have that blue ...
A: It sounds like you need to go to TOOLS, then OPTIONS, select the GENERAL tab and uncheck the blue ...
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| microsoft word and spell check | 9/22/2008 |
Q: my 98 and X.P have both been overhauled by an expert now unavailable.I have lost spell check and ...
A: You say you have lost spell check AND word - this implies that the PC's have been rebuilt and not ...
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| Resize Images | 9/19/2008 |
Q: My question relates to resizing all images in a word document. What I want to do is to resize all ...
A: Try it with an error trap Sub Macro1() ' On Error Resume Next For Each s In ...
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| delimiter word macro | 9/17/2008 |
Q: Record macro ok. Then when I run it delimiter screen pops up asking for selection that was done in ...
A: The last line of your original code set the query options, but as you can now see that isn't ...
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| delimiter word macro | 9/17/2008 |
Q: Record macro ok. Then when I run it delimiter screen pops up asking for selection that was done in ...
A: It does, but IF the file is always called c:\parade\zzz.txt and if it always contains the same ...
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| WORD closes when trying to print | 9/17/2008 |
Q: Just recently (both my laptop (via wireless) and my desktop wired directly to the printer) the WORD ...
A: Being only Word points to SOMETHING in the normal.dot file, but as you said you've checked that this ...
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| MS Word 2003 tab/Outline | 9/16/2008 |
Q: I experienced the same issue of the Tab key not moving the outline. Your answer in the Auto-Text ...
A: I'm glad a previous answer of mine helped - especially in this case where I don't even remember the ...
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| delimiter word macro | 9/15/2008 |
Q: Record macro ok. Then when I run it delimiter screen pops up asking for selection that was done in ...
A: I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve with the macro - seeing the recorded macro or having an ...
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| Mailmerge from Excel 2003 to Word 2003 | 9/15/2008 |
Q: When mailmerging from Excel 2003 to Word 2003 the date format changes into US format although the ...
A: This seems to be my question of the month, in that it's appeared quite a number of times recently - ...
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| Text in form fields with number formats | 9/15/2008 |
Q: I have a Word form where the format of certain fields are set as number with format 0,0. Yet users ...
A: It cannot be done with formulas alone, UNLESS you get the closed time entered, but that would be ...
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| WORD closes when trying to print | 9/13/2008 |
Q: Just recently (both my laptop (via wireless) and my desktop wired directly to the printer) the WORD ...
A: There seem to be two unrelated questions here - the copying of documents onto the computer which is ...
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| microsoft word saving/opening docs as wordpad | 9/13/2008 |
Q: I have windows xp on a secondhand laptop and just installed my own copy of microsoft word 2003. When ...
A: The icon you see is the default program associated with files, but it SOUNDS as though you've tried ...
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| Word 2000 "read-only" doc can't be open | 9/12/2008 |
Q: The Word 2000 doc cant's be open even if the "read-only" box is unchecked (in file properties). This ...
A: I get NO money for it, so it costs me time (and sometimes MONEY) to answer questions - your question ...
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| Word Label Templates | 9/9/2008 |
Q: I need to use an Avery 5112 label template but it is not in the template list in mail merge. I ...
A: You didn't specify version of Word, but BASICALLY I would generally do this by using the template ...
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| Spacing | 9/8/2008 |
Q: I have a really strange problem with Microsoft Word. When I open any new document I can type ...
A: You didn't specify the version of word - doesn't matter as far as the overall solution is concerned, ...
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| Endnotes | 9/6/2008 |
Q: I've been having a lot of trouble trying to end the "endnotes" section. I'm working on a large ...
A: From Help:- Change the placement of footnotes and endnotes Microsoft Word, by default, places ...
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| wordpad vs ms office word | 9/5/2008 |
Q: I have microsoft word 2003. Today I was saving a file in word, but it has converted wordpad. In ...
A: The issue isn't with the files, but with the association of files on your computer - if you open ...
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| Importing Excel into Word | 9/5/2008 |
Q: I have an excel spreadsheet. I want to insert some cell values into a word report. For example, I ...
A: You have various options when you paste into word - I usually go with the unformatted text, which ...
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| Importing Excel into Word | 9/5/2008 |
Q: I have an excel spreadsheet. I want to insert some cell values into a word report. For example, I ...
A: If you are talking about one document and one sheet (as opposed to mail merging multiple records) ...
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| Option (radio) button | 9/4/2008 |
Q: Word 2000 I am putting together a questionnaire and would like to have a radio button type option ...
A: I might be inclined to do this in excel with data validation, but otherwise use the forms menu and a ...
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| When I open my microsoft word file it comes up in gibberish | 9/3/2008 |
Q: Not long ago I wrote a document in Microsoft word 97-2003. I saved the file and added to it when ...
A: HOPEFULLY that file isn't the actual file - I would first do a search from the start menu for files ...
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| Allowing free formatting in text form fields | 9/1/2008 |
Q: I have made a locked document for users to fill in information on Word 2002 containing several text ...
A: I'm afraid as far as I know the answer is no - it's one of the limitations of form fields (but if ...
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| frame in a form | 8/30/2008 |
Q: I'm creating a form for an ID card that many staff members will use. I need to include a frame into ...
A: You didn't say which version of Word, but frames are LARGELY outdated now - I would PROBABLY do this ...
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| Word Art in Office 2003 suite | 8/28/2008 |
Q: I cannot see a word art object for formatting text in the shape of a ball - circle or globe. I have ...
A: If you are going to use it on a webpage, I would DEFINITELY go to a graphics package to create this ...
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| Word Art in Office 2003 suite | 8/27/2008 |
Q: I cannot see a word art object for formatting text in the shape of a ball - circle or globe. I have ...
A: I'm sure it can - I would check the online clip art gallery at microsoft.com (just use the insert ...
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| Importing pictures from a directory | 8/27/2008 |
Q: I am trying to get a macro to do the following: ask for a directory where pictures from a digital ...
A: Although I'm sure this SHOULD be possible, I've only managed to achieve part of the requirement:- ...
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| Spelling Checking - English French | 8/26/2008 |
Q: Morning Adrian I'm spell checking a 15 page English document in Word 2003 but the spell checker ...
A: It sounds as though the underlying language of the document is set to Frence - try this edit select ...
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| FAQ Help | 8/26/2008 |
Q: I am trying to create a FAQ within a Word document (word 2003). I would like the page to read as a ...
A: The only ways I can think of (not to say that others cannot come up with better) are outline view - ...
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| Formatting Fractions. | 8/14/2008 |
Q: I am trying to write an address on an envelope and the address includes a fraction. When I type the ...
A: The envelope is outside the normal area of Word and autocorrect doesn't work - options are (1) type ...
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| Email docs through WORD 2003 | 8/14/2008 |
Q: I have WIN XP, use MSN explorer provided through Verizon for my email. Whenever I try to email a doc ...
A: Mail to uses the operating systems mail program - as far as I know, MSN mail isn't registered in the ...
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| Multiple Record Mail Merge | 8/13/2008 |
Q: I have recently tried to set up a multiple record mail merge so that one email is sent out to each ...
A: You will need to create a field which contains the forms they need to return as one field - a merge ...
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| using FORMTEXT inside an IF field | 8/13/2008 |
Q: I want to add a FORMTEXT inside an IF field. If you look at the IF field below, you'll see that if ...
A: I would SUGGEST having calculate on exit on ONLY the last one - otherwise (as you have discovered) ...
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| pdf chopped off | 8/12/2008 |
Q: I am trying to save a Word document as a PDF to use in an email to announce my business' 10th ...
A: I'm afraid I know nothing about PDF files, but I would IMAGINE it is related to the method of ...
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| footer unprotected | 8/11/2008 |
Q: Can you tell me how to protect the document, but still have the footers editable. When I protect the ...
A: I'm afraid I've been unable to find a way of doing this, APART from with a macro which could ...
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| page orientation in MS Word | 8/11/2008 |
Q: Can I have page one with Portrait, and page 2 with Landscape ?
A: Yes, it is basically done with section breaks, but Word will handle that for you - do file page ...
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| word vba | 8/10/2008 |
Q: I've been unsuccessful in my attempts to get a macro to do 2 things and I'm hoping you can help? ...
A: To delete bookmarks and hyperlinks:- dim Th for each th in activedocument.bookmarks th.delete ...
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| Downgrade word 2007 to word 2003 | 8/9/2008 |
Q: I had a virus on my computer and a computer tech removed many of my programs in the process of ...
A: Yes, reinstalling office 2003 should be fine. All doc files should be fine, so your old ones will ...
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| Downgrade word 2007 to word 2003 | 8/9/2008 |
Q: I had a virus on my computer and a computer tech removed many of my programs in the process of ...
A: I like techs like that! Office 2007 is a LOT different as you've seen - it does have it's uses (eg ...
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| building a website using Microsoft Word, inserting a Paypal button, etc. | 8/8/2008 |
Q: I have a few questions about building a website using Microsoft Word which is what I am attempting ...
A: My name is Aidan not Richard, but we'll let that go! Word DOES produce web pages, which it can save ...
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| database formatting possibly by mail merge | 8/6/2008 |
Q: I've collected responses from a PDF form and converted the information into an Excel spreadsheet. I ...
A: I think mail merge would work, in that you PROBABLY want the questions in the header row, and then ...
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| microsoft word 2007 | 8/6/2008 |
Q: I did my resume and I saved it in my documents. When I tried to send it as a attachment doesn't ...
A: It's probably being opened in a version of word other than 2007? I would save a resume as an older ...
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| Hotlinks in Word 2000 | 8/5/2008 |
Q: I'm working on a project that requires that I copy hundreds of URLs into a Word 2000 document. ...
A: It's not clear how the URLs are being copied, but certainly in Word XP (2002) if the text copied is ...
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| Inserting a background picture in Word 2003 | 8/5/2008 |
Q: I created a two column bulletin. I inserted a background picture and the picture covered the entire ...
A: A background picture will apply to the entire document and as far as I know cannot be altered - ...
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| Problem copy/paste | 8/4/2008 |
Q: I have never seen this happen before but when I go to copy and then paste it does not paste. ...
A: The paste option would not be available in a protected workbook, so that would be the first thing I ...
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| Mail Merge into Word Table | 8/3/2008 |
Q: I am trying to create a mail merge using Word 2003 with the data being pulled from an Excel ...
A: Not sure how you've laid the document out - it should use the nextrecord field until the end of the ...
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| mail merge | 8/1/2008 |
Q: I am merging data from excel to word using the mail merge feature. in my excel sheet one column is ...
A: No problem - whenever using numbers or dates in mail merge, I would always recommend viewing the ...
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| Information Prompts in a Document | 7/31/2008 |
Q: How do I create, from scratch, a document/template that whenever I open it, right in the beginning ...
A: There are various ways of achieving this (1) at the top of the document insert a number of ASK ...
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| TOCs | 7/30/2008 |
Q: I have a document for a manual with several chapters. It has a multi-page TOC (3 pages). How can I ...
A: The problem is that a TOC is a single field (if a very powerful one) and therefore needs switches to ...
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| My favorites toolbar disappeared | 7/30/2008 |
Q: .I used VISTA. and Microsoft Office..Do you know about VISTA......The bar that has the Favorites on ...
A: I haven't used vista but I think ...
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| Need ASAP delete menu bar and get my original toolbar back | 7/30/2008 |
Q: "Hi. Ready to have a nervous breakdown or kill myself over this. Dont' know what I did but when I ...
A: I'll do my best - what you have done is pulled the menu bar away from it's normal location. Click ...
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| REF field formatting | 7/29/2008 |
Q: I don't mean to sound stupid, but I have a couple of REF fields that I want specific formatting for ...
A: I'm intriqued, in that a ref field is a field and therefore effectively a single entity -that should ...
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| Emailing word documents to a LINK with an attachment | 7/29/2008 |
Q: Please let me know how i can email a word document to a link in that word document
A: Can you clarify the question - do you mean that the document contains an email address and you want ...
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| Margins within Word | 7/29/2008 |
Q: Is there a way to create a template that has a certain margin on heaters and footers but then a ...
A: The EASIEST way to do it is to edit the header/footer, view the ruler and then drag the indent ...
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| Opening New Documents | 7/29/2008 |
Q: I hope I have not already sent this to you. I have Office 2004 and when I try to open a new Word ...
A: By open a new word document I think you are referring to creating a new document (the file, new ...
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| Label Outlines in 2007 | 7/28/2008 |
Q: It is not a gridline problem, turning them off or on does not fix it. If I create a new page of ...
A: This seems odd - can I just check how you are toggling the gridlines - I'm using the layout ribbon ...
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| word not responding | 7/28/2008 |
Q: every time i want to use word, a message comes out (not responding) when i want to print or save a ...
A: If it's word 2007 (the only one this applies to!) then it's NOT the normal.dot file - it's the ...
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| macros to add hyperlinks | 7/28/2008 |
Q: Need help in VBA and macros. The issue is discussed here ...
A: Its easy enough to do what you want, but how do you want the hyperlinks to work IF you haven't got ...
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| Recent Documents and More to the Right | 7/27/2008 |
Q: Can you tell me how do I change setting regarding Recent Document? I was using word 2003. in that ...
A: I'm not quite sure what you are describing, but Ctrl O would bring up the file open dialog box which ...
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| word not responding | 7/27/2008 |
Q: every time i want to use word, a message comes out (not responding) when i want to print or save a ...
A: Not really enough information to go on as I don't know the version of word,or what else is running ...
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| macros to add hyperlinks | 7/26/2008 |
Q: Need help in VBA and macros. The issue is discussed here ...
A: You have had an answer to the question already at the original site - the macro you have is creating ...
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| Word - Spacing issues | 7/25/2008 |
Q: I am working on a manuscript using Word from Office 2000. I have combined a couple of different ...
A: It sounds like the formatting of the paragraphs - probably marked as keep together and/or keep with ...
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| Interactive Forms | 7/25/2008 |
Q: Same Problem as 4/29/08 Created my first form in MS Office 2003. When the document was completed, I ...
A: I haven't been able to duplicate the problem, ALTHOUGH most of the documents I create use Visual ...
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| Changing normal.doc | 7/25/2008 |
Q: I use Word 98. When I open a word document I want it to create a document with a certain page setup, ...
A: I would personally create a specialised template for this, so that the normal.dot file remained a ...
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| Message Box applied with Case Results | 7/24/2008 |
Q: I am working with a form in Word. I have a dropdown choice ("TypeOfService") with three options. If ...
A: Sub MessageBox1() On Error Resume Next If ActiveDocument.FormFields("dropdown1").Result <> "1" ...
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| Image shows as broken in MS Word 2000, but shows fine in other docs... | 7/23/2008 |
Q: I am a Tier 2 IT Specialist in the Federal Government. I have a customer who can't seem to see a ...
A: If it's only one document, then it is probably related to the document - eg it MAY be that this one ...
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| Running a Macro in a protected section | 7/23/2008 |
Q: I'm fairly new at this, and am in the final stages of preparing a template document for which i've ...
A: A protected section of a document (by definition) cannot be modified, however that modification is ...
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| Form Drop Down Lists | 7/22/2008 |
Q: I have a multi-page form document with many drop down lists. I would like to make it so someone can ...
A: Not directly, although I THINK it would be possible to write a VBA routine that went through the ...
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| WORD | 7/21/2008 |
Q: We use triangles as markers of revisions in WORD docs, text and tables. Use a shape(triangle) with ...
A: My thoughts are (1) find or design a font that has the numbers in triangles (2) create a series of ...
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| Import Word data into Excel | 7/21/2008 |
Q: How would I import data from a word document into an excel spread sheet? Example: I'm trying to ...
A: As long as the data has one paragraph between "fields" and two between records it's easy enough to ...
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| Keyboard input problem | 7/20/2008 |
Q: I hope I can explain this right so you will understand. I work in Word 2002. My keyboard will ...
A: I'm afraid I failed on this last time I looked, and the top google response is my reply! ...
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| Word 2007 Page Number | 7/20/2008 |
Q: I have a document that is over 100 pages long. Part of the document is the appendix section. How ...
A: Insert a section break at the end of the document (page layout ribbon, breaks)- before the appendix ...
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| winword.exe not responding | 7/19/2008 |
Q: I am unable to work in msword2000; message is msword.exe is not responding . pl help
A: This could be due to any number of reasons, but the first thing I'd do would be to housekeep the ...
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| Books | 7/16/2008 |
Q: I am writing a book and I need to flip all of the text side ways so I can bind it do you know how?
A: Not quite sure what you are trying to achieve, and don't know the version of word - in XP, under ...
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| merged document fields | 7/15/2008 |
Q: I have a merged document using data from Access. I just want to show the person's names from all ...
A: There isn't a way of doing this that I know of - what I would do is to have TWO merge documents - ...
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| Macro in WORD | 7/15/2008 |
Q: V.B.6 how can i add textbox on word and manipulate is width,height,left,top,fontsize,fontbold ...
A: Not 100% sure why you would want to - I would TEND to have a saved template and create a new ...
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| 2007 Word - mail merge issue | 7/14/2008 |
Q: We have created a mail merge in word 2007 and it all looks correct on screen. We wanted to only ...
A: A merge document is a little different to other documents, in that it is effectively multiple ...
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| Failure of keyboard operations to affect documents | 7/12/2008 |
Q: I use my home desktop computer solely for word processing, on Word 2003. The situation at present: ...
A: This is one of those questions that would be so much easier to answer if I was at the computer in ...
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| Repeating Text automatically | 7/10/2008 |
Q: I have a document which requires you to input the same set of words throughout the document is there ...
A: I'm assuming the document you have in mind would be a standard template, which has a lot of text in ...
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| Excel Help | 7/10/2008 |
Q: I have an excel questions. I want to be able to enter into excel the following information... Date ...
A: You confused me slightly by typing a star, which is the symbol for multiplied by - but I think I ...
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| IF Field in mail merge document | 7/9/2008 |
Q: I have a merged document that is populated with data from an Access table. If the field ...
A: At face value this look fine, but I suspect that EITHER the table contains a space value (so " " ...
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| Word 2003 Styles: Organizing, Moving and Controlling | 7/8/2008 |
Q: I am frustrated by MS Word 2003 Formatting and Styles I need to take a Word file research paper and ...
A: Office 2003 is a version I don't have installed on any computers I have access to at the moment, and ...
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| RE: Background Image | 7/7/2008 |
Q: I have a full page image that serves as my templates background. I placed text fields in front for ...
A: and the measurements referred to do fit with driver issues.
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| Tables | 7/6/2008 |
Q: I am using the latest version of Microsoft and I inserted an excel table in my Microsoft Word page. ...
A: It depends slightly on how you inserted the table - if it was inserted as an object, then right ...
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| Word Template Problem | 7/5/2008 |
Q: I have a few different word templates for 07. My problem is when I cut and paste text between them I ...
A: If text is formatted using styles, then it will retain the style name, and re-apply to the ...
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| Word typing problem | 7/4/2008 |
Q: I'm using Microsoft XP Word and over the past couple of weeks it's started behaving quite weirdly. ...
A: I've not come across this, but a google search implies it's not unknown, though I failed to find any ...
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| Microsoft Word Footer Issue | 7/2/2008 |
Q: I am trying to insert a footer into a Word 2003 document. When I select View Header/Footer and the ...
A: Odd - if this applies across documents, then I'd try resetting the toolbar - right click any toolbar ...
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| Hyphen turned into a unremoveable line | 7/2/2008 |
Q: I'm using Microsoft word and I used the hyphen to make a line to separate two paragraphs. It ...
A: It's word helpfully applying autoformat as you type - if you spot it happening, ctrl z (edit undo ...
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| Microsoft Word Footer Issue | 7/2/2008 |
Q: I am trying to insert a footer into a Word 2003 document. When I select View Header/Footer and the ...
A: I THINK (if I've read the question correctly) it's simply the toolbar that you are missing - so when ...
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| WORD 2003 Print Layout View | 7/2/2008 |
Q: Aidan,in print layout view I have lines on the top and bottom, left and right that appear. They ...
A: Sorry for the delay in replying, I wanted to check on an office 2003 machine rather than assume it ...
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| Excel search and replace macro | 7/2/2008 |
Q: I create a macro through which each cell in a colun will be search in another column if the match is ...
A: simplest method would be Sub ae() On Error Resume Next For Each cell In Range("a1:a6") ...
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| inserting whole month dates in a table | 7/1/2008 |
Q: I was wondering; when i make a table that contains a column for date for a whole month. do I have to ...
A: Word has no auto-complete entry for this, but the EASIEST way to do it would be to use excel to ...
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| Underlining a word in a Word Table of Contents | 7/1/2008 |
Q: I am having trouble figuring out how to do the following: In a Table of Contents, I have headings ...
A: The switches available are Switches \a Identifier Lists items captioned with the Caption command ...
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| Eliminating Errors | 6/30/2008 |
Q: My company does utility billing. We generate over 30,000 bills a month. We have a set way of doing ...
A: I'm puzzled, as you say the files are CSV created from lotus 9- I know nothing about lotus, but ...
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| Open Word 2000 to Envelopes/Labels window | 6/30/2008 |
Q: I only use Word 2000 for printing envelopes. Is there a way to either have Word start up and open ...
A: The easiest way would be to create a macro on your normal.dot file , attached to the ThisDocument ...
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| Word Tables | 6/30/2008 |
Q: It is very generous of you to take your time and energy for this purpose. I am a fairly ...
A: Firstly thanks for your appreciation of the time aspect! BOTH of these issues can be handled with ...
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| Smith | 6/29/2008 |
Q: Is it possible to alter some of the default options of MS word (2007) permanently. For example, the ...
A: Firstly, sorry for the delay in replying - work sent me at short notice to another site which has ...
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| word sort of letter | 6/28/2008 |
Q: I would like to take a letter created with Word and be able to sort all its words into an a-z column ...
A: See ...
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| Newsletter templates | 6/27/2008 |
Q: I recently created a newsletter using a Word template. It looks really nice. Now I'd like to send ...
A: As to the first part, no as the Word document will be coverted to HTML format on sending - so unless ...
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| word macros | 6/27/2008 |
Q: Regarding Chained Use cases Report generation i/p = is a design folder containing business ...
A: The files you sent don't contain any macros - I'm guessing that the macro was recorded on the global ...
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| word macros | 6/27/2008 |
Q: Regarding Chained Use cases Report generation i/p = is a design folder containing business ...
A: I think this really needs to be done in word, so the excel macros book probably won't help much - ...
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| word not responding | 6/26/2008 |
Q: I have vista on a new acer laptop. I have loaded microsoft word 2000 onto it. It has been working ...
A: This sounds like it is going to be difficult to pin down - it's PROBABLY a conflict within the ...
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| Punctuation Replace | 6/26/2008 |
Q: I have a 300-page manuscript, the first half of which was originally written in Word 97-2003. I'm ...
A: This SHOULD be fairly simple - do a search and replace (the old keyboard shortcut of Ctrl H should ...
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| problem with microsoft word 2000 | 6/25/2008 |
Q: I have a problem with my Microsoft Word. It's quite an annoying problem. Every time I press ...
A: I cannot find anything to explain this - it half sounds as though it's a sticky key on the keyboard, ...
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| word not responding | 6/25/2008 |
Q: I have vista on a new acer laptop. I have loaded microsoft word 2000 onto it. It has been working ...
A: POSSIBLY corruption to the normal.dot file to blame - certainly worth checking - if you use the find ...
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| sorting on headings | 6/25/2008 |
Q: i have a very long document comprised of several others. all are subdivided to 5 heading levels and ...
A: I'm not aware of an automatic way of doing this, but you could use the spike to gather the sections ...
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| font color change and save | 6/22/2008 |
Q: I am running leopard, mac os 10.5.3 Question regards microsoft word-teachers addition V.X I want ...
A: I would set up a style for the font, which would make it easy to apply - if you use the format ...
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| html in Word | 6/22/2008 |
Q: I have written an Ezine for my web site and have included articles and images/text to my affiliate ...
A: Sorry for the delay in replying - I hadn't got access to my office 2007 machine until today - and ...
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| Word 07; header; pagination | 6/20/2008 |
Q: I have been searching the web to find out how to put page numbers in the header of a long document. ...
A: Helpful is not how I'd describe this feature - HOWEVER, as LONG as you want continuing page numbers, ...
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| undo command ..after delete | 6/20/2008 |
Q: I was typing a word 2003 document and accidentally hit a set of keys that deleted everything that I ...
A: I'm not aware of any key that would undo all - although Ctrl N would look similar in that it would ...
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| undo command ..after delete | 6/19/2008 |
Q: I was typing a word 2003 document and accidentally hit a set of keys that deleted everything that I ...
A: ctrl Z is the keyboard shortcut for undo, and SHOULD keep working backwards - Ctrl A is edit select ...
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| Page setup in word 2002 | 6/19/2008 |
Q: I am trying to print something off in word via the manual feed print tray. I go into page setup, ...
A: I do have one thought, which is counter-intuitive - try to find an OLDER driver and see if the ...
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| Page setup in word 2002 | 6/19/2008 |
Q: I am trying to print something off in word via the manual feed print tray. I go into page setup, ...
A: This is certainly very odd - I've done some research in between the two questions and have found ...
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| Page setup in word 2002 | 6/19/2008 |
Q: I am trying to print something off in word via the manual feed print tray. I go into page setup, ...
A: Is it definitely word that is at fault (as in, you save the document, close it, re-open it and the ...
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| Disappearing bookmarks in word | 6/18/2008 |
Q: I am trying to insert multiple, yet occasionally repeating, bookmarks into a document. For ...
A: Think of a a bookmark as an index entry, or a literal bookmark - you can then probably see that it ...
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| Page Numbering | 6/18/2008 |
Q: I am laying out a report that will be printed to read like a book. Because of that I changed the ...
A: Difficult to fix remotely as I'm not sure why it's happened! HOWEVER, I would suggest deleting the ...
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| stripping word tags | 6/18/2008 |
Q: I am a website admin and to enter data in our new portal system website,I have to copy paste data ...
A: I'm not familiar with any such apps - a programmer in this office wrote a utility to create web ...
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| stripping word tags | 6/18/2008 |
Q: I am a website admin and to enter data in our new portal system website,I have to copy paste data ...
A: I assume you are talking here about a need to reformat the HTML that is created when saving a word ...
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| Non-Sequential Page Numbers | 6/17/2008 |
Q: I am developing a facilitator's guide with the even pages containing notes for the facilitator and ...
A: There shouldn't be a minus sign with the fields as I typed them, but I do realise it can be ...
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| Non-Sequential Page Numbers | 6/15/2008 |
Q: I am developing a facilitator's guide with the even pages containing notes for the facilitator and ...
A: I've not been asked this before, but I took your suggestion of a calculated field as a base point! ...
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| Trying to make a Drop-Down Field Autopopulate | 6/13/2008 |
Q: Aidan, I have built a form for our staff to use, but was told that it would be easier for them if ...
A: The only way I can think of to do this would be via VBA and a Userform, but I suspect that may be ...
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| Page borders in Word | 6/13/2008 |
Q: I'm sure I'm missing something very obvios, but since previous versions of MS Word I couldn't get ...
A: On the right of this dialog is a graphic representing the pagee - if you choose the options you want ...
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| New to TOC - worked once, but not now! | 6/11/2008 |
Q: I, too, am creating a Word doc from an InDesign file. Having some word experience has been useful, ...
A: The TOC is simply a field, so selecting the entire TOC and then format, font SHOULD resove it (BUT ...
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| Using multiple page borders | 6/11/2008 |
Q: I'm trying to use type "a" border on pg1, no border on pg2-9 and "b" border on pg10-11. How can ...
A: I would suggest using section breaks - at the end of page 1 and page 9 put a section break - you can ...
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| Word Fill-in Form | 6/10/2008 |
Q: I have a Word document that I want to make available on a website as a fill-in form. Is there a ...
A: Not sure what you have used for fill in fields - I would do this (assuming I wasn't doing it as a ...
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| symbol guide | 6/10/2008 |
Q: I'm looking to print out a guide to all the various symbols available, and their shortcut keys.
A: There isn't anything available in Word to do this but see ...
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| formulas | 6/10/2008 |
Q: how dose a formula look when you are dividing two numbers in a word table?
A: Formulas in word are in what is referred to as R1C1 format - i.e. row number and column number - so ...
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| breaklinks vba | 6/10/2008 |
Q: Please(?) - I'm looking for an auto-run VBA for a word document that will break links back to an ...
A: I'm not 100% sure how succesful this will be as you want the data to update first - my INCLINATION ...
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| updating fields | 6/10/2008 |
Q: I have a question about updating fields. I have written several chapters of a long document, each ...
A: It's not clear where the fields actually exist, or if there are other fields within the document - ...
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| microsoft 2000 print labels | 6/7/2008 |
Q: i need assistance please. i have version microsoft 2000 and excel database. i want to print ...
A: The steps SHOULD be Tools, Mail Merge (1) - create - form letters (2) Get Data - open data source - ...
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| ms word | 6/5/2008 |
Q: my ms word is telling me this word could not load e-mail envelope,when i try to use it as an ...
A: You haven't given me the version of word, so I cannot be certain which is the right answer for you - ...
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| Finding someone to set up formatting and stylesheets | 6/5/2008 |
Q: I'm looking for someone I could hire to take a carefully designed template created in InDesign (and ...
A: I posted this question to the question pool as at the time I was seriously overloaded with questions ...
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| Word Art doesn't print | 6/4/2008 |
Q: I have added Word Art to my word document, but it won't print. It doesn't even show up when i do a ...
A: Possibly down to a setting in tools, options and then the print tab - ensure that it is not set to ...
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| Text Boxes | 6/3/2008 |
Q: Not sure if this has been asked before, but here goes anyway! My query is very similar to a ...
A: I would PROBABLY use form fields here (view, toolbars, forms) and insert textbox fields. Insert a ...
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| Fields and References | 6/2/2008 |
Q: Is there a way that I can link two identical lines of text on different pages of a document so that ...
A: The edition shouldn't matter, and the field you are after is a REF field - the quickest way of ...
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| formula in header | 6/2/2008 |
Q: How do I put a formula in a header. I am making a standard order formula in word 2003, where I need ...
A: I'm slightly confused, in that you SEEM to be using a macro to populate part of the document, but ...
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| Microsoft Word | 5/30/2008 |
Q: You have previously answered this question for somebody else but I still dont seem to be able to do ...
A: Being in the UK is quite helpful as I'm in Stevenage, Herts! You didn't refer me to my previous ...
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| Word - Forms | 5/29/2008 |
Q: I'm delving into a side of Word that I've never used before. Forms and Calculations. I'm trying to ...
A: The calculations will work fine in a table, PROVIDED that the document isn't locked - once you lock ...
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| problem | 5/28/2008 |
Q: when i was typing the any word and copying to word sheet it may be displays like that the word is ...
A: I'm afraid I don't follow the question -=- if you mean that you are typing a word and that word ...
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| garnish & veg.carving book | 5/26/2008 |
Q: am in catering industry for long time, i always wanted to write a book in food garnish & veg.& ...
A: If your choices are word or front page, then it has to be word - front page is fine for web pages, ...
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| Word borders printing problems | 5/23/2008 |
Q: Please tell me how to fix this error: "the page border section 1 are set outside the printable ...
A: Printers generally cannot print to the extreme edges of the page - solutions to the problem are (1) ...
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| Footnote field codes | 5/23/2008 |
Q: I'm using Word's footnote feature (+ Endnote software) to add footnotes to a manuscript. What i ...
A: I haven't worked much with footnotes, but I've done a long search to try to find a solution for you ...
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| word | 5/21/2008 |
Q: I am not sure how to describe this but here goes. Sometimes I may have something typed and I go to ...
A: POSSIBLY the paragraph is fully justified? However, the question is hard to answer as I dont' fully ...
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| excel to word | 5/20/2008 |
Q: I want to import an excel table to a word table, but I want special feilds of excel table be ...
A: OK, that sounds easier - I'll assume we are talking word OTHER than 2007 - in the word document, use ...
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| excel to word | 5/20/2008 |
Q: I want to import an excel table to a word table, but I want special feilds of excel table be ...
A: Not clear how you want to do it - with visual basic, use bookmarks. Without, either use mail merge, ...
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| transferring software | 5/16/2008 |
Q: How do I copy Wordperfect Productivty Pack software from a computer I purchased to another computer ...
A: Wordpefect is NOT Microsoft Word, so I can only give general advice on how to install software on ...
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| Repaginating MS Word Docs | 5/14/2008 |
Q: Is there any menu option or other automated way to repaginate documents that have (mysteriously or ...
A: It's one of these annoying things that PROBABLY seeing the document would resolve, but I do ...
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| Headings | 5/14/2008 |
Q: I was wondering how you can create a document with a heading that won't move when you paste in text. ...
A: The EASIEST way would be to put the heading details in the header area of the document - it's then ...
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| Repaginating MS Word Docs | 5/13/2008 |
Q: Is there any menu option or other automated way to repaginate documents that have (mysteriously or ...
A: The original question referred to them only as page breaks - IF they are automatic breaks, they will ...
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| Setup Error | 5/13/2008 |
Q: I use MS Word 2003 all of the time at work and at home. Just this week at work, I have been unable ...
A: Sorry for sounding so cautious, but I feel it is better to be that way than to gaily tell someone to ...
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| Setup Error | 5/13/2008 |
Q: I use MS Word 2003 all of the time at work and at home. Just this week at work, I have been unable ...
A: If it is a work machine, I would contact the IT guys as they MAY have set something running which is ...
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| Missing text in Word 2003 | 5/13/2008 |
Q: In many of my word documents when I scroll up or down, some of the text will disappear. When I go to ...
A: The memory issue is related to display memory as far as I know - I'm afraid the ONLY answer I've ...
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| Missing text in Word 2003 | 5/13/2008 |
Q: In many of my word documents when I scroll up or down, some of the text will disappear. When I go to ...
A: This is an issue with the display of the computer, and will effectively be a memory issue - the ...
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| page layout | 5/9/2008 |
Q: Is it possible to get Word to lay out a document to print in signatures that will later be bound ...
A: You didn't give me the address of the web source, but I'm not aware of any easy way of doing what ...
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| Repaginating MS Word Docs | 5/8/2008 |
Q: Is there any menu option or other automated way to repaginate documents that have (mysteriously or ...
A: You can use the search and replace option to find page breaks and replace with (I would suggest) ...
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| merge to email grayed out | 5/8/2008 |
Q: The merge to email button in Word 2003 is grayed out on my computer. I have Outlook Express 6 ...
A: Sorry for the delay in replying - we had some family matters that needed sorting out which meant I ...
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| Word to excel | 5/7/2008 |
Q: I want to copy a text field from word to excel using a macro. Please help me with this. Thanks, ...
A: In theory yes, see previous answer - however, I still don't know what you ACTUALLY mean by FIELD - ...
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| Mailmerge | 5/7/2008 |
Q: How do i stop dates changing to an american format when doing a amilmerge from an excel ...
A: Always a nuisance this one - you need to use the tools menu choice to get to the view tab and select ...
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| Word makes an unwanted copy of document | 5/6/2008 |
Q: Every time I save a document in word, it makes a copy of itself but one i can't open. If the ...
A: It's standard that these files will exist while working on the files, they are backup copies for ...
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| Formating or layout? Different views from different PCs | 5/6/2008 |
Q: Ok here's the problem I am trying to solve for someone (I'm a technician). Company X creates ...
A: It could still be printer drivers, as companies may flood the network with standard drivers - and ...
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| Word to excel | 5/6/2008 |
Q: I want to copy a text field from word to excel using a macro. Please help me with this. Thanks,
A: I cannot give you specific code as you didn't specify what you meant by text field but the basic ...
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| macro operation | 5/4/2008 |
Q: recorded a macro in word to do a mail merge. Then developed code in excel "I thought" would execute ...
A: This is real-world code I'm using for one of my automated merges Sub LetterProduction() Open ...
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| Booklet style Format | 5/1/2008 |
Q: Yes to both questions. The document is already in 'Word" and yes to stapling into a book style. ...
A: I'm hoping that Word Windows XP means Word 2002 or Word XP - if so, it's nice and easy - file menu, ...
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| Word won't open | 4/29/2008 |
Q: I have MS Office XP (2002) and recently Word has taken longer to open than normal. It came to a ...
A: Difficult to answer without access to the PC, but I think the first thing I would try would be to ...
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| Mail merge, future date insertion based on a merge field | 4/29/2008 |
Q: I have a document that I am trying to have auto populate a fist of the month date based on a merge ...
A: I assume from the question that the excel sheet is actually the data source for the merge - if so, I ...
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| Interactive Forms | 4/29/2008 |
Q: Created my first form in MS Office 2003. When the document was completed, I protected the form and ...
A: I suspect that you protected the document in the wrong mode - tools menu, protect document and then ...
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| Replacing Phone Numbers In Word 2003 Using "Find and Replace" | 4/29/2008 |
Q: I am working with address labels (with cells). The addresses that have copied and pasted over, ...
A: If you simply want to replace the number with the text shown, then the ? wild card will do it for ...
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| Word opening files incorrectly | 4/29/2008 |
Q: I am a tech with an odd problem on a machine. I have a WIN2000 machine running Word2000. New drive ...
A: I SUSPECT that the user in question has changed the FILES OF TYPE option so that the files are not ...
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| mail merge | 4/25/2008 |
Q: I have created a form, there are two on a page. The merge fields are first name, last name, then ...
A: As you say there are two records on a form, it is reasonable to assume you have inserted NEXT RECORD ...
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| blocked collumn | 4/24/2008 |
Q: I have a table with 9 column in MS Word 2003 with SP3; One column is not allowed me to enter any ...
A: The only reference to "block" that I'm aware of in Word is block editing which allows you to select ...
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| Mailing Labels Not Lining Up! | 4/23/2008 |
Q: My name is Sarah, and I work for a printing company. I often have people come in that want mailing ...
A: labels have always been a problem, as they have the label size AND the spacing between labels - I ...
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| drop-down boxes in Word 2003 | 4/23/2008 |
Q: I have designed a simple booking form where i have an option to select an airport destination (this ...
A: If using form fields, then the drop down list will ONLY allow the selected entries, so you would ...
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| Centering labels | 4/22/2008 |
Q: Can you help, I am trying to center the address whilst doing a mailmerge task, I have notes saying ...
A: Your second method is fine, but the issue would appear to be the indent - try selecting just one ...
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| 2003 MS Word Letter Merge | 4/22/2008 |
Q: So i am attempting to send out multiple letters to multiple clients. Is there a way to ...
A: Personally, I'd put this value into the data source (especially as I tend to use Excel as the data ...
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| doing math in Word | 4/22/2008 |
Q: how've you been? In Word 2003, I have several tables. In table 1, in cell A1, I place a date, say ...
A: Ouch! You can do maths (UK english, sorry!!!) in Word tables, but as far as I know only within the ...
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| landscape | 4/21/2008 |
Q: How do I go from portrait to landscape a document?
A: version of word might have helped, as the specifics change, BUT use the file menu then page setup ...
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| Label outlines | 4/18/2008 |
Q: I was looking for the answer to the same question. However, it isn't a border that I want. I simply ...
A: I've not referred back to the original question as you didn't reference it, but I seem to remember ...
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| Word Merge | 4/16/2008 |
Q: I have to send a memo on a weekly bases to multiple individuals on $'s put into the accounts they ...
A: I have recently had to do something very similar in this office. Our data source was Excel, so I ...
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| Bookmarking issue | 4/14/2008 |
Q: I am using Ms Word2000. I have to mark a specific text in a document while processing and later ...
A: It is bookmark, and a bookmark does indeed mark a location - but that is the selected text or cursor ...
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| using ActiveDocument.sendmail | 4/14/2008 |
Q: I am trying to use activedocument.sendmail, and it work great in everything accept filling in the ...
A: I think in this situation it is the case that you need to use what suits you - there are limitations ...
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| using ActiveDocument.sendmail | 4/14/2008 |
Q: I am trying to use activedocument.sendmail, and it work great in everything accept filling in the ...
A: I use outlook as my automation model whenever trying to handle mail (or Lotus notes when at work) - ...
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| MS Word 2003 Spell check | 4/12/2008 |
Q: I'm not sure if you are able to help me, but several weeks ago my spell check in MS word 2003 ...
A: I cannot find an obvious answer to the problem - a google search ...
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| hyperlinks in word 2000 and 2003 | 4/11/2008 |
Q: I am trying to link to a web site in a word 2003 document. I use an application called Fiddler2 to ...
A: I haven't noticed that this happens, although of course I haven't got a logging application - I can ...
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| Word mail merge issues | 4/11/2008 |
Q: Firstly thanks for your time in looking at this question I have. Greatly appreciated. I am ...
A: I don't think that merge is going to be the way to go with this, due to the formatting issues - I ...
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| Language Translation | 4/10/2008 |
Q: I had a customer ask if we could translate our machine manual into Spanish for his workers. Our ...
A: I really WOULDN'T try to use a program to do a translation - you will get a word for word ...
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| Can i autofill a second field by selecting a drop down menu ? | 4/9/2008 |
Q: Hope you can help me, i only know the very basics of word. Each morning i must complete a duty sheet ...
A: I haven't managed to find an easy way of doing this - IF I was doing it myself, I would use VBA for ...
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| Printing Multiple Word Documents From Command line | 4/8/2008 |
Q: I need to print multiple word documents from a command line without opening them. How can I do this? ...
A: I would use windows explorer to do this - select the files you want to print as a block (hold down ...
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| Drop down list on Microsoft Word | 4/8/2008 |
Q: I have created a drop down list but as soon as I protect it I can't type on the other lines. PLEASE ...
A: The trick with forms in this situation is to use section breaks - put yourself at the position you ...
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| Word 2003 Mail Merge | 4/8/2008 |
Q: I am trying to use mail merge to merge data rows from Excel. My Excel file has only values in it, ...
A: Excel stores data in a strange way to mere humans it seems, but it may simply be that your formula ...
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| word and excel docs | 4/8/2008 |
Q: Why is it that when you try to open an attachment from word or excel from another program it won't ...
A: As long as you have excel or word on your home computer, the attachment should open. You didn't ...
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| read only | 4/7/2008 |
Q: How do I send an MS-Word file to somebody and have it be read-only?
A: Depends what you mean by read-only - if you want it to be impossible for the user to change what you ...
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| formulas: product | 4/7/2008 |
Q: Word 2003. I have a table, and I want to get the product of the field to the left and .0125. I've ...
A: I'm sitting here at work trying to do a boring task, and thought it made sense to answer your ...
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| formulas: product | 4/7/2008 |
Q: Word 2003. I have a table, and I want to get the product of the field to the left and .0125. I've ...
A: I don't think it's the product bit that is causing the problem, but determining the row to use? If ...
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| Word 2007 - Too Many Styles! | 4/7/2008 |
Q: I want to tame Word 2007's style gallery - so it shows only normal, body single, 3 levels of ...
A: Sorry about that - as you will realise, we are all learning office 2007, and often the first time I ...
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| macro operation | 4/6/2008 |
Q: recorded a macro in word to do a mail merge. Then developed code in excel "I thought" would execute ...
A: If I understand the question correctly, the "SEARCH" is due to the merge trying to merge more ...
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| MS Word 2003 | 4/4/2008 |
Q: I have mentioned this before to Suzanne and Richard but neither solution has worked. I have ProDoc ...
A: It's not a program I'm familiar with, and you didn't say what the solutions that didn't work were, ...
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| Properly protected forms in word | 4/4/2008 |
Q: Is there any way I can create a form with fill-in text fields that are of a fixed length that won't ...
A: I'm not aware of a way of doing it with form fields - although you can set the length of the fields, ...
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| allowing attachments in forms | 4/4/2008 |
Q: I am creating a form in Microsoft Word and I want to create an area where the user can add ...
A: Use section breaks to seperate the forms area from the "free-format" area then protect the document ...
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| Word 2007 - Too Many Styles! | 4/4/2008 |
Q: I want to tame Word 2007's style gallery - so it shows only normal, body single, 3 levels of ...
A: If you click on the button to the right of the word style at the bottom of the ribbon group, you can ...
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| autocaptioning tables in word 2007 | 4/4/2008 |
Q: When I create a new table, it always adds a caption. How can I turn this feature off? ANSWER: I'm ...
A: sorry for failing to answer first time - Word 2007 being so different to earlier versions makes it ...
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| Bold and Underline Mail Merge Fields | 4/4/2008 |
Q: Back again with another problem I am having with mail merge. I have a field which I have formatted ...
A: It is fairly easy, but you need to ensure you set the formatting on the entire field - to do this, I ...
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| Creating a document. | 4/3/2008 |
Q: I want to create a standard letter that when i open it prompts me for details EG Name, Address Etc ...
A: Ask fields update when any fields are updated, they aren't my preferred method of handling this type ...
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| TOC in Word 2007 | 4/3/2008 |
Q: I'm working on a document created by someone else and amended by another person. The document is ...
A: I've not found anything documented on the microsoft knowledge base to explain this - is it possible ...
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| Word'03 ASK field prompt for answer | 4/3/2008 |
Q: I'm in the process of creating a template. I would like to create the document so that when the user ...
A: The ask field will prompt for data when the fields are updated, so (for example) a PRINT command ...
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| Mail merge | 4/1/2008 |
Q: I use Access 2003 to provide names and addresses to feed to a standard letter in MS Word for mail ...
A: You have answered your own question - once you have inserted the fields and attached the data ...
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| macro operation | 4/1/2008 |
Q: recorded a macro in word to do a mail merge. Then developed code in excel "I thought" would execute ...
A: I would still look to taking the information from Excel and have it send it to word, but word.run ...
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| Headers lock when I only protect one section of a form | 3/31/2008 |
Q: I have been assisting in creating some report templates for global use for my company. Actually, ...
A: I'm afraid that is the design of the program, so you will need to use workarounds - IF the layout of ...
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| Problem using a Word 2003 template in Word 2007 | 3/31/2008 |
Q: I have to use a 2003 template for a presentation but I have Word 2007. Every time I save my changes ...
A: I cannot see why this would be happening, but you didn't say how you were making the changes - ...
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| Enable Macros Warning Continues to Appear | 3/31/2008 |
Q: Using Windows XP Pro: I have a document created with Word 2003 that contains multiple check boxes. I ...
A: Actually, it isn't - it's VERY easy (and very useful) In a cell that you want to restrict input ...
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| word crashes when accessing address book | 3/30/2008 |
Q: I've been on the internet looking for a solution and it appears many people are experiencing the ...
A: I've not experienced the problem, but I can see from a google search there are lots of probable hits ...
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| macro operation | 3/30/2008 |
Q: recorded a macro in word to do a mail merge. Then developed code in excel "I thought" would execute ...
A: It can definitely be unscrambled - my email is aidan.heritage@virgin.net - the PROBABLE problem is ...
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| macro operation | 3/30/2008 |
Q: recorded a macro in word to do a mail merge. Then developed code in excel "I thought" would execute ...
A: Why do you want to do this via code? Having said that, it's pretty simple do do - let me know what ...
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| Enable Macros Warning Continues to Appear | 3/28/2008 |
Q: Using Windows XP Pro: I have a document created with Word 2003 that contains multiple check boxes. I ...
A: As you did have macros, office programs continue to assume they still have them - the EASIEST way to ...
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| Word form with email hyperlink | 3/28/2008 |
Q: I am trying to figure out….how to have a protected doc with a Hyperlink that works. Apparently this ...
A: Not too much of a challenge - use section breaks before and after your hyperlink, then protect the ...
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| word- data base maialaing | 3/28/2008 |
Q: I have document that contains 3 identical versions of the same information placed 3-up on a 8 1/2 x ...
A: You didn't say how far you could get, so I'll assume nothing and start from the beginning - I'll ...
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| Word won't open | 3/27/2008 |
Q: All of a sudden, I can't open Word. When I try to open it, it flashes on the Word 2000 logo screen, ...
A: A difficult one (potentially) to resolve remotely, but I'll try - use the start menu to get to the ...
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| word / excel | 3/27/2008 |
Q: When I click on them nothing happens. When I double click a second time - NOT RESPONDING appears. ...
A: It's probably an operating system issue (and I don't know which that is) as it is affecting two ...
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| fill in the blanks | 3/27/2008 |
Q: I need to make a sheet that has blank spaces which are underlined, like a fill in the blanks that ...
A: A few possible methods - you could use a table formatted with the necessary borders (bottom only on ...
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| ms word form question | 3/26/2008 |
Q: I have created a MS Word form that I have my clients fill out. Is there a way to create a ...
A: basically, its the send to mail recipient as attachment mail command, but I guess you want it to be ...
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| How to "reverse" the Image Polarity on Word | 3/26/2008 |
Q: Aidan! I think you are one of the guys I asked a previous question to, which I still can't solve. ...
A: it's certainly do-able - the problem may come from the fact that you are pasting from a website so ...
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| Merging Excel Data into Word Document | 3/26/2008 |
Q: I am merging Excel data into a word document and the numbers are printing several places past the ...
A: A common problem - the formatting of the data in excel doesn't change the underlying data, so dates ...
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| MS Word 2003 | 3/25/2008 |
Q: I am trying to create a two page, two column newsletter template. The first page will have a 2in ...
A: There is no way that I know of for this to be an automatic process I'm afraid - it would even be ...
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| Mail Merge to Mirror Image | 3/25/2008 |
Q: I need to mail merge a list of names to a mirror image for printing on labels. The only way I have ...
A: WordArt won't work, as WordArt is another application effectively. Not 100% sure WHY you need to ...
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| find and replace with code | 3/24/2008 |
Q: I need to insert a rtf document coming from MS Access snapshot into MS Word. At the final phase, in ...
A: I might have missed something, but if code is being used to manipulate the word document, why not ...
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| Microsoft works 8.5 | 3/23/2008 |
Q: purchased 2 1521's for kids in august for college. while personally using both in the past 2 weeks, ...
A: Works isn't MS Word, and I've never used the program, but there isn't anything in any version of a ...
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| problem viewing tables in print view | 3/23/2008 |
Q: I am having a problem viewing a table in the print view mode in ms word2003. It shows fine in the ...
A: I would GUESS that the table has borders set to none in certain parts, and these won't print - but ...
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| Letterhead protection | 3/21/2008 |
Q: I am creating a letterhead template with jpeg graphics( top, left margin and footer. I would like to ...
A: I suspected it was 2007 - I think we are going to be ok - use the footer to put the footer graphic ...
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| Letterhead protection | 3/21/2008 |
Q: I am creating a letterhead template with jpeg graphics( top, left margin and footer. I would like to ...
A: You didn't specify which version of Word - but BASICALLY the steps are the same in all versions - ...
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| Word | 3/21/2008 |
Q: Everytime I open this Word file that was created by someone else, the formatting looks like IE and ...
A: It sounds like the file has been saved as an HTML file, which is associated with Internet Explorer, ...
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| cursor problem | 3/19/2008 |
Q: Somehow the keypad controlled keypad has disabled the cursor. We can't find a way to get the cursor ...
A: This is an operating system query and you didn't specify which OS you are using - I would START by ...
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| Linking a name in a document | 3/18/2008 |
Q: am using MS Word 2003 and I would like to create a document where I can enter information once at ...
A: You didn't specify how the document is laid out, but assuming it uses form fields, you would use the ...
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| Printing Labels in Word, list from Excel | 3/18/2008 |
Q: I have an Excel lead list and am trying to print labels with the names and addresses in Word under ...
A: I'm not sure which version of Word you have, or where you are having the problems - I PERSONALLY ...
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| Trying to isolate an avatar image and send it. | 3/18/2008 |
Q: Aidan! I appreciate any help you can give, I'm pulling my hair out! If you use Yahoo, you may have ...
A: No problem - as I mentioned, I can think of a way of getting the file onto your computer, which is ...
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| Help! Trouble formatting endnotes | 3/18/2008 |
Q: I am copyediting a book for an old professor of mine and something has gone haywire with the ...
A: I've spent a long time trying to duplicate this (hence the lack of speed in reply) and have managed ...
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| check boxes and frozen fields | 3/17/2008 |
Q: I would like to make a document that not only allows users to place an x in the box but also allows ...
A: You didn't specify how you protected the document, but if you use the forms toolbar to set the ...
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| form in microsoft word | 3/16/2008 |
Q: for work i was asked to complete the following task with word 2003: design a form (its a contract) ...
A: Yes, no problem at all - insert a form field at the FIRST location you need the information, then ...
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| Macro error in Word | 3/13/2008 |
Q: Word 2007 Every time i open a document i get an Error about macros. How can i set Word to not ...
A: You don't say WHAT the error is, so I'll GUESS it's related to macro security - if so, you CAN ...
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| Storing data in Word | 3/12/2008 |
Q: I noticed that forms can be created in Word (I have MSWord 3)but am curious if it can be used for my ...
A: Within word forms, you have the option on save to save data only, so that MIGHT be the way forward - ...
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| Storing data in Word | 3/12/2008 |
Q: I noticed that forms can be created in Word (I have MSWord 3)but am curious if it can be used for my ...
A: I'm slightly puzzled about the version of Word, but I'm GUESSING it was a mac version - Word for the ...
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| Mail merge for labels | 3/12/2008 |
Q: I am getting duplicate address blocks. Page 2 starts the list over starting with the second person, ...
A: Mail merge labels should have a next record field after each label on the page EXCEPT for the last ...
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| Trying to isolate an avatar image and send it. | 3/12/2008 |
Q: Aidan! I appreciate any help you can give, I'm pulling my hair out! If you use Yahoo, you may have ...
A: but tried to be as helpful as possible - you SEEM to have missed the bit in my reply where I ...
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| Page numbering and section breaks word 2008 | 3/11/2008 |
Q: I am currently writing a book and have found that the page numbers start from zero at every section ...
A: I'm not aware that this is the norm, page numbers would normally start from 1 and continue unless ...
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| Fields to disappear within protected forms? | 3/11/2008 |
Q: I am creating an electronic exam answer book in Word 2000, using a protected form. I'd like to have ...
A: If you set the default text, it will remain as the text UNTIL the user starts to type - just ...
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| Protection | 3/10/2008 |
Q: I have a form that I need to fill out that I downloaded from the internet but I need to alter the ...
A: You will need to do this with a macro - protecting a form with a macro allows the use of a switch to ...
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| Inserting/removing a line with conditional mail merge | 3/10/2008 |
Q: I have a document for a mail merge in which an entire paragraph consists of a merge field. As it ...
A: It will be easy to deal with if you turn on the paragraph mark view and field code view (tools, ...
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| File permission error | 3/8/2008 |
Q: Last year I saved documents on Microsoft word and now when I try to open them I get the message: ...
A: The files have either been deleted, moved or renamed - you didn't say which operating system you are ...
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| Fields to disappear within protected forms? | 3/7/2008 |
Q: I am creating an electronic exam answer book in Word 2000, using a protected form. I'd like to have ...
A: You can either use default text, or alternatively help text - both of these are available by right ...
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| Clip Board Save | 3/5/2008 |
Q: Is there a way to save all the Clip Board Items automatically when Word 2003 is exited?
A: I've not worked in any great way with the extended clipboard, but I'm not aware of any way of doing ...
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| MS Word 2000 deleting certain page numbers | 3/4/2008 |
Q: I'm writing a complicated document that requires different pagination in different sections. I have ...
A: You haven't specified where the page numbers are, but if in the header footer area you need to make ...
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| Collapse in Word | 3/3/2008 |
Q: How can I add more than bookmarks in Word XP? I can add only 1 in a document. (insert > bookmark). ...
A: If you use the outline view (tools, options, view) option (which would require the use of styles for ...
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| word2003 picture is lost/missing | 3/2/2008 |
Q: 1. picture imported to doc, format: in front of text. 2. I moved the picture in the page. 3. ...
A: I've managed to duplicate the problem, but unfortunately have failed to find a solution - the ONLY ...
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| bookmarks in Word | 3/1/2008 |
Q: How can I add more than bookmarks in Word XP? I can add only 1 in a document. (insert > bookmark).
A: The word "than" in your sentance confuses me, but I'll assume you are asking if you can add multiple ...
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| Change comment bubble color | 2/29/2008 |
Q: How can this be done? Thanks.
A: I've not worked with comments much myself, and despite a lengthy search of all the sources I know, ...
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| WORD 97-Open newer version documents | 2/27/2008 |
Q: when I'm trying to open documents over the net with my WORD 97 it's crashes... ( with my old ...
A: There isn't really enough to go on, but BASICALLY any documents pre Word 2007 should open fine in ...
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| Typing a solid line in word | 2/27/2008 |
Q: I am trying to revise a form that my company uses. I need to put a solid line after Name:_____ or ...
A: Various ways - my PREFERRED method would be to format tabs, set a leader of an underline, then hit ...
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| formatting for graphics | 2/27/2008 |
Q: Aidan, how are you? I use Word 2003. I want to use graphics in my document but the advanced ...
A: I don't work a lot with graphics in this way, so I think the BEST I can do is to point you to ...
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| Insert Object | 2/26/2008 |
Q: Aidan. If I insert an Adobe file as an object (show as icon) in word2003 it shows the red icon and ...
A: Unfortunately I no longer have installed copies of those versions of Word, and although I've done a ...
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| Table content | 2/26/2008 |
Q: Every time I print a document that has table of contents it asks me to update the table of contents. ...
A: When you print, this field will update - when it updates, it has options available to you - so these ...
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| wordperfect database conversion to microsoft word | 2/26/2008 |
Q: Aidan. We've spoken a few times and you've always been very helpful. I work for a firm that does a ...
A: I'm not familiar with Wordperfect dat files, although I haven't used WordPerfect since DOS days so ...
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| Microsoft Word Printing Option Errors | 2/22/2008 |
Q: I seem to be having a problem with MS Word (11.3.8) Printing Options after I installed Leopard ...
A: I've not come across this problem but from the description it would seem to be some conflict between ...
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| Table content | 2/22/2008 |
Q: Every time I print a document that has table of contents it asks me to update the table of contents. ...
A: The Table of Contents is a field, so SHOULD update automatically on printing - I'm not clear what ...
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| paragraph breaks | 2/21/2008 |
Q: Many times, when I download email text or a text document from a Web site, the formatting of the ...
A: emails tend to be set up to a fixed width, with paragraph marks at the end of them - the fix (which ...
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| Catalouge in Word 2003 | 2/18/2008 |
Q: Using MS Excel and Word 2003 in Xp. I'm attempting to create a Network Administrator guide which ...
A: Best starting point I've found is to record macros, then look at them and analyze what they do (and ...
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| Upgrading from MSword 2002to ?? | 2/18/2008 |
Q: Aidan, you have helped me in the past, and again, thank you. Now I would like to know if you have ...
A: Probably the issue you are having wont' be resolved by later versions - and indeed, moving to 2007 ...
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| Word 2007 save/re-saving | 2/18/2008 |
Q: I'm working on a paper in MS work 2007...when I hit the save icon to save my progress, it tells me ...
A: It certainly helps to narrow down the problem, but it hasn't helped me with the solution (through no ...
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| importing control codes for formatting in word | 2/17/2008 |
Q: are there control codes that exist so that one can use a text file embedded with codes that Word ...
A: That helps a lot - I'd be INCLINED to use a template as the starting point for a report, as ...
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| file conversion | 2/17/2008 |
Q: please tell how to convert the picture file into word document?
A: not clear what you want to do - if you want to turn a picture containing words into a text file, ...
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| importing control codes for formatting in word | 2/16/2008 |
Q: are there control codes that exist so that one can use a text file embedded with codes that Word ...
A: I am not aware of any, BUT you didn't specify why you wanted to know - if a program is to generate a ...
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| Word 2007 save/re-saving | 2/15/2008 |
Q: I'm working on a paper in MS work 2007...when I hit the save icon to save my progress, it tells me ...
A: It's odd that it does it for each document, and I haven't managed to find a setting within Word that ...
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| Microsoft Word 2000 | 2/14/2008 |
Q: I sit down at my computer and try to use Word and it will not fully open, it stops just before the ...
A: The file is normal.dot not mormal.dot and it WILL exist. The mdmp file is a memory dump of the ...
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| Word 2007 - envelope address | 2/13/2008 |
Q: I am trying to create an envelope in word 2007 and insert an address from my outlook address book. ...
A: I would recommend a search at http://support.microsoft.com as that is the location of the knowledge ...
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| Microsoft Word 2000 | 2/13/2008 |
Q: I sit down at my computer and try to use Word and it will not fully open, it stops just before the ...
A: Difficult to answer as it could be a number of things - it sounds as though the installation medium ...
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| Word 2002 document merge | 2/13/2008 |
Q: I have two versions of the same document that I want to merge and compare. I have selected "accept ...
A: I cannot find anything in the knowledge base to explain this, although possibly as both documents ...
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| Mail Merge - Combining multiple fields into a single formatted field | 2/13/2008 |
Q: I am doing a mail merge where individual fields for account number and amount which need to be ...
A: you could do it in Excel using the TEXT worksheet function and the & sign ...
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| WORD crashes with Vista | 2/13/2008 |
Q: I have been using WORD from Office 2000 with my vista laptop for months. All of a sudden, I try to ...
A: I would try the following - without word running, use the find option (not sure where it is in ...
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| Microsoft Word 2003 | 2/12/2008 |
Q: Our office creates documents that have been marked to create a table of authorities. When one of the ...
A: I'm pretty sure it will be tools, options, then the print tab - this should include options for what ...
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| Trouble printing an envelope from Word | 2/12/2008 |
Q: I am having trouble printing out an envelope from Word. Everything else is printing without any ...
A: I tend not to print envelopes, but there should be no issue with doing it - the problem description ...
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| WORD 2000 PRO, Version 9 | 2/12/2008 |
Q: I have a home network set up for 2 computers. I cannot print a WORD document to a shared printer ...
A: It sounds like a networking problem, as there is no reason why Word will not print to ANY available ...
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| Microsoft Word | 2/12/2008 |
Q: I am trying to move my word doc. from MS Office professional 2000 to MS office Student & Teacher ...
A: It sounds like you have created a shortcut to the folder (all items on the desktop are LIKELY to be ...
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| Catalouge in Word 2003 | 2/11/2008 |
Q: Using MS Excel and Word 2003 in Xp. I'm attempting to create a Network Administrator guide which ...
A: I'm not sure that it is possible - although you COULD probably use VBA to automate the process ...
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| large document issue | 2/10/2008 |
Q: We have a word document (538,324) that saved perfectly but when we go to open states that it can't ...
A: Word files (as with any program) CAN corrupt, so always keep a backup - but you knew that! On the ...
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| Word 2007 on my Vista changes docs to READ-ONLY is killing me | 2/9/2008 |
Q: HELP what can I do- where is a patch that prevents all my docs in Word 2007 on my Vista-- changes ...
A: If a document is saved in office 2007 it will be (by default) in office 2007 format, but wouldn't be ...
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| auto superscript | 2/7/2008 |
Q: I have a dislike of, say, 'th' after '4' meaning 'fourth' automatically becoming superscript - is ...
A: No problem - you didn't say which version of Word so I'll assume NOT 2007 - tools, autocorrect (you ...
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| Cannot save word document from word template - word:mac 2004 | 2/6/2008 |
Q: I cannot save a microsoft word 2004 mac document from a template. When I do a Save As... and change ...
A: I don't know why, but why do you want to? Use the File New menu choice to create a NEW document ...
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| Concordance document | 2/6/2008 |
Q: I'm running Word 2002 and trying to create an index from a concordance document. My concordance ...
A: It's worth checking you have service pack 2 installed, but I don't think that is the issue - but I'm ...
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| Word pop-up | 2/5/2008 |
Q: I'm curious as to how I can get Microsoft Word to stop popping up whenever I'm typing on my wireless ...
A: It's not clear what you are typing in, or what you mean by pop up- but PROBABLY a key combination ...
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| Missing toolbar & menu bar in Word 2002 | 2/4/2008 |
Q: Both my toolbar & menu bar are in hiding. Nothing I've read in "help" seems to help.
A: This used to be a very common question, so I actually had the answer saved for a long while - it ...
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| Need help on Word 2007 | 2/4/2008 |
Q: I'm going crazy because when I open a document in word (both existing and/or new) and move my cursor ...
A: I've only very recently encountered this via a question from another AllExperts users - the answer I ...
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| TOC Problem | 2/4/2008 |
Q: I've created a table of contents and the page numbers match up, but when I e-mail the word doc the ...
A: It's puzzling that they don't match the document, but my GUESS would be that the margins are close ...
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| Problems track changes word 2003 | 2/3/2008 |
Q: I am having major troubles with Word 2003 Track changes. No matter what I do, when I try to close ...
A: You seem to be doing everything I would expect - I double checked at ...
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| automatic path and filename in header/footer | 2/2/2008 |
Q: BUT.... If the file is then moved or copied to another drive or folder, the path and filename does ...
A: As long as the path has been inserted as a field, you should have no real concerns - F9 causes the ...
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| Creating labels | 2/1/2008 |
Q: I want to be able to create labels for sticking on envelopes. Could you direct me to where I can ...
A: The best book EVER for mail merge was the printed manual to Word 2 - ever since then, Microsoft have ...
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| Creating labels | 2/1/2008 |
Q: I want to be able to create labels for sticking on envelopes. Could you direct me to where I can ...
A: Create the list, in pretty much any program - I tend to use Excel as it is easy to do data entry ...
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| Excel/ Word Documents | 1/31/2008 |
Q: I have an excel spreadsheet(23 columns by 4760 rows which increase on a daily basis) that only ...
A: By Word documents I take it you mean documents consisting of words - in the example that you give, ...
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| Mail Merge Problem with dates | 1/31/2008 |
Q: I have been trying to do a mail merge which includes dates. The dates in the excel sheet take either ...
A: Its the same answer as before - you will need to include formatting "switches" in the mail merge ...
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| Mail Merge Problem with dates | 1/31/2008 |
Q: I have been trying to do a mail merge which includes dates. The dates in the excel sheet take either ...
A: Don't you just love the Americans who assume that everything works their way? BASICALLY, unless you ...
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| can't click on an open word document | 1/31/2008 |
Q: when I click on an open Word doc to move the cursor from one sentence to another, nothing happpens. ...
A: EXCEPT that the other one WASN'T so it's not even that. Of course, it's not something I've ...
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| can't click on an open word document | 1/31/2008 |
Q: when I click on an open Word doc to move the cursor from one sentence to another, nothing happpens. ...
A: If this applies just to specific documents, then I would think that they have been protected for ...
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| MS Word Mailmerge | 1/31/2008 |
Q: I am trying to mail merge about 8,000 records in MS Excel into email messages through MS Word. ...
A: For some reason, my reply to your question appears not to have been sent via the system - so my ...
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| one picture on multiple labels | 1/30/2008 |
Q: How to I put a picture in the corner of a label before addressing them ANSWER: Insert it using the ...
A: I would create a page of labels, then insert the picture, resize it to fit first, then copy and ...
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| Word source file | 1/29/2008 |
Q: I have a doc file that created by RTF and tiff files the files have been moved from their original ...
A: might be worth using notepad to open the word doc and search for any references to the incorrect ...
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| VBA simplification | 1/29/2008 |
Q: Aidan, Hope you are well. Apologies for posting this question through the wrong forum, but I am ...
A: ). Your answer is nice and simple - create a PUBLIC variable, store the folder name in that and ...
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| my footnotes appear on the wrong pagesH | 1/29/2008 |
Q: I'm using Microsoft Office Word 2007 to write my degree dissertation, and my footnotes don't always ...
A: I cannot find anything to explain this, but WONDER if there are perhaps too many footnotes to fit ...
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| ms word | 1/28/2008 |
Q: I have made a list of labels 3 across and 10 down I have about 12 pages.. I need to put them in alpa ...
A: Not as it stands, as the data is not linear - use the table menu to select all, then convert table ...
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| Undeleting a deletion that was not the last deletion | 1/27/2008 |
Q: I use Word 2003 and XP. Occasionally I use undelete a couple of times in an hour and then want to ...
A: You can use the undo list to move backwards in time, BUT that means that all actions UP TO that ...
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| Text color | 1/27/2008 |
Q: Word 2003. Envelopes and labels have begun to print in green, although Print Preview shows in ...
A: Odd, it's not something I've come across - if it was a GENERAL problem then I'd recommend checking ...
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| Showing specific text | 1/25/2008 |
Q: I have a master document which describes various tasks that need to be performed by people in ...
A: Probably is possible - my current thought would be that using IF fields would probably be the way to ...
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| word edit lock | 1/24/2008 |
Q: the guy said i should delete the file will that delete it forever or will it still be there.
A: I don't mind coming into a conversation part way through if I can catch up, but I'm afraid this ...
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| Disappearing Duplex Option | 1/24/2008 |
Q: I look after a few machines in my office. They all run on Word 2002. One of the users frequently ...
A: I've done a full search of the Microsoft Knowledge base, and a pretty thorough Google search and ...
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| Convert addresses | 1/24/2008 |
Q: The following is my problem: I have a database (Excel) with 5000 addresses. Based on these i will ...
A: OK at home now and can check the actual version - it's the MAILING ribbon, then start mail merge - ...
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| Convert addresses | 1/24/2008 |
Q: The following is my problem: I have a database (Excel) with 5000 addresses. Based on these i will ...
A: Yes, mail merge! You didn't say which version of office you are using, but the tools menu in ...
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| unable to resize header in Word 2004 | 1/23/2008 |
Q: I don't know how it happened, but I somehow changed the default header size to 1/2 of the page. I ...
A: I'm a PC user, and Word went from 2003 to 2007 on this platform, so I'm going to be slightly working ...
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| RE: Microsoft Word 2002 | 1/23/2008 |
Q: I have a question in regards to sendinga an email. I open up a word document and then go to FILE - ...
A: Sorry, but this is inbuilt into the command itself - the subject will be the document name as ...
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| Printing problem | 1/23/2008 |
Q: I made a chart in the excel and want to copy and paste it in ms word. i could not able to print the ...
A: I'll do my best to answer, but it MAY be under tools, options then print - check that drawing ...
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| Merge Field IF Blank | 1/22/2008 |
Q: I am trying to merge fields to a Word Postcard for a Little League mailing using Excel as my ...
A: Not my website personally, but i know what you mean! You will need to insert an IF field, which you ...
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| Global templates | 1/22/2008 |
Q: We created a template containing some macros and toolbars and made it a global template by copying ...
A: I presume that the rogue machines do have the correct startup location set in tools, options, file ...
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| not printing full page | 1/20/2008 |
Q: Have recently started using office 2007 after getting new vista computer. Several letters (from the ...
A: As you will have guessed, it's not the mode, but I SUSPECT it's the printer driver - printers have ...
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| MS Word | 1/19/2008 |
Q: At some point my auto complete for date insertion stopped working and I can't seem to get it going. ...
A: You didn't say which version of word, so these instructions MIGHT be different on your version ...
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| Word | 1/18/2008 |
Q: I want to be able to define a multilevel list (in Word 2007) and have it actually saved as the ...
A: I've not had cause to do this yet in Word 2007, but from the help file (F1, type Define Multi level ...
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| Mail Merge | 1/17/2008 |
Q: Is it possible to have word add a watermark automatically when doing a mail merge? ANSWER: I think ...
A: If the watermark is one of a few depending on conditions, then an IF field would handle this ...
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| Mail Merge | 1/17/2008 |
Q: Is it possible to have word add a watermark automatically when doing a mail merge? ANSWER: I think ...
A: Thats fine then - the merge will take EVERYTHING in the template document and merge the fields in as ...
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| Mail Merge | 1/17/2008 |
Q: Is it possible to have word add a watermark automatically when doing a mail merge?
A: I think I need more information - if you mean part of the standard boiler plate document, then yes, ...
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| removing "read only" from a m/s word document | 1/17/2008 |
Q: I am running Windows X-P on a Compaq 6450NX C.P.U. with Cox high speed internet service. I recently ...
A: I would GUESS that your backup was to a CD or DVD - which would then be a read only file (cd's once ...
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| FORMS toolbar in Word 2007 | 1/17/2008 |
Q: I recently moved to Microsoft Word 2007 (from Word XP). I am looking for "Forms" toolbar with which ...
A: Er, yes! As you will have gathered, it's all changed - there are NO toolbars, only ribbons, and ...
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| automated form completion (filling in fields) | 1/17/2008 |
Q: I have a situation where I capture certain key data - e.g. First and last name, street address, ...
A: IF you have to capture LOTS of records and then produce a lot of documents, then possibly Excel, but ...
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| automated form completion (filling in fields) | 1/17/2008 |
Q: I have a situation where I capture certain key data - e.g. First and last name, street address, ...
A: I would do this by having the forms themselves set up in Word - if it were being done by me, I would ...
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| form field depencency and documents with equal contents | 1/17/2008 |
Q: I've been making a form. I've got two questions. 1. is it possible to let forms field contents ...
A: I would tend to do this type of form using Visual Basic and userforms - which would enable ...
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| Inability to repeat info. in a UserForm | 1/17/2008 |
Q: I have downloaded and trialled a number of instructions to create a UserForm and I'm very grateful ...
A: The link should work, but try http://www.aidanheritage.byethost3.com/word which will take you to ...
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| .Doc | 1/16/2008 |
Q: I have been advised to send a file in a .doc form. I am unable to figure out how to do this? Or am I ...
A: You will be pleased to hear this is easy if you have Word - .doc is simply the standard file format ...
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| Inability to repeat info. in a UserForm | 1/16/2008 |
Q: I have downloaded and trialled a number of instructions to create a UserForm and I'm very grateful ...
A: The method I use is to have bookmarks and insert text at that location - however, it would help to ...
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| Date format change from excel to word | 1/15/2008 |
Q: In my excel document the format for the date is mmmm d, yyyy and when I merge into word 2003 the ...
A: Yes to both - in excel, use a blank column to contain the formula =text(CellRef,"mmmm d, yyyy") ...
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| Microsoft Word for Mac 2004 Version 11.3.8 | 1/15/2008 |
Q: I have a word doc that I began writing on my iMac. I then transferred it via firewire to my iBook, ...
A: Difficult to answer without seeing the document (though if you want to send it to me you can get me ...
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| MS Word 5.1 and fractions | 1/14/2008 |
Q: I am using MS Word 5.1a for Mac. Although I have system OS 10, Word opens in Classic (I'm on an ...
A: I'm at a slight disadvantage in that I've never used a mac and therefore also never used this ...
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| Duplicate form | 1/14/2008 |
Q: I have created a form to have others fill out. We also need to use only the top portion of the form ...
A: I think my inclination would be to create a two page document, with the relevent section duplicated ...
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| Portrait versis Landscape in Word | 1/13/2008 |
Q: I don't know where to go to find windows explorer to get the following suggestions to my ptoblem ...
A: I would agree that deleting the normal.dot file would be a good starting point - without Word ...
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| Word 2003 Pointer | 1/12/2008 |
Q: Since installing Word 2003 a little while back, the pointer has been so light that it's difficult to ...
A: My GUESS would be that this is to do with the system settings (from control panel, mouse pointer ...
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| link in word to a file located on a remote ftp site | 1/11/2008 |
Q: I wish to send an email to a large group of people. This email must reference to 2 other emails that ...
A: As far as I know this isn't going to be possible (at least not as you have requested it) - it MIGHT ...
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| drop down list for Word | 1/11/2008 |
Q: We use MS Word 2003 and I would like to add one or two drop down lists within a document in word ...
A: Sorry for the delay in replying - I'd forgotten that we were away for the weekend. Your method is ...
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| When I tried to make a paragraph as Heading1, why would it add a line right below the heading text? | 1/10/2008 |
Q: When I tried to make a paragraph as Heading1, why would it add a line right below the heading text? ...
A: If you check the formatting of the style , you will find (as far as I know) that it is set with ...
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| mail merge for excel leads list | 1/10/2008 |
Q: I want to use a leads list that is in excel.When I dopen it with excel... the contact names that are ...
A: I'm puzzled - the cell would display up to 256 characters if wide enough, and be able to contain ...
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| protecting paragraphs | 1/10/2008 |
Q: I am trying to recreate an application in Word and I would like to protect the questions but still ...
A: It's odd that this was the second question in a row on this subject - however, use the FORMS toolbar ...
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| Word Doc Protection | 1/10/2008 |
Q: What is the best way of going abut this
A: Using the forms toolbar, insert fields where you want the data to be entered, then use the tools ...
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| Odd/Even Headers & Footers | 1/9/2008 |
Q: Running into a glitch in Word when using odd/even (different) headers & footers. Sometimes, towards ...
A: probably caused by rogue section breaks or (more likely) paragraph marks forcing a page break and ...
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| Table custom autoformatting | 1/9/2008 |
Q: I've been researching table autoformatting, since the custom tables in the company template don't ...
A: Although I purchased a copy of 2003, I never had any questions on it so never installed it - which ...
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| Template style issue | 1/9/2008 |
Q: Greetings. This is one of two questions I am sending separately. As incoming senior DTP at global IT ...
A: I admit to having no idea - I think this is one of those situations where it would take ages to find ...
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| sorting in order of word length | 1/9/2008 |
Q: I do hope you can help me. I have a list of words and phrases on a Microsoft Word 2004 document, and ...
A: I think the EASIEST way to do this is to copy and paste to Excel, then use the LEN function to get ...
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| Microsoft word 2003 | 1/9/2008 |
Q: I am using Microsoft word 2003 on a lap top. I used to be able to just "paint" a section of text and ...
A: It's PROBABLY WordPerfect navigation keys (use tools, options, general tab to amend this). It could ...
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| MS Word fonts | 1/8/2008 |
Q: I have heard that Microsoft changes the fonts on updated versions of Word ever so slightly such that ...
A: The fonts are all stored in the fonts directory, so a user could easily replace any fonts with any ...
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| Microsoft Word Template | 1/8/2008 |
Q: Created a two page template. First and second pages have different header/footers. Section one and ...
A: I'm not sure I've got enough to go on - why do we have two sections (one section can have a ...
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| Printing MS Word Documents formatted with themes on a | 1/7/2008 |
Q: Why do I receive an error when printing an MS Word 2003 document with "theme" formatting on an HP ...
A: As far as I know, this is a printer generated error rather than a Word error - as such, it's outside ...
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| Updating Index - Formatting reverting | 1/7/2008 |
Q: When updating my Index (by using F9, or right clicking - either on the index directly, or over to ...
A: I'm not an expert in indexes as the documents I produce tend not to use them, BUT an index is simply ...
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| hourglass symbol | 1/4/2008 |
Q: While typing in Microsoft Word or even on the Internet, the hourglass symbol occurs in the left ...
A: As this is occuring in Word AND the internet (which are unrelated applications) it appears to be a ...
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| page range in index | 1/3/2008 |
Q: I hope you can help. I'm going nuts. No book is of any use. I enter text on page one, say "western". ...
A: To mark entries as index entries, don't worry about the bookmark - just display the dialog box and ...
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| Microsoft Word (Not repsponding) | 1/3/2008 |
Q: Aidan I installed Microsoft works and Word 2002 from a CD on my Acer Aspire E380 Desktop computer. ...
A: It will be either of the two templates options, but PROBABLY user Templates (unless you have ...
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| Microsoft Word (Not repsponding) | 1/2/2008 |
Q: Aidan I installed Microsoft works and Word 2002 from a CD on my Acer Aspire E380 Desktop computer. ...
A: Normal.dot is probably the best starting point - you didn't say how you searched, and I'm not ...
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| Calculations in tables | 1/2/2008 |
Q: I have an embedded Excel table in a Word document performing some fairly complex calculations. I ...
A: If you copy the area you want to duplicate, then go to the area you want the table to appear, you ...
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| Bullet | 12/27/2007 |
Q: Can we create our own bullet in Microsoft Word 2003? And if can, how we do so? TQ
A: To create a bullet, first create the picture you want and store it on the computer or server. Then ...
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| screen tips are blank | 12/17/2007 |
Q: I use Microsoft Word 2000. In documents that were always fine and new documents - all written with ...
A: I haven't got Word 2000 installed on any machine at the moment, and never used Screen Tips - so I'm ...
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| mail merger | 12/13/2007 |
Q: "Lately, when trying to use the mail merger tool in Word by linking a letter to an Excel ...
A: I haven't experienced this problem but the knowledge base has a number of answers ...
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| mail merger | 12/12/2007 |
Q: Lately, when trying to use the mail merger tool in Word by linking a letter to an Excel spreadsheet, ...
A: I haven't experienced this problem but the knowledge base has a number of answers ...
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| Word 2003 | 12/8/2007 |
Q: I use Styles to handle legal paragraph numbering. Question – Is it possible to change the style ...
A: Not sure if you mean styles or outline numbering - it's certainly possible with outline numbering to ...
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| Drop Down Box Shading | 12/6/2007 |
Q: When you add a drop down box in Microsoft word it automatically shades. Is there anyway to remove ...
A: If you are using the drop down form field, this is a design feature (or failing) and as far as I ...
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| Retrieving documents not saved | 12/4/2007 |
Q: How can I retrive on Microsoft word a document. I was working on a letter and then I oponed a ...
A: You can work on more than one unsaved document at the same time, and closing the active document ...
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| Tabbing and automatic bullet format change... | 12/4/2007 |
Q: So I'm going to try and explaing this to the best of my ability...here goes. So, my computer all of ...
A: You have changed the default settings for auto numbering (possibly by editing directly on the ...
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| Page numbering in Word | 11/30/2007 |
Q: I know how to add page numbers in Word, however, I would like to customise how this looks. The ...
A: You didn't say HOW you added page numbers, but various ways exist - as do various ways of doing the ...
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| Creating a new folder using a macro | 11/29/2007 |
Q: Is it possible, using a macro, to copy a selection of text in Word, create a new folder at a ...
A: but it seems as though the macro wasn't the macro you wanted (my version creates a new document ...
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| Misaligned Avery Labels | 11/29/2007 |
Q: Aidan. I am now using Word/Vista. I can no longer get my Avery mailing labels #5160 (15660 on the ...
A: By Word/Vista I assume we are referring to 2007? I wasn't aware of any changes to the layout of the ...
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| Creating a new folder using a macro | 11/26/2007 |
Q: Is it possible, using a macro, to copy a selection of text in Word, create a new folder at a ...
A: something like this Sub Macro1() ' ' Macro1 Macro ' Macro recorded 28/11/2007 by heritaa ' Dim ...
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| Extract Word Fields Into Excel | 11/23/2007 |
Q: Aidan, You kindly helped me in the past with some code which worked fine for years - Unfortunately I ...
A: I'm always amazed at some of the things I've done, and I'm sure this was easy at the time (after a ...
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| Dated forms | 11/22/2007 |
Q: I was wondering if there was any way i could change the date on a form in MS Word 2003 without ...
A: A macro could certainly do it, or using Excel for the form could do it - I'm not aware of a field ...
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| Macros assignment | 11/21/2007 |
Q: Aidan. Is it possible to assign a macro to either some text (like a hyperlink) or to an object in a ...
A: It is possible to assign macros to buttons on the forms toolbar (view, toolbars, forms) and the ...
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| Drawing Canvas | 11/20/2007 |
Q: I am trying to draw a flowchart with Word 2003 and every time I want to add a shape the drawing ...
A: I admit to being puzzled, as if I try this by doing tools options general tab, unchecking FIRST I ...
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| At and Ln shaded on 2000 Word | 11/16/2007 |
Q: I have managed to turn off the At and Ln in the margin of MS Word 2000. (they appear in the screen ...
A: I'm only aware of these being off when you are viewing a different page to the location of the ...
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| Finding and or replacing text in headers | 11/15/2007 |
Q: IS it possible to search a directory of word documents and replace text within the header only? We ...
A: Oh yes, been there, bought the T shirt! If you can email me (aidan.heritage@virgin.net) I can point ...
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| Ask prompts in Word | 11/14/2007 |
Q: I am trying to set up a template which involves using ask prompt. I have created a book mark then ...
A: I don't tend to use these myself, preferring to use a UserForm with VBA to get the data, then ...
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| Creating a form in Word | 11/13/2007 |
Q: I want to create a fill in the blanks only word document. Robert answered this Q on 3/17/2004. When ...
A: I'm not 100% sure what you are describing as the problem here - could I see the sample document (my ...
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| Why Doesn't Word Send E-Mails Through Mail-Merge | 11/11/2007 |
Q: I'm using MS Office 2003 on my WinXP. The problem is that I cannot send e-mails with the mail-merge ...
A: If you have a valid data source and have Outlook set as the mail program, then I cannot see why this ...
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| questionnaire | 11/10/2007 |
Q: I want to study the impacts of trainings(skill management trainings like voctional, book keeping and ...
A: To create an online form in word, use the forms toolbar (viewable from the VIEW menu, then toolbars) ...
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| Symbols in a work document | 11/9/2007 |
Q: However, I can't find symbols for forall (upside down A), there exists (backwards E), not at element ...
A: Use the insert symbol menu, change the font to symbol - the first two are definitely there - cannot ...
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| Office 2003 border images | 11/9/2007 |
Q: Is it possible for me to add my own border images to MicroSoft Word 2003? Where (what file path) do ...
A: As far as I know you cannot do this in the way you want (see ...
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| Track changes turns off when saving | 11/7/2007 |
Q: Several people I work with are all experiencing the same problem - when working with track changes ...
A: I'm afraid my research on this one has drawn the same blank that you have - I haven't actually used ...
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| Protect part of a document | 11/6/2007 |
Q: I have a canvas on a page with regular text at the bottom. I just want to protect the canvas ...
A: no problem - insert a continuous section break after the canvas area, then use the tools menu to ...
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| DOWNLOAD | 11/6/2007 |
Q: I really have a question about the effect of downloading 2007. As a requirement of an on line ...
A: All files will be fine PROVIDING you don't update them to the 2007 file format. As to the earlier ...
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| Open Word 97 file in Word 2007 | 11/4/2007 |
Q: Hey I'm having some problems when trying to open a MS Word 97 file in MS Word 2007.(And MS Word ...
A: My suspicion is that the file is either NOT a Word file, or is a corrupt one - there should not be a ...
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| saving a userform in word to an excel or text file | 11/4/2007 |
Q: i have seen how to save a file using the save data form bit but this doesnt apply as i created the ...
A: OK, your original question said you wanted to save to a text file, your follow up says that the ...
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| Invisible word added during paste | 11/3/2007 |
Q: Aidan! A friend of mine writes articles in Microsoft Word and sends them to me attached to emails. ...
A: Your friend COULD simply email from word (file, send to, email recipient) , which would send the ...
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| Problems running Word templates from Internet page | 11/2/2007 |
Q: I have several .dot templates that need to be run from an Internet link. These templates call a ...
A: I can see some problems, MAINLY that the user would be prompted to allow or disallow macros. I ...
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| I NEED HELP ME ABOUT MS WORD | 11/1/2007 |
Q: How i can make it in Ms Word .. if u dont mind can u make it for me.. Same Like This ...
A: You can do this with tables, and I would suggest the use of form fields as well - I've created a ...
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| MailMerge from Excel | 10/31/2007 |
Q: Aidan. I am using word 2003 and Excel 2003 under Windows XP. I am doing a Mailmerge from a ...
A: I think it's the method of creating the link that is the problem - my method of getting a link is to ...
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| Microsoft Word 2003 - save as opening when I don't want it to | 10/29/2007 |
Q: For some reason any time I open a word document, the "save as" prompt pops up. I'm not trying to ...
A: This is certainly not a standard thing, and its also something I've not experienced - my suggestions ...
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| Useing Word 2002 | 10/29/2007 |
Q: Here I am again Aidan, with a problem. Every time I attach a .doc to an Email, it will not go ...
A: I'm guessing it's the encoding, and you are seeing (possibly) the character codes - my problem is ...
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| questionnaire in MS-WORD | 10/28/2007 |
Q: i hav to type a questionnaire in ms-word for a survey report.tell whqt i have to use type this with ...
A: Use the forms toolbar and insert drop down boxes from here - once done, protect the document for ...
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| Text around table | 10/26/2007 |
Q: I often include narrow tables in text documents. I'd like to have text flow around the table, like ...
A: The EASIEST way to do this is by extending the table to have additional columns left and right, then ...
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| mail merge breaking document apart | 10/22/2007 |
Q: I have set up a mail merge and once the merge takes place I would like it to create new documents. ...
A: If you still have the original data and document, then it is PROBABLY easier to do the "merge" again ...
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| Background colour in mail marge | 10/21/2007 |
Q: I am using Word and Excel 2000. The data source is Excel. In the spreadsheet, I have a field that ...
A: two problems here - one, mail merge only brings in the TEXT not the formatting, and two, Word ...
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| text box orientation in a word document | 10/20/2007 |
Q: i need to print a page with 3 text boxes upside down. (on an 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet that prints 5 up ...
A: There isn't an option to do this with text boxes, but I think you are probably making it more ...
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| PAste of excel sheet in Word | 10/18/2007 |
Q: I have a table build in excel which is landscape formatted. I'd like to paste/import the table in ...
A: If you don't need a link, then you can use edit paste special, then paste as a picture - the picture ...
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| mail merge in Word 2003 | 10/18/2007 |
Q: Aidan! I have been successfully mail merging using an Excel 2003 database as the data source and ...
A: Sorry! I'm so used to avoiding the wizard I sometimes forget it's there - use the toolbars menu to ...
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| Word 2003 | 10/17/2007 |
Q: I accidentally got something set up in Word 2003 that I want to un-do and do not know how. I don't ...
A: Tools, options, view tab and UNCHECK the formatting marks boxes (I'm doing these instructions from a ...
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| mail merge in Word 2003 | 10/17/2007 |
Q: Aidan! I have been successfully mail merging using an Excel 2003 database as the data source and ...
A: Mail merge can be problematic (didn't used to be in earlier versions!!!) so my suggestion would be ...
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| Word 2002 Page number issue | 10/16/2007 |
Q: I'm still working on my novel. I need my name and the page number at the top right of each page. I ...
A: I would suggest removing the page number, then using the view header menu choice to insert a field ...
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| MS Word 2003 Language setting | 10/16/2007 |
Q: Language setting jumps from German to French uncontrollably
A: I haven't any experience with languages, but I would GUESS that there are extra paragraph marks in ...
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| 2007 normal.dot | 10/12/2007 |
Q: I want to replace my new 2007 normal with my old normal.dot from Word 2003. I tried to replace it ...
A: Can we take a step backwards on this one - you are trying to use the old normal.dot file, but ...
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| 2007 normal.dot | 10/11/2007 |
Q: I want to replace my new 2007 normal with my old normal.dot from Word 2003. I tried to replace it ...
A: the global template in word 2007 has a 4 character file extension - dotm rather than dot, so this ...
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| A4 Printing | 10/8/2007 |
Q: I am using an American version of Microsoft Word 2007 on Vista. I am in Europe and want to print a ...
A: You didn't say what you had done to change the settings - it SHOULD be the page layout ribbon, then ...
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| Header graphic | 10/8/2007 |
Q: How can I set my logo in full color in the header? When I close the header, my logo gets dim. It is ...
A: If you are going to include it in the header area, then no, it's going to look faded - if the ...
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| Import Word Data to Excel | 10/5/2007 |
Q: I wanted to know if it would be possible to import data from a word file to an excel file? ...
A: This depends on the document set up - IF you have set it up with form fields, then use tools, ...
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| Ms word formatting | 10/1/2007 |
Q: Let's say I have a table with 1 row and 2 columns.Column 1 contains number and column 2 contains ...
A: Yes, no problem - you can use bookmarks, or simply the RowIndex and ColumnIndex functions Sub ...
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| Hyperlinks in MS-Office | 10/1/2007 |
Q: On my PC, my "Hyperlinks" in MS-Office to Adobe PDF files do not work and by click on my ...
A: You don't specify what "do not work" actually means, but as a starting point, I would check what ...
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| Ms word formatting | 9/30/2007 |
Q: Let's say I have a table with 1 row and 2 columns.Column 1 contains number and column 2 contains ...
A: You would need to modify this, as this version is set to handle each individual cell but Sub ...
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| Page Source | 9/29/2007 |
Q: I have been trying to use VBA in Word 2003 to get the available printer trays of the default printer ...
A: Not as far as I know - you can return the number that Word has chosen for the current printer, you ...
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| word 2007 | 9/27/2007 |
Q: i am trying to create a word documents that i can use for quotes, i am wanting it to be the same for ...
A: Various ways of doing it - one way is to use form fields for the variable text and then protect the ...
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| auto page numbers | 9/26/2007 |
Q: I am having trouble with automatic page numbers. I insert Page _ of _ Pages and it appears to be ...
A: You didn't specify the version of Word, and the knowledge base has a large number of POSSIBLE ...
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| Create a folder in Word | 9/26/2007 |
Q: How do a create a new folder in Word? It's probably really simple, but of course the Word "Help" ...
A: Word folders are just the same as any windows folder - so you can create them through explorer, or ...
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| Using slit screen with dual monitors | 9/25/2007 |
Q: I am using Word 97 on Windows XP. I recently set my computer up to use dual monitors. This is very ...
A: I've not had any experience of working with split screens, but apart from using the split screen ...
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| Editing (?) a field in MS Word 2003 | 9/24/2007 |
Q: I have a field that I enter time in in this manner: 00:12. I would like Word to skip over the ...
A: I'm not really aware of anything that would automatically move to the next field after 2 characters ...
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| Lost Toolbars/Menu Bars on Microsoft Word 2000 | 9/23/2007 |
Q: I have lost all the toolbars/Menu Bars and basically everything at the top of the document with the ...
A: This used to be such a common question that I had a saved version of the Knowledge base article - ...
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| Mail Merge headach... | 9/19/2007 |
Q: I have a word doc that I am trying to use mail merge with an excel spreadsheet. I start it as a ...
A: You are setting up the document correctly, but clearly Word is sorting it - which presumably is NOT ...
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| Page numbering issue | 9/19/2007 |
Q: I added page numbering using 'insert' and now I really need to remove them. I cannot find any place ...
A: The page numbers were probably inserted into the footer of the document, so use the view menu to ...
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| MicroSoft Office Word.(e-mailing problem) | 9/19/2007 |
Q: When writing an e-mail if I pause for a few seconds, I constantly have the message appearing, ...
A: Not sure how you are doing the emails, but my suggestions would be (1) - use Word itself to create ...
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| word is ignoring some line while printing | 9/19/2007 |
Q: i am trying to print a document in word. but it is skipping some lines in the middle of the ...
A: Difficult to answer, especially as you describe the problem as being in the middle of the document - ...
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| wordpad | 9/18/2007 |
Q: Aidan, Whether it started with my new laptop (how it was set-up) or after it was set up - somehow ...
A: Wordpad and Word use the same file format, however when you try to OPEN a file (by double clicking ...
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| Automate e-mail in word form. | 9/10/2007 |
Q: Aidan, Good morning, I building a form in Word 03 and would like it to open an e-mail in ...
A: Outlook is probably the most complicated object in Office to automate, but the instructions on the ...
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| moving word files to new computer | 9/10/2007 |
Q: I am currently using Office 97 on a Windows 98 computer. I just bought a new computer with Vista ...
A: All FILE moves are easy (relatively) - find the appropriate files, copy to a CD/Memory Stick etc and ...
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| Links from Word to Excel | 9/9/2007 |
Q: I created an excel workbook that is a mini database for tenants in an apartment building. The user ...
A: The issue (I think) is down to the protection of the document, and yes, it can be version (and ...
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| Page Set Up in Microsoft Office | 9/9/2007 |
Q: When we open the "page set up" window in Word (or in any other office application like excel, power ...
A: Firstly, go to the properties of the printer (from control panel, or via the file print dialog) and ...
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| Annoying hitting enter problem. | 9/8/2007 |
Q: I already asked this question to another expert (I forgot who, sorry if I resend it to you), but I ...
A: The previous answer might help, but I'm not aware of any settings that would cause this - there are ...
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| Printing issue | 9/8/2007 |
Q: Whenever I print a document in word, the next time i open word to print a different document word is ...
A: The implication is that you are changing the default printer, OR are having the settings set on the ...
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| auto date changing | 9/8/2007 |
Q: when i call up old documents, it automatically changes the dates on them to today. I don't want this ...
A: The date has been inserted as a field, so will update - you can change this field to the actual ...
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| Mail Label from User Form | 9/7/2007 |
Q: I have a sort of complex question. I have a a word template that open up with a user form. The user ...
A: Doesn't sound overly complex if you have a form gathering the data already, it's presumably using ...
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| Page numbering | 9/7/2007 |
Q: I want to create the inside pages for a program. Each page will have 2 columns, and I need to ...
A: It's not something I've done myself, but Word will do it - it is fairly well explained here ...
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| Word Error 462 | 9/5/2007 |
Q: I have read many times that to correct this error you must be specific when addressing the object ...
A: My SUGGESTION would be to have each table set at the start, each with two rows - the first being the ...
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| Word Error 462 | 9/5/2007 |
Q: I have read many times that to correct this error you must be specific when addressing the object ...
A: Actually, you don't need any code IF I'm right - you have simply missed a full stop - you have ...
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| Word Help | 9/5/2007 |
Q: I created a form in microsft word that contains text boxes and radio buttons. The form is used to ...
A: It depends a little on what you mean by a form, but I'm assuming you are talking about controls on ...
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| Word Error 462 | 9/4/2007 |
Q: I have read many times that to correct this error you must be specific when addressing the object ...
A: I'm not 100% sure why there is the need to build the tables - my own method would be to have the ...
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| word 2003 multiple if statement | 9/4/2007 |
Q: ord 2003. I have a word document FORM (2 pages) Page one contains 3 company names and addresses ...
A: My knowledge of this is limited, simply because this isn't the way I've designed this form of ...
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| MS 2003 Word | 9/2/2007 |
Q: I keep getting error messages: Microsoft office word needs VBA macro language support to complete ...
A: Ofice XP is office 2002, so if you are saying you've applied a 2003 patch to office 2002 (though it ...
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| status bar bottom left page nums w2003 | 9/1/2007 |
Q: Can someone please let me know where to switch on the page numbers in the status bar in print layout ...
A: 2003 is the one version I haven't got ready access to, but in all other versions as long as you have ...
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| Cusor position | 8/31/2007 |
Q: Suddenly one day, when I opened a new document the cursor appeared at the top of the page. I click ...
A: Not totally clear what you are describing, but as new documents are based on the normal.dot file ...
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| Only Word is not responding | 8/31/2007 |
Q: I recently purchased a new Acer Aspire 5610 laptop complete with windows Vista. When i installed ...
A: I was slightly less than helpful about my instruction to search for the normal.dot file, this is ...
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| MICROSOFT WORD 97 ..... HELP!!! | 8/30/2007 |
Q: I was typing this morning and all of a sudden whenever I type the letter a is shows up like this... ...
A: It sounds as though it could be a sticky keyboard - probably the ctrl key, although I'm not sure ...
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| using ctrl f4 to close a Word document | 8/30/2007 |
Q: I have a user who previously used Word 2002. Whenever she created a document from a template that ...
A: It's certainly odd, but clearly Word THINKS that something has changed on the template - not quite ...
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| Icons | 8/30/2007 |
Q: I'm not sure I can ask the question correctly but here goes. How do I get rid of unwanted Paragraph ...
A: Nice easy one to answer - what you are seeing are the paragraph marks etc, which can be quite useful ...
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| Changing table values in word with VBA | 8/29/2007 |
Q: I was hoping you might be able to help me out, I'm in a slight bit of a pickle with MS Word. I've ...
A: Not sure if the adjoining cell has a form field as well - hopefully it does, and hopefully there is ...
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| Microsoft Word Stuck on 500% Zoom | 8/29/2007 |
Q: My microsoft word program is stuck on 500% and will not let me lesson it. When I select 100% it ...
A: I have no idea why this should be, however worth trying to delete the normal.dot file (do this ...
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| print screen | 8/29/2007 |
Q: I would like to print a screen as seen on the computer and I am not sure how to do that. Like when ...
A: Not really a Word question, but not to worry! The Print Screen key is really misnamed as what this ...
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| using ctrl f4 to close a Word document | 8/29/2007 |
Q: I have a user who previously used Word 2002. Whenever she created a document from a template that ...
A: It's definitely nothing to do with the WordPerfect options, as the problem is that Word thinks that ...
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| Only Word is not responding | 8/28/2007 |
Q: I recently purchased a new Acer Aspire 5610 laptop complete with windows Vista. When i installed ...
A: Word will work fine with Vista, and office 2007 was designed with Vista in mind. I'm not a Vista ...
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| Translation | 8/28/2007 |
Q: 1. I am using word 2003. 2. My operating system is windows xp English version. 3. I want to ...
A: This would indicate that the German dictionary has not been installed - see below from help - the ...
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| List Sort and Merge | 8/27/2007 |
Q: I have thousands of lines of text, each a seperate line stored in Excel, each with a bullet starting ...
A: I would personally use ACCESS as the means of storing the file as this would allow the creation of a ...
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| Survey Responses | 8/26/2007 |
Q: There are many available questionaire generating software programs. However, I need responses to ...
A: Difficult to answer - I would do this with VBA and a user form, OR simply have a form in the word ...
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| Mail merge data from excel to word 2003 | 8/26/2007 |
Q: I am mail merging data from an excel spreadsheet into a Word 2003 document and it all works fine ...
A: It SHOULD work with no problem - is it possible to see a sample file - I will have to try it with ...
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| Word Document with Excel Spreadsheet | 8/23/2007 |
Q: I have a Word document that I am inserting several large Excel spreadsheets into the body of my ...
A: I have seen this problem on many occasions with such situations - and failed to find a workable ...
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| Word 2000 - Protecting a Mail Merge Document | 8/23/2007 |
Q: Ultimately, I need to be able to protect a mergable document from being edited. The only fuction it ...
A: I haven't got a copy of Word 2000 installed anywhere, but what you want to do should be fairly ...
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| Headers Word 2003 | 8/22/2007 |
Q: I want to simply skip headers on the first five pages of a consolidated document and begin on page ...
A: Yes, it almost certainly is the same thing - Word 2003 is a version I never really used, as I never ...
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| Headers Word 2003 | 8/22/2007 |
Q: I want to simply skip headers on the first five pages of a consolidated document and begin on page ...
A: As with many things it's easy if you know how. At the end of page 5, insert a next page section ...
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| section break odd page | 8/21/2007 |
Q: I am writing a large document in MS Word 2000. I have inserted a number of odd page section breaks ...
A: If the section breaks truly are odd page section breaks, then no I'm baffled as to why Word would be ...
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| Word/Excel Merge | 8/21/2007 |
Q: I have been doing the same mail merge in MS Word 2002 using an excel spreadsheet generated daily for ...
A: I have experienced exactly the same issue on a regular basis on one of my mail merges, and on this ...
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| Text alignment | 8/21/2007 |
Q: Ailan,I'm using XP-sp2 with Word 2003. When typing an email (Outlook) typing changes to somewhere ...
A: It is not a behaviour I have come across, although there are keyboard shortcuts that would move the ...
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| Microsoft Word and Large Documents | 8/20/2007 |
Q: I've used Word for years, but only for 50-60 page documents. My father has finished his memoirs in ...
A: Word can handle large documents, with many pictures BUT with larger documents loaded, more memory is ...
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| Styles - Numbering | 8/20/2007 |
Q: I have three levels of numbering 1., 1.1 and 1.1.1. When I exit the document, the second level turns ...
A: I am not aware of anything that would do this, unless you are modifying the style on the normal ...
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| typesize changes | 8/20/2007 |
Q: I'm a writer and do a lot of editing. Why when I go from document to document do certain paragraphs ...
A: In Word, the style of the document is based on a template - unless specified, the normal template. ...
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| Styles and Formatting: deleting a style | 8/20/2007 |
Q: I created a style "Table Text Centered" in a document that was passed around for comments. When I ...
A: To be honest, I'm not sure - clearly Word thinks the style is in use - POSSIBLY in a header/footer ...
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| Linking jpg in Word 2002 | 8/20/2007 |
Q: My pc with Word 2000 (Windows 2000) links correctly to JPG files - Alt+F9 reveals the {LINK...} ...
A: Options for linking are yes/no - it's a check box (sorry for not being clearer!) The home machine ...
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| Paragraph Numbering in Word 2002 SP3 | 8/20/2007 |
Q: Aidan. I have been directed that if I need to have paragraph numbering for papers to be issued on ...
A: To change the colour of numbering use the format menu, bullets and numbering, customize the ...
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| Word Segmentation | 8/20/2007 |
Q: I want to retrieve Segments from word document. For example, if my document contains a Paragraph of ...
A: I'm afraid I think that the method you are using is probably the method you will have to use - ...
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| Linking jpg in Word 2002 | 8/19/2007 |
Q: My pc with Word 2000 (Windows 2000) links correctly to JPG files - Alt+F9 reveals the {LINK...} ...
A: I've not been able to duplicate the problem, although there are check boxes in Word 2002 to set ...
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| Microsoft Word | 8/18/2007 |
Q: I have been working with Office-97\Word for some years, currently with Windows 98-II. Since a few ...
A: The only dates that I know of that would update are fields - so PROBABLY the dates you are looking ...
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| Word Segmentation | 8/17/2007 |
Q: I want to retrieve Segments from word document. For example, if my document contains a Paragraph of ...
A: I'm afraid I don't understand what it is you want to do - HTML Segmentation doesn't mean anything to ...
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| microsoft word | 8/17/2007 |
Q: I have windows xp, and microsoft word version 97. When I open a new document and click on file. It ...
A: What you are seeing are the documents on the "recently used file list". There are two easy fixes ...
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| How to replace Word with same version and save documents | 8/17/2007 |
Q: I have Office 2003 on my home computer, my personal office computer and my company's office ...
A: documents produced by the programs are not affected by installation of other programs (or other ...
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| MS Word Endnotes | 8/16/2007 |
Q: Is there a way to tweak Endnotes so that it does not assign a new and unique number to each ...
A: end notes and footnotes are not an area I'm too familiar with due to the nature of the work I do,BUT ...
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| MailMerge in Word2003 | 8/13/2007 |
Q: Aidan. I have designed a form letter in word containing mergefields in a mixture of text boxes and ...
A: I would GUESS that the merge is merging to a text based email rather than HTML - PERSONALLY, I would ...
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| Microsoft Word Specific Symbols | 8/13/2007 |
Q: I am looking for a special symbol in word, i was wondering if you could help me. The symbol i am ...
A: I'm afraid I've not been able to find anything like this in any of the fonts installed on my PC - to ...
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| Word Table of Contexts | 8/1/2007 |
Q: I'm merging my text into another doc and am trying to update the table of contexts, but it puts in ...
A: I'm assuming that you simply inserted a table of contents, and have updated this - if so, you will ...
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| Unlocking Protected MS Word Forms | 7/30/2007 |
Q: **My apologies, I gave the wrong e-mail address before.** Last week using MS 2000 (version 9.0), I ...
A: The "expert" doesn't see the email address, it's just used by the AllExperts system to contact you - ...
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| mail merge | 7/30/2007 |
Q: I can mail merge with Word 2003, using Excel 2003 as the data source. However, I want to have ...
A: As far as I know, you don't - not in Excel anyway - the formatting of a cell is the formatting of ...
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| follow-up to your all experts entry | 7/28/2007 |
Q: Aidan, I seem to be having the same issue as you did years ago with the Microsoft Word menu bar... ...
A: I didn't have the problem, but at the time lots of other people did - so much so that I saved the ...
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| sdw file | 7/27/2007 |
Q: I have a story that my son (who died 3yrs ago) wrote. it is in a sdw file and I need help opening ...
A: In Microsoft word, you can try file open, and then in files of type choose recover text from any ...
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| connect drop down menus | 7/26/2007 |
Q: could you help me solve this problem. i would appreciate your help. thank you very much! i have 2 ...
A: Depending upon the document being produced it MIGHT be easier to do this in Excel, in that Excel has ...
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| Word Formatting | 7/26/2007 |
Q: I am already bald, but I am pulling my remaining hair out. I know there has to be a way that the ...
A: Word documents pick up formatting from the styles, or from any applied formatting - SO if the ...
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| Auto-populating form fields in MS Word | 7/26/2007 |
Q: Greetings, I am creating a proposal template in MS Word. I would will be using the same customer ...
A: Put the form field in the FIRST location you want the name to appear. In all other locations, use ...
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| Insert Table (by dragging) button | 7/25/2007 |
Q: I have just been migrating my Word 2000 settings to a new PC. I used the Microsoft Office Resource ...
A: Right click any toolbar, select customize, click on the commands tab and scroll to the table menu - ...
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| Excel Macro | 7/23/2007 |
Q: I am writing an Excel macro to extract data from the excel worksheet and put that data on a word ...
A: You haven't said how you are getting the data across to word, but... Dim WrdHold As String ...
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| Locked Microsoft Word Document | 7/22/2007 |
Q: I have MSWord. For some reason a document that I've been working on for quite awhile is suddenly ...
A: Possibly a corrupt document - if you go to the file open dialog box, find the file, but then click ...
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| word to jpeg | 7/21/2007 |
Q: I copied a photograph off of a web site into a word doc. Somehow, I converted it to jpeg so I could ...
A: OK, in that case the word doc is a Word Document and NOT a picture file - so follow the second part ...
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| word to jpeg | 7/21/2007 |
Q: I copied a photograph off of a web site into a word doc. Somehow, I converted it to jpeg so I could ...
A: A photograph is a type of picture, a jpg is a type of picture, so I'm not sure what your question is ...
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| Can Word show directory of document on screen? | 7/20/2007 |
Q: Is there any way--menu, macro, or third-party program--to do the following: On the line that gives ...
A: It's certainly possible to display it with field codes (perhaps in the footer, set to hidden text), ...
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| Editing webpages | 7/20/2007 |
Q: I built a webpage with many images using Microsoft Word in that one format that includes the images ...
A: Word is a powerful program and has many strengths, it also tries to let you do pretty much ...
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| ms word mail merge if statement | 7/19/2007 |
Q: I have a word mail merge doc and need to include text based on a merge field. I can't seem to get ...
A: You have too many field braces in the typed example {IF {mergefield} = "a" "}"{INCLUDETEXT ...
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| word 2003 left and top margin | 7/18/2007 |
Q: On the left side and on top there is a margin set where you can adjust the indent top and tab ...
A: The item you are referring to is (I think) the ruler, but I cannot find any reference to this ...
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| excel/word merging | 7/18/2007 |
Q: I have a spreadsheet containing name and address data. I am trying to do a mail merge in word on ...
A: I'm UK based, so zip codes don't mean anything to me, and I'm not sure what you are referring to by ...
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| Email | 7/18/2007 |
Q: When I start typing for about an inch and a half it goes to the next line, it does this in Outlook ...
A: I'm slightly puzzled that Outlook Express does this as well as word as there is no link between the ...
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| MS Word | 7/16/2007 |
Q: I did receive an answer on this question, but It did not work. Q - I can not open a BLANK new ...
A: I cannot see my previous reply anywhere, so I may well repeat my advice here. Firstly, if you have ...
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| copying custom dictionary from one computer to another | 7/16/2007 |
Q: I have a new computer running with Vista. My old computer had Word 2000 and my new computer has ...
A: You should be able to use explorer to browse the CD, copy the file, then browse the C drive to put ...
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| Shuffling 2 word documents | 7/10/2007 |
Q: I have 2 word documents (lets call them A and B) each is 250 pages and would like to shuffle them ...
A: In that case, you will need to use one of the copy and paste options - try (some original code left ...
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| Shuffling 2 word documents | 7/10/2007 |
Q: I have 2 word documents (lets call them A and B) each is 250 pages and would like to shuffle them ...
A: slightly quick and dirty answer using a macro - not something I've had cause to do but it looks like ...
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| copying custom dictionary from one computer to another | 7/9/2007 |
Q: I have a new computer running with Vista. My old computer had Word 2000 and my new computer has ...
A: The custom dictionary is simply another file (text format) - if you use the tools options menu, then ...
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| auto populating headers in word | 7/9/2007 |
Q: I am trying to find a way to have word (upon opening of the word doc) access an external file such ...
A: I was deliberately vague with the original reply as it wasn't too clear what you wanted - but yes, ...
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| auto populating headers in word | 7/6/2007 |
Q: I am trying to find a way to have word (upon opening of the word doc) access an external file such ...
A: Quickest method (but probably not for the text file) is to do Edit Paste Special, paste link by ...
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| Cannot open Microsoft Word 2000 | 7/6/2007 |
Q: All of a sudden, I am unable to open Microsoft Word 2000. When I try, there will be a long wait ...
A: Difficult to give a definite answer - possibly something recently installed may be causing problems ...
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| MS word tables | 7/4/2007 |
Q: I need to be able to insert tables to specific coordinates in a .document using VBA - is this ...
A: You don't say WHY you need to do this, but as a table would be anchored to a paragraph, which may ...
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| MS word crop tool | 6/27/2007 |
Q: Is there a keyboard shortcut so I can toggle on/off the crop tool? When I'm working with a "picture" ...
A: The problem is that the picture is on a different layer to the document, so switching from the ...
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| Embedded Excel File in Word document | 6/26/2007 |
Q: When user opens an embedded Excel file from within a Word document he gets Microsoft Word error ...
A: There could be a number of reasons - so my BEST bet is to refer to ...
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| Word Docs on Screen | 6/24/2007 |
Q: I realize that one can, as I do, have Word set so that each minimzed document has its own icon at ...
A: The only way I can think of is to start a new instance of Word everytime you want to open a new ...
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| Microsoft Word labels | 6/21/2007 |
Q: When typing labels to print out on 2002 version of Word, for some reason the lines no longer appear ...
A: I'm not 100% sure what you mean by the lines - it could be that you are in a different view (view ...
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| To Become A Word Expert | 6/19/2007 |
Q: I want to become a Legal Firm word processor. I am good with computers and fast at the keyboard. ...
A: There are many books, and part of the reason for this is that they suit different people - so what ...
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| Auto Updating Fields | 6/18/2007 |
Q: Aidan, I have been reading many of the answers and you seem qualified to help me out. I'm creating ...
A: I'm certainly happy to help - My initial thoughts are that this MIGHT be better in excel, but I'm ...
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| Word and Excel documents opening slowly | 6/15/2007 |
Q: When attempting to open any .DOC or .XLS while in Windows Explorer, it takes a very long time (~ 30 ...
A: I've done some more research and I think the thread at ...
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| ms word or email | 6/15/2007 |
Q: my elderly aunty has been having a problem with email in that all of a sudden her typing turns into ...
A: You did mention email in the earlier mail, but really a document is a document - and it was me as ...
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| Looping(?) macro | 6/15/2007 |
Q: Aidan. I have a question that I have tried to get answered everywhere, including reading every ...
A: The macro is basically set to run in a continuous loop until you press ctrl break, at which point ...
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| ms word or email | 6/15/2007 |
Q: my elderly aunty has been having a problem with email in that all of a sudden her typing turns into ...
A: The keyboard shortcut for italics is Ctrl I - so PROBABLY she is missing the shift key and hitting ...
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| Word and Excel documents opening slowly | 6/14/2007 |
Q: When attempting to open any .DOC or .XLS while in Windows Explorer, it takes a very long time (~ 30 ...
A: It sounds like one of the indexing functions is turned on (google search, office search, office fast ...
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| Word 2002 - Compare Side by Side | 6/14/2007 |
Q: 1stI just got an IBM Lenovo R60 with XP Professional. I installed Word 2002 from the original disc ...
A: Compare side by side is a feature introduced in Word 2003 - it didn't exist in earlier versions as ...
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| MS Word Mailmerge for a postcard | 6/13/2007 |
Q: I am trying to create a postcard with "custom" info on the front that is specific to the addressee ...
A: It sounds as though one of the documents is sorting the data in a different way to the other - my ...
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| Looping(?) macro | 6/13/2007 |
Q: Aidan. I have a question that I have tried to get answered everywhere, including reading every ...
A: Possibly the silliest macro I've ever been asked to write, but I understand the reasons ! Try this ...
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| word 2003 printing problem | 6/12/2007 |
Q: I download a file from a manufacture I do business with. If I print the file (in word) the picture ...
A: I have not been able to find an answer for this, but possibly the link ...
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| link a drop-down box to a field | 6/12/2007 |
Q: I have a form with employee names in drop-down box. 1) How can I get another field or drop-down ...
A: I'm not sure how achievable the first bit is with Word form-fields - I would do it with a macro, ...
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| Word 2003/ auto text | 6/12/2007 |
Q: I have lost all my entries in auto text. Is there a way to bring them back. Thanks.
A: The autotext entries are stored on the template they apply to (so global ones are on the normal.dot ...
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| Rotated Images Opening in Word 2000 | 6/11/2007 |
Q: i'm having a problem, whereby i am using word 2003, but my clients are using word 2000. when they ...
A: This is I think a compatability issue - although the file format remains constant between the two ...
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| Background Pagination has gone insane! | 6/10/2007 |
Q: For some reason, the background pagination feature in Word 2002 suddenly seems to have gone crazy! ...
A: Certainly odd, and not something I've come across before - my THOUGHTS are that possibly it is down ...
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| Punctuation | 6/9/2007 |
Q: Can I set word to automaticity place punctuation when writing a letter?
A: I'm not aware of any automatic punctuations other than the auto format as you type and auto correct ...
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| macro to run a fill-in template | 6/8/2007 |
Q: In Word 97 it was possible to write a macro which would open a .dot template which had fillin fields ...
A: The macro you have given me simply calls another macro - but as you told me what you were TRYING to ...
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| automatic numbering for invoices | 6/7/2007 |
Q: Is it possible within Microsoft word or Microsoft excel to create an invoice template that numbers ...
A: I don't have step by step instructions and I'm not sure how useful they would be - if you can mail ...
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| Word - printing file list | 6/6/2007 |
Q: Aidan, I was a Word Perfect (up through 6.1) user for many years. In Word Perfect I had the ...
A: This isn't built into any office program, but I would suggest the following method In Windows, go ...
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| Text Box | 6/6/2007 |
Q: Aidan. Is there a way in Word (without making the document a form) to insert a text box whose ...
A: single cell table set to specific dimensions springs to mind - my own method would be to use VBA ...
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| macro to run a fill-in template | 6/6/2007 |
Q: In Word 97 it was possible to write a macro which would open a .dot template which had fillin fields ...
A: The exact syntax of the macro you are using would be useful, but I think POSSIBLY you have word ...
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| Rip MP3 | 6/6/2007 |
Q: How to I rip an Mp3 to my Music Library
A: This doesn't relate to Microsoft Word - if you would like to ask me a question that DOES relate to ...
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| Microsoft Word labels | 6/5/2007 |
Q: I have 5 pages of labels, the last one being blank due to my deleting some addresses and moving the ...
A: Obviously I'm working slightly blind but it could be one of (I hope) two things (1) blank cells in ...
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| Converting tables in Word to Excel spreadsheet | 6/5/2007 |
Q: 1. Is there some way in which one can convert a Word table into an Excel spreadsheet? If so, how? ...
A: (1) copy and paste is the usual method, although you will probably have to re-do formatting etc. ...
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| microsft word student 2003 | 6/3/2007 |
Q: How can I sort a list where the first characters are #'s and the 2nd is text for example: 01 bmw ...
A: Alphabetical order is a simple test 1 a is less than 1 b, so IF it is laid out as you have specified ...
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| Messed up E-Mail format?? | 5/31/2007 |
Q: You helped before, hopefully again. I have typed a one page synopsis for a book I've written. For ...
A: I would GUESS it's down to Outlook Express - which is PROBABLY trying to send the document as plain ...
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| Word 2003 - formula to calculate | 5/31/2007 |
Q: Please can someone explain (in plain English) how I can have word document calculate the difference ...
A: Without using VBA I don't think you can easily do this - you COULD embed an excel worksheet I guess ...
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| Word 2000 Two-column Document | 5/28/2007 |
Q: I have a Word 2000 two-column document in landscape view that will be used as a program cover. All ...
A: You PROBABLY inserted a blank paragraph - I have a slight problem in that "any methods I'm familiar ...
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| Word 2000 | 5/25/2007 |
Q: My Word 2000 spell checker is driving me mad. It gives me Undo Edit/Ignore Rule/Next Sentence/Change ...
A: Despite a long search, I've not been able to find anything to answer this one- unfortunately, office ...
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| Microsoft Global IME - Japanese | 5/25/2007 |
Q: I have downloaded the imejpn.exe from the Microsoft Website, yet when I click it to install if gives ...
A: It's actually windows that has the IME - from Windows help To add another keyboard layout or Input ...
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| 1. Footers/Page numbering. 2. Outline numbering and bullets | 5/23/2007 |
Q: 1. I would like the numbering of pages to start on page four of my document (indicating page 1), ...
A: (1) - section break is correct, but you then need to use the format button on the insert page ...
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| opening Wordperfect doc | 5/21/2007 |
Q: I'm trying to open a password-protected document created many years ago in WordPerfect (DOS) version ...
A: Word doesn't have a convertor for a password protected wordperfect document - so the issue is with ...
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| Highlighting/selecting different sentences or words/characters | 5/18/2007 |
Q: I need help finding out how to select/highlight different areas of a paragraph. For example, I ...
A: Not sure how you are "highlighting" the text, but holding down ctrl IS the way to select non ...
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| Spell check | 5/16/2007 |
Q: I'm from Bulgaria and I have a problem which is: When I'm typing in Bulgarian, sometimes some of ...
A: I cannot find a unique answer to this, but the link to the knowledge base is ...
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| Word 2003 macro propagate error more question | 5/15/2007 |
Q: on 6/24/2006 there was question "Word 2003 macro propagate error", I have same problem but i am ...
A: Almost certainly the macro recorder is failing to pick up some of the settings - this isn't a ...
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| Word 2003 macro propagate error more question | 5/15/2007 |
Q: on 6/24/2006 there was question "Word 2003 macro propagate error", I have same problem but i am ...
A: Don't follow what you are asking - the original questioner had a macro which attempted to use a ...
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| Spell check | 5/15/2007 |
Q: I'm from Bulgaria and I have a problem which is: When I'm typing in Bulgarian, sometimes some of ...
A: You have probably added the mispelt words to an exclusion dictionary - use the tools options menu to ...
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| Outline Numbering in Word 2002 | 5/15/2007 |
Q: I am creating a template in Word 2002. It requires two extra outline numbering levels to be added ...
A: I'm afraid that as far as I know outline numbering only has 9 levels and will only allow 9 levels - ...
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| word2007 envelope printing | 5/14/2007 |
Q: I am using Win XP pro with a Lexmark X73 printer. When I try to print a regular envelope (#10) It ...
A: I have not been able to duplicate this, or find anything to explain it in the knowledge base. I ...
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| word 2003 | 5/12/2007 |
Q: I am trying to draw a zigzag line,like a stair, in a word doc. I want to draw the first line and ...
A: I think the easiest way to do it would be to use the drawing toolbar, select the auto shapes option ...
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| Word 2003 | 5/11/2007 |
Q: Somehow the date setting has been changed. When I type a date such as May 13, 2007 followed by ...
A: It sounds like it is the date smart tag kicking in - to stop this uncheck the option in tools ...
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| Word 2003 print each page as separate job | 5/9/2007 |
Q: I have a Word 2003 mail merge document that gets sent to a fax application via a print job. I need ...
A: follow up to original reply- tidier version of macro Public Sub PrintSections() Dim i, F$ For i = ...
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| Font Issues | 5/8/2007 |
Q: I have a document that I converted to City Blueprint font. I want to change it back to Times New ...
A: the rectangle indicates a missing character in the font, so may indicate corruption in the TNR font, ...
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| Numbering hyperlinks | 5/3/2007 |
Q: I am trying to create a table of contents using hyperlinks as the headings for each chapter. What I ...
A: Fields are simply things you can insert into your document - for example, the Table Of Contents is a ...
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| Displaying text from an Excel spreadsheet in the middle of a line of Word text | 5/2/2007 |
Q: I'm trying to make a Word document that includes data from a linked Excel worksheet. I've got the ...
A: I'm puzzled in that I've not been able to duplicate this - BUT you didn't say how you'd created the ...
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| Numbering hyperlinks | 5/1/2007 |
Q: I am trying to create a table of contents using hyperlinks as the headings for each chapter. What I ...
A: sorry, no this is not something I have any idea about - there are field settings for the TOC but ...
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| Word 2002 Unknown characters. | 4/22/2007 |
Q: I'm Typing a novel. There are many areas in which 'dialog' appears. On my pages where quotation ...
A: The square box symbol is the default symbol for a character that doesn't exist in the font you have ...
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| Text appears in new document | 4/18/2007 |
Q: I have created a newsletter from a previous word document. When I print the new document the words ...
A: Ideally I'd like to see the document (email is aidan.heritage@virgin.net) as this would guarantee a ...
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| Numbering Hell! | 4/17/2007 |
Q: As you could probably could tell my the subject of my message to you, I'm having numbering issues. ...
A: I think I would try paste special and paste as plain text to REALLY get rid of the styles - I've not ...
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| installation troubles | 4/16/2007 |
Q: I'm recently had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows XP Pro SP2. I'm trying to install ...
A: If all the installation files can be copied, run the installation from the hard disk - if this ...
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| installation troubles | 4/16/2007 |
Q: I'm recently had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows XP Pro SP2. I'm trying to install ...
A: As the messages tell you which files cannot be found, I would attempt to find them on the ...
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| Need to hire someone for a real quick job | 4/15/2007 |
Q: I need someones help pretty badly.I am looking for a fomular for word thats basicly does what ...
A: I would do it with VBA I think, but tables will take formulas if necessary - my own method would be ...
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| Word 2002 | 4/14/2007 |
Q: Aidan, I need to know about a fairly heavy dotted line that appears accross one of my pages. It's ...
A: It's a border - and was almost certainly created by auto format as you type - if you typed a number ...
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| Ms-Word 2000Prof document Opening problem | 4/14/2007 |
Q: I have Installed Ms-Office 2000 Prof standard Version. when i create any (Word, Excel, ...
A: Not easy to answer, but ASSUMING the files have the right extension, they have not been registered ...
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| Labels | 4/13/2007 |
Q: I am trying to create labels from a directory we have put together. The directory is set up as ...
A: Assuming you want to merge it, it will be possible but WILL require a reformat - but that can ...
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| Web mail addresses | 4/12/2007 |
Q: How do I clear the list of web mail addresses on the web mail toolbar? I use MS Word X for Mac. ...
A: I'm not aware of a way of doing this, although there probably is one - I'm afraid this isn't a ...
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| Table Error! No text of specified style in document. | 4/11/2007 |
Q: When I add a new table to a freshly created empty document I always get an error message "Table ...
A: First thing to try is to delete the normal.dot file (do this without Word running) and then restart ...
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| Locking fields | 4/11/2007 |
Q: Aidan. I have designed a template using forms and password protection so that only specific areas ...
A: You have me puzzled - if the template is locked for forms with a password, then the resultant ...
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| Locking down a 2003 Word doc | 4/10/2007 |
Q: I work in a marketing department and I'm creating a Word doc for our customer service reps to use. I ...
A: Using section breaks allows you to protect the document for forms in various places, but it won't ...
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| Locking down a 2003 Word doc | 4/9/2007 |
Q: I work in a marketing department and I'm creating a Word doc for our customer service reps to use. I ...
A: I would suggest form fields rather than merge, and you should put in continuous section breaks - ...
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| Microsoft word | 4/6/2007 |
Q: This is not a homework assignment. I am using bullets in a word document and no matter how I set it ...
A: though that was reasonably clear from the question - format, bullets and numbering, select a ...
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| MS Word labels using Excel database | 3/30/2007 |
Q: I am using the label wizard in MS word and choosing an Excel database file exported from my Accounts ...
A: The easiest way to do it is to use the MAIL MERGE wizard, which will allow you to create labels, and ...
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| Protecting links in MS word | 3/28/2007 |
Q: I have inserted SAP links into a word document, the problem is when I protect the area where the ...
A: Excel is written by one microsoft team, Word by another in simple terms - but also, in Excel, a ...
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| Disabled Menu Items in Protected Mode | 3/27/2007 |
Q: I was wondering if there was a way to enable the "Letters and Mailings" menu item in a protected MS ...
A: Ouch!! A header margin is a header margin, so that makes it trickier - so much so that I cannot ...
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| Disabled Menu Items in Protected Mode | 3/27/2007 |
Q: I was wondering if there was a way to enable the "Letters and Mailings" menu item in a protected MS ...
A: OK, thanks for the update - you aren't going to be able to do what you want easily, although yes you ...
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| Word Autotext | 3/26/2007 |
Q: I am responsible for maintaining an autotext file at work. This file is named autotext.dot and is ...
A: Fistly, would suggest making the dot file read-only - then when you want to update it, change it ...
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| Disabled Menu Items in Protected Mode | 3/26/2007 |
Q: I was wondering if there was a way to enable the "Letters and Mailings" menu item in a protected MS ...
A: As you suggest, you could have a macro to do whatever it is you want to do with your protected ...
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| Word 2000 email question | 3/26/2007 |
Q: I don't seem to have the option to send a word document from the document as an e-mail attachment. ...
A: Not 100% sure, but there is mention of a switch in tools options then the general tab which allows ...
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| Word normal.doc file | 3/25/2007 |
Q: I often get a message to save a normal.doc file. It then will not let me save it and I have to save ...
A: It would be the normal.DOT file, and this is presumably a shared file if you are getting the message ...
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| pagination in Word 2002 | 3/24/2007 |
Q: The auto pagination feature doesn't seem to work in my Word XP. I can recall that it did once work. ...
A: I've not come across this at all - it's SOUNDING as though everything is going into a single celled ...
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| word count countdown in MS Word | 3/23/2007 |
Q: I wonder if you know whether there are any macros which can allow a Word Count countdown, starting ...
A: I'm not aware of any macro, and the problem (as I see it) is that there is no CHANGE event of the ...
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| Word 2003 discrepancies | 3/22/2007 |
Q: I've a recently joined a company that uses Word 2003 for heavy documentation: 500 pages or more, ...
A: This type of work is outside my experience with Word I'm afraid - I'm not aware of any way of doing ...
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| Character delay in Word 2003 | 3/21/2007 |
Q: I have a person that is utilzing Word 2003 and when she hits return, there is about a 3 second delay ...
A: I haven't been able to find anything to explain this - the closest is ...
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| Light Blue Background in Word Doc. | 3/15/2007 |
Q: This Question is for MS Word 2003. I copy-&-pasted text from an Internet website to a Word ...
A: Not an easy answer, as there could be various reasons - I'm GUESSING that if you selected all and ...
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| pointer info box | 3/14/2007 |
Q: i have windows XP for pc. i am not really sure what to call this? it is not just a word problem. ...
A: This is really an operating system question, but I think I understand the question and can give you ...
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| Underlining similar phrases or words | 3/12/2007 |
Q: Suppose a document contains the following paragraph repeated ten times: The information you receive ...
A: You could write a macro to do it, but Ctrl H is edit replace, and the selected word would be the ...
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| Headers/Footers | 2/28/2007 |
Q: I need to use different headers/footers in my document. I also need an odd section break at the ...
A: If I understand the question correctly you have put an ODD section break at the end of page 1 - ...
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| Saving File Zoom Preferences | 2/28/2007 |
Q: We have loaded Office XP back at my house and I am having trouble saving my viewing preferences. I ...
A: the following page gives a good explanation of the zoom settings ...
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| MS Word | 2/26/2007 |
Q: To center text in MS word I press Control + E. What does the letter "E" stand for? Obviously ...
A: It doesn't stand for anything - it's simply the assigned shortcut - the problem is, there are MANY ...
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| sending word form using outlook | 2/22/2007 |
Q: I'm using Word/Outlook 2003. I created a form in word with a submit buttom that I want to open an ...
A: The outlook object model has always been a little vague - to answer the question, it would help to ...
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| word pad | 2/21/2007 |
Q: "My Microsoft Word went down in the saving of a document. Unlike all previous times the recovery ...
A: I'm not sure HOW a recovery file would be sent to WordPad, but opening Word should enable you to ...
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| Microsoft word processor | 2/18/2007 |
Q: I bought a new PC and I am not sure which version of office it came with if it was 2003 or 07. well ...
A: I'm somewhat puzzled - files do not convert to a different file type, and i'm not aware of any ...
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| Requirements for MSWord conversion | 2/15/2007 |
Q: I am currently working on MSWord 6 templates and macro with MSAccess 2 database. I want to convert ...
A: Word 6 templates should still work under Word 2003, but IDEALLY you would re-write the macros - for ...
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| Word 2003 message | 2/14/2007 |
Q: When I try to re-read some of my emails (received through Eudora) with Word 2003 an error message ...
A: I think that this link will give you an answer ...
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| ms word | 2/12/2007 |
Q: I am a beginner what exactly will this doI am looking for help to create macros. the first on would ...
A: You did ask for HELP with a macro, not a macro to be written for you! The code is ...
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| ms word | 2/12/2007 |
Q: I am looking for help to create macros. the first on would print every page that has a certin name ...
A: you could use the inputbox to capture what you are looking for (n=inputbox("What word are you ...
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| Office Locking up | 2/1/2007 |
Q: I have a strange problem I have not seen before with office 2003, when word or excel starts up it ...
A: Sorry the links didn't help - unfortunately, no matter how much you know, you will always find ...
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| Language switch in Word 2000 | 1/31/2007 |
Q: I am now wondering if there is a keystroke combination that can be inadvertently used to change the ...
A: I haven't got an installed copy of Word 2000, so cannot check help for that version, but if you ...
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| Text Form Field Question | 1/31/2007 |
Q: whats a custom user form? I'm incredibly new to forms in Word. It's just at work (an phone order ...
A: A custom user form is used within visual basic - it's the method I use for all my templates, this ...
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| word pad | 1/31/2007 |
Q: I tried opening up a word file, and got this error message: illegal operation, will be shut down. ...
A: This is an operating system clash with the program - which by the way is NOT Microsoft Word (WordPad ...
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| Language switch in Word 2000 | 1/30/2007 |
Q: I have a document that was created by one user in Word 2000 and sent to another via email for ...
A: I can think of a couple of options - firstly, in the original document, do an Edit Select All , then ...
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| Text Form Field Question | 1/29/2007 |
Q: I'm using MS Word Xp (i think 2002). I've been trying to find a way to customize the Address field ...
A: I'm afraid I'm not able to come up with anything as the macro would change the result of the form ...
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| Word Opens Slowly | 1/24/2007 |
Q: I finally was able to rename Normal.dot to OldNormal.dot, as you suggested and it solved my problem ...
A: Any file beginning with ~ is a temporary file and can safely be deleted - especially as (as you ...
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| Opening and Closing Word | 1/24/2007 |
Q: I tried renaming Normal.dot, but wasn't able to do it (an article you directed me to said not to ...
A: The fact that the normal.dot file cannot be altered or renamed would SEEM to imply that somehow word ...
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| Opening and Closing Word | 1/23/2007 |
Q: Good Morning Aidan, I am using Office 2000. When I first used Word it opened and closed very ...
A: Difficult to answer without seeing the pc - but a POSSIBLE solution would be to find the normal.dot ...
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| word pad not opening context | 1/22/2007 |
Q: I am having a problem with my word pad. The windows I believe is either a 95 or 98, not sure, not my ...
A: This is an operating system clash with the program - which by the way is NOT Microsoft Word (WordPad ...
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| Endnotes / Viewing toolbar in MS Word 03 | 1/18/2007 |
Q: I have installed Endnotes and cannot see the choice in MS Word 03 to view the Toolbar.
A: Although I'm getting lots of results for this in the knowledge base, there is nothing that seems to ...
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| word 2000 | 1/18/2007 |
Q: I have not yet found a solution to my problem. The problem got bigger, every time I try opining word ...
A: apart from the suggestions already made, I have no other suggestions - although if it is more than ...
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| Changing the format of the TOC | 1/17/2007 |
Q: The documents I’m working with require a specific format for their table of contents. The TOC *HAS* ...
A: I think I agree with you - there is no way I've found of converting the TOC field to it's displayed ...
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| Edit a Word document | 1/11/2007 |
Q: I am using an HP ScanJet3300C to scan documents into Microsoft Word. I am using Office 2000 with its ...
A: You con't say how you are scanning it in - I'm GUESSING that you are inserting a picture, which is ...
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| Combining RTF Files | 1/9/2007 |
Q: Yes, I can manually achieve the result as follws: 1. OPen the first file 2. Add a section break ...
A: That's pretty much your macro done then!! I've inserted the actions you told me as recorded actions ...
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| Combining RTF Files | 1/9/2007 |
Q: I saw you were able to help someone combine images into a single word file. I have a similar task ...
A: PROBABLY - if you inserted the files one after another manually, would you be able to get it to do ...
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| word 2000 | 1/9/2007 |
Q: I have never either, I thought it was strange.When I view my doc. in print layout at times I could ...
A: My only other suggestions are to do a search at http://support.microsoft.com or to ask at the ...
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| gaps in text | 1/5/2007 |
Q: I am using Microsoft Word 2003, running on a HP Media Center PC with Windows XP home edition. ...
A: Various possibilities (one) the formatting of the paragraph is set to have spacing before or after ...
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| win word 200 | 1/3/2007 |
Q: I have been trying to solve this prolem for days now, and it baffles me how simple it looks yet so ...
A: You have PROBABLY accidentally saved your text in the normal.dot file - easiest fix is (without word ...
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| MS-Word: Compare and Merge Tables | 1/3/2007 |
Q: I am tasked with annually updating a large, completed (filled in) technical document to conform with ...
A: My own preference would be to do it side by side (open both documents, then use the window option to ...
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| FormFields/Macros | 1/2/2007 |
Q: Aidan, Thanks for volunteering. My question is, is there a way in Word to set up a template such ...
A: With form fields, you can set protection for different sections, which would allow you to delete ...
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| My INSERT BREAK heading disappered | 12/30/2006 |
Q: ..I am using the latest version of Microsoft Word and my INSERT BREAK heading totally ...
A: the latest version is not one I'm familiar with (being Vista and only just having been released) but ...
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| Print screen | 12/19/2006 |
Q: I have a general question, i would like to be able to "print screen". my mother is disabled & old & ...
A: Print screen copies the active screen to the clipboard - so then just use paste in Word (or any ...
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| Sorting a list | 12/13/2006 |
Q: I'm trying to sort a list of names in alphabetical order.How can i sort the list so that it will put ...
A: You will need to seperate the names - you haven't specified how the list is created, but for ...
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| Text-to-table converting | 12/12/2006 |
Q: I have a long line of random words that looks something like this: "house, cat, dog, turtle, ...
A: select your text as a block, then use the table, convert option to convert the text to table BUT ...
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| overwritten documents | 12/7/2006 |
Q: I accidently over wrote or deleted an essay for school, which is now past due. Is there anyway to ...
A: Other than restore from your regular backup (which like most of us you probably don't do) I'm afraid ...
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| Reading Layout | 12/5/2006 |
Q: I know about unchecking the option for "Allow opening in reading layout," and have repeatedly done ...
A: According to microsoft, all you should need to do is uncheck the option (and then close word down ...
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| Making a Form from an existing .doc | 12/5/2006 |
Q: I've started to try it. I've converted some of my old text boxes to Form Text Boxes and Drop ...
A: The text form field is just a grey blob, but it will expand as necessary - but if for example it was ...
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| Word 2003 Table of Contents | 12/5/2006 |
Q: I actually found that info before and tried to do the instructions, and it didn't work for me. I'm ...
A: TOC is basically expecting to find items that are headings - that's the key point - NORMALLY, these ...
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| MicrosoftXP, Word tab button for outlines | 12/5/2006 |
Q: A clue to the problem could be that I asked my I.T. guy to set my laptop so when I press ...
A: It SHOULDN'T do, as Ctrl Alt Delete is (a) a recognized key combination and (b) is a DIFFERENT ...
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| Word 2003 Table of Contents | 12/4/2006 |
Q: I am having a heck of a time creating a table of contents like I always have in previous Word ...
A: A TOC was always supposed to act as it is doing at the moment - the styles used should be used for ...
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| macro | 12/3/2006 |
Q: I read you response to a macro question and it went over my head unfortunately. My workplace is ...
A: Might be worth mentioning that Shift F3 is format change case, so this is a relatively quick way of ...
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| Making a Form from an existing .doc | 12/2/2006 |
Q: I've just started working for a charity, and we run a volunteer programme every summer. We're ...
A: Basically, a Word form uses form fields to get the data required - you also have an option to save ...
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| Add an automatically updated Number in Word file | 12/1/2006 |
Q: I have an one page word file that I'd like to print 100 copies. I want to show the copy numbers in ...
A: I am not aware of any way of automatically doing it within Word itself, but you COULD use Visual ...
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| MS Word Table Problem | 11/30/2006 |
Q: Can someone tell me how/why three of the five columns in my table disappeared off the page (past the ...
A: If you use the view menu to view the document in NORMAL view you will be able to see them - ...
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| Mail Merge with Word and Excel | 11/29/2006 |
Q: I figured out why it was happening, but not how to fix it. I was having problems keeping the format ...
A: If you use the tools menu, then options you can select VIEW and choose to see the field codes - you ...
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| MS Word 2003 Page Numbering | 11/27/2006 |
Q: Hey Aidan...I was able to make it start from at "1" on the 4th page and on but now the for pages 1-3 ...
A: Did you ensure that the Same As Previous button was unchecked in the header/footer area? This ...
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| picture stretch problem | 11/27/2006 |
Q: I have created a book on Word and have inserted pictures, however, when I print it a few of the ...
A: The knowledge base at microsoft has a few articles which may explain this - you didn't give version ...
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| Word problem | 11/26/2006 |
Q: I have a 15 page word document. I have done it portrait but would like page 10 to be landscape. ...
A: at the end of page 9, insert a section break (insert menu, break, then section break - continuous). ...
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| MS Word 2003 Page Numbering | 11/25/2006 |
Q: My question is concerning page numbering. What I want to do is only add numbering to selected ...
A: Insert a section break at the end of page 3, and you should then be able to specify that the page ...
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| complex word merge | 11/24/2006 |
Q: Aidan: I have tried putting text on as many places as I can think of, both before and after the ...
A: Sorry, I misunderstood the question - I thought you wanted (header information) merged information ...
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| linking excel and word and reformatting | 11/24/2006 |
Q: Tell me more about this macro. . .. is it something a complete nincumpoop could operate? I'm the ...
A: A macro certainly sounds like it could be the way to go, and if it was set to run on the document ...
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| complex word merge | 11/23/2006 |
Q: Aidan: I used the information at: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211303 to do a complex merge. ...
A: I've not done merges like this, BUT I'm GUESSING you are using the page break method which is { If ...
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| Merging 2 documents Using VB | 11/22/2006 |
Q: I am using Word 2002. I have a Question Paper and an Answer paper which can have up to 100 Q & A. ...
A: How is the question document laid out - is it form fields for example - if so, I would be able to ...
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| Mail attachment in word | 11/22/2006 |
Q: g. To: Subject: etc as per my first message. thanks kenWhat information do you need? i will supply - ...
A: Rather than re-invent the wheel, I'm linking to a web page that gives you the macro ...
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| linking excel and word and reformatting | 11/21/2006 |
Q: I have an excel file organized by columns. I also have a word document with information pulled from ...
A: Options as I see it are (1) mail merge, though this would need you to re-run the mail merge ...
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| Language Toolbar | 11/20/2006 |
Q: We can't figure out why the Language Toolbar isn't showing up in the top right hand side of Word ...
A: As far as I can see, you have done everything you should have done - I cannot find anything in the ...
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| Language toolbar | 11/20/2006 |
Q: We can't figure out why the Language Toolbar isn't showing up in the top right hand side of Word ...
A: As far as I can see, you have done everything you should have done - I cannot find anything in the ...
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| Only numbers | 11/15/2006 |
Q: I have a table, in which each line contains a sentence having a group of some digits within. For ...
A: If I understand the question correctly, you need to delete all the non value items from the document ...
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| order of mail merge columns | 11/13/2006 |
Q: I'm doing a mail merge using an Excel spreadsheet as data input. When I click in Step 3 on "Edit ...
A: The ONLY possible other thought I've had is that for some reason a query is being generated (rather ...
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| Automatically date in a word doc | 11/12/2006 |
Q: How can I programm it to put the date automatically in a Ms word doc?
A: Not sure what you mean by program it- you can insert a date time field to automatically update - put ...
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| Word template | 11/10/2006 |
Q: It is good of you to be willing to help. I have been sent a document to complete. It is a Microsoft ...
A: I've not seem TM in a template document, but it could be one of a couple of thigns - one, use tools ...
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| From ¡§MS Word¡¨ into ¡§MS FrontPage¡¨ | 11/9/2006 |
Q: Is it possible to write a macro (macros) that would transport my text (HTML code) from ¡§MS Word¡¨ ...
A: Why would you want to - front page will open HTML quite happily (it's what it does) and it creates ...
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| Printing envelopes w/ macrobutton field & vba | 11/9/2006 |
Q: As the subject line states, I'm trying to create a macro within a locked form which will print an ...
A: the error you are getting indicates that the procedure you are calling is available more than once ...
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| microsoft works | 11/8/2006 |
Q: i am using windows xp but can't find word. is this now microsoft works? the note pad is not very ...
A: Microsoft Word is part of Microsoft office, it is commercial software and NOT part of the standard ...
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| Pull-down font menu | 11/8/2006 |
Q: Until lately, when I clicked on the pull-down menu for font selection, above the double line I had ...
A: The list is the "most recently used" list and will change over time - a quick bit of research found ...
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| "My Documents" within Word 2000 | 11/7/2006 |
Q: I have been using M.Word 2000 since the year 2001. All of my stored documents and file folders in ...
A: documents are not stored in any order, BUT they are displayed in whatever order you want - I haven't ...
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| Automatic deleting all the blanks between all the words in a text | 11/7/2006 |
Q: I have another one here. Please answer this one, too. I wonder if there is a way to automatically ...
A: A macro could be written which deleted the items (basically, a series of search and replaces, which ...
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| documents are all locked | 11/4/2006 |
Q: I went into Microsoft Word today, latest version, and all my documents are locked and I can't get ...
A: I have not experienced this, but possibly clarification of what you mean by locked might help - are ...
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| Aligning Objects | 11/3/2006 |
Q: Do you know what "rules" Word uses in aligning objects? Sometimes both objects move and at other ...
A: It does seem that the objects seem to please themselves- it is partly because SOME are on the ...
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| Odd Fractions in Word | 11/2/2006 |
Q: In MS Word the fractions 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4 shrink down to fit into the space of a single letter ...
A: The fractions you refer to are in the autocorrect list, and are autocorrected to the equivalent ...
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| how to remove a auto-line in Word--ANSWER FOUND! | 11/2/2006 |
Q: I got my answer to the above from the following: Thanks anyway! ...
A: Glad you got an answer - a useful shortcut for when Word does something you didn't want is ctrl Z ...
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| Formatting | 11/2/2006 |
Q: I am trying to create a document for the Parent Teacher Association of my children's school. I would ...
A: You might want to put this in the header area, but other than that it's simply format font, or ...
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| Word form | 10/30/2006 |
Q: Yes I am using the form toolbar. I could play with the control toolbar and dropping in a series of ...
A: something like this Sub Uncheck() If ActiveDocument.FormFields("Check1").CheckBox.Value = True ...
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| Word form | 10/27/2006 |
Q: I have a Word form with a series of check boxes. Is there a way to force the user to only choose ...
A: Probably, although my answer depends a bit on what you mean by a Word Form - I'm GUESSING that you ...
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| Word 2000 freezing up in tools/envelopes&labels | 10/27/2006 |
Q: Everytime I try to access: Tools, envelopes and labels it freezes up. It won't even pop up the ...
A: I cannot find anything in the knowledge base to explain this, but possible fixes I can think of are ...
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| Word menu question | 10/19/2006 |
Q: Aidan: I'm running Windows XP (pro) and am using MS Word (Office 2003). Somehow I've deleted the ...
A: I really MUST install my copy of 2003 (!) but I'm pretty sure that the answer is the same in this ...
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| FormCheckBox from mail merge | 10/17/2006 |
Q: Answer - An interesting question! Does the source document have bookmarks within it (and if it ...
A: and doesn't have bookmarks - but the target document will indeed bypass mailmerge as you want to use ...
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| FormCheckBox from mail merge | 10/16/2006 |
Q: Aidan, Please see my thread below with Richard Stephens. Might be best if you read from the bottom ...
A: An interesting question! Does the source document have bookmarks within it (and if it doesn't COULD ...
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| mail merge | 10/13/2006 |
Q: I have a file saved in word that is an envelope file. It has about 250 envelopes with different ...
A: In essence, yes - you BASICALLY need to convert the document into one laid out with tabs between ...
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| VBA Solution to Setting Margins | 10/13/2006 |
Q: sir. How are you today? I am receiving hundreds of word docs from various people that need to have ...
A: This is my general "do something with lots of files" code:- Set fs = Application.FileSearch Dim ...
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| Word 2002 Form | 10/12/2006 |
Q: I’m using word 2002 SP3 to create a form. I want the end user to be able to add text AND graphics ...
A: Assuming that you want discrete parts of the document to be protected and discrete parts open, then ...
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| Trouble with Table cells breaking across pages | 10/10/2006 |
Q: I am having problems with a table and how it is formating for print. In normal view, the table ...
A: You could try formatting the paragraphs to keep lines together if this is the problem, and also look ...
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| filling in a table cell with"........................." | 10/10/2006 |
Q: We are making a table of contants for a pdf and wanted to put dots to the end of each table cell for ...
A: The best way to do it is just to insert a table of contents by using the insert menu, then ...
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| MS Word True/False field formula that returns a text answer | 10/9/2006 |
Q: I'm using MS Word 2003 on an XP machine. I have a document that gets used twice a day (once for ...
A: I cannot think of an easy way to do this EXCEPT with either an embedded Excel sheet, or with VBA - ...
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| “smart quotes” | 10/9/2006 |
Q: I checked both boxes of “Straight quotes with smart quotes” under AutoCorrect (XP).But I still ...
A: Smart quotes only work when you are typing - they are an auto-format option - you need to TELL word ...
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| Mail Merge (from Excel to Word) | 10/6/2006 |
Q: Every time I do a mail merge for nametags using Excel and Word I lose one name per page. So if I'm ...
A: Yes, it SOUNDS as though you have a NEXT field at the end of the merge document - the next field is ...
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| Copy and paste options | 10/4/2006 |
Q: I use the copy and paste feature to remember email addresses when going from one program to another ...
A: Sounds like an internet explorer question rather than word, so assuming it IS - go to TOOLS then ...
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| section breaks and endnotes | 10/4/2006 |
Q: I'm working with a large document using a Master Document. All my endnotes are at the end of the ...
A: You will need to put in a section break after the end notes part of the document and then follow the ...
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| ms XP word address labels | 10/3/2006 |
Q: In Accessories you can create an "Address Book" with names addresss etc. Once you exit the address ...
A: Word will allow many data sources, but I think the address book you are referring to may be a legacy ...
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| Microsoft Word 2003 | 10/3/2006 |
Q: I e-mailed a 226 page word document and the recipient sees it as 229 pages, with formatting errors I ...
A: The number of pages would be dependent on the printer settings as the tolerance of the printer could ...
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| Color of shape | 10/2/2006 |
Q: In Microsoft Office 2003 I can only change the color of the text and borders and cannot change the ...
A: The only reason I can find for this occuring is that the selected printer is not capable of printing ...
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| Recover a Word doc | 9/30/2006 |
Q: I opened a Word attachment from email, edited it and "saved changes" and now it is nowhere to be ...
A: When you open an attachment from an email, it is stored in a temporary location (this depends on the ...
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| ms XP word address labels | 9/30/2006 |
Q: i can't get my new address book to come up (in the pop up choices). How do I print address labels ...
A: You don't explain what you mean by new address book, but address labels are created using the ...
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| Find - Replace Hard Return | 9/29/2006 |
Q: I have a long list of cells with hard returns in them. I'd like to replace the hard returns with a ...
A: In Word ^p is indeed the symbol for a paragraph mark (hard return) but that doesn't apply in Excel - ...
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| word hyperlinks | 9/29/2006 |
Q: I have a word file that I use to store private information composed of Site Description, hyperlink ...
A: I cannot find anything to answer this in the knowledge base, and as I use IE rather than any other ...
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| Import All the Files in One Folder Into Word aidan | 9/29/2006 |
Q: Once again you gave me exactly what I was looking for. Do you know what the maximum size image you ...
A: I'm afraid you have me beat on the picture questions - Word certainly does have an annoying habit of ...
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| word table cell formatting | 9/29/2006 |
Q: Being a non-programmer, I was wondering if you could help me with a code to set conditional ...
A: Word doesn't have conditional formatting, but I could certainly give you something that formatted ...
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| Flash file inserted into a Word doc | 9/28/2006 |
Q: I arrived at this site because i searched Google about whether it was possible to insert a Flash swf ...
A: As far as I know, NO - this is because Word is designed as a Word Processor, which is a means of ...
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| Footer adding File name, | 9/28/2006 |
Q: I have successfully inserted the File Name by going into the the footer,then clicking on "insert ...
A: As far as I know, there isn't an option to delete the extension from the file name using the ...
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| Convert Group of DOT to DOC format | 9/28/2006 |
Q: sir. How are you today? I have a list of hundreds of Word .dot files all in the same folder. Can ...
A: This code should do it Sub bulkconvert() Set fs = Application.FileSearch Dim newbook, curbook, ...
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| Import All the Files in One Folder Into Word aidan | 9/28/2006 |
Q: I photographed a printed document. Now I have have a collection of 25 digital images in one folder. ...
A: This macro will do the job for you Sub InsertPics() ' ' Set fs = Application.FileSearch Dim ...
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| Unable to paste internet text on microsoft word or word pad | 9/27/2006 |
Q: I have some problem to paste internet text on microsoft word since this summer and I can't find why. ...
A: I can find nothing to explain this in the knowledge base, and the fact that it happens in Word and ...
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| Dropdown menu | 9/26/2006 |
Q: When creating a dropdown menu for a form in Word, is ther a way to add/import multiple entries for ...
A: Can you clarify what you mean by dropdown menu for a form (userform in VBA, combolist, item from ...
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| Can't open Word 97 document from Windows XP explorer | 9/26/2006 |
Q: I realize there may not be a solution to my question, but on the off-chance.... I am running Word ...
A: It does sound as though it is the conflict of two versions that is causing the problem, but I'm ...
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| Converting Word to *.PS file | 9/26/2006 |
Q: A couple of years ago you posted this"While executing a macros which converts a .doc file to .ps ...
A: I don't think I posted the question, although I may well have posted an answer! You didn't say the ...
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| Gridlines on Word | 9/13/2006 |
Q: I created my resume on microsoft word using a table format. I like my resume a lot, but when I email ...
A: I can think of two ways of doing this - one, layout the document using columns or tabs instead of ...
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| Changing Word Envelope Settings | 9/13/2006 |
Q: SITUATION: I am trying to print 6" x 9" envelopes from Word 2003 through an HP4000TN printer with a ...
A: Sorry, this isn't a word problem but a problem with the printer/driver so should be routed to an ...
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| Mail merge | 9/13/2006 |
Q: I can get the mail merge toolbar to come up in Word, but not in Publisher. Am I doing something ...
A: Sorry, I missed that part of the question - I know NOTHING about publisher, I do all my documents in ...
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| Mail merge | 9/13/2006 |
Q: I have a Publisher document that is a three to a sheet reply card. The mail merge is producing ...
A: Setting the document up as a mail merge label would be one way to go, or simply use the NEXT RECORD ...
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| MsgBox | 9/13/2006 |
Q: I have a letter in .dot format. When the user opens the template, a VBA Form appears on top of the ...
A: You didn't say how you were closing the form but I would GUESS you are using Unload userform1 or ...
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| Fields | 9/12/2006 |
Q: I appreciate your quick response. Sure, i love to get one. I'll be expecting your sample code. ...
A: This macro gives you an idea of what to do - it's only updated ONE document with the results - the ...
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| Fields | 9/12/2006 |
Q: At first i would like to thank you for taking time out to help others. I appreciate that. It ...
A: I THINK that probably the way to go on this is with VBA - this could then open the appropriate ...
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| Prompting for information in Word | 9/12/2006 |
Q: I am having problems getting Word to prompt users for information to populate within the document . ...
A: Sounds like a userform and some Visual Basic to me - I have an example template saved at ...
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| AutoCorrect Option | 9/11/2006 |
Q: I work with docs that are protected - I do have the ability to unprotect, but I'm trying to teach ...
A: The implication is that somehow the autocorrect options have become altered, as Word is altering ...
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| Trouble using themes in MS Word 2002 | 9/11/2006 |
Q: I created a Word doc using a theme and now: 1. when I email the doc to a colleague, or I try to ...
A: I have no experience of using themes, as I tend to use templates for most of my work, and set these ...
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| Word open folder | 9/11/2006 |
Q: When I open a folder in Word and want to go to another folder it takes an awful lot of time and Word ...
A: Not a lot I'm afraid - increase the amount of memory or the processor speed, close down some ...
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| Graphic behind text | 9/10/2006 |
Q: I just got a new computer. I have works 8.5 and word 2003. I am trying to use my microsoft works ...
A: If you right click the picture you SHOULD find an ORDER tab which will allow you to send it behind ...
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| Macros | 9/9/2006 |
Q: I need to create a macro to help me finalize documents. I have tried to record the macro but it is ...
A: Search and replace - use the MORE button to allow you to select whole words only - this should get ...
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| Printing Envelopes | 9/8/2006 |
Q: Using MS Word 2000 Mail Merge to print envelopes. Created a three-page Word Data Source. When ...
A: I very rarely (actually never!) use word as the data source, but if I was doing so, I would create a ...
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| Mail Merge losing decimal format | 9/8/2006 |
Q: I am merging data from excel to word using the mail merge feature. One column in excel is check ...
A: In word, insert a formatting field code into the mailmerge field (do this with a switch /0.00 for ...
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| microsoft word art 2002 | 9/8/2006 |
Q: I have a gateway xp home system with 512mb 120gb of disk space. When using the word art function, ms ...
A: I agree with gateway, it's a memory issue - NOT a storage space issue, or processor speed issue - it ...
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| Word Graphics Problem | 9/8/2006 |
Q: I have a friend that is using Microsoft Word. He can;'t see graphics in his document even though he ...
A: If you can see page break, then you are in NORMAL view, and in this view you don't see the graphics ...
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| Spell check | 9/5/2006 |
Q: I want to use spell check when I send emails. I have set the setting to run spell check but I ...
A: Not enough information in the question to provide an accurate answer (version of word, email program ...
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| Problems converting from Word to Adobe | 9/5/2006 |
Q: I am having a problem converting a word document to PDF. When I have tried, it gets so far (creating ...
A: I'm not an expert in Adobe PDF files, and it MAY be that the error message gives a clue, but at a ...
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| Form fields update question | 9/5/2006 |
Q: I'm still having difficulties with this. I am able to create linked items, but they are only ...
A: Links is a red herring, as this simply relates to links from external documents - which you haven't ...
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| Word 2003 | 9/4/2006 |
Q: It seems that it is not possible to use a bookmark in a table that is itself in a textbox, as the ...
A: I'm not very familiar with office 2003, having preferred to stick with XP until I get bombarded with ...
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| Form fields | 9/4/2006 |
Q: I hope you can help me with (what I think is) a simple question. I have a form in word 2003 that ...
A: The second form field should NOT be a form field, but instead a REF field - inserted from the ...
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| Problem with download | 9/3/2006 |
Q: Somehow my microsoft word 2002 was deleted from my computer. I had the disc that Dell had sent along ...
A: You will need the 25 character key to install MS office - it may not have been a yellow sticker, and ...
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| email unavailable in WORD | 8/30/2006 |
Q: I did what you suggested and here are the results: (1): Confirmed Outlook is the email program in ...
A: I presume this is a global problem (I can imagine POSSIBLY that with some protected documents you ...
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| email unavailable in WORD | 8/30/2006 |
Q: My problem is similar to: http://experts.about.com/q/Microsoft-Word-1058/microsoft-word-7.htm . The ...
A: The previous questioner never actually got back to me, so we weren't able to progress it! My ...
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| microsoft works word processor | 8/29/2006 |
Q: this program refuses to upload to my ms2000 xp computer...i had a problem where i had to rebooted ...
A: You can alsways add an icon to the desktop - normally an install would add it to the start menu - ...
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| Word 2000 Pagination | 8/23/2006 |
Q: I have to paginate a document in a very particular way, and because it has to be uploaded as a ...
A: Insert a section break at the end of page 12. Set page numbers on the first section, then go to the ...
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| TIFF to searchable word document | 8/21/2006 |
Q: Problem: I have documents that were scanned as a TIFF picture so are not searchable - I copied them ...
A: Whilst you and I can look at a picture of a document and read the words, to a computer a picture is ...
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| Tables of Contents | 8/7/2006 |
Q: I have two separate documents, each with a manually inserted table of contents (through “Table Entry ...
A: I'm afraid I have no idea how to do this - MY only suggestion would be to insert hyperlinks into the ...
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| Table of Content | 8/6/2006 |
Q: I am using Windows XP pro and MS Words 2002, I need to organise some of my article collection by ...
A: The Table of Contents (TOC) picks up it's information from styles, so if you have set each of the ...
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| Edit Tracking | 7/28/2006 |
Q: I was emailed a document that has tracking notes all over it. I searched for the solution and found ...
A: This impliest that the document is protected, thus not allowing you to edit it. One way round this ...
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| Footnotes | 7/20/2006 |
Q: Microsoft Word, Office XP Professional: How do I start renumbering footnotes from 1. My text pages ...
A: To renumber footnotes, right click a footnote and choose options - this will allow you to set the ...
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| adobe 7.0 to word fillable | 7/19/2006 |
Q: I am filling out applications and one was word fillable. Many, on the other hand, are in adobe 7.0. ...
A: I'm not an expert in Adobe but if the author hasn't allowed you to select the text and edit/copy it ...
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| form fields | 7/12/2006 |
Q: I have a question when the user opens the document i've set it to automatically protect the ...
A: I would have the document saved with protection on, BUT to allow form fields and unprotected text, ...
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| bookmarks and fields | 7/12/2006 |
Q: Just wanted to clarify another thing I was experimenting with my userform. i added an edit button ...
A: I'm not 100% sure why, with form fields in the document, you need to display a user form, but that ...
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| bookmarks and fields | 7/11/2006 |
Q: Can you elaborate on this: userform1.textbox1.text=bookmarks("Bookmarkname") here is currently ...
A: It would probably help to see what you actually have - if you can email me the file we can carry on ...
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| bookmarks and fields | 7/11/2006 |
Q: word 2000 and xp hi my name is sue and I have a question about form fields and bookmarks that i ...
A: (1) - yes, although I wouldn't normally expect to re-load a user form after the document has been ...
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| double spacing | 7/10/2006 |
Q: i have written a short story but to submit my oeice it has got to be in double space format-how do i ...
A: As you have already typed it, the first thing to do is select the entire document (Edit, Select all ...
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| Word Charts | 7/7/2006 |
Q: I'm working with a large number of charts in Word rather than importing them from Excel because I ...
A: I've never liked the chart feature of Word - it is fine for VERY basic charts, but otherwise it ...
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| M.E. -to XP | 7/5/2006 |
Q: I have "M.E." on one of my computers & I'm thinking about changing over to "XP: 1)IS XP BETTER THAN ...
A: This SOUNDS as though you are asking me about operating systems - which I'm not an expert in! There ...
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| no subject | 7/5/2006 |
Q: Aidan, although I am not computer-literate enough to follow the instructions you provide. Let me ...
A: I suspect that WordPerfect didn't have this feature as such, but used the DOS copy command to ...
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| no subject | 7/4/2006 |
Q: Is there a way of appending new entries to the end of other files wihout manually accessing each ...
A: I'm not sure what you mean by appending new entries to the end of other files (as in, I can ...
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| OfficeMicdosoft 2003* | 6/30/2006 |
Q: Are the dirt cheap versions on ebay any good ? how many times/computers can you load it on ? Thanks ...
A: I have no idea, but I would suggest that cheap sales of current software equate to pirated at best, ...
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| Microsoft Word formatting problem | 6/29/2006 |
Q: I have a large document that was originally created using Microsoft Word on an PC. I saved the file ...
A: Tools, options then the print tab - uncheck the Allow A4/Letter resizing option - as far as I can ...
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| MS Word | 6/29/2006 |
Q: Is any keyboard shortuct available for clipboard, if cut (suppose 12 items) and want to paste ...
A: I'm not aware of any shortcut that would enable you to cut and paste from different locations to ...
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| form fields | 6/29/2006 |
Q: i have a document created with form fields and bookmarks. This is a generic document that is used as ...
A: (1) use the tools menu to protect the document for forms - set a password - this will stop anybody ...
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| Footnotes | 6/28/2006 |
Q: I have recently installed office 2000. I had existing documents in word 97. A research paper is one ...
A: I'm wondering if what you are actually seeing is the footnotes pane, which might look like another ...
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| microsoft office 2000 | 6/26/2006 |
Q: O.K., with that in mind, I would like to purchase the small business edition 2003 upgrade (as ...
A: You would need to confirm this with the software vendors, but GENERALLY upgrades work as long as you ...
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| Word 2003 macro propagate error | 6/24/2006 |
Q: Aidan - I saw a request sent to you explaining a problem that I'm having as well: error 509 on a ...
A: The problem appears to be that the code is NOT creating a table for the document, so the ...
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| Word Count | 6/21/2006 |
Q: Aidan. Is it possible to get a true word count in a document (i.e. ignoring bullet points)? Regards ...
A: The answer is possibly! Because you know the sort of thing you want to EXCLUDE you could do this ...
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| word update field | 6/21/2006 |
Q: for example if you had a document with a whole bunch of headings and within the document u have ...
A: There is nothing in the knowledge base to explain this (http://support.microsoft.com) - my only ...
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| word update field | 6/17/2006 |
Q: I'm having soem trouble updating fields in a document template. Ive created a document template that ...
A: I'm not sure exactly what it is that doesn't work, but fields are notorious for not updating in the ...
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| File menu...GONE! | 6/16/2006 |
Q: Aidan: I'm using Word 2003 (SP2), which came with MS Office Small Business Edition 2003. ...
A: Sounds like the menu bar rather than the standard toolbar, but no problem in either case - right ...
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| Forms / Auto populate? | 6/12/2006 |
Q: I am creating a form for a dept. that requested a drop-down of people on the "To" list. They want to ...
A: It is possible, but only (as far as I know) with the use of VBA - I've done something similar in the ...
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| Reviewing toolbar | 6/9/2006 |
Q: How can I keep the blasted Reviewing toolbar to keep from displaying every single time I open up a ...
A: If track changes is on, then the reviewing toolbar would show - the only way I can think of to stop ...
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| microsoft word | 6/3/2006 |
Q: all my documents from my microsoft word i cant access them anymore? meaning i cannot open or access ...
A: How are you trying to open them and are you getting any error messages? If trying to open by double ...
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| Envelopes | 6/1/2006 |
Q: ------------------------- I need a little more info. I tried PageSetup and was presented with ...
A: You might need to put this to an expert on your printer, but the settings you should be changing are ...
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| vba to save a word doc using the title | 6/1/2006 |
Q: Aidan, I have what is probably a simple question, but is perplexing me..... I am using Word 2003 ...
A: Not sure what you mean by apply it for future iterations (half implies you want a non volatile ...
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| Envelopes | 5/31/2006 |
Q: I want to attach an envelope to a letter in Word 2002 so I can print them together. Everything seems ...
A: The easiest way is to use File PageSetup to set the paper source for each page of the document (I'm ...
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| Locking Text Boxes | 5/25/2006 |
Q: I am creating a document that I need to send around to employees and I want them to be able to fill ...
A: The text boxes which are to allow entry should be entered as form fields (view, toolbars, forms, ...
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| Page Numbering In MS Word | 5/22/2006 |
Q: I am having a real problem with the page numbering in Word. I have windows XP and when i type a ...
A: This is answered at Microsofts support site - the URL is ...
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| Mail Merge | 5/22/2006 |
Q: I have been using the mail merge facility in Microsoft Word Office 2000, with a data source created ...
A: Mail Merge has got easier in Microsoft terms by the use of Wizards, but I personally find that this ...
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| Word 2000 | 5/17/2006 |
Q: I am doing a mail merge and creating form letters that go to different employees in my company. Is ...
A: A mail merge basically produces one large document containing all the pages, so from the standard ...
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| Word XP | 5/16/2006 |
Q: Apologies but I didn't explain myself very well. I am saving the changes to the template but notice ...
A: In that case, it's got me puzzled as well - I've just carried out exactly the steps you described ...
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| Word XP | 5/16/2006 |
Q: Word XP on Windows 2000 Hi, I hope you can help. I am trying to customise a toolbar within a ...
A: You have said you have opened a DOCUMENT based on the template, then saved that document - I may be ...
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| MS Word, Tables, Calculations and formulas | 5/15/2006 |
Q: I have a four column table in Word 97-SR2. I have text in columns A and C. Columns B and D are ...
A: right click on the fields and go to properties - set the calculate on exit check box to checked (for ...
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| Printing in Book fold | 5/15/2006 |
Q: I have a 20 page Word 2000 document that I want to print in Book fold. I have been instructed to go ...
A: The answer you have given is certainly correct for Word XP, the pages option being in the middle of ...
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| Opening word docs stored on the web | 5/11/2006 |
Q: When opening Word files stored remotely on the web they open in Word which seems to be running as a ...
A: The following is taken from the Microsoft support knowledge base - although it doesn't refer ...
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| Sectioning up a word docs numeration | 5/3/2006 |
Q: I'm making a report, and it has to follow some guidelines that my University has put up. These ...
A: Insert a section break at the end of the report - assuming the page numbers are in the header/footer ...
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| turn off auto capping | 5/2/2006 |
Q: I'm doing an index and I don't want the first word in an entry capped. How do I make Word (I have ...
A: I've not had cause to do this, BUT you SHOULD be able to modify the field that the index uses - use ...
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| removing grid lines | 5/2/2006 |
Q: how do I remove the grid lines from microsoft word document. This is not Excel, but microsoft word ...
A: Gridlines don't print, SO I would GUESS that the lines you are seeing are borders - so use the ...
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| MS Word Blue file names | 4/27/2006 |
Q: I use MS Windows XP, home edition. This morning I opened Word (2002) and found that some but not all ...
A: I don't remember the other question, but blue file names SOUND like they may have been converted to ...
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| text appears in new document | 4/17/2006 |
Q: I downloaded some text from internet to a new blank document and saved it. Now everytime I want a ...
A: It SOUNDS as though you have saved the text on the Normal.dot file - so (without Word running) ...
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| Word - Normal | 4/12/2006 |
Q: I keep getting the error message changes have been made that affect the global template, normal. do ...
A: My GUESS would be that one of the styles on the normal.dot was once modified to be 14 - probably the ...
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| FILE CONVERSION | 3/29/2006 |
Q: HOW CAN I CONVERT SDW FILE TO WORD,OR OPEN TO CONVERT?
A: According to my reference list, SDW is a file format : Sun Microsystems Star Office document - there ...
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| Simple Word questionnaire | 3/27/2006 |
Q: I want to create a simple questionnaire with 10-20 questions with multiple answers. Some of the ...
A: Create a word document - then use the view toolbars menu to get to the forms choice - drop in the ...
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| default view in Word | 3/21/2006 |
Q: "Hello- I'm using Word 2003 and, whenever I open a document, the default view is "thumbnails". How ...
A: I'm not up to speed with Word 2003 yet (really must find time to study it in more detail) but I ...
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| spell check accidentally disabled | 3/19/2006 |
Q: Aidan! i've gotten help from you in the past. Now, as then, you are "right on the money!" thank you ...
A: Excellent - glad to have got it right - I try to go for what seems to be the most obvious/likely ...
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| Microsoft Word File Protection | 3/18/2006 |
| Q: Is the |
