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Change gridline colour or style in MS Word 2010
How can I change the colour or style (solid line or dots, as in The Gimp) of the document gridlines shown using View > Gridlines (not table gridlines) in Microsoft Word 2010 or 2007?
I can change the ...
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Shortcut keys don't work in MS-Word on Win8
I've just upgraded to Windows 8 (from XP) and re-installed my copy of Office 2007. Now the common shortcuts (Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V etc) don't work in Word, however other shortcuts (Ctrl-P) are fine.
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RTF File Opens as Read Only from Document Management System (Does not happen for all users)
We have a third party system in place that as one part of its duties hosts RTF files that a user can open, make changes to, and save back into the document management system.
Recently we have begun ...
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Microsoft Word 2007 restarts the installer upon exiting on Windows XP
A user complained that they were having issues with MS Office 2007, and that the installation / configuration dialog kept appearing. I already tried uninstalling Office 2007 and I ended up needing to ...
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How can I set the orientation of a single page in a multi-page document in Word 2007-2010?
How can I rotate (or insert) a single page into an Office Word document that is oriented differently that the other pages?
I know this can be done. I've seen in done in Word 2003 and older documents ...
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How do I link multiple Word documents to a centralized header and footer
In our company we have recently changed our trading name and now all templates have to be changed with a new header and footer. We have over 1000 documents that need to be changed manually one by one ...
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Mail merge Vista Word 2007 with Windows Live Mail
When I do a mail merge to send email from Word 2007 with Windows Live Mail installed, it doesn't seem to send the messages. Are there known problems with Windows Live Mail for mail merge? Is there a ...
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Save Pages of a Document as Separate Documents
I am currently using MS-Word 2007 (.docx) format.
I have a Word Document with the following Pages:
Page 1: Event Details
Page 2: Event Description
Page 3: Rules and Regulations
Page 4: Event Budget
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Break link with external document MS Word
I'm using Word 2007. I created a massive (300 page) Word document by copy-pasting text, tables and images from various external (Word and Excel) documents. This might not have been the best way but I ...
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Is it possible to autoincrement a certain column value in Microsoft Word Tables?
I have a big table on a MS Word 2007 document. The left most column is named 'serial' and it's values increment starting from one. Now, this can be achieved automatically in Excel, is this possible ...
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Saving .doc file to .docx file in word 2007 losing the bullet list
I am having an word document which has number of styles and bullets and the file format is .doc(97-2003 Document) and i opened in that document in MSWord 2007 and save as .docx file format.(With ...
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Word 2007 changes all dots between digits to commas when typing Arabic
In Microsoft Word 2007, while typing in Arabic, all dots between digits change to commas.
I'm using Windows 7.
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How to change the numbering of image captions?
I have written a pretty long document in MS word and I have multiple image captions generated by the app. I have multiple level headers, and the numbering of captions is currently something like level ...
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How can I make Word 2007 / 2010 email its content, with my Signature?
Users have a requirement to send word documents in the body of an email (not as an attachment), and to include a signature in all email correspondence.
Users are currently using Send to Mail ...
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Word 2007 document after one save becomes read-only
I have posted this question before, but there are some new takes on it now. I have some work documents linked to Excel, they automatically update when I open them. Initially the problem only ...
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Using Excel 2007 Pivot Tables/Graphs linked to WORD questions
I am using Excel 2007 and using several pivot charts which reference the same table of data. I change the data daily, copy and pasting the data from another source. I have several questions:
Is it ...
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Word compatibility mode
I have Office 2007 installed on my PC. I received a document which shows "Compatibility Mode" in the document title bar when I open it. When I tried to add text and format it as "Headings", it was ...
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How to make a table of contents in Word
I want to make of contents in word, but I can't get it done right. I'm not very good with it.
I want to do it like this:
I. first chapter.....................1
II. Second chapter...................2
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Word 2007 displaying {FORMTEXT} in place of forms
My friend is suffering from an issue in Word 2007. All the files with a form open incorrectly, with all the form fields replaced with {FORMTEXT}. I opened the same files in Word 2010 and they open ...
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Loss of “Reviewers” identities in Word 2007
In Word 2007, when I save a document with Tracked Changes, Word looses the identities of the individual Reviewers and indicates that all Tracked changes were made by "Author".
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Double click on .doc opens Word but not the document
This has happened a few times on our staff laptops. A user has recieved a .doc attachment in Outlook 2007 but when they double click on the attchment it opens word but not the attachment (such as the ...
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The text “Figure” in Figure caption(???) made Word do something bad. Help me get out of this bad state!
While writing a word document (office 2007) I added a figure. Then i right-clicked on it and selected "add caption". You then get a little box in which you can add some text. The box comes containing ...
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How can I flatten images in a Microsoft Word document?
I'm trying to find a way to flatten images in a Word 2007 document.
I want the images that have text/labels placed/layered on top of them to be merged into a single image. Are there any tools or ...
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Office custom toolbar location
I have created a custom toolbar in my Office package (e.g. Word, Excel, Outlook). My profile got corrupted so I have to create a new profile. Does anyone know where the location of these toolbars is ...
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Word 2007 line breaks
I am just using the default template in Word 2007, but it seems something is strange with linebreaks.
If I copy text to a formfield where there will be a linespace in word there will only be a ...
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How to change the numeration style of the subitems of a index with MS Word?
i am trying to do a index, and i wanna achieve this:
1. introduction
2. strategi
2.1 strategi a
2.1.1 number one
2.2.2 number two
2.2.3 number three
2.2 strategi b
3. ...
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How do I change the font color of a specific letter throughout the entire MS Word 2007 document?
I have a text content in MS Office Word 2007.
Assume something like the following :
Abcd Efgh .....
Now I wanna change the color of each A in the content to red.
How can I do it in MS Office Word ...
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Windows word *.doc icon
I recently installed office after clean install. then my genius brother decided to make notepad the default open with with *.doc files. when I reassigned it to open with Word 2007, i got that horrible ...
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Insert Word cross-reference to a comment
In Word 2007, I would like to insert a cross-reference in one comment to another comment.
While in the comment, I can go to Insert --> Cross-Reference, but I do not find any "comment" section in ...
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In Word 2007, how to find&replace using wildcards for find without replacing the substring defined by the wildcards?
I have a document where there are many instances of two pieces of information on a single line, like
assigned to John Doe, estimate 2 days
and I want them to appear on two different lines, like
...
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Where are the Back and Forward browse buttons in MS-Word - 2007? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Back/Forward navigation in Word 2003/2007
Hi,
I am using MS-Word in Office-2007. I remember in older version of word(2003), there was a button like a web browser back ...
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Setting page numbering on Word
I have a word document. The first four pages are title and index. After that, the “Chapter 1” starts. I want page numbers to begin from the “Chapter 1” onwards only. The first 4 pages should not have ...
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Word 2007 footnotes causing blank pages
I'm working on formatting a Word document with 96 footnotes over 57 pages (a chapter from my wife's dissertation). Some of the notes are very long. After making some adjustments to the document to ...
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PowerPoint slide handouts exported to Word are either blank or incomplete. Can this be fixed? Are there alternatives?
I have 34 PowerPoint presentations ranging in size from 60-120 slides. I would like to publish these as handouts in Word so that I can manipulate them for handouts (I am a teacher).
However, when I ...
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Automatically resize picture/image in Word?
I'm using Microsoft Word 2007. I have several large screenshots that need to be inserted into the document at various places. When I paste the pictures, I have to manually resize them to fit within ...
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Transfer Word 2007 AutoCorrect entries from one machine to another
I have two computers that both have Office 2007 installed on them (an old machine, and a replacement).
How would I go about exporting the AutoCorrect entries on one machine and then importing them to ...
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Paste textbox from Powerpoint to Word as an editable control
I have a Powerpoint 2007 file that contains a number of textboxes and shapes with text on them. I can edit, resize, change the text, etc. in these boxes in Powerpoint. However, if I select an item, ...
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How do I add a version number field to an office 2007 docx document?
I've been having a crack at using fields in Word 2007 and have hit a slight stumbling block. I want to add a field which I can use in several parts of the document to represent the current version ...
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How do you copy raw Microsoft Word fields codes to another text document?
Is it possible to copy text from a Word document containing field codes, so that when asted into another application, the FIELD CODES REMAIN AS RAW TEXT. i.e. something like
This is about whales { ...
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Save style of a text box MS Word 2007 or 2010
I've applied border, background and shadow styles etc to a text box and would like to save this so I can use it for later use. I cannot find how to do this.
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Problems saving docx file on nt-server share
I'm having troubles saving docx files on a nt-server share. If i save it as 97-2003 format (doc), it works, but not as .docx.
Any clues?
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I can't see headers or footers on Word 2007 unless in full screen view
I have a machine on a domain that does not show any headers or footers when viewing documents in word 2007, unless I switch to full screen mode.
Other computers can see the headers and footers no ...
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Convert Microsoft Office .doc files to Office 2007 .docx file from the command line
I need to convert Microsoft Office Word .doc files into the new format (.docx) of Office 2007.
I need it to be done via the command line since it's an application where people upload .doc files, and I ...
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Word 2007 - Pasted Text Not Spellchecked?
My Word 2007 spell-check seems to work fine, except that when I paste in text from somewhere else, it won't detect any misspellings in that pasted text...no matter what I try.
If it makes any ...
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Headers and Chapters in Word 2007
I have a single word document with 92 different chapters in it. I need to insert a header on every single page which has a chapter number on the far top right of the page. So for a few pages that ...
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Very slow copy-paste in Excel and word 2007 on Vista
I'm using Office 2007 on Windows Vista and occasionally, when copying from Word to Excel, or text from a website to Word, I will get the hour glass for 10 + seconds and sometimes for about a minute. ...
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Vertical alignment problem in textbox in Microsoft Word 2007
I pardon as its not a programming question at all. But if anybody can answer this it will be usefull for me.
In MS word 2007 I drew a textbox and entered some text.
Then I right clicked on textbox ...
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Rotating a Text Box in Word 2007
Is it possible to rotate a Text Box in Word 2007 by, say, 180 degrees?
I'd rather not have to convert the text to an image.
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Text-To-Speech replacement for Word
It seems that Microsoft decided to remove text-to-speech from Word 2007. Is there a decent replacement, preferably that doesn't require a separate application? I'd like it to read directly from word.
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Using document templates in Word 2007
In previous versions of Office, it was possible to select a template from the gallery, so they were always handy.
In Office 2007, it seems that the only way I can find to USE a document template I've ...
