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Show embedded images in Mac Word
I have a client who insists on sending me screenshots as images embedded in MS Word docx files. I can view these images by opening the documents in Word on my Windows machine but on any Mac machines ...
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create a style that is shown in the TOC mac 2011 word
how do i create a style in MS Word 2011 for the mac that will automatically be shown in the table of contents, just like header 1,2 etc are. i have tried creating one that is based on header 3, as ...
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How can I link an EPS file into Word for Mac 2011?
I'm trying to import an EPS file generated in ChemDraw into Word for Mac. I've used the Insert>Picture and Insert>Object options and have chosen to "Link to file".
However, it appears that the EPS is ...
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Exporting an audio recording in MS Word 2008 (Mac)
I have recorded a lecture in Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac. Now I would like to export the recording from the Word file as an .mp3 or some other audio format. How can I go about doing that?
This is my ...
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Word for Mac 2011: Documents not opening
I'm having trouble opening some files in Word for Mac 2011.
The files have been though a series of conversions which may be relevant.
They started out as Pages '08 documents.
I then wanted make ...
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Every character I type in Word 2011 (Mac) gets written two places
I somehow toggled a switch in Word 2011, which makes every key I press appear both at the position of the cursor and at the end of the sentence.
If I had this sentence (| = cursor position):
Foo ...
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Hotkeys don't work in MathType equations in Office for Mac 2011
For work-related reasons I recently switched from LaTeX to Word. I heavily use the MathType equations editor (in-line; not the pop-up editor) in Office for Mac 2011 14.1.0 on Mac OSX 10.8.2 Mountain ...
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How to copy equations as MathML from Word for Mac 2011
On Windows Word 2007 and later includes a new style equation editor. When copying equations they are placed onto the clipboard as MathML (in addition to other formats), and can be pasted into ...
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Force Word document to be in one language no matter what
When using Word 2011 for Mac, when I paste an image or create a new line after selecting all text and changing the language, the document will at those places change language.
This is very annoying, ...
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TOC on the footer of too many pages
I have a Word: MAC 2011 document where the bottom of the first 40 pages or so say "TOC: Page x". This notation appears to be in the Footer, as it is gray until I click on it (then the rest of the text ...
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Trying to print 4x6 pages on US Letter paper
Here's the goal. I'm trying to make 4x6 notecards for the play Twelfth Night. My idea was to create a Word document with page size 4x6 and then print it 2 pages to a page. The problem is that Word ...
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How to change the language of dictionary in word for mac
My friend is using Microsoft Word for Mac (which is a total train smash). and we want to change the spell check from English (US) to English (UK).
This is what I have tried:
Make a spelling mistake ...
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Open and Edit a Dotm File
So, at my company, we have a bunch of shared files on a share folder that everyone can read, edit, and update, etc...
What we primarily have are macro-enabled reports such as:
"Report_1_2012.dotm"
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Resetting Styles to Default in Microsoft Word 2008
I want to reset all my MS-Word "Styles" to their default settings; i.e. fonts, sizes, spacing, etc. There doesn't seem to be an option to do this in the "Styles" panel. Is there any other way to do ...
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URLs with hypen - converting MS Word to PDF
I'm writing a document with MS Word for Mac 2011. This documents uses a lot of URLs that are also hyperlinks. When converting the document to a PDF by using the save as... option, the URLs that ...
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How can I get Word to open in draft view automatically?
I am using Word for Mac 2011 (Version 14.1.2) and I would like it to default open files in draft view as opposed to print view. It is not obvious to me what settings to change to get this result.
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Pressing Enter in fillable form breaks layout
I am trying to create a fillable form in Word for Mac 2011.
I have my form all completed and it functions properly, except when the user hits the ENTER key instead of the TAB key, it inserts a line ...
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Word document versions in Mac version of Office?
In the windows version of Microsoft Office (at least in Word 2003) it is/was possible to create a "versioned" document - essentially creating many versions of the document within the same document. ...
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Mac Microsoft Word 2011 stripping RTL format from doc
I copyedit articles for a psych journal using Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac. I occasionally get articles with right-to-left formatting (in English), and I can't seem to rid the doc of this format. Bad ...
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Identifying .doc/.docx files that contain images
I'm moving my notes to evernote. To this end I need to convert .doc/.docx files to rtf. The reason for this is that I have a script to import rtf into evernote. However, some of my .doc/.docx files ...
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re-zipped docx files don't open in Word
I've had success unzipping and examining the interior of a .docx file, but I can't seem to get the re-zipping to work properly. I've tried no compression (command line: zip -0r ...), the archive ...
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How to create forms in Word 2011 for Mac
Using Word 2011 for Mac, I want to create a form that other users can complete. However, the documentation provided by Microsoft is sparse.
What controls do I use for which purposes? How do I ...
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Is there a way to only install MS word from MS office 2011 for the Mac OSX
Is there a way to just install MS word form the MS office 2011 on Mac OSX? If that is not possible is there way to at least get rid of the communicator, remote connection and messenger while ...
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Mac alternatives for creating/editing Word documents
I want to update documents on my Mac that are in Microsoft Word format.
Other than getting Office for Mac, do I have other options that work seamlessly?
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Convert .doc or .rtf to clean HTML on OS X
When I export a file from Word or TextEdit, I get very bloated HTML, full of crazy style tags on every paragraph, so I can't even clean it by hand.
The only information I want preserved is:
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How to stop pictures from bouncing aroung Word 2004
I am pasting a series of pictures into Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, and I make them tight so I can fit several on the page. However, when I switch one to tight the rest go flying down. How can I stop ...
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How to print out a sheet of images from a folder of images
I have a folder full of individual JPEG images on Mac OS X. I want to print it out on a sheet, so that they are side to side. I also have Microsoft Word 2004, if that helps.
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Include the URL of all hyperlinks in the document's text
In an effort to go "all txt" I need to find a way to make the links in .doc files visible in the text, so that the URLs will remain accessible when I paste the the text into .txt documents.
Will any ...
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Shortcut to create new equation in Word 2011
What is the shortcut to create a new equation in Word 2011?
I have looked at this shortcut list, but it does not include that.
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Changed spell check language; Word and Pages still use the old language
I moved from the U.S. to Canada, and I'm changing my Mac to spell check in Canadian English instead of American. I went to System Preferences > Language & Text > Text > Spelling, and changed the ...
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Working with document bookmarks in Word 2011 for Mac
I frequently work on long Microsoft Word documents that have chapter headings, and I often set up bookmarks for those chapters. However, the only way to see a list of them is to open the "Go To" ...
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Utility to make Word 2011 Like Vim
I really like Vim and its keyboard commands, but I need the formatting of Word 2011 (mainly because TextEdit only uses 1.25 in. margins, and I need 1 in.). Anyone know of a ...
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Position text in right, center and right side of a textbox
How do I position a text in a textbox like in the footer/header?
So I can have text at the right, the center and the left of the textbox at the same time.
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What's the keyboard shortcut to insert a comment on OSX Word 2008?
No shortcut is listed in the menu, under Insert > Comment.
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Word documents get spontaneously corrupted while editing in OS X
This has happened to me twice in the past two days:
I'm editing a document in OS X Microsoft Word 2011 (14.1.0), and the document's characters spontaneously turn into gibberish (not upon loading the ...
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Convert batch of Word files to PDFs in Mac OS X
Say I have several Word files in a folder. Is there a way to generate a batch of PDFs from these files?
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Word spell checking in Dutch while Mac OSX, Word and dictionary set to English
The spellchecker in Word on a Mac is using a different language than what is set for the system, program and dictionary.
The language in OSX is set to English, the language in MS Word is set to ...
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broken words in Microsoft Office Word
I am using Microsoft Office Mac 2011. In a paragraph, at the end of each line, words are broken. For example, if I type
This is a test sentence. This is a test sentence.
It displays like
This is ...
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How can I make lined paper using Microsoft Word?
I have a small personal project that I need lined writing paper for; though, I don't want to use notebook paper.
So my question to you is: How can I make lined paper using Microsoft Word?
Btw, I'm ...
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Can I change keyboard shortcuts for Redo in MS Word for Mac?
All Mac applications use ⇧-Cmd-Z to redo the last undone action. All, that is, except Microsoft Office. Office prefers that you use Cmd-Y instead. ⇧-Cmd-Z is mapped to something else – worse, ...
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Why does my MSWord not show the checkboxes in my Word Document when I'm using the Wingdings font?
When I print to PDF, and when I print to my printer directly, the bullet points don't show up. The text that correspond to the bullets show up -- but the bullets themselves don't. For the bullets, I'm ...
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How to run Windows-native MS Word on OS X?
There is a Mac version of MS Office. But Word is much worse than the Windows version.
Is there any emulator and howto to run Windows-native versions of Word on OS X?
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How can I select the region that should be viewed in Word from an embedded spreadsheet object?
Embedding Excel worksheet objects directly into Word seems like a killer feature to me, but it would only be useful for publication if I could choose the "printable area" of the spreadsheet that gets ...
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How do I recover an unsaved, word document downloaded from an email program?
I downloaded an essay for editing earlier today, worked on it for roughly four hours, and the program crashed. Many changes have been made since the download.
I haven't once saved the document so ...
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How can I quickly zoom in on the Mac OS X version of Word without having to use the menu?
(I'm using the Mac version MS Word 2011)
I used to happily use the wheel mouse to zoom but, after upgrading to the Mac Magic mouse (using only finger slide movement to scroll and pan) I can no longer ...
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MS Word 2008 for Mac - repeatedly crashing
does anyone have hints on how to mitigate a problem I've been having on multiple Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.x?
Basically Word keeps crashing as soon as I begin editing documents of a reasonable size, ...
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Have lettered page numbering in Word for a section, then numbered page numbering
I am writing a report and the standard format appears to be to use Roman numerals for the first section / front matter of the report, and then page numbers starting from 1 for the rest. I can't figure ...
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Office 2011 Mac - Unable to save Word files, plus normal.dot alert errors
There are actually 3 errors here.
When I open Word, I get:
Word cannot open the existing global
template. ()
If I create a file, type a character and try to save to the desktop (that I ...
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Vector notation in Word equation editor comes up as “r” on Mac OS X
I am using Word 2008 on Mac OS X and find that whenever I try to make denote a letter as a vector variable (with an arrow pointing to the right on top of the letter) using Equation Editor, the letter ...
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Where do I find a Word 2007 viewer for Mac OS X?
Does anyone know where I can get a Word 2007 viewer for Mac OS X?
I don't want Open Office or TextEdit.
