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Table of contents formatting
I have a Table of Contents in my MS Word document, and I am struggling to get the numbering right, as when the numbering of the sections goes into double digits, the indentation of the section titles ...
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Word 2003 crashed and I've lost my file
I was working with a document located on USB. Suddenly word 2003 crashed and I've lost my file. only in the folder "recent" there is a trace left by which seems to contain less information. I've tried ...
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Unwanted space between characters when printing
When I print a document I sometimes get enormous spaces between characters. It happens randomly because in another document the same font is printed correctly.
The printer is HP Laser Jet 2100M.
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Opening Office 2010 (.docx) file in Office 2003 on Win2K Machine with Compatibility Pack Installed
I work for an organization that has a fairly old server running some critical apps. We have a road map to move these applications to a new server, but have to support the existing one for the time ...
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Pictures in square moving back in Word 2003
I have a few pages in which I have a lot of text, and 2 textboxes per page and 2 pictures. I have set the picture layout to Square so my text will wrap around it.
I've added a header and footer, and ...
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Scrolling in Microsoft Word 2003
I used to be able to scroll through my Word-document by dragging the vertical scrollbar and moving it up and down. The pages would glide along according on how I dragged the bar.
Now, when I drag the ...
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Microsft Word Document Versions
In Microsoft Word 2003 it was possible to store different Versions of a Document inside the Document itself (File -> Versions.. or check here -> Chapter Implementing Versions).
Somehow I'm missing ...
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How to convert Word track changes markup to document content?
I would like to edit a Word document with Track Changes on, and then save the document with the track changes markup as the actual document. For instance, deleted words should be in the final document ...
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macros and autotext will not save in Word 2003
I have a new Windows 7 computer. I work in Word 2003. When i make a macro it will only work that computer session. If I log off - the macros are gone. I cannot creat any autotexts. I am not sure ...
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how to remove or change background fills in all tables in a microsoft word document
I have a bunch of large documents, with many tables that have different and inconsistent fill styles - some of them are not readable in black and white when printed.
I cannot change the background ...
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How to create a table with blank borders in Word 2003?
I cannot seem to find any way to create a table with blank borders in Word 2003. Is this possible, and if so, how?
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MS Word 2003 — will not maximize to take the entire screen
I am unable to maximize MS Word 2003 and still can see portion of the desktop. I also cannot drag the Word screen toward the top,left or right to the borders of the screen to enlarge the screen. ...
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Get rid of gray brackets arond editable text in restricted Word docs
I'm trying to work out a problem in Word that I thought was simply a glitch from 2003 until we upgraded to 2010 and the problem persisted.
For our corporate letterhead, we set up the template with ...
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Field-Code tables don't preview or print (Word-2003)
When I go to preview or print a Word 2003 document, the "table of contents", "table of figures" and the "table of tables", visible while editing in "Print Layout" mode, are suddenly replaced by their ...
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Word 2010 Macro shortcut using Normal.dotm
I have a macro that needs to be run from the shortcut button. I have added that shortcut in word 2003 & 2010 manually without breaking a sweat. Now in word 2003 if I add a shortcut it got saved in ...
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How do I prevent microsoft-word from prepending a space when pasting from clipboard?
When I cut and past a single word in word 2003 using the clipboard a space is "helpfully" prepended. How/where do I tell word to stop doing that? I suppose there is a configuration option, but I can't ...
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How to convert a MS Word 2003 file that contains a screen capture into an image?
My MS word file has a screen shot. I want to convert it into an image file and upload it on stackoverflow.com. Right now I am downloading GIMP for Windows XP. Can I do it easily through GIMP?. How do ...
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Small word document taking a long time to open in 2003
I have a 300kb word file that is taking 15+ seconds to load in word 2003. It seems fine in 2007 and 2010. How can I identify which part of the file is causing the slow down.
PS. i found an article ...
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Copying and pasting in Word and Excel
I recently started having problem with pasting tables between Word documents and from Excel to Word. For some reasons it pastes table without frame, just disorganized text. It is very annoying because ...
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MS Word: Changing the Format of a Form Field Without Changing its Value
I have a document with text form fields that have already been filled in with values. They are formatted as type "number" with the number format "0".
I want to change all the fields with the number ...
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Alt+O pressed, Format menu doesn't descend
I'm using Word 2003. (Not my choice!) The keyboard shortcuts work normally except that Alt+O highlights but does not open (descend) the Format menu. I have to use Alt+O, Enter, to open the Format ...
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Word 2003 is ignoring mail merge delimiters
I have a flat file using the semi-colon as a delimiter. This is merged with a historic Word template that has been in use for years at our office. However, recently the template has started ignoring ...
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Creating a Protected Form in Word 2003 with Using Tab Keys to Move from Field to Field
I have created forms with several form fields in which users can enter text, and I would like
users to be able to use the tab key to skip from one form field to
the next without having to use their ...
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Exporting equations from Word 2010 to Word 97
I have a problem to save word document from word 2010 as a document
of a word 97/2003, but equations are saved as figures and can not be edited.
How to save word 2010 document as word 97/2010 ...
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Find location of inserted image in Word 2003?
As per the title how can I find the image location to an inserted image in Word 2003?
Thanks a lot!
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Does anyone have an original Word 2003 normal.dot file?
I'm running Microsoft Office XP Small Business which has Word 2003.
I need to know what the Original Default settings were in normal.dot for Paragraph Formatting, specifically: Indentation: Special: ...
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Microsoft Excel file versions
We have a user here who uses Word 2003 and Excel 2003 as his primary tools. He needs to keep different versions of his files over the time so he can rollback to a previous version at any time. ...
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How to get Drop-Down Box Options window instead of Code View in Word 2003
I am creating a form in Word 2003. When I create a drop-down (combo box) and double click on it, I get the MS Visual Basic editor, rather than the Drop-Down Form-Field Options dialog.
How can I ...
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How to print fold-marks on letters using Microsoft Word
Is it possible do make side lines (folding), that are independent from the text (no matter how you move your text up or down, the lines are on the same place when you print it)
These lines are for my ...
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How can I use ticks for Word 2003 form check boxes instead of crosses?
I've created a form using Word 2007 and saved it in Word 2003 format. It works well, but I don't like the way that the check box presents itself as being checked.
Currently when I click the check ...
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Word documents very slow to open over network, but fine when opened locally - on one machine
Windows XP, Word 2003, patched.
The issue is happening with several Word documents stored on a network drive.
The Word documents are clearly a bit wonky (i.e. one is 675k, but if you copy everything ...
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Microsoft Word Document Recovery seems unresolvable
We work on a server (Windows Server 2003 Enterprise) that a bunch of us developers remote in using Remote Desktop Connection, and now every "other" time I open up word I get this Document Recovery ...
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How can I prevent <Title> appearing in <Table of Contents> in Word?
The first row of the table of contents is displaying text with the "Title" formatting, how can I prevent this from appearing?
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Error - Incorrect object inserted - Word 2003
I'm editing a 150-page document on Word 2003. I inserted a graphic made with Visio 2003 (Visio 2003 Standard is installed locally).
When I try to print it, my graphic disappears and the only thing I ...
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How to change the font of the heading number in Microsoft Word 2003?
How do you change the font of the heading number?
If I get into the Styles and Formatting tab, then click on the drop down arrow of the heading I want to modify, and then edit the font in the Modify ...
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MIcrosoft Word 2003 - Can you import heading styles from other Microsoft Word documents?
For some reason, my copy of Microsoft Word 2003 has its headings all strange-like. I have a document with much nicer headings that I want to use. Is there an easy way to import these to my Word 2003 ...
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Reopen recovered docs pane in MS Word 2003?
I hit the close button after choosing which doc to work with, now I can't remember how to get the window to reopen.
This is the pane that shows if your document got corrupted/word crashed and it ...
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How can I correctly link nested numbering in Word?
How can I correctly link nested numbering in Word? Currently it is doing this:
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Microsoft Word 2003 Headings - Why do some say “do not use”?
I am using Microsoft Word 2003 and wanted to use Headings 4 and 5, but why does it say DoNotUse?? Is this some sort of Microsoft joke? Any ideas?
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Word 2003; footer has disappeared
I have a document where the footer has disappeared.
I don't mean that the content has disappeared; if you do View | Header and Footer and then click the button to go to the footer, it doesn't display ...
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How to merge several tracked documents into one?
We need to send a document to 21 receivers for review. They will use the tracking function to add comments and changes.
We will then receive 21 documents and to simplify the process we would like to ...
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How to add some HTML widget art in Microsoft words?
I'm a system analyst. I need to write a document in Microsoft Word, I looking for "clip art' or 'auto sharp' for HTML widget/art like check box, form, text-field...etc so that I can use in my ...
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How do I get rid of the extra space in tables with Microsoft Word 2003?
I am copying and pasting tables from another document (Word 2007) over to Word 2003 and when I do this, right click on the upper left hand corner of the table, AutoFit, AutoFit to Contents, I am left ...
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how to make 2 sequences of page numbers in MS Word 2003
I need two sequences of page numbers in my document. One spanning the first few pages and a second sequence (starting at page number 1 again) right after that.
When i change the page numbers setting ...
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Can't edit Microsoft Word template
I am trying to change an existing Microsoft Word template. It's the 28 line legal pleading template found here: ...
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How can I get Microsoft Word 2003 to go left-to-right by default
Whenever I open MSWord 2003, the direction is right-to-left. It becomes very annoying to reset paragraphs back to left-to-right every time. How can I fix this?
I tried deleting C:\Documents and ...
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Automate Conditional Template used in Word MailMerge
I have four different Word 2003 documents set up, all using the same Excel data source, but the documents have different logos, text, terms and columnar content layouts.
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How to utilize cross references in Microsoft Word 2003?
I am compiling a document full of figures with captions and cross-referencing them in a paragraph before the figure. My problem is if I add a new figure before another, the cross-reference gets ...
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Word 2003 crashes when I edit the “Heading 2” style
So I have a large (~97 mb) Word document, with an ugly and inappropriate modified Heading 2 style. I open the Styles and Formatting pane, right-click on Heading 2 and choose Modify ... and Word ...
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How to avoid the full path being shown under an embedded document in Microsoft Word 2003?
When I embed a document inside another using Inset>Object>Create from file, the file is shown with the full path underneath, truncated by the available space so it invariably looks awful.
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