The version of Word from Microsoft that came out in 2007.
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Underbraces in Word math zones and dealing with stretchy parentheses
Parentheses in Word usually stretch with whatever they're containing. This might be un-noticeable for things like:
For stuff like:
It's definitely nice, especially compared to the fact that ...
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Default bullet style in Microsoft Word
My company just came out with some branding and I've been tasked with developing the new Microsoft Word (2007+) template.
The marketing consultant insisted that the first level bullets must be 12pt ...
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How do I search for higlighted text by color in MS Word?
In MS word, I have many differenet highlighted colors of text. How can I search for them by color in MS Word 2007?
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Word: “Save As” does not save to current folder?
I open my customer.docx from a very nested folder. I make some changes and then I want to save the changed file as customer_response.docx in the same nested folder. That is, I want to have the ...
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VBE6.DLL Crashes Word 2007
When we open a Template created in Word 2003, with Word 2007, vbe6.dll crashes Word 2007.
Any Ideas?
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How do I get Word 2007 to stop changing the font when pasting special characters
When pasting text as "unformatted unicode text" in Word 2007, some special characters will be rendered in a different font, even when the current font at the place of insertion has these characters.
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Horizontal Labeled Hierarchy SmartArt in Word 2007 too tall
I have a Horizontal Labeled Hierarchy SmartArt object in my Word 2007 document and for some reason the background labels are just too tall.
How I can I make it look more like this?
Trying to ...
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DocProperty “Pages” changed by printing
I'm using a feature in Word that has worked for me for more than a decade: in the Footer, I select "Insert", "Quick Parts", "Field..." then Field names: "Page". I type "of", then insert the ...
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Microsoft Word - Paragraph > Borders - Set default as “All Borders”
I'm trying to figure out a way of setting Microsoft Word's default 'borders' setting to be 'All Borders' rather than the 'Bottom Border' that it is currently.
I've been searching through forums, but ...
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Adding Images side-by-side
I have three images of unequal size. I want to add them side by side horizontally in MS Word 2007/2010.
Currently when I manually add them through Insert -> Picture then they are added without ...
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Office 2007: How to sort an Excel Table from within a Word macro
I have written a Macro in WinWord2007 which lists styles and their properties in an Excel table. The table is made accessible by the following 3 lines:
Dim Oxl_Sheet As Object
Set Oxl_Sheet = ...
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How to use AND/OR Building Block content in a Word 2007 template
I am creating a Schedule of Work template and am successfully using Developer Tab and Quick Parts to allow user to choose content on an "either/or" basis: either A; OR B; OR C; etc., essentially ...
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How to get around caption length limit?
For one of the figures in a Word 2007 document, when I add a long caption (4 lines of text) only the first few lines of text show up in the caption.
I am generating the document from a command-line ...
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Cross reference an embedded Excel file cell to a form field in Word 2007
I have a Word 2007 document that is using the legacy form-fill tools in a table. Within this table, I have embedded an Excel table. The Word file is protected, except for the signature blocks and the ...
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Why are some options unavailable when recording a macro in Word 2007?
I am trying to create a macro that works with images in Word 2007. The problem is that when I start recording my macro I can't select some options, such as the one surrounded by a red border in the ...
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Swapping non-adjacent selections in Word
I've seen friends do the following on the Macintosh: you've written, say, "joy and comfort" and you realize it should be "comfort and joy" - on the Mac, you can select both 'comfort' and 'joy' and ...
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Filter Word mail merge data using current date
I am trying to semi-automate an email merge in Word. Excel is the source. Under filtering, I want the "Notice Date" column in the spreadsheet to equal whatever the current date is. Can I do that so we ...
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How to stop Word 2007 from inserting a line break at hyphens, without using a nonbreaking hyphen
I have a long URL that contains some hyphens, and would like to include it in a Word document. Unfortunately Word sees the hyphens and creates a rather ugly line-breaking scheme.
If I replace the ...
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Why is Word 2007 not allowing me to select or edit above text with cursor?
I have a problem selecting or editing text in Word 2007 which is above the cursor's current position. I am unable to select any text or even just click in the upper part of the document text, but I am ...
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How can different people track changes in the unprotected text form fields?
I am working on a protected word 2007 form. How can different people track changes in the unprotected text form fields? The text appears in black and changing the track changes option doesn't change ...
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Normal.dotm Management Best Practice in Corporate Environments where standard look must be enforced
Is there solid guidance out there concerning the management of Microsoft Word in corporate environments where documents must conform to a standard look and layout?
How to manage Normal.dotm (eg. ...
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Ms-Word introduces line breaks in RTF
I'm using a template system based on RTF + Velocity. In my RTF's I've got several VTL sentences, such as:
#foreach($item in $somevar.someProp)Some may-be RTF text #end
If I open the RTF file with ...
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MS Word 2007--Spacing between headers using “stylized” styles
We have a document with Styles: Heading 2, Heading 3 and Heading 4 that have color blocks around them and the double-line style border at the top and bottom of the paragraph. These styles work great ...
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Word 2007 cell formatting
I have created a form template in Word 2007 which include various fields. Some of the fields are to show time (i.e. 15:47:32). I’ve set the text field properties as Date HH:mm:ss.
The trouble ...
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Arabic numbers in table of contents in word 2007
In my Word document I have all the numbers in Arabic but in Table Of Contents I get the numbers in English.
I know how to change all the documents but the TOC wont follow global rules.
I tried the ...
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Is it possible to create a table structure to an existing data in word 2007?
I have some data that is organized properly in MS word 2007. Now I need to put this data into a table structure. Since there is so much of such data I just cant manually arrange them. Is there a way ...
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Changing styles in Word 2007
I need to change styles in Word 2007. In Word versions pre-2007 I had no problems with this, but in Word 2007+ I can't get it working. Here is what I got.
I changed the Normal style to use Arial ...
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Multi-level captions for figures
I'm working on a Word document, and I would like to put two figures side by side, using the same figure number (e.g. Figure 1) but with a letter for each figure (1a and 1b).
What is the cleanest way ...
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How do we copy a custom table style from Word to Outlook?
We're using Word 2007 and Outlook 2007. We've got a corporate table style defined in Word and set as the default.
How do we make that table style available in Outlook mail messages? I can't see any ...
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Word 2007 .docx -cannot save document
I received a .docx document from a fellow student which I can open but not save again even when I have made no edits whatsoever. When I press Save As the dialog appears, I write in a file name and ...
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What value between 0 px and 227 px will make this dialog go away?
I have a picture contained within a drawing canvas in Word 2007. I made the mistake of right clicking and choosing format picture. This is the result:
Regardless of the values I enter into any of ...
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Scroll Lock Equivalent In Word 2007/2010?
In excel you can use the scroll lock key to toggle the arrow keys to move about the spreadsheet. Can this be done in Word? If so, how?
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Why is my Word document losing connection to its template?
My client is having a problem with a Word template I've provided for them on their site.
Specifically:
They've placed the template on a shared drive (Windows mapped network drive) that everyone can ...
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Opening .odf requires admin rights?
One of our users and one of her colleagues is getting an error when opening an ODF file (open office word), something about XML and then a second error message asking to repair the file (which does ...
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How can I change the order of citations in Word?
When I insert citations into my document, they are automatically ordered by their first appearance in the document. However, instead I want them to be ordered how I like, such as:
Books
Articles
Web ...
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opening existing blog post using microsoft word 2007
Whenever I open "existing blog posts" using Microsoft Office 2007, I am presented with last 25 posts. How to open the old posts using MS office?
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How to persuade MS Word that .NET is one word?
I'm writing a text about my work in .NET and the word ".NET" makes Word think that the dot is the end of a sentence. How can I persuade MS Word that .NET is one word?
PS: I know I can use dotNET but ...
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word won't put diacritics before other character is typed
I've got a problem with one of the computers I use (running Win7 Pro x64 with Office 2007). Word won't let me type any diacritics (like AltGr+a = ą, AltGr+e = ę, etc) before any other character is ...
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How can I get 2 different styles to show on one line in a Table of Contents?
In my report body, I have a section heading which must be formatted as 2 paragraphs with 2 different styles to start the section. For example:
Chapter 2 [style A]
Project History [style B]
section ...
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Word 2007 claims Sharepoint docs have a label policy
We have one install of Word 2007 claiming .doc files from our SharePoint have a policy requirement for a label, and it will not save without it.
But that policy is not set on the SharePoint, and ...
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Protected Word 2007 Document not working
I have an annoying problem that I've never had before. I've created forms within Word 2003 many years back and protected the document so that users can only complete the fields.
However, I'm having ...
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Copy/paste images from Word to Thunderbird
In a comment to SO125237 concerning pasting clipboard image into gmail message there is mention “Thunderbird saves it locally in a temp dir first, and then embeds this.”
I suspect this may be why ...
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Paste in text fields in Word
I need to know how to paste into text fields saying Click here to enter text (Word 2007). Paste option is not working there.
How should I achieve this please?
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Insert a picture (from file) in Word: how to open current folder by default?
Is there a way to configure MS Word (2007) to open the current folder (i.e., where the active document is located) by default, and not a single application-wide default folder (as configured under ...
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Automatically name “Text form field” on copy?
I need to make a paragraph with text form field which will update the other part of the text. So I created a sample paragraph like on this image
As you can see the Id of text form field has been ...
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Merging paragraphs in MS Word 2007
I'm looking for a macro that merge and reformat paragraphs in MS-Word 2007. And I have some problem of text overflow with this macro :
Sub FixParagraph()
'
' FixParagraph Macro
'
'
Dim ...
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Adding many cross-reference in MS2007/2010 is very tedious
In a document in MS Word 2007 or 2010 I need a lot of cross references, to numbered items, figures, list etc.
Every time I add a cross reference a dialog is displayed and when changing from type ...
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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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“Runtime error 91” when opening documents in Word 2007
When I open a Word document from my desktop or from an e-mail, I get the following error message
Runtime error 91: Object variable or with block variable not set
If I open Word from the Program ...
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toggle “Lock Aspect Ratio” for pictures using Macro in Word
I started recording a macro and then unchecked the "Lock Aspect Ratio" option in the Size... option that we get in the right click menu for inline pictures. But when I stop the macro, I do not get the ...
