Questions tagged [microsoft-word-2010]
Microsoft Word 2010, version 14, released in 2010, is the word processing software from Microsoft that lets you create and edit documents.
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Word's Find/Replace Modal in VBA
I want to prepare and show the Find/Replace dialog. However, the following code shows the dialog in a modal status, and you can't get to the document text.
Any ideas how make it modeless, just like ...
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Adjust List of Figures or Tables in Word
I created a List of Figures in Word based on the caption. My caption is something like:
Figure 1-Name of figure.
The list of figures created in Word look like below: (after adjusting the hanging ...
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Chapter heading in Word is not the same
I set Heading 1 style for the chapter heading in Word. The style is as follows: Paragraph before 72 and after 54. I also use the word "Chapter" before the number of the chapter.
So if I place the ...
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How to save Japanese and Korean characters in a Word 2010 VBA export?
I have a Word 2010 document with a 3-column table. The rows have closed caption texts for use in an instructional video. Example row:
I am running a VBA sub to save the captions in each of the three ...
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Can a single section break surround multiple section breaks (e.g S1, S2, S3, S1)? [Word 2010]
Our document templates require a specific layout. What I want is a document to be sectioned as such:
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 1
The purpose is to have a standard reference endnotes at ...
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How to remove the date and time from comments but keep the name of reviewers in word 2010?
I only found solutions to remove both information from the comments: time and name, but not remove one or the other.
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How to make background colour consistent through a templated Word document
I have created a Word template with multiple pages. I have set the background colour to dark grey, and there are no sections in the document so this should be consistent through the document.
When ...
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Pressing Alt+= in Word 2010 does not activate the math typesetting tool
I read about the math typesetting tool of Word 2007, which should work in Word 2010 as well. I tried many times to activate that tool in my Word 2010, but the keystrokes combinations associated with ...
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How can I create a MS 2010 document with sections (drop down) pages
I have a requirement to create a major project template document with repeating content controls and sections that need to be hidden (or expandable).
Sections represent what would normally be ...
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MS Word 2016 Fillable forms
I am creating an MS Word 2016 doc with Fillable Form and I am stuck here. I have an field where I want to enter only the digit. I also want to limit the length of the phone number to 10 character. If ...
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How do I put multiple list levels on the same line in MS Word 2010?
I have a list:
1)
(a)
(b)
I want to format it to look like this:
1) (a)
(b)
How do I achieve this in MS Word 2010?
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Pasting images from outlook without linking
I often paste images from emails to a word document by using Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V (copy and paste). The problem is that this seems to create a linked image; and whenever I update links in the document (...
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Ignore whitespace, Ignore punctuation, Microsoft office find and replace
When selecting "Use wildcards" in microsoft word find and replace, the option to not "Match Case" becomes greyed out, as wildcard searches are case sensitive. However, the options to ignore ...
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Whether wildcard "*" includes newline characters or not in word's find and replace
I'm getting really inconsistent behavior with this, and not just for hard and soft returns, but for hard returns. I can't work out whether there is a bug with the behaviour here or if I'm doing ...
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MS Word master document embedding rather linking subdocuments
When I add a subdocument to an MS Word master document using the outlining toolbar, I'm able to toggle the 'Collapse Subdocuments' button to see the hyperlink to the embedded document. I'm also able ...
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Word formatting - Align left, center, and right in same line
I have lines of text in Word 2010 in which I want to have text aligned on the left, center, and right sides of the page.
A previous question details how to align to the left and right sides of the ...
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Characters are overlapping when working with document
I was using Word 2010 to create a DOCX document. Before Christmas, Office 2016 was installed on my PC but I'm still using Word 2010 to edit the document.
After working 10 to 20 minutes on the ...
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Automatic Sizing of an imported EMF image file
I create full page, landscape images in PPT/PPTX, then create an EMF file of each. I have a script that automatically imports the EMF files at the proper location, but then they have to be manually ...
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Word 2010 table PDFd shows faint lines above and below text
When PDFing a Word 2010 doc (OS Windows 10), shaded table cells show faint lines surrounding the text when viewed on certain Macs (not on mine, but on my client's Mac).
The left and right lines ...
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In MS Word, insert current time, with seconds?
In MS Word 2010, "Ctrl + Shift + ;" causes the current time to be inserted, with the seconds portion of the value as "00". Is there a quick way to insert the current time, with an accurate seconds ...
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Landscape pages are turned into portrait pages only in my system
I had a ms-word document where it consists of portrait pages and some landscape pages at section breaks. When I opened the document all are turned into the portrait pages and no able to see the ...
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Word 2010 Headings use of heading out of order 1,3,2
Can a non sequential header be used without advancing the number order of the next heading order? Example: Header sequencing with Multilevel list linked to style headers:
Header 1 starts with 1).
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MS Word: How to supress list numbers from Table of Contents
I would like to make a TOC automatically in MS Word 2010/2016. I do not want the numbered for the multilevel list to appear in the TOC text.
I have formatted by headings and subheadings using Heading ...
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Updating MS word document dynamically from 2 other documents
I'm using MS Word 2010.
I've 3 word documents A, B and C. C is the master document.
Normally I make changes to document A and B and then copy them over to document C (Master Document).
Is there is ...
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MS Word tries to uncapitalize a word in the middle of my sentence
I am writing in first person as an entity made of several entities...a collection of entities. I use the word "We" often. I capitalize it to indicate that the entities are speaking. As a proper ...
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Word doc: Pagination changes
I have an MS word document that just barely fits on one page. Sometimes when I open the document, it fits on one page. Other times I open the same document without any modification in between, there'...
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Microsoft Word 2010 page numbering/header and footer
In Microsoft Word 2010, I am trying to number a multi-page document which has different annexes and page numbers. Is there a way I can treat each page individually, and number each page differently ...
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My Add-Ins tab dissapeared in MS Word 2010
I had a Print to DMS option in my Add-Ins tab. One day the tab is gone. If I go to Options\Customize Ribbon\All Tabs, there is no Add-Ins in the list. It is in the Main Tab listing on the right and it ...
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Page Number in Word Document
I am creating a training document that includes facilitator and participant information. I need to have the facilitator page number the same as the corresponding participant page number. Basically I ...
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How to replace formatting of "0 or more characters" (*) wildcard in MS Word?
Suppose I'm searching/replacing the "0 or more characters" wildcard (*) in Word (in my case, Word 2010). I want to replace that * wildcard with the exact same text in each instance, but with modified ...
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Is it possible to have a time picker content control in Word 2010 that will show the current time when you click on it?
I want to create multiple time fields that will display the current time when you click on it, but won't update when I update the auto increment fields I'm using in the same document. I need something ...
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How do you insert ordinal indicators in a content control date picker?
How do you insert ordinal indicators into date picker content controls that will show the date like:
26th day of October, 2016
I've tried d \*ordinal 'day of' MMMM, yyyy but using \*ordinal doesn't ...
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How to select text while using Find Next?
I am trying to edit a document. There are large chunks of data that I want to delete. I know the starting point of the chunk, and I know the last word of the chunk. Those are invariable. But the ...
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Adaptive header Microsoft Word 2010
For my work, I have a simple footer and header on each page which gives the title of the work, my group, my name, and the page number.
This is what the footer and header look like in portrait mode:
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How can I make a Word 2010 heading begin a Normal paragraph when I hit Enter?
When I hit Enter after typing a heading, on my new computer it starts another heading in the same style. I want it to start a regular paragraph, not two headings in a row or a multiline heading. It ...
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How to make MS Word open a doc in "Final" Review view?
I am regularly inspecting spec docs I get from a different team. Their docs are periodically revised and they keep tracks of the changes.
Whenever I open a doc, it is displayed in "Final: Show Markup"...
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How can I separate numbering and header styles in Microsoft Word 2010?
Updated to reflect that I do want to have a set of headers without numbering and another set with numbering.
In a document I created four new heading styles (NumHeading 1 - 4) each based on Heading 1 ...
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Self-updating field containing a substring of the filename, how-to?
I have documents with filenames like:
"111-222-333 this is the manual.docx"
"111-222-444 this is another doc.docx"
Inside the doc, there is a reference field displaying the 11 leftmost characters of ...
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Is it possible to put an image on a Word document header and maintain it topmost?
We are putting an image on a Word document header and it is handled as a watermark standing at the back of other things.
Is there a way to maintain something in the header topmost?
Thanks.
See the ...
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Zoom function on images with fixed size in MS Word 2010
I have photos with dimensions 4160x3120 and 3120x4160. These photos are from modules of a machine. The modules are big parts which contain small subparts.
I'm making a word document where I describe ...
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Space within text - Word
In my thesis' references there are huge spaces between text. I assume due to justify alignment. Unfortunately justify alignment is a rule to use it. So what can I do to remove those spaces? I have ...
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Rearrange side-by side text in a Word doc
I have a 2,000+ plus page document that I am formatting to import into an Access database for easier reading.
Only one thing is standing in my way - I have a bunch of items that look like this:
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Chapter Number and Heading Stacked and Center-aligned
I have created a list style (1., 1.1, 2., 2.1,....) that i have mapped to a style for my headers.
So for example, my header would show as follows: 1. Executive Summary (aligned left to the page)
now ...
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Section-wise numbering in Word
I have a document divided into the following sections:
Cover Page
TOC
Main Content
Appendices
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
I have inserted section breaks to have four sections in the document.
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MS Word: When deleting image and saving, the image reappears
I have a large manual written in Word (.docx). Some changes were suggested with "track changes" and have all been consolidated. No suggested changes remain.
Some of the changes included deletion of ...
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Why has my employer's Word 2010 started insisting that there's an issue with my .doc files?
When I asked my original question, I was advised to ask this part of it as a separate question.
I regularly write reports for my employer, and email them through. I write the reports in Word 2016 for ...
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MS Word 2010: Invalid Procedure Call or Argument
In MS Word 2010, I'm getting an error when using a macro to call a subroutine contained in another template:
Run-time error '5':
Invalid procedure call or argument
This pops up when I run the macro ...
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MS Word Citation Field Codes Not Complete
I'm writing a research article using (:-() MS Word, and having a problem with a multi-citation. I'm trying to combine 4 articles in the same citation, and expect output like (Poole & Rosenthal, ...
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Page numbering word 2010
I have seen a lot of questions on page numbering in word 2010, and how to add them, so I know that. I have a particular question regarding the number of pages.
For example: I have a document of 5 ...
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Is it possible to create a template in Word 2010 that will print the cover page on a different size of paper?
I'm creating a new template for an 8.5x11 document, but I want the cover page to be printed on 11x17, so I can fold the cover page over document like a book cover, with the cover page printed on the ...