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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 lists continuing past normal text

I am having an issue in Word (both 2010 and 2013) where lists are continuing past where there is normal text i.e. something like this: asd asd asdasd 3. asd This is a problem that ...
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Word 2010 caption has no number

I am trying to place a Table caption above a table in Word 2010. It shows correctly in the insert caption box, but when it appears on the screen there is no number and no hyperlink colour. The word ...
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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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Create my own custom ellipsis bullet point

I regularly use an ellipsis as a bullet point in a list of items in Word/Outlook 2010. Example: I like summer because... ... it's warm out. ... we go on vacation. ... my birthday is in July. ...
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How to start Microsoft Word as a simple plain text editor

As you may know, MS-Word have a predefined styles for Headings, Paragraphs, Capital letters and more stored into it's default template. You may not want to use at all. Whenever you start your ...
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Why does my text print black instead of grey in Word 2010?

I'm writing a document in Word 2010 and I need some of the text to print as grey. It's designed so but when I print, all text comes out black. I don't see anything in the Printer Settings. How do I ...
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pasting and automatically replace paragraph spaces with line spaces

I'm interested in saving time copy-pasting. I copy paste from websites, articles, newspapers, etc, which have different formatting. When I paste it into my word doc, it typically comes up messy ...
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How can I automatically format hyperlink text in Word/Outlook?

I like adding hyperlinks to my Word documents and e-mails in Outlook. I usually prefer to change the link Text to display to something more readable than just the URL. I follow patterns for some ...
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Repeat the first two rows of a table as the table header **from a template**

I want to repeat the first two rows of a table as the table header on each page of a Word (2010) document. I can repeat the first two rows by highlighting both rows and checking "Repeat row as table ...
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Specify Row Height in Table Style Gallery

I am creating a new table style in Word 2010. I'd like to specify the row height, but the box is grayed out. Is there a way to add a specifies row height to a table style?
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Word 2010 freezes when inserting a document cover - how do I determine the cause of the issue?

When I insert certain document covers in Word 2010 (64-bit) the program freezes. I then have to end the process, relaunch Word and then use the recovery version of the document in order to continue ...
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In MS Word 2010, how do I use different styles for different indexes?

I'm using the \f switch in Microsoft Word 2010 to create multiple indexes. I need to style these indexes differently from one another, but I'm unable to work out how to apply different styles to these ...
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Word 2010: Level 10 heading and beyond

My document requires that more than 9 heading levels be used. The problem is that all headings need to generate into the TOC and the page numbers need to include the heading level. Is there a way ...
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Word 2010 save as PDF/A results in "This file could not be found."

When I try to save a document as PDF/A (ISO 19005-1 compliant) in Word 2010, I get an error message: This file could not be found. OK   Help It works fine when I don't check the PDF/A box. Any ideas ...
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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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In Word 2010, how do I duplicate two rows in a table and preserve their formatting?

I have the following table in Word: I'd like to duplicate the last two rows to make another use case. There are many ways to do this, but all that I've tried end up with unsatisfactory results. I ...
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How to change the number style language in numbering for MS Word 2010?

I have MS Word 2010 and I want to make numbering words on Arabic like this for example in one, two, three or first, second... I wanted to be in Arabic for numbing chapter in my basic language. I ...
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Is there a way to have MS Word not autocorrect in selected document regions?

I'm setting up some tables where some cells will contain either a single lowercase letter or two lowercase letters. (Specifically, I'm trying to set up Punnett squares from genetics.) So, e.g., a cell ...
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Prevent hyphenation for words not in dictionary

When enabling hyphenation, Microsoft Word also hyphenates terms it does not know, e.g. names, words in CamelCase. These hyphenations are often terribly wrong ("SeqTrig" is hypenated as Se - qTrig") ...
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Word 2010 add style to Quick style gallery NOT showing alias name

I have Headings 1 through 8 in my quick style gallery, but the alias names are showing instead of Heading 1, Heading 2, etc. This would typically be handy, but the alias names defy logic and only ...
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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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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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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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How do you make values auto-increment in headers?

I've created a macro that adds a page at the end of a document and changes the title text in the Header. I want to be able to add multiple pages and have the letter in the title auto-increment: ...
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Different header for each chapter in Microsoft Word

I'm trying to place the chapter titles for a document in the page headers. I've set the header content to the title of the first chapter, but every page has the same header, so the first chapter's ...
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Showing paragraphs from other pages in Word

Have a word document with Heading 1 paragraphs starting on every single page. I would like to show the Heading 1 paragraph of the NEXT page on each page, so having page X showing the Heading 1 of page ...
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E-mail Hyperlinks in Word 2010

I was wondering if there's a way to create a hyperlink in a Word 2010 document that opens an e-mail message and then writes the recipient in the 'To' box but also attaches this document to the e-mail ...
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How do I caption a Table across multiple pages in Microsoft Word?

I have a table that is multiple pages long in Word. I'd like to have the caption associated with it to be at the top of each page so that the reader doesn't forget which table they are reading. How ...
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German Word 2010 with English UI and US English Keyboard – some hotkeys do not work

System In my office I am working at a computer with a German version of Windows 7 and a German Office 2010 suite. The Windows system language has been changed to English. The Office applications ...
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Is there a way to view or set custom Microsoft Word shortcuts for Mac OS when working in Windows?

I'm using a Microsoft Word 2010 (Windows version) to make some templates that contain custom shortcuts for styles, macros, etc. The templates will also be used by coworkers using Word 2011 on OS X. ...
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Extend Add-Ins menu in Word 2010 Ribbon with AutoText/QuickParts

I have AutoText / QuickParts since Word 2003. For Word 2010 I moved the corresponding dot* files into the standard startup folder to get them loaded with any Word document. These are correctly loaded....
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Suppressing Blank Mergefields in Word 2010 Mail Merge

I'm working on combining two mail merge letters into a Master template that will know which merge letter to populate based on information in a specific column. I have successfully combined the two ...
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Word not opening specific files for a specific user

I have the problem that for specific files word is staying almost forever in starting mode (aka more than 10 minutes). Then when the starting mode is over with word is open but without a file opened ...
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Add verb to Word vocabulary so Word stops claiming sentence is fragment?

I'm working with Word for Mac, version 14.3.9 (131030). The same problem exists for Word on my PC, like Word 2013 and Word 2010. Word has flagged the following sentence as a fragment: The ...
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Hidden Table Re-appears After Save, Close, Open

I have a Word document with a table at the top of the first page that I want to hide by default (it contains maintenance information and notes that doesn't always need to be shown). If I select the ...
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Resizing window in Word 2010 on Windows XP

Two macros I have, one to size down a Word window down to 20% of the RH side of the screen, and the other to 80% on the LH side, have stopped working. (They are for reference files while I work on the ...
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How do I set the the text direction in word 2010 to right to left for languages like Hebrew or Arabic when copy/pasting?

In Office word 2010, when I want to create a new style, under the paragraph section the direction (left-to-right and right-to-left) is disabled. Can I modify the direction then? Added for mahmoud ...
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How to insert Table of Contents in Word 2010?

What is the best way to insert a table of contents in Word 2010? When I do it via References I get strange results: the page numbers are on the left hand side when they are meant to be on the right. ...
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Word 2010, how to update protected document

The document has one "Section Break" with e.g. "Text Form Fields" above. To make this Form Field work properly I use "Restrict Editing", allow "Filling in Forms", "Select Sections" and then protect ...
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Does template location matter?

Does the location of a template matter to the resulting document? In other words, is there a benefit to opening and using a Microsoft Word 2010 template from C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\...
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MS Word 2010 - Change Displayed Doc Properties in File>Info

When you click File > Info in Word 2010, you can view/edit the common properties for the document. I have added some custom properties like "Approver", "Date Completed", "Version" etc. These are used ...
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Converting word symbols to unicode characters

I have a number of word documents containing symbols from the "Symbol Font" in word - a delta, for example. Those are treated specially in the sense that if you double-click on them in Word 2010, the ...
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Word 2010 Image Caption List Missing

I created a document with Word 2010 in which I inserted captions for pictures and cross reference. I saved the document in my computer and emailed it to a colleague. When she opened the document in ...
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Font used for attachment title

When I add an attachment to any document in Word 2010 the font used for the title has changed. I am not talking about adding a caption but the title that is shown automatically as part of the ...
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Word 2010: prevent zooming out switching to 2 page view

In Word 2010 when I zoom out at some point (depending on monitor-size and pixel settings) the view switches to 2 pages. I've tried several approaches but none works. When you zoom out further it will ...
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How can I italicize foreign language words in MS Word (2010)?

I've made my undergraduate thesis using Word 2010 and I've set language to my country language (I've downloaded spelling and grammar for my country language too). My college has a rule to type ...
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How do I change the security level to avoid "The security level is set to High" error when merging MS docs with Adobe Acrobat X Pro?

I have MS Word 2010 and Adobe Acrobat x Pro (CS 5.5) I get an error when I am trying to Combine two Word documents: The Security level is set to High. Please run the application which created this ...
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Is there a way to convert MS 2010 Equation to Object in MS Equation 3.0?

I have a lot of equations (for faculty) written in MS Equation (button from right side) and saved it in .docx format. All good and the best until my professor told me that he has MS 2003 and I have ...
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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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How to use Find/Replace Wildcard on Word?

I made a mistake on a huge word document (100 pages) and I would to fix it quickly using the wildcard. I tried to use many different options but could not find the right command to use. Example on my ...
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