Questions tagged [microsoft-word-2013]
Microsoft Word is the word processing software from Microsoft that lets you create and edit documents.
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Arabic Text shows in wrong-direction in Word, but not Google Docs [duplicate]
I have a word document that shows Arabic text in the wrong direction to expected.
I opened the same doc on my colleagues machine and the text shows in the correct direction.
I uploaded the doc to ...
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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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Automatically insert data into Word-Templates
Word-Templates often consist of Content-Control Boxes and I wonder if it is possible to store some data like my adress or phone number in Word to automatically insert it into the respecting boxes and ...
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How to uninstall an App from Word 2013?
Word 2013 lets you install apps from the Office app store, which you can access from the Insert / Apps / My Apps menu. Being too curious, I did not make a proper research on this feature before ...
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Have a different style set in different sections of the same Word document
I have a document "template" (not yet a template file type - I hope to create that as described below) for a report. The report is broken up into different sections:
Letter to the Client
Table of ...
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Outline numbering. The text indent goes to 1.6 on "VIII" and I can't change it
I made my own outline system, (does this with the stock outline numbering also). I set text the indent to 0.5 for all levels. When I get to VIII on the list, it jumps to 1.6. If I hit enter to IX, ...
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Why does hyperlink open from Excel create multiple IE windows?
I have a excel document with SageCRM link (e.g. server/eware.dll/SessionFind?Act=ID&Mode=1&CLk=T&key0=7&key7=ID&Oppo_OpportunityId=ID)
When clicked on this link from excel or word ...
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Word 2013 normal template error at logon
Recently we've had an issue come up where as soon as a user with a configured email profile logs onto Windows an error pops up before explorer.exe or the start bar loads stating:
"Normal was being ...
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Referencing issue in Word 2013
Every time I re-open my document on Word 2013, my references are not recognized, or to put it differently, my current list of references are cleared.
I'm using the IEEE style of referencing and the ...
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How to view page/column margins
In Microsoft Word 2013 is there a way to view the margins so I can see where the limits of my current column are (one column or multiple columns)?
The closest I have gotten to this is by checking the ...
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microsoft word: creating subdocument 'Normal' style issues
I am creating subdocuments from a large master document. I'm using the feature to break up our specification and make it easier for my team to collaborate. It's on the order of 500 subdocuments.
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MS Word 2013 Captions, Headings and Styles with outline numbers
I have a somewhat large word document with several chapter headings, section headings and sub section headings. It also contains an appendix section.
So I've used "Heading 1" for chapter headings, "...
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Is there an easier way to add multiple Mail Merge fields into separate table cells?
I have to create a relatively large Microsoft Word template file that will contains a couple of hundred Mail Merge fields. Some of these are duplicate fields but that isn't too much of an issue.
I ...
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Printing a tall booklet
I need to make a booklet using A4 paper, folded along the vertical axis (see image). The folded booklet will thus be 105 × 297 mm. The final booklet will be either 3 or 4 sheets of paper (12 or 16 ...
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Disable warning about loosing formatting when saving plain-text files from Word 2013
Whenever I save a plain-text document in Word, I get a warning prompting me that formatting—even when there is none—will be lost if I save in this format.
How can I disable this message? I know what ...
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Page numbering and sections
Consider this image:
As you can see I am having difficulties with the page numbering. The left page is 15 (section 2) as it should, but the right one is 2 (section 4). What I think that happened:
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How do I number headings with the 'Heading 3' style in Word without affecting the other heading styles?
I would like my document to have the basic heading styling for Heading 1 and Heading 2 but for Heading 3 to be numbered. I can get close by defining my own modified multilevel list style but it ...
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Extract Saved Word Document inside OneNote Notebook on OneDrive
In Microsoft Office 2013, saving documents on SkyOneDrive is fully integrated into Word. On a computer using Word 2013, I wrote a document and saved it into a folder in my OneDrive.
When I went to a ...
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Recovering part of a Word document
Last week, a friend of mine was typing in a Microsoft word document while driving (being driven), and reports "hitting a bump in the road" and losing the content of the document.
I imagine that what ...
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How can I print in black & white? [duplicate]
I am trying to print in black and white in Microsoft Word 2013, however I cannot find any dialogue box in the printing screen that gives this option?
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How to downgrade Office 2013 to 2010?
I recently installed MS Office 2013. It's all working fine so far apart from one thing - no compatibility with Mendeley. This is a big deal for me as I have thousands of references stored in Mendeley ...
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How can I change all items of one colour in Word document?
I have a document with text and borders in a fuchsia type colour. The RGB colour was determined using a ColorPicker tool in Gimp, and then those RGB values used for a custom text colour in the Word ...
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How to insert display equations in a Word document without breaking a paragraph?
Is there a way to write a display equation in Word 2013, without starting a new paragraph?
For example, the following text is a single paragraph:
Notice how after the display equation, there's no ...
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Microsoft Word 2013: Dashed grey borders around paragraphs
Word shows me a dashed border around every paragraph which is pretty confusing.
It is definitely not a border, but rather a border that marks the dimensions of the paragraph.
It looks like this:
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Character size and spacing/alignment in Word 2013
I am creating a questionnaire in Microsoft Word 2013 which includes lots of questions and a check box at the end. Since not all characters are the same size the check boxes do not line up, how do I ...
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how to make table cell height smaller than text height in word
I have a table in word where I need to have cell's height smaller than the actual font permits it. I tried settting vertical cell padding to negative amounts but word doesn't let me. Can anyone help?
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Print preview one page
Using Word 2013, when I go to FilePrint it shows a preview of what is to be printed.
However if I have the window maximized it shows the first two pages side by side, rather than just the first page. ...
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Adjust decimal separator in imported charts
I am about to write an English document with the German versions of MS Word and Excel. I use Excel to create a chart which I import into the Word document (by Copy & Paste).
I can tell Excel to ...
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Word prompts me to save my document after exporting it to a PDF
Even though I have not changed the contents of the document since hitting Ctrl+S, after I exported the document to PDF, I am confronted with "Want to save your changes...?" message when I try to exit ...
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How to autofit table's row height in MS Word?
I want a table to fill a page entirely, firstly I can find an AutoFit Window option to fit the table's column width, where can I auto fit the table's height to do the same?
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Change the behavior of the file menu in Office 2013 so that the document remains visible
I want to fix the file menu, stop it taking the whole Word 2013 window.
In Office 2013, its design is that when clicking File, instead of just getting a file menu, you get this (I continue ...
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How to change the color of dots in whole document?
For example if I have a lot of mcq questions like this:
1. something ..... something.
2. sometihngg ..... something.
They have the same number of dots, How can I change the color of dots into red ...
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Word 2013 - How do you delete a list of numbers at the side?
I have a Word 2013 document on my PC. I have opened a 36 page document (huge, word count more than 3300). I don't know why but there is a list of numbers on the left for each line. They are not ...
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Word 2013 removes spaces between words
Having already checked this question, where there are no solutions, I proceed to my question.
It happens with some .docx files, created by other users (using Word 2007) and sent to me by email. I do ...
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Is there any reason Word 2013's Find/Replace (using wildcards) would replace things out of order?
I'm using find/replace with wildcards.
Let's say I want to surround specific text strings (names of Word documents) with parentheses. Each word doc starts with BP_ and ends with docx.
Find: (<BP_*...
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Word 2013: how do I make zoom level sticky?
Word's default display size is almost always too small for me. Because I use Word only at work and most of our documents use a standard template, I can say with a fair degree of certainty what zoom ...
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How to compare many values with an OR statement in Word mergefields?
What I want to do is:
{ IF v1 = 0 OR v2 = 0 "Lorem Ipsum.." }
How to write an OR in Word mergefield syntax?
I'm asking especially for Word 2013 - I think the syntax has changed in 2013.
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Keyboard shortcut for enabling margins' gridlines in Word 2013?
Weird lines appeared in my .docx documents, when I open them in Word 2013:
I know what those are and how to get rid of them.
Here I am asking, how did I get them in the first place? Because I am ...
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Detect all words belonging to a different language
I have a long technical text in Spanish. There a many words in English inside the text, because the terms are not normally translated. I want to make all of them cursive, as it's mandated by Spanish ...
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How do I add existing templates to Word 2019?
Word 2019 --- My attempts include:
1) Options -> Add-ins -> Manage: Templates -> Go -> place check on my templates
2) Options -> Advanced -> General -> File Locations -> User Templates -> Modify -> ...
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Is it possible to monitor and copy the content of a section in MS Word?
I need to aggregate the content of several subsections further down in a separate section of a MS Word document. The copied content should update with the original content being edited. Basically, I ...
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How to show Word Header and Footer in Web layout view?
In Word 2013 or Word 2016, how does one view the header and footer in the Web layout view? I see it in the Print layout view. That's no problem.
But no such luck in the Web layout view? Was the Web ...
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Update Excel object embedded in Word document when opened
I have an Excel sheet embedded in a Word document, this object was created from Word and no xlsx file exist for it.
There is only one cell and it has a random number formula that returns a new number ...
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Remove newline when copying in Microsoft Word 2013
Whenever I copy a line or a word at the end of a line and then paste, it includes a newline.
Is there anyway to prevent this behavior? I don't want it to copy or paste the newline.
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How to remove all leading space while copying table from excel to word
I have several tables generated in microsoft excel 2013. Now I want to paste these tables into ms word 2013 but the problem arises when I paste these tables. The tables are pasted well but with some ...
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Separate Keep With Next Groups
Is there a way to separate two adjacent Keep With Next groups?
For example, I have six paragraphs. I want a set of three to be their own Keep With with Next block. However, since all six are together,...
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Can I have custom tab leaders in Word?
When creating a tab you have the option to select from a few leaders. One of them is the dots leader. However, I want to have a dots leader with spaces:
. . . . . . instead of ..............
Is this ...
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Can one create Master pages in Word 2013
Is there a way to create a master page in MS Word 2013 that will allow me to repeat the contents of the master page just like one can in MS Publisher or InDesign?
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I meant to have a content ...
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How to make an office file always open in Protected View?
Usually when office files (e.g docx, xlsx, pptx etc) are downloaded from the internet and opened, these files open in Protected View.
How can I set the default setting of a particular local document ...
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How to make changes in Word document in collaboration with another person?
When I send a Word document draft to my supervisor, it may take several days for him to respond. Meanwhile, I keep working on the draft, making changes to different parts of the document.
In a few ...