Questions tagged [microsoft-word-2007]
The version of Word from Microsoft that came out in 2006.
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Changing the hanging indent changes the tab distance - how to prevent?
I have a hanging indent for a paragraph.
I then increase the hanging indent, and as a result of that, the tab distance changes as well, to match the hanging indent.
How can I prevent the tab distance ...
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"show picture placeholders" gets rechecked every time
Edit: it seems like it's relatively random. If I restart the computer after unchecking, it's unchecked. But if I wait a while, it gets checked. But not always, I might open Word the first time in the ...
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Keyboard commands duplicated in spell check dialogue box
So I'm checking my document for spelling errors and I'm shown that I have a word duplicated. The dialogue box actually has TWO keyboard shortcuts with the same command.
The spelling error is "...
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How to give captions including different head levels in same chapter
In a chapter I have 3 subheadings, say 4, 4.1, 4.1.1
4 General
4.1 Morphological
4.1.1 Growth
Now, under heading 4, I want caption as Table 4.1 or Figure 4.1 and so on. Likewise, under heading 4.1, ...
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How do I do an incremental search in word 2007?
Sounds like a straight forward problem, but I cannot find a proper solution. Ctrl+f only gives the search dialog box and it doesn't have an incremental search option. I cannot find away to open the ...
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What is the formatting shown on the ribbon (Home tab, Font section), pertain to, at any given insertion point?
I have the following hyperlinked, superscripted text for reference citation note:
(23)
When I select the first character in the brackets (2), the Font section on the Home ribbon reads Segoe UI, 9, ...
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how to stop printing history of word document like filename, directory etc
When I take printout of any word document, automatically document history get printed like Filename, Directory, Template etc. after every word document. How to stop this additional printing?
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Creating multiple copies of text box in ms word
I have one textbox in a word document and want to fill that text box with different content for each page.
For example if I write the following list A, B, C then I want word to create 3 pages similar ...
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Pdf file appears smaller after inserting in ms word 2007. Why?
I converted my ms word file in ms word 2007 to pdf.
When the converted pdf file is opened in Adobe reader or any pdf reader, the pdf file appears exactly the same as the ms word file in word 2007.
Now,...
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Super user on word table and header row
I have a word document with a table Which has a row header repeating on many pages. I don't want to repeat that in a specific page in between somewhere but continue repeat on other page. So how to do ...
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How can I set default indentation for bullet list in Word 2007?
Default for bullet lists is 0.25in. I want 0.00in.
Default for hanging indent is 0.25in. I want 0.20in.
How can I set default for all future Word documents, forever?
It will NOT work to make a new ...
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Microsoft Word remove paragraph that contains specific word in the middle of the paragraph
This is my first post here so please be gentle. Ok, now that this is done let's get to work: In my free time I read some web novels and stuff like that, which I get using web-scrappers and stuff. Then ...
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Generating multiple versions of a document from a single MS Word doc
How I do conditionally remove content from an MS word document in order to produce different versions of it? Ideally, I would like to set a flag somewhere to do this and then "mark" the content.
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Copy web pages from browser including collapsed content? Or expand all collapsed content in a web page?
Does anyone know a trick, app or script that can copy an entire web page, including the collapsed parts, without manually clicking each expand link?
I regularly have to copy (=download) my messages ...
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Word 2007 make hyperlink style show in headings
In one of my templates I need to have my hyperlink style show in headings.
I am using ms built in heading styles (modified).
The styles are applied to text, not paragraphs (by omitting the last ...
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MS Word 2013 - Is it possible to not include headings 3 and 4 in the outline/table of contents
I'd like to set page breaks to certain styles that apply to section headings, but I don't want those headings to appear in the outline/table of contents. There's just too many of them and it would ...
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Super annoying Alt-Tab rendering glitch in MS Word 2007
When I switch to the Word 2007 by Alt-Tab, there is the annoying blue bar covering the text. The blue bar will disappear after re-rendering by pressing PgUp - PgDn, but it is annoying. Any idea how to ...
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Why Microsoft Word disregards page break
I'm using Word all the time and I've been using/adding Page Breaks since 90's, but this particular document which was not created by me has page break which is ignored by Word. Naturally I tried to ...
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Inconsistent margin for footer (Word 2007)
Margins between text and footers in different page of the document is inconsistent. Margins also change while editing the footer.
page 11:
page 11 with footer selected:
page 12:
page 12 with ...
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Written Excel VBA to Copy text from one Word document to another Word document - Footer formatting is not retained
Please help me on the issue. I have successfully copied the content from one word document to another word document. But the footer format is changed after paste the content. Below is my code.
Sub ...
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Incorrect TOC even though paragraph styles are correct: why?
I have the following Word 2007 document that I have built up containing personal notes.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=15bASxtOf0pm6OWtJXeoszIG3iTgEKZcN
It is stripped down massively just to ...
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Using Word Find/Replace Tool to Highlight
I want to highlight the following links using Word find/replace tool:
asdasdsa.com/192jd92d2
asdasdsa.com/192jd92d223232
asdasdsa.com/192jd92d24323f23f32f
Is there a way I can get Word to ...
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Word 2013: Unable to remove the last page
I'm currently running word 2013 on windows. I have a word document that contains three pages. I did not create that document nor did I change the page sizes. When I received the document from my ...
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Inserting numbering or bullets makes the text on the left of the list instead of the right
When I format a list as a list (numbered or bulleted)
in Microsoft Word 2007,
the text appears on the left of the list indicators (numbers or bullets).
So instead of looking like this:
1. The quick ...
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Can I insert a large Excel sheet into Word so that it shrinks to fit the page?
I don't want to manually tweak font and table dimensions. Ideally the whole thing should scale to fit the page.
I'm using the 2007 version for both.
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Cross-reference format
I would like to ask how to change the format of references in the main text. The journal asks the authors to use box brackets in the main text but round brackets in the reference section. Such as:
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Previous Format Breaks when Deleting Section Break in Word
My favorite program, microsoft word...
has decided that if I delete the final section break (which is causing my document to have an extra blank page), it will break the formatting of the entire ...
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Table cell hides equations at the bottom of the page
I have some tables in my MS word docs. Many times when the table spans multiple pages and when there is an equation in the cell on the boundary on two pages, the table's bottom boundary will not ...
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Word2010 rescaling image when opening position dialog
My document contains a single quadratic 33x33 px image (tif).
When I open the 'position' dialog:
if the image is embedded, it gets scaled to 103%.
if it is linked, it gets scaled down to 97%.
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How to print a wider comment pane for MS Word?
I have a MS Word 2007 document with some fairly lengthy comment balloons and have adjusted the preferred width of the balloons to 4" (after consulting this question). The section margins are 1" (L/R) ...
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MS word selecting the containing table
Is the an easy way to navigate from a call in a table to the table itself?
Or just easyly select the table itself? At time there is "+" apears that clicking it selects the table but at times clicking ...
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Why does the text in word run over the indent marker (run into margin)?
Why is my text in word suddenly not obeying the indent markers? It runs past the marker and into the margin. If I adjust the indent marker left or right, the edge of the paragraph does move with the ...
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Word converts JPG to PNG when added to drawing canvas
I have a word document in which I note down things I learn, some of which are accompanied by images. I recently noticed the size of my document had rocketed, so renamed it to a .zip and looked at its ...
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Spell checker in MS Word 2007 works for some languages but not for others
After browsing the help sites of MS Office for a long long time I decided to resort to your help: in MS Office Word 2007 (on 64 bit Windows 10 machine) the spell checker works for some languages but ...
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How to delete Horizontal Lines drawn in MS Word
I've a word file which contains hundreds of Horizontal Lines drawn from "Insert > Shapes > Line", this document was created with earlier version of MS Word probably 2000. (currently, I'm using word ...
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Word 2007 Template Lines Printing in Document
From Avery.com, I downloaded a template for a 3265 Half-fold greeting card (8.5x11 folded in half). Using Word 2007, I built the card (graphics & text). However, when I print it there are light ...
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How to make custom list style in word [that use number in words instead numerical]?
i usually write documents in word that require to have a list style that user numbers in words instead of numerical; also in different LTR and RTL languages; i was wondering if there's a possibility ...
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Embed an Excel spreadsheet in a Word 2007 document, and reflect the Excel file changes
I know how to embed an existing Excel file test.xlsx in a Word 2007 document test.docx with:
Ribbon > Insert > Object > Browse
and then it's inserted in the Word document.
But how to make ...
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How do I count the number of characters in numerous comments to an MS Word 2007 file?
I was given the task to translate all comments to a large MS Word file. In order to draft a bill I need to count all characters (including empty spaces) in all the original comment "bubbles". Now how ...
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Microsoft Word - Align lines for each outline level
How can each multi-level list item be indented more than the previous, but individual lines under a given multi-level list item be horizontally aligned the same. For instance, 1.1.1.1.1.1 is indented ...
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How to make TOC lines automatically indent in a Word 2007 document
I have an automatic Table of Contents in a translated Word 2007 document:
In the original Russian document the "second-level" headings are indented:
I translated the document using the SDL ...
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Can I use a Heading style on the same line as normal text?
I have a resume formatted in Microsoft Word with job titles (formatted as Heading 2) and job location (Normal Text) listed on a single line.
Unfortunately, having two different Styles on a single ...
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How do I include Table of Contents in the automatic table of contents?
I'm translating a Russian document (word 2007) in which the automatic table of contents references itself: it says "Table of Contents........3".
When I try to create an automatic TOC in my file ...
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How do I count only Russian characters in a bilingual MS Word 2007 document?
I have an MS Word 2007 document in which some paragraphs are written in English and some in Russian. I'm translating the Russian parts into English, and I need to know how many characters there are in ...
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How do I copy a border in word 2007
I am making a report, I want different border in different section. I want to copy a particular border. Please help, Thanks.
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Table eats away tops of letters - what should I adjust to fix it?
I have a table in an MS Word document created by FineReader, an OCR software. I use MS Word 2007. Now some of the words appear clipped at the top, like this:
What should I adjust to make the ...
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Display both section page numbers and document page numbers
I have many sections in my document. Right now in the header I'm displaying each section's individual page numbers (for example: Section one has 3 pages, so it displays page 1, page 2, page 3, and ...
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Creating list inside table list with direction top-to-bottom, left-to-right instead of left-to-right, top-to-bottom
When I select table cells and click numbering button, numbering list is created in direction left-to-righ, top-to-bottom:
How do I create lists in table in direction top-to-bottom, left-to-right?
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What are the meaning of the special characters?
What are the meanings of the special characters shown when you hit the ¶ button on the home tab of word?
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Cannot change page background colour from the toolbar
Office 2007 loaded ok. However in using word the page background is black and the text is white when trying to change page colour to white from the toolbar nothing happens it will not change to any ...
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