Questions tagged [microsoft-word]
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How do I force Microsoft Office 365 to use my system color settings when it refuses to?
Since my primary computer is currently down, I'm using my laptop. They are both using Microsoft Office 365.
I'm using Word documents and trying to get the document title bar to use my system color ...
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Random footer red line won't go away
I am working off a Word doc created by someone else, has text boxes. I made edits, no problem but went to print and the red line shows up, I can move the red line up and down like it's a margin but ...
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How to Change Column Width for All Word Tables at Once?
I have a lot of tables (around a 100) all of them following the sequence:
1 column in the first row, 4 in the second and third row, and then 1 again in the fourth and so on.
I would like to make the ...
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Saving .doc files makes word crash
Every old .doc file i have causes word (office 365, latest version) to crash istantly when saving.
Just open a .doc > save as > desktop > crash
Libreoffice writer can open and save them ...
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Word Find/Replace Add Tab at the Beginning of Paragraphs
I'd like to add a tab before each line of my Word document. Each line is a paragraph anyway so this may be easy to do.
More, some lines have a digit or two and would be nice to have an extra tab after ...
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Clicking the cross-reference sends me to the wrong place (below the caption instead of above), how to fix this?
The setting for the position of figures' caption is "Below selected item", so Word knows that the figure is above the caption.
However when I click on the cross reference I am sent in the ...
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Can a disk migration reset some system or app settings in Windows 11?
To speed up my migration to the new laptop, I have chosen the "brute-force mode":
Take my SSD M.2 out of old laptop and replace it with the original one in the new laptop.
Connect the new ...
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Back (arrow) button opens a read-only copy of the same file
Here are the steps that I take to replicate this problem:
I open an Office application file (e.g., a Word document) from a DFS Shared location on our network.
I click on a cross-reference therein to ...
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Using SVG in MS Word gives it black background
I have a following SVG which renders properly in browser:
You can download it here
When I try to copy paste it in the MS Word, it renders with black background:
How can I use it in Word doc, without ...
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Changing the cell height and cell width of multiple tables MS Word 365
I have a MS Word Document which has over 100 tables. I want to change the cell width to be 0.54" and cell height to be 0.56" but I want to do them all at once but I don't know how to do it.
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Is there a way to turn off the profanity filter on Word's *Transcribe* (not Dictate) functionality?
I am wondering if there is a way by which the profanity filter can be disabled on Word's Transcribe functionality.
I know that the feature exists for Dictate. However, as far as I can tell, turning ...
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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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How to copy style type in Word
As you can see in the picture, I would like just to copy style type(box). So it will add new box; e.g. when copy "Normal" box you end up with something like "Copy of Normal". ...
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Rotating a table in LibreOffice Writer
Alright, so I've got a table which is a lot wider than its length. And I want it on a page on LibreOffice Writer. It doesn't fit as it is, width-wise/horizontally, which is what I want to do. So I've ...
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How to create a horizontal list in bullet points MS Word?
I am using Office 365, MS Word. I need to create a bullet points list horizontally. But in all the places where I searched, it gave me the option of adding a table with one row and including the ...
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Word printing issue
My friend has an issue when printing a word document which I'd like to find a solution to. The document is simply a list of names, with a location associated to each name, as shown in the image below:
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Microsoft Word: Appendix headings level in Navigation pane
I followed this Microsoft guide to make a document structure with appendices to get this type of chapter and page numbering. The appendix headers are at outline level 7 as suggested in the guide.
As a ...
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Opened documents not showing up right away in taskbar recent jumplist
One of the Word upgrades caused opened documents to not show up in the taskbar Jumplist recent documents list right away. At one time just opening the document would make it appear right away. Now it ...
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Open document from drop down list under Search text box
I use the legacy Open dialog box to find and open documents. I type a search term into the Search box and then for some reason results will immediately appear under the text box in a drop down list, I’...
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How could I fix/remove the '0' number next to the chapter title in the header which has no number in Word for Windows?
I am writing my thesis and I have used Quick Parts > Field and ... to add the the chapter numbers and titles to the header automatically. I also have to mention I wrote it like a book and setting ...
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Positioning a figure in MS word
My goal is to put a figure including its caption at a fixed position on the page, ideally at the top of the page and make it there, no matter the weather outside. For no logical reason, caption floats ...
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How to remove dotted line in table of contents in first heading only?
Does someone know how to remove dotted line in first heading in TOC, so in other heading it would still be?
Example:
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Endnotes in Word - unwanted hard return symbol
The hard return symbol at the top of each page does not show up on my regular text pages, only on the endnote pages. I have tried deleting. It doesn't work. I have looked at the format drop-down, but ...
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Save PDF from Word that are searchable, links to bookmarks works and high quality
I use Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise, and I would like to save a Word file as a PDF that is searchable and where the links to bookmarks work. I use these links for literature references and in the ...
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How do I stop a table from disappearing under a Heading?
I am building a guide using headings so that I can collapse heading to show just the steps (Quick Guide) or expand the headings to show details & screenshots (Comprehensive Guide).
I have inserted ...
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Paste formula with cell references in WORD
I'm using a formula in WORD with cell references - basically, I'd like to keep a running number down column A, with each row adding 1. A1 = 1, so A2 = A1+1, A3 = A2 + 1, etc. Can I copy down the cell ...
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How to make the Word-open dialog visible and frontmost?
When Word has following limitation with PDF
when not set as default App for PDF
does not show PDF it exported
cannot Open PDF navigated by Recent Items
I am using PowerShell Script to have Word open ...
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Adding a Dynamic Number of Blank Pages in Microsoft Word 2021
I'm wondering if there is a way to have MS Word dynamically add a number of blank pages right before the last page in a document.
I'm preparing manuscripts to send to a publisher. The publisher prints ...
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Word 2019 Appendix numbering advances letter instead of number
I am working on adding several Appendices to my Word 2019 document. When I demote parts of the Appendix, however, the A advances instead of the number 1:
Appendix A Sample Json Messages
A.1 Sample 1 ...
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Is there a way to tag page headers and footers when saving a Word doc as a PDF?
My question:
Is there an automated way to add the header and footer tags without requiring document editors to do this manually in Adobe Acrobat? This needs to be scalable across hundreds if not ...
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Is it possible to enable the green center-line alignment guides in Microsoft Word on MacOS?
In Word for windows it is possible to get this nice green line showing when something is centered:
This setting is controlled by the option "Use alignment guides" as shown here:
However, ...
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embedding sections of live, read-only text in MS Word 365
doc1.docx contains sections of 'master' text. I want to insert these individually, as sections, into doc2.docx. Those sections should:
update in doc2 when the underlying text updates in doc1; this ...
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MS Word: 'Expand/collapse all headings' options missing from right-click menu
I am using collapsible headings in Word. The right-click menu for these headings includes a sub-menu with unique options for 'Expand/collapse all headings'.
In one of my documents, this sub-menu is ...
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MS WORD: How to get the height occupied by a line of text in a specific font and font size?
I have encountered a typesetting problem that requires a format of 20pt Times New Roman font with one blank line above and below the text. I want to format it as a style, but to do this I need to ...
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How to convert or repackage a folder back into docx
I have uncompressed a docx file (say file.docx) using 7zip to file/. (or alternatively, changed extension to .zip then extracted it)
I modified some images inside file\word\media\ and now i want to ...
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Creating multiple tables of contents (multiple header 1 styles) removes the capability of having figures and tables numbered by chapter
I'm working on a complex Word document for a client. This word document is for me to set the styles and then hand over to the client to work on the document further, inputting all the text.
They have ...
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Change to Italic only one symbol in MS Word
I need to find all "ΔE" and change only "E" symbol to italic.
How can it be done by find and replace, because it make both ΔE italic?
Off course it can be done by changing all &...
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Hyperlink images in Microsoft word in a table
In Microsoft word, I would like to create a table and insert hyperlinked individual unique images in each box, or cell. Upon clicking any of the hyperlinked images, unique individual Word docs will ...
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Convert Word DOCX files to Template DOTX files without opening each one
I have a load of forms in Word DOCX format that I want to convert to templates. In the olden days I could rename a .DOC to a .DOT and this would be sufficient to change the file into a template, but ...
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Inconsistent word count on Microsoft Office Word
I'm trying to track the word count of my documents. The solution seems to be accessing the .xml inside the .docx (app.xml after opening the .docx as a .zip). However, the numbers don't match:
Bottom ...
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Image absolute positioning not working when page vertical alignment set to bottom
I am using Office 365 Word desktop app. Version 2304 on Windows 10. I've had no problems using absolute positioning of images in word when using the default top vertical alignment (Page Setup > ...
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How to print multiple sheets per paper while maintaining fixed page sizes in MS Word?
I would like to print multiple pages of the size 7.5cm x 11 cm on an A4 Sheet. How do I achieve this? So far, I notice that scaling ruins my measurements e.g. at 8 sheets per page they are smaller ...
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Does Microsoft word have wildcards for return (\r) & new line (\n) like Grep or Regex do?
I frequently want to replace multiple consecutive return characters in written documents with a single return character and to use paragraph space (space after) to do the formatting. Sometimes there ...
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Microsoft Word: how to cross-reference an autonum field?
I'm writing a survey questionnaire and use autonum fields for the question numbers. Say the 12th question is "Q{autonum}. Cats or dogs?", which Word shows as
Q12. Cats or dogs?
Later on I ...
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Create a macro on Word to save with current name at a different location
I have a Windows 10 PC.
Basically I have a similar problem to this: How can I save a file to two locations at the same time?, but just the opposite. I have files on a USB stick, and I want them to be ...
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Footnotes as bibliography in Word?
Is it possible to create a bibliography from footnotes in Word Office 365? If so, how?
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Fit text to shape in microsoft word
How can I set a piece of text to autofit to the size of the textbox, so that when I add or delete text it will automatically fill the textbox?
I used to grow or shrink size accordingly each time but ...
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How to calculate DocVariable In MS Word using dates
I have DocVariables in MS Word working fine, for example this gives me a date:
{ DOCVARIABLE LEGALDOCEFD \* MERGEFORMAT }
But I need to fill out an expire date, for example:
{ DOCVARIABLE ...
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In Word 2021 way to call the open document's Windows 10 Properties dialog
I want to do this so I can change the name of an open Word document before I close it. I don't want to use Save As because it changes the creation date plus it creates an extra document I have to ...
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How to open an old Word file (.doc) that is 3GB in size?
I have found an old Word file (.doc), that contains a book I would like to recover. But the file is 3 GB in size, and both LibreOffice and Google Docs can't handle it - they crush in the process (...