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My TOC headings are in Heading 1 style so this messes up figure caption numbering. What style can I use for TOC headings to avoid this?
I suspect you are confused.
The headings that are used to create your Table of Contents should all be in your Navigation Pane. I can't imagine that you want the entries in your TOC to duplicate those ...
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What is the best way to create a mobile optimized PDF from Word (or other app)?
A few things here:
Ideally what you want is some media with a resposive format where the layout automatically adapts to the phone screen size. This currently exisits for websites (which you don't want ...
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How can I make a file open with Windows startup?
To have a file run automatically on login, create a
desktop shortcut to the file and move it into the Startup group at:
C:\Users\USER-NAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
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Trying to create a 2 sided document in word with two scrolling text fields. 1 to read and 1 to write essay
To have two sub documents as scrolling you would need 1 master and 2 subs, however that is not as natural as one document with a half page as a sub document as shown here. The problem with PDF is that ...
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Trying to create a 2 sided document in word with two scrolling text fields. 1 to read and 1 to write essay
You are basically trying to create a static document with 2 boxes that will not expand. While Word might have some functionality like that, it is in general not meant for such tasks. Word is meant for ...
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How to set default view for a specific document in Microsoft Word
You could use a workaround and simply set a view for your Normal.dotm file as explained in this video.
So, you'd insert something like the following in the AutoOpen() Sub:
Public Sub AutoOpen()
If ...
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Need a new workaround to view images in MS Word draft mode
I found a workaround for the old workaround. What I mean is that I found a place to download the old MS Paint, which allows me to do what I was doing before.
I found a lot of traffic on Google by ...
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How to insert username in system username format in Word using field code
I think the original answer by harrymc does what you want. I voted for it and added it to my collection of useful macros.
Here is my modification to the macro, which you may feel is an improvement.
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How to insert a light gray line in Microsoft Word?
Go to insert > Shapes and select the line. You can now adjust both the colour, the shape, as well the thickness of the line (by adjusting the weight parameter).
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Word always shows markup/comments automatically when opening a document, even after saving it with "No Markup"
This is the default behaviour so that you don't forget that there is markup in a document. If you want to change that default behaviour, do the following:
Go to "File" > "Options&...
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How to insert username in system username format in Word using field code
The post
How do I insert the current user's name based on (Log in ID)
explains that the login name is stored in a Windows
environment variable named USERNAME, which can only be retrieved
by a macro ...
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Resizing the Ruler Sliders
I had exactly the same problem, and I have found a very easy and quick workaround.
Simply grab the bottom part of the left indent (it's a small rectangle below the upper and lower indent markers), ...
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Term Paper Documents Disappeared
Since it looks like you can't even locate the file, I can really only think of 2 things.
Go to "File" > "Open" > "Recover Unsaved Documents" and check if the ...
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Term Paper Documents Disappeared
I use Recuva for the odd time I have deleted something. There is a free version. It should succeed as long as you haven't written to your disk since then. If you have written to your disk, it may ...
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How do I open and edit a Microsoft Word document file without Microsoft Word?
A few alternative approaches that you may want to try:
ONLYOFFICE : This one tries to work as similarly to Microsoft Office suite and should have the least formatting problems. The off-side is that ...
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In Track Changes mode, Find is finding matches including in text which has been "deleted"
The Find tool will search the visible text in the document, so you need
to either :
Not display this text with the display mode of
"Final" (and "Final showing markup")
Move the ...
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How do I print two A5 documents on one A4?
MS Word actually does provide you with all the necessary tools onboard:
In the video tutorial you can see the following step-by-step instruction visually:
Go to "File" > "Print"...
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Word VBA: How to check if the window "in focus" is a protected view or not
Use On Error Resume Next, and simply try one. If it doesn't provide a result, try the other one.
A simple example:
Sub identifyActive()
Dim t As String
On Error Resume Next
t = ActiveWindow....
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Extra page numbers appear when I "Update Field" in the List of Tables and List of Figures in my manuscript
Each item that is appearing in your List of Tables is in a paragraph formatted using a style that is incorporated in your List of Tables.
Click in your TOF to go to one of the problem entries. Check ...
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Where do offline changes in a OneDrive/Word document go?
Late update: we stumbled onto a solution to this the other day, because it came up again how annoying it is to have the work seem to vanish, and the old derelict file was still sitting there (the ol' ...
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How to straighten a line Shape in Word so that it's perfectly vertical or horizontal after you've moved either endpoint (Word bug workaround)
A few things here:
Not sure how you inserted the line, but even in the most recent version I do have the height and width fields for the line "size".
As harrymc already wrote, you are best ...
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How to straighten a line Shape in Word so that it's perfectly vertical or horizontal after you've moved either endpoint (Word bug workaround)
The simple method is to move the endpoint of the line while holding
the Shift key.
Word will then constrain the line to be either totally horizontal or
vertical, according to the direction in which ...
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Getting rid of "Tell us the account you want to use to open autodiscover.xml" which pops up in Word (Office 365)
Try the Microsoft 365 uninstall support tool and select to remove all versions:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/uninstall-office-from-a-pc-9dd49b83-264a-477a-8fcc-2fdf5dbf61d8
I also made ...
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How to split cell content into rows by paragraph in word
If you want to past many lines of text into a Word table so that each line is a new row, this worked perfectly for me AND it retains formatting such as highlighting. It is a pretty fast solution, too (...
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Is there a way to get list of embedded objects/documents from a Word document?
This is not an answer to your question. But to have easy access to embedded objects, just open "go to" window (ctrl+g), and then select "object" and "next". You can ...
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How can I put this MASSIVE excel spreadsheet as an appendix in word?
In your Word document, go to Insert > Object then on the Object dialog choose the Create from File tab. Browse your Excel file, tick both Link to file and Display as icon checkboxes, then click OK.
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Making an inline quote indicator in Microsoft Word
Create an Inline Quote paragraph style with a left border.
Base it on your regular Body Text style.
You want your custom style to have a left paragraph border. This gives you your line. You will want ...
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Is there a way for automatic text insertion in MS Word?
There are two Word features that do something like what you are asking for: AutoCorrect and AutoComplete
In neither case should you normally set the trigger to be something that you normally type ...
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Is there a way for automatic text insertion in MS Word?
You are probably looking for Auto Correct.
Here is how to reach it:
Click menu File > Options
Position to Proofing
Click "AutoCorrect Options..."
In the AutoCorrect tab, enter "...
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