How do I make Microsoft Word 2007 include the date a document was created within the document itself? [more inside]
posted on Jul 22, 2008 - 6 answers

I don't like Microsoft Word much; it feels really bloated to me, and has so many features I never use. I've been looking for an alternative for some time. What word processor does the hivemind recommend for academic writing? [more inside]
posted on Jul 10, 2008 - 34 answers

Can you help me view and print background colors in Word? I'm trying to reproduce a form that has a purple background. This form will be completed on screen, but may also be printed. For reasons that we won't go into, it has to be in Word. I'm having trouble getting a purple background that shows up when viewing it on the screen and also when printing. Is there a way to get both? [more inside]
posted on Jul 8, 2008 - 6 answers

Word 2007 vs. 2003: It's complicated to go back-and-forth! Help me write my dissertation, please! [more inside]
posted on May 15, 2008 - 11 answers

I am beginning to write articles for publication as well as starting with my doctoral dissertation. I am looking for a bibliography manager that will be compatible with Microsoft Word for Mac or OpenOffice for Mac/NeoOffice (these document formats are necessary since many journals require .doc submissions, so no LaTeX recommendations). [more inside]
posted on Mar 26, 2008 - 12 answers

how do i shuffle questions in a Word document in random order? [more inside]
posted on Mar 18, 2008 - 6 answers

How can I clean up crappy Microsoft Word code in Movable Type 4? [more inside]
posted on Feb 20, 2008 - 12 answers

Anyone know where one could find a free-to-use font for POSTNET barcodes and the new Intelligent Mail Barcodes? I can do my own encoding, but my supervisor wants the fonts installed for Microsoft Word. Any help is much appricated. :)
posted on Jan 23, 2008 - 0 answers

How can I make Microsoft Word's Find-and-Replace feature work properly with regular expressions when Track Changes is on? [more inside]
posted on Oct 31, 2007 - 6 answers

MSWordFilter: Overriding "default" pageview options. [more inside]
posted on Sep 24, 2007 - 3 answers

Is there any way to print onto 3x5 recipe/note cards? [more inside]
posted on Sep 20, 2007 - 8 answers

How can I integrate Google Docs to Microsoft Word 2007? [more inside]
posted on Aug 2, 2007 - 2 answers

Is it possible to export pictures from Microsoft Word documents? I need to re-color a graphic that's been inserted into a Microsoft Word 2003 document. Unfortunately, that is the only copy I have of the graphic. Word doesn't seem to provide a way to color over graphics. Even getting it into Paint would work fine--but first I need to get it there. Am I screwed?
posted on Jul 27, 2007 - 7 answers

Microsoft Word, basic question: I'd like to have the title on my Word document show up automatically/repeat on each new page that I type so I don't have to add it and center it each time. I'm sure it's easy but I honestly don't know how to do this and have searched to no avail. Any help?
posted on Apr 18, 2007 - 3 answers

Why does Microsoft Word (OS X v.11) hate PDFs? Or: Please help me make this stats assignment just a little less frustrating. [more inside]
posted on Feb 23, 2007 - 16 answers

"The measurement must be between 1 pt and 31 pt": error in Word, related to tables and page borders. [more inside]
posted on Feb 3, 2007 - 3 answers

I need to create an employee manual using only Microsoft Word 2000. Help! [more inside]
posted on Dec 15, 2006 - 3 answers

Is there a way on Microsoft Word to alter the file properties so that the document appears to have been created on a different time/date? [This question asked on behalf of another member.] [more inside]
posted on Dec 13, 2006 - 15 answers

Is there anyway to recover a file that's never been saved (except maybe by autosave) in Microsoft word after you accidentally hit "don't save changes" upon closing it?
posted on Dec 7, 2006 - 10 answers

I need to have everyone 'on the same page' so to speak. [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2006 - 3 answers

Help! I am creating an outline for a very important exam tomorrow, and Word keeps dropping my formatting. [more inside]
posted on May 3, 2006 - 12 answers

MicrosoftWordFilter: How to always have my default view when I'm opening someone else's file? [more inside]
posted on Mar 24, 2006 - 4 answers

StupidMicrosoftFilter: Why, when I am working on a document in MS Word, does the text occasionally, suddenly, and seemingly randomly change from English to Asian characters? [more inside]
posted on Jan 3, 2006 - 15 answers

So, say you have a lot, maybe 100, MS Word and Excel documents that are part of a manual which needs to be updated on a quasi-regular basis. [more inside]
posted on Oct 24, 2005 - 12 answers

How do I disable one-touch printing in Word? [more inside]
posted on Sep 25, 2005 - 7 answers

How can I get the cells in my MS Word table to "stick together"? It keeps putting page breaks in weird places, leaving a single cell stranded at the top of a page. [more inside]
posted on Jul 15, 2005 - 7 answers

Is there any way to select and print, say, 30 documents at a time without having to individually open each one?
posted on Jul 13, 2005 - 12 answers

I am having a helluva time converting Microsoft Word documents to PDF files. It's beginning to drive me mad. I am running Mac OS 10.3.9. Please to hope me! [more inside]
posted on Jul 7, 2005 - 9 answers

My dissertation consists of about 320 pages, split up over seven chapters; each chapter is a separate document. I'd like to combine the seven chapters into one single megadocument, which is easy enough. But I'm having some trouble getting the numbering of the footnotes the way I want ... [more inside]
posted on May 24, 2005 - 3 answers

I'm asking on behalf of a fellow law student who is having a big, fat laptop problem as we fast approach the zero our for our finals. She copies some lines of text in Microsoft Word. When she pastes them, Word pastes literally a thousand pages of the same lines of text into the document. This isn't happening in any other programs, but her computer does seem to be running pretty hot for no reason that we can discern. What the hell is going on? [more inside]
posted on Apr 26, 2005 - 7 answers

I want to do the opposite of this. I want to make many documents from one document in Microsoft Word. [more inside]
posted on Apr 25, 2005 - 4 answers

I have 100 separate documents in MS Word which have to be turned into one document for various reasons. How can I do this?
posted on Apr 7, 2005 - 13 answers

I have a Microsoft Word document template containing many drop-down form field elements. How can I get Word to advance to and display the choices for the next drop-down automatically when a selection is made? [more inside]
posted on Mar 28, 2005 - 0 answers

Some of my MS Word docs (Microsoft Word 2003, Windows XP) have been through many hands and have many styles defined. Lots of these styles are garbage. Other than doing it manually (stepping through all of the styles one by one, checking whether each style is in use, and then deleting the styles I don't need), is there a way to remove all styles that are not used in a document?
posted on Mar 17, 2005 - 7 answers

Does anyone know of an application that does word counts for Microsoft Word files without actually having to open up Word? I'm thinking of a handy right-click menu in Windows Explorer for example that also allows you to select multiple files and get a total word count. Many thanks in advance.
posted on Dec 22, 2004 - 6 answers

Word 2004 for Mac OS X - Anyway to disable the AutoCorrect Smart Button that keeps popping up to obscure the text right where I'm looking/editing? I figured out how to disable to Paste Smart Button, but there doesn't seem to be anyway to make the AutoCorrect Smart Button vanish.
posted on Dec 7, 2004 - 4 answers

Ack! Why does Microsoft Word move a footnote to the page following the page where the footnote is inserted (e.g. footnote reference in text is on p.14, footnote itself appears on p. 15)? Or spread the footnote across the bottom of two successive pages? It's nothing to do with (a) inserting the footnote ref near the bottom of the page, or (b) having large amounts of existing footnote text on that page. There's plenty of room for the footnote, it just goes on the next page. Thanks!
posted on Jul 22, 2004 - 6 answers

MS Word in OSX
I’m formatting my thesis and need to create a “floating page” for my figures. This is a page that inserts itself between two full pages of text, so that the text flows around the page.
Can I do this?
posted on Jul 17, 2004 - 10 answers

How can I get Microsoft word to paste things as plain text by default? Why would I want the formatting of the website I'm copying my homework from anyway?
posted on Jun 22, 2004 - 15 answers