Aside from ease of editing and maintaining individual documents, are there arguments for the use of styles in Microsoft Word? [more inside]
posted by chocolate_butch on Sep 1, 2009 - 6 answers

Microsoft Word ninjas needed: Inserting a footnote makes a page number mysteriously appear at the top of the page. I want these page numbers to go away. [more inside]
posted by Jacqueline on May 14, 2009 - 12 answers

A professor royally screwed up a MS Word 2003 DOC file. Is there any hope? [more inside]
posted by kbanas on May 12, 2009 - 14 answers

MS Word insists on keeping lines of paragraphs together even after I turn off Widow/Orphan control. How can I stop this? [more inside]
posted by MasonDixon on May 2, 2009 - 6 answers

Microsoft Word crashing shortly after start-up. Tried common solutions with no success - other ideas? [more inside]
posted by Pontius Pilate on Apr 22, 2009 - 11 answers

How do I number individual tables in Word2007? (I don't mean numbering cells, or inserting captions). The numbering on my dissertation is now all screw up! [more inside]
posted by mateuslee on Apr 18, 2009 - 8 answers

No matter what I do, the US-ENGLISH setting on my spellcheck keeps returning from the dead like a bad guy in a horror movie. [more inside]
posted by the latin mouse on Mar 14, 2009 - 8 answers

What's a good online resource for a graphic designer who needs to help a client consistently produce decent-looking output from the Microsoft Office suite? [more inside]
posted by puffmoike on Mar 12, 2009 - 2 answers

I have a Mac user whose Word documents are suddenly opening as lime green text on lime green background. This is only on her machine, anyone else can open the same documents and have them show as black text on a white background. Office 2008, OS X 10.5
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey on Mar 2, 2009 - 2 answers

Can I make (remap?) my capslock key to be two keys? Specifically, I want to make it hit Ctrl+B. If your recommendation is Word-specific, that's fine too.
posted by demagogue on Feb 25, 2009 - 7 answers

How can I create a justified list in Microsoft Word 2007, as seen here? [more inside]
posted by paleyellowwithorange on Jan 2, 2009 - 3 answers

How can I cut content out of a website and paste it cleanly into a word document? [more inside]
posted by Bobby Bittman on Dec 23, 2008 - 13 answers

What typographical knowledge from LaTeX can I apply in Word? My professional field insists upon Word documents, so LaTeX is not an option, and results from LaTeX to Word converters have not been satisfactory. So, what can I teach Word, to make it a better typesetter? [more inside]
posted by philosophygeek on Dec 21, 2008 - 18 answers

How do I make Microsoft Word 2007 include the date a document was created within the document itself? [more inside]
posted by nickhb 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 by synecdoche on Jul 10, 2008 - 35 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 by willnot 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 by mateuslee 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 by philosophygeek on Mar 26, 2008 - 12 answers

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

How can I clean up crappy Microsoft Word code in Movable Type 4? [more inside]
posted by kirkaracha 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 by TrueVox 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 by Partial Law on Oct 31, 2007 - 6 answers

MSWordFilter: Overriding "default" pageview options. [more inside]
posted by sjuhawk31 on Sep 24, 2007 - 3 answers

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

How can I integrate Google Docs to Microsoft Word 2007? [more inside]
posted by enriquem 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 by schroedinger 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 by slow, man 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 by docgonzo 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 by paduasoy on Feb 3, 2007 - 3 answers

I need to create an employee manual using only Microsoft Word 2000. Help! [more inside]
posted by ohio 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 by Arcaz Ino 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 by Packy_1962 on Dec 7, 2006 - 10 answers

I need to have everyone 'on the same page' so to speak. [more inside]
posted by Bdave 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 by ohio 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 by Xalf 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 by scody 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 by Medieval Maven on Oct 24, 2005 - 12 answers

How do I disable one-touch printing in Word? [more inside]
posted by Wet Spot 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 by exceptinsects 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 by BuddhaInABucket 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 by Dr. Wu 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 by Dr. Wu 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 by jennyb 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 by schnee 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 by chaz 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 by teleskiving 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 by pracowity 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 by jonathanbell 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 by willnot 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 by carter on Jul 22, 2004 - 6 answers