Escaping M$ Word, but getting the same formatting... [more inside]
posted on Sep 4, 2008 - 8 answers
How can I convert a Word document to a pdf while keeping the margins the same width? We are working on a 5 MB Word document, created with Word 2003 on a PC running Windows XP. The margins must be 1 inch wide. When we convert it to pdf, the right hand margin becomes 1.25 inches wide, and random phrases become boldface. We've tried Acrobat 8 and a freeware converter (dopdf).
posted on Aug 28, 2008 - 16 answers
Why are we getting incomplete printouts when attempting to print wirelessly from a laptop? [more inside]
posted on Aug 19, 2008 - 3 answers 
I am making a chapbook/zine that needs to be completed by noon on Thursday. I need help on how to format Microsoft Word so I can get the job done, printed and out to public. [more inside]
posted on Aug 19, 2008 - 15 answers
MS Word 2004 for the Mac: Annoying unexpected behavior when editing tables. [more inside]
posted on Jul 1, 2008 - 3 answers
Can someone figure out why Word 2008 on the Mac keeps my newly opened doc behind previously opened docs? [more inside]
posted on Jun 8, 2008 - 5 answers
There is a black rectangle across the bottom of my Word document (about an inch from the bottom of the page, about half an inch tall, stretching across the page). Can you get it to go away? [more inside]
posted on Jun 4, 2008 - 9 answers
Where did the file go after it was opened from a website and edited it in Microsoft Word? [more inside]
posted on May 27, 2008 - 9 answers
How do I prevent Microsoft Office from going online? [more inside]
posted on Apr 10, 2008 - 10 answers
Who wants to share their favorite MS Word 2003 Style themes for writing academic papers? [more inside]
posted on Apr 7, 2008 - 11 answers
How do I use Word 2007's Equation Builder to create a combination of subscripted and normal size characters? [more inside]
posted on Mar 19, 2008 - 4 answers
How do I stop Word 2000 (Windows) from displaying field codes constantly? [more inside]
posted on Mar 19, 2008 - 3 answers
Can you help me figure out Microsoft Word 2007's settings to meet some very precise requirements for page number formatting? [more inside]
posted on Feb 24, 2008 - 2 answers
I have a macro that takes an un-styled document, and tries to put text into the right styles based on what its formatting is.
But, if the document already has some scheme of styles, the macro doesn't work very well.
So, I would like to transform a Word document into an un-styled version of itself-- but one that retains ALL of the original formatting (italics, small caps, font size, spacing).
What would be the most correct way to do this?
I have Word 2003 (which the macro needs) and 2007, as well as Word 2008 for Mac.
Also-- HTML doesn't work, as it doesn't retain small caps.
posted on Feb 22, 2008 - 10 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
Basic web development for a non-technical user? [more inside]
posted on Jan 13, 2008 - 11 answers
Word 2007 - How do I create keyboard shortcuts that include the Tab character? [more inside]
posted on Dec 11, 2007 - 10 answers
Emergency Tech Support: Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac has suddenly become unable to save a document. It says "Too many files are open. Please close a window." Then "Saving the autorecovery file is postponed." Then "Too many files are open. Please close a window." Then "Word has insufficient memory. Would you like to save your document as Rescued Document X?" Nothing works. There's plenty of hard drive space. There are no other open documents. What's going on? [more inside]
posted on Dec 6, 2007 - 27 answers
Is there any way to improve the thesaurus in Microsoft Word? (Or for that matter, recommend another word processor with a better thesaurus.) I'm willing to pay, even. [more inside]
posted on Dec 1, 2007 - 5 answers
Is it possible to download Word off an XP disk without reinstalling XP in its entirety? [more inside]
posted on Nov 20, 2007 - 10 answers
Microsoft Word woe -- I have Word for the Mac (2002) version....Anyway, everytime I open up a cover letter with a previous date, it automatically updates the date. I have checked all the auto format settings and I suspect it has something to do with a macro. But when I go into using some sorta macro, it asks me to install visual basic...I get a bit more confused at this point...anybody else have this trouble with dates?
posted on Nov 16, 2007 - 7 answers
I'm currently writing a novel. Should I use LaTex instead of MS Word? [more inside]
posted on Nov 13, 2007 - 41 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: Why is my only save option "Save as Web Page"? [more inside]
posted on Oct 31, 2007 - 6 answers
Should be simple to insert a "text field" in a form template in Word 2007. Why isn't it? [more inside]
posted on Oct 21, 2007 - 4 answers
Can I/how do I make a field in Microsoft Word where the text disappears when you click into it? [more inside]
posted on Oct 14, 2007 - 4 answers
Microsoft provides this for Windows users to strip metadata from MS Word files, but does not provide one for Mac Word users. Anyone know of a plugin/AppleScript or application that will do this on a Mac?
posted on Oct 8, 2007 - 1 answers
Line spacing in international (Korean) versions of Microsoft Word? [more inside]
posted on Oct 5, 2007 - 4 answers
Ack! Word has suddenly forgotten my customized bullets-and-numberings settings - but the settings were four years old and I have no idea how to set them right again! [more inside]
posted on Sep 27, 2007 - 8 answers
I have a Word merge document with merged variable info sandwiched around a preprinted area in which I want no text - is there a way to insert some sort of break on the page that says to Word "No matter how big section 1 is, don't start printing section 2 until this point"? Thanks for any help! [more inside]
posted on Sep 21, 2007 - 8 answers
When I open a blank document in Word, why is it not blank? [more inside]
posted on Sep 11, 2007 - 4 answers
Help me ditch Word, yet still deliver a document that uses Word templates. [more inside]
posted on Sep 3, 2007 - 17 answers
Does anyone know how I can put a macron over the letter X in Microsoft word (using microsoft office 2007 currently). [more inside]
posted on Aug 7, 2007 - 8 answers
How can I integrate Google Docs to Microsoft Word 2007? [more inside]
posted on Aug 2, 2007 - 2 answers
How do i turn off Markup once and for all in Word 2007, for real? [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2007 - 4 answers
Digital signatures in Word (currently using 2002). How to do this easily from the user's end but with some requirements that the selfcert.exe won't do (that I can tell)? [more inside]
posted on Jul 13, 2007 - 2 answers
Is there anyone out there who can convert a .docx file into a PDF for me within the next few hours? [more inside]
posted on Jul 6, 2007 - 26 answers
Microsoft Word Training Filter: Can anyone recommend any good, comprehensive online training courses for Microsoft Word 2007. Bonus points for: free or cheap. [more inside]
posted on Jun 26, 2007 - 4 answers
MSWord Filter: Why is Word eating my documents? [more inside]
posted on May 17, 2007 - 12 answers
[Word Filter] I have a Word document consisting of a giant table with columns such as last name, first name, address, etc. Is there a way to extract the table data to another document in such a way that I preserve the order of the information, but lose the cells, rows and columns? Whenever I try to cut and paste, I end up just taking the table with me - exactly what I DON'T want to do...
posted on Apr 24, 2007 - 10 answers
In MS Word, is there a simple way to change every underlined word in a document into italics?
posted on Apr 20, 2007 - 6 answers
How do I turn off menu auto-hiding in Microsoft Word? [more inside]
posted on Mar 28, 2007 - 3 answers
Is there a way to automatically find, copy, and paste an entire paragraph into a separate document in Microsoft Word based on just the beginning of the paragraph? [more inside]
posted on Feb 22, 2007 - 10 answers
Does anyone out there have a list of key commands for the Russian version of Microsoft Word (in cyrillic)?
posted on Feb 19, 2007 - 1 answers
I need to make a hash marked box with offset dashes similar to this one linked inside using MS Word '03. How do I draw the line with the "chisel point?" [more inside]
posted on Feb 13, 2007 - 1 answers
In Microsoft Word 2003, I'm trying to format a document so that there is both one-columned and two-columned text on the same page. Whenever I apply two columns to the text I want to be in two columns, it always shunts all that text to a new page, as if I had inserted a page break. What do to? [more inside]
posted on Jan 30, 2007 - 18 answers
Is there anyway I can add a shortcut on the Microsoft Word toolbar which will format the selected text into a subscript or a superscript? [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2007 - 4 answers
Why is Microsoft Word suddenly marking correctly spelled words as misspelled? [more inside]
posted on Jan 9, 2007 - 5 answers
Is there a way to have both Landscape and Portrait set pages in a Word document? [more inside]
posted on Dec 12, 2006 - 5 answers
Reasons Word tells me a document passed spell check when it has misspelled words in it? [more inside]
posted on Dec 8, 2006 - 10 answers
I'm writing a document in Word and it has started capitalising all the words that begin in I, so I'm getting lots of Irritating sentences like this which are very Inconvenient. I've checked the autotext, autocorrect etc which all seem OK - possibly something to do with the dictionary as the I words are not being flagged up by the spellcheck? Or have I got some weird I virus?
posted on Dec 3, 2006 - 5 answers
How do I get a Background image (watermark) in MS Word 2003 to actually print as B&W (not GREEN)? [more inside]
posted on Nov 30, 2006 - 5 answers
My girlfriend is going for an interview where she will be tested on Microsoft Word and Excel. Is there an online tutorial where she can take some sample tests or run through some applications? We've googled a few, but they seem to stop at beginner levels and to be rather cumbersome. Just wondered if anyone had some first hand knowledge of a site to head to.
Regards/p &k
posted on Nov 16, 2006 - 5 answers
MSWordFilter: how do I convert back after accidentally clicking "send to" and turning my doc into an email? [more inside]
posted on Nov 10, 2006 - 4 answers
MicrosoftWordfilter: This program is vexing the heck out of me. I need some help with quotation marks. But not the wiggling finger kind. [more inside]
posted on Sep 29, 2006 - 4 answers
Word image resize fuzziness - can this be avoided?
Wanting to put photographs in a document for professional printing. [more inside]
posted on Aug 2, 2006 - 10 answers
Help me recover a seemingly corrupted Microsoft Word 6.0 file. [more inside]
posted on Jun 16, 2006 - 10 answers
A friend has a large list of address labels in column format which were created in Excel, then exported to Word. He no longer has the original Excel file. [more inside]
posted on Jun 6, 2006 - 6 answers
Why won't text watermarks in MS Word XP show up as their default color on one single computer at work? [more inside]
posted on Apr 26, 2006 - 4 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
I'm having trouble with fonts/symbols when opening someone else's Microsoft Word documents. Please help! [more inside]
posted on Mar 7, 2006 - 12 answers
Microsoft Word figure/photo/object placement is driving me insane. What is the secret to placeing figures in word? I'm used to Latex, where they are always at the top of the page, floating with the text. This seems to be impossible in word. [more inside]
posted on Feb 19, 2006 - 7 answers
Hotrodding MS Word: I'm finding myself wishing MS Word had a few features that I hope might be available as add-ons somewhere (or failing that, personal tips/tricks). One would be something to tell you how many times you are using individual words in a document (like an enhanced word count), so you can avoid overdoing it. For example: "You used 'cat' 5 times and 'kitty' 3 times."
Another would be some way to tag text so that no matter how much you mix it up down the road (as in taking notes and turning them into written text), you will always be able to tell what source each fact/quote/etc came from. Sort of like footnotes, but better, and ideally transferrable from file to file. Any ideas?
posted on Feb 7, 2006 - 5 answers
Help me format the figures in my dissertation with Word. [more inside]
posted on Feb 7, 2006 - 4 answers
My office computer operates Windows XP with Word 2000. (I'm a Mac person at home so no lectures please...) About once a week or so, a Word doc will freeze up on me forcing me to hit the good old Ctrl+Alt+Del and End Task. I would say 50% of the time when I open Word again, the document I was working on comes up as a recovered document (phew!). The other 50% of the time, I open Word and... no recovered document (!!!). What gives? Why the discrepancy? How can I guarantee that a recovered document will come up all the time and not just when the computer feels like it? Aside from searching through a million temp files, is there an easy way to get the version I was working on back if it doesn't come up automatically? (Yes, I save as often as I can, but I'm only human.) Sorry if this has been answered before... I searched for a similar post, but didn't find one. Thank you!
posted on Jan 10, 2006 - 9 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
MyGoogleFuIsWeak: Is there a way to completely strip a MS Word document of all tracking/revisions/undo/&c? [more inside]
posted on Dec 20, 2005 - 4 answers
I need help with the Microsoft Word mail merge feature. [more inside]
posted on Dec 19, 2005 - 11 answers
Does anyone know a good resource -- better than Microsoft itself -- for easily finding how to turn off specific "features" of Microsoft Word? [more inside]
posted on Nov 22, 2005 - 12 answers
Has anyone experienced Word 2004 on OS X generating malformed PDF? I have a friend who constantly has difficulty printing documents (that typically have a lot of equation editor objects in them.) [more inside]
posted on Nov 11, 2005 - 6 answers
I want to create a MS Word master document with the subdocuments as different translations.... [more inside]
posted on Oct 27, 2005 - 7 answers
Microsoft word help! Midterm paper due in the morning and I can't figure out the teacher's grammar check requirements! [more inside]
posted on Oct 24, 2005 - 14 answers
One of the Dumber Microsoft Word Questions Ever. When I try to scroll up or down a document in MS Word to highlight a select amount of text, Word whips through at lightning speed and highlights everything in the document before or after my cursor. [more inside]
posted on Aug 22, 2005 - 16 answers
I've been given 700 Word documents some of which I'll need to edit, based on content. The values to be queried are stored in named fields in the documents. [more inside]
posted on May 26, 2005 - 3 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
A few days ago, I saw a Microsoft Word freeware program that adds all sorts of little colored icons and functionality. Now I can't find it. Anyone know what it was?
posted on Mar 3, 2005 - 7 answers
Anyone great with dealing with Microsoft Word problems? It's adding thousands of blank pages to my document! Please help...I'm in the middle of writing my thesis... [more inside]
posted on Mar 2, 2005 - 15 answers
In Microsoft Word, how do I move/resize a textbox so that the border doesn't fall on the gridlines?
posted on Jan 20, 2005 - 2 answers
MicrosoftWordFilter. I'm having trouble with Word. During the span of a few weeks, I work on a document - nothing too fancy, a couple of fonts, a couple of tables, perhaps a graphic or two - and yet the 29 pages bloat to 44MB. What settings are mis-set? [+]
posted on Nov 29, 2004 - 12 answers
MicrosoftWordFilter: Page numbers are not being displayed properly. { MORE }
posted on Nov 23, 2004 - 4 answers
I have a question about changing the default data source type used in mail merge documents in Word 2002.
posted on Nov 9, 2004 - 3 answers
Is there a (free and easy) way to convert Word Perfect files into Word documents on my Mac? [MI]
posted on Nov 4, 2004 - 11 answers
ColorFilter
When I create a background color is MS Word, and then print it out, the yellow on the screen takes on a green cast, and after a bit of fiddling, I can't seem to compensate for this effect. Is this inevitable, or, is this a function of working on a 5 year-old iMac, whose screen is losing it's phosphors? Any suggestions on how to efficiently match the screen color to the paper color? (I've adjusted the screen options in the OS already)
posted on Oct 3, 2004 - 4 answers
im developing a *low key* department site for the company intranet. We've decided that ill write a simple menu that loads a word document into the facing frame for each menu item - this way i don't have to write any SQL or an interface for keeping the performance data up to date (the department employees will simply keep the word files up to date)
now the question - is there anyway to display a word document as a webpage (meaning: without the rulers and such along the sides and top)?
posted on Sep 7, 2004 - 8 answers
My father wrote a document years back of memories of his (now deceased) college roommate and their Berkely debauchery. Now that (Word 6.0) file says it's password protected, though he suspects it's just corrupted. Li'l help? (More inside on what I've tried so far.)
posted on Aug 27, 2004 - 7 answers
I have a collection of illustrations that a client wants to use in MS Word. I have them in their original Illustrator 9 format, as well as .psd and low-res jpgs.
Is the best option to convert them to Windows metafiles? (They'll need to be resized depending on newsletter content.) How do I do that?
posted on Jul 27, 2004 - 5 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
In Word, is there any way to set up autocorrect such that it automatically capitalises different combination? E.g., I want 'member State', 'Member state' and 'member state' to automatically be capitalised as 'Member State', but after putting in the first combination, autocorrect can't recognise the difference. Any ideas?
posted on Jun 29, 2004 - 3 answers
Is there a way to cut'n'paste charts from Excel into Word, without generating huge Word files? I've tried varieties of paste, 'paste special,' and so on, and I can't figure out why an Excel file of charts that's several hundred KB, always turns into a Word file that's at least several MB. I guess I'm missing something obvious, but have no idea what it is.
posted on Jun 24, 2004 - 8 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
MS Word 2003 task panes: when I start Word, I get a "getting started" side bar and an Adobe Acrobat tool menu that I can't seem to permanently disable. This is driving me bonkers.
posted on Apr 20, 2004 - 4 answers
Bah! I'm working on a Word doc and this program is driving me just batty. It's too clever by half all over the place -- wanting to add hyperlinks, format this way and that-- all kinds of stupidity that are keeping me from controlling the layout the way I want. Any suggestions for a nice, simple word processing program that will just give me the basics of font and tab control and without all of these M$ bloaty gewgaws that get in my way? Stop me before I fire up Illustrator!
posted on Apr 2, 2004 - 24 answers
