Threads Replies Last Post 14 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14   Change formatting style on page numbers in index... Hi, I wish to change the formatting styles for the page numbers displayed in my concordance listing. Currently they are the same size generated by the index in the main document. Can someone tell me where to find this information in the archives or if it is even possible? Thanks in advance for your assistance. -Greg ... 2 28.09.2006 21:22:27 A real challenge For Word Gurus... Dear Friends, Is it possible, in ANY WAY, to have a justified paragraph, but the last line of that paragraph should be centered, like this: __________________ __________________ __________________ ______ I asked this back during word 98 with no success, but maybe now there is a solution Thank You RB ... 2 28.09.2006 13:45:30 Modify feilds How can I mondify the FileName feild so that it just gives me the filename without the extention, with sa Left(FileName,8). WayneL ... 4 27.09.2006 12:18:44 Inserting references without a capital letter Hi Does anyone have a solution for inserting references (i.e. from captions) without it coming up with a capital letter in the front? >From example; if I have a chart title Figure 1, then when inserting it as a caption it need to be a capital letter. However, when inserting into text then it may not need to be a capital letter. Yes I can change it to a lower case but when I update t... 5 27.09.2006 07:22:13 Having Clear Formatting reset text to Body Text Is there an relatively easy method (for novice users) for having Body Text the default style for a document? Specifically, I'm looking for: 1. Clear Formatting to reset the text's style to Body Text; and 2. the style following other paragraph styles (Headings, etc.) to default to Body Text instead of Normal. - Dennis ... 14 26.09.2006 05:57:44 'Tools->Language->Set Language->Do not check spelling or grammar' does not work on the entire document Hi, I need to Spell/Grammar check documents that may have sections in which: Tools->Language->Set Language->Do not check spelling or grammar had been enabled. I want to disable it in order to recheck spelling and grammar. However, I find that I can only disable this feature on pieces of the document, not on the entire doc at once. (I am having to select individual t... 5 25.09.2006 16:36:45 two versions of the same document Hello, I was wondering if I could solve the following problem with Word. I have two manuscripts. Manuscript A is shorter. Manuscript B contains 100% of Manuscript A but in addition has text blocks scattered in between. I want to avoid having two files, since making a change to the manuscript A would mean finding the exact same passage in manuscript B and also changing it there, whic... 5 25.09.2006 12:57:07 fdisk help needed I need to know if there is a way back from an fdisk using windows 98... Thank you.... 5 24.09.2006 01:45:51 Figures in long documents often fail to print I have had this problem every since I have been using Word 2003. I have figures in my document and I have the options set to include drawing objects (but not to update links since that would mess up my TOCs). And it does include them sometimes. But when I print a long document it misses many figures (the placeholder appears instead). I have tried everything I can think of but this in... 3 23.09.2006 16:52:20 Inverting a Table of Contents (similar to pivot table) Hello, I have a long word document and trying to be structured using headings. My difficulty is deciding how I group information under headings and essentially everything needs to be crossreferenced. An Example is as follows: 1. Country A a) size b) population 2. Country B a) size b) population There are pages of text under each heading. Now is there a way to invert the TOC so I co... 2 21.09.2006 21:27:46 Saving customized menu Thanks for the help I've already received on this. The problem I have now is that I can't save my customized template. I've created a new template made customizations and saved it as normalnew. I want to test it with a couple of users and eventually replace our normal.dot with it. I've savid the new template using the shift + save all key but each time I either open the template or open a n... 8 21.09.2006 10:43:33 Toggle from one toolbar to another I have two custom created toolbars which my users use regularly. I'd like to be able to add a button they can click so that one of them switches to the other one. Anyone know of any notes that can help me with this? ... 3 20.09.2006 15:39:42 Random Lines I'm using Word 2002. I've OCR'd a long text and am cleaning it up. There are lines here and there. They are not graphical lines. They are not underlines or text-created lines. They are the lines that when highlighted, show a colored round "handle" at each end. There are hundreds of them. I'd like to find a quick way to get rid of all of them. Suggestions? Awaiting your respons... 8 19.09.2006 17:33:15 Reverting styles Editing document and putting in some paras in italics using Styles. Close and open document. Paras have returned to normal..... help? Bob ... 3 14.09.2006 13:29:16 random header appearances my document keeps generating heading lines (level 2) even though there is no text associated with them, thusly 5.5 Heading no 5 <picture or table> 5.6 <nothing> 5.7 Heading no 6 <rest of doc> Sometimes I get 5.5 Heading no 5 5.6 <blank lines which seem to belong to the number> Heading no 6 <rest of doc> I can sometimes stra... 4 12.09.2006 17:54:21 Priting to two printer trays Sorry to post to this group but I find it's the most helpful. We're having a problem printing our letters. This has just started although we've been using the same system for ages. We changed to Office 2003 recently. When printing a two or more page letter, our macro prints one copy to a specific tray which contains letterhead paper, and the second and subsequent pages to 'autoselect' tra... 3 12.09.2006 15:18:57 Adding macros to new menu I;ve already posted this to other forums but with no results - can anyone here help? I've created a new menu on my template called macros. In there I have listed various macros which I want our users to be able to use. After adding the macro, I go into 'reorganise' to rename the macros into proper english, ie so the users are simply clicking on the option to follow an instruction but ... 4 12.09.2006 14:38:39 Large Document - Printing I have a large document (new hire package) which contains tables, graphics, forms etc. When I try to print even one page of the document, my printer drops off line. I understand that my printer buffer may not be able to handle the entire however, not even on page? I also have a large document (benefits package) which does not have this problem. Perhaps is there something in the new hire pac... 4 12.09.2006 07:18:20 Style Shortcuts and Lost Functionality I'm using Word XP. I got clever and changed shortcuts for two styles: Emphasis style -- Ctrl + i Strong style -- Ctrl + b Very nice. Now I'm no longer ever doing direct formatting. HOWEVER, when I use Find/Replace, I can no longer search for bolded or italic text. The shortcuts won't work in that dialog box. I use those search limiters often. So I killed off my templa... 2 07.09.2006 09:17:48 Fitting Text Precisely onto a Page in MS Word 9/6/06 GOAL: I've scanned text from an article into MS Word, and would like to format it so that the amount of text on each page in my Word document corresponds to that which appeared on the corresponding page of the scanned article (i.e., no gaps or overuns from one page to the next). If I can accomplish this, I can then create a PDF file which corresponds precisely to the original art... 3 06.09.2006 15:00:37 Fixing a page or frame in place whilst text moves around it This is really two questions in one but here we go: I am putting my thesis together and want to include figures in the main document so that page numbering is correct. I want each figure (including caption) to be on its own, otherwise blank, page. However I may do a lot of editing in the future so ideally I want to be able to fix the fig&caption in place on page... let's say page 10 and have ... 3 04.09.2006 15:55:11 Problem with applying styles document wide Here is my situation. I have an existing document which has existing Normal Template styles implimented throughout. I took some pieces of example text from this document and put them into a new document. These example texts include an example header, sub header, and text (I am keeping this simple for now). I save this new document with the example text as a template. Then, I define new st... 5 30.08.2006 17:21:42 Cross Referencing a Footer I am trying to create a cross reference in my document's text to Footer text. What I have are several appendices, which I have labeled Appendix A, Appendix B, etc in the footers of those pages. In my text, I would like to refer to these appendices. For example, in my text I would like to say... So and so is included in Appendix A. I would like to cross reference this, so that if I deci... 2 30.08.2006 02:50:36 Fixing format problems when corrupt Hi there I've developed a series of document templates (although they have been supplied to the customer as .doc not as .dot). The customer has reported problems with my heading styles, list styles, etc getting corrupted. So far I haven't been able to solve why the corruption occurs - I guess maybe it is just Word? Anyway, I wondered if there is some way of having a separate document wi... 3 28.08.2006 13:53:09 Updating fields in section headers I’m working with a large document that I inherited. It has about 150 section breaks (due to flipping back and forth between portrait for text and landscape for figures). Due to the different orientations, none of these section breaks are set to “same as previous”. In the header of each is a field that points to a custom document property. When I change the document property, the fields in t... 5 23.08.2006 03:36:52 14 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14