Threads Replies Last Post 14 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14   simple format question i am a writer and cannot seem to find a way use as a default template a plain old word document that: indents the first paragraph, double-spaces and uses times new roman 12 pt. I have ms basic office 2003. seems to me my old word did this. p.s. would also love any advice as to how to have a new document appear without having to go through the multisteps of deciding whether it's a new doc... 3 02.05.2006 07:31:43 'Read Only' Headings Hello, Apologies if this has been posted to the wrong newsgroup. My colleague has a Template Document with a number of Headings that must remain unchanged, but he wants users to be able to edit the rest of the document without fear that the Headings are changed deliberately or by accident. So he wants to make just the headings 'Read-Only' but leave the rest of the document open to ed... 8 30.04.2006 12:41:21 Top Margins change with Chapter Headings only - How? I am working on my dissertation and when I have a chapter heading I am required to have a 2 inch margin, and the rest of the pages in the chapter have a 1 inch margin. How can I do this so I am sure that the margins will be correct? Thanks!... 4 29.04.2006 21:19:30 password protect message Hi there, I have created a protected word document so that a password must be utilized when opening a document. Does anybody know if it is possible to adjust the message that pops up when somebody tries to open the file and word requests the password? I would like to insert specific requirements. Please help! Thx ... 2 29.04.2006 08:24:00 "click here for answer" I am using Word 2002 to write puzzles, riddles etc and I want to hide the answer until the reader clicks somewhere. How can I do this? David ... 5 28.04.2006 21:49:25 Table of Authorities - Headings / Categories - Switches I am working on a brief where I need a TOA that is broken down into cases from within my state and those from other jurisdictions. In marking the entries, I am marking the in-state cases as "cases" (1) and out-of-state cases as "8". In my TOA, I attempted to caption these using the \h switch without any success. { TOA \h "Cases from Other Jurisdictions" \c "8" } What I get is "8" as ... 5 28.04.2006 18:04:31 Layout tips for "side boxes" Hi, I'm laying out a long report (~120 pages) in Word and would like to set up what I call "side boxes", though I don't know the official typographical name for them. For an example of what I'm talking about, look at this document: http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005/pdf/HDR05_chapter_5.pdf on page 158 (11), look at Box 5.3. I will probably have 20 boxes in the document overall. ... 10 28.04.2006 10:51:29 Want to reference six endotes as [1-6] in my text How can I reference six endotes as [1-6] in my text? Currently, I have them listed as [1 2 3 4 5 6] but i want to change this to [1-6]. Thanks. Peter ... 2 27.04.2006 00:15:35 password protect message Hi there, Ive a word document protected so that a password must be utilized when opening a document. Does anybody know if it is possible to adjust the message that pops up when somebody tries to open the file and word requests the password? I would like to insert specific requirements. Please help! Thx ... 1 26.04.2006 18:09:17 How to delete a blank page after a table at an end of a document? Hello specialists! How to delete a Paragraph Mark after a table at an end of a document? The Paragraph Mark makes an additional blank page at the end of the document. How to delete the blank page after the table at the end of the document? Best regards, Dima. ... 7 26.04.2006 12:19:04 Fitting text into a page without overflowing I frequently edit a small magazine using Word XP. Sometimes a short one-page article will overflow (one line maybe) onto the next page. Trial-and-error with character spacing, font percentage etc usually allows it to fit all on the same page but is there an easier way? David ... 5 25.04.2006 11:36:50 Placing objects/text outside of margins? Hello, I am writing technical documentation and I was wondering if there was a way to put special characters, etc. outside of the margins that "normally govern" the rest of the document? For example, a document will have many paragraphs, and out to the side of some of them I want to put a big red "E" with a circle around it as to provide a special "label" to these special document se... 2 24.04.2006 20:49:25 Restart Page No Deletes Even Page Footer Hi All Long document with 4-5 sections currently. Different first page. Different odd and even pages. Significant Heading 2 usage. Next page section break at the end of the first (title - nothing in footer) page. I'm inserting the page numbers as follows: 1. Click in body of page TWO 2. View, Footer (which is NOT linked to previous) 3. Click Insert Page Number button on floating t... 7 24.04.2006 15:17:58 How to avoid manual paragraph marks once and again I'm finishing a chinese -spanish dictionary in which exists the following structure. Title Generic Sound. Title2 Equivalents Sounds. Row1 NumberOfWord Row2 NameOfWord - SoundOfWord - InformationOnThisWord Row3 FirstMeaningOfThisWord Row4 OtherMeaningOfThisWord1 Row5 OtherMeaningOfThisWord2 etc. I'm using a Visual Foxpro database with all t... 3 24.04.2006 12:58:59 FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - please read before posting - unofficial April posting FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions - unofficial This FAQ is posted weekly.- more or less Please save yourself some time by reading it before posting to the news group. --- BEFORE POSTING ANYTHING PLEASE READ THESE --- http://www.mvps.org/word/FindHelp/Posting.htm http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm Reading these articles will help you get a quick and meaningful response... 3 23.04.2006 23:23:08 testing my system gljgjhgkjl -- rdcooper... 2 20.04.2006 21:25:19 How 2 -- Have Headers pick up the Last Heading 3 Style? I've got Heading 3 style for each of of my Rule Headings. I want each page header to indicate which Rule we're in -- i.e., pick up the latest Heading 3 text. Can I do that? <*((((><{ Fishy@Ocean.Net... 4 18.04.2006 11:07:53 for sale: internetDotComs.com domain for sale: internetdotcoms.com http://www.afternic.com/name.php?id=11866440 ... 1 16.04.2006 13:45:22 Creating an index table with links? Hello, I'm not sure if word has a certain capability or not - I've never tried anything fancy in Word. I'm running Office 2003. I'd like to make a word document similar to certain long web pages. It would have an index at the top and when you clicked on it, it would bring you to the section of the document that uses that is linked to that index. Thanks ... 5 14.04.2006 19:48:46 Page numberting from N-th page Hi, is it possible to number document sections in ad-hoc manner? I.e. one section is numbered, next one is not, and the next one starts from 1. Thank you. R. ... 2 14.04.2006 14:33:24 Word formatting problem We have been using MS Word for years on another computer and we just got a new machine. So, I loaded Office 2003 and the first time I opened an existing document, I see formatting symbols that I have never seen before. Specifically, I see the Paragraph symbol at the end of each paragraph and the CR (carriage return, enter, whatever you call it ) symbol at the end of all the other line... 10 12.04.2006 14:03:04 Problems with Styleref My headings sometimes don't show this Style and sometimes appear the right side in a row lower than left one. Had someone fixed this trouble? Thank you. Alejandro Fernandez ... 8 12.04.2006 13:32:15 Keep Lines Together dont work My last post is about this setting but I realize that in Word 2000 this don t work. I hightlighted all paragragh including a initial and final paragraph mark as is recommended. After Set Keep Lines Together I found last lines pass to next page on clicking Enter. These lines can be separated too clicking enter between them. Is this behaviour expected ? Thanks. Alejandro Fernandez ... 3 12.04.2006 12:41:29 Problems with Equation editor I'm not sure if this is the best news group for questions re. Word's built-in equation editor. If you know a better forum: please advise! If one has long textual subscripts like (in absence of any layout features in ASCII text let uppercase here be characters in math-style and lower-case be characters Text-style): X = Ylong_subscript_here + Zanother_long_ name_here For some strange ... 12 12.04.2006 07:30:51 <sp> tags appearing in Word with Text Boxes Hello there, I am not sure if this is the right newgroup to be posting this in but if not I would appreciate it if someone could advise which group I should be using. Here is the problem, I have a user who whenever they open a document or create a new one that has a text box in it the txt <SP> seems to appear along side it. This cannot be removed without the text box being removed.... 7 07.04.2006 09:54:40 14 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14