Threads Replies Last Post 14 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14   Word 2003 table indentation problem I'm running Word 2003 (without any service packs) on a Windows XP Pro SP2 system. My document is currently 97 pages long, with a number of tables on certain pages. My problem is, that for no reason whatsoever, Word decided to change the left indentation of all the tables in my document so that all of them are 0.85cm indented. I can solve the problem by highlighting the... 4 17.03.2006 11:56:57 Infestation of Char Char formatting Recently documents based on one of our regularly-used Word templates have been beset by the styles changing to Char Char. The affected documents seem to originate from one user's computer. For example, on Friday I worked on a document where all our usual styles were correctly applied. He then made some minor changes and returned the document to me. When a paragraph is selected almost any... 5 07.04.2006 08:10:08 Master documents and Subdocuments Margins Hello, I have 1 materdocument that is connected with several subdocuments in word xp. Does the subdocuments entry overwrite the master documents entry or is it the other way around. If anyone has any insights there. Thanks Octavee ... 2 05.04.2006 15:32:31 Inserting a Page in a form: Inserting a Page in a form: Hello... How do you insert a page into a protected form? How do you unprotect the form? Dale ... 2 03.04.2006 23:26:17 Word 2003: Applying a character style to the first sentence of every paragraph. I've searched the newsgroup and was unable to locate an answer to my question, so here it goes... Our users are looking for a way to apply the character style called First Sentence, (which includes bold and underline), globally throughout long documents without having to manually apply it. I've under the Find and Replace option in Word 2003 but can't find how to do this. Is it even po... 4 29.03.2006 23:46:17 ??? What's the point to Word 2003? Good lord -- can't we ever get to a point where we can leave well enough alone? What is the point to Word XP, and now Word 2003? Word 2000 works just fine. As far as I can tell, these newer versions just have more garbage you have to turn off in order to keep Word working for you, not against you. Rant. <*((((><{ Fishy@Ocean.Net... 5 29.03.2006 20:47:03 Styles and formatting task bar - "Select all" greyed out W2003 Using the Styles and Formatting task bar, I am finding that the "Select All" option is no longer available although it has been until now. This is happening for styles that are in use and which have been selected at the cursor - all other styles functions are available. The "Select All" button (along side the "New Style" button and below the "Formatting of selected text" box) is greyed ou... 5 29.03.2006 20:44:11 bookmarks, hyperlinks and back Hello everyone. I hope that I have posted to the appropriate group. In order to make links within the same document, I have bookmarked the target text, using a hyperlink in order to reach that point. My problem is how to easily get back to the original section being read at the time, bearing in mind that the targeted text may need to be referenced from several points within the documen... 4 29.03.2006 20:42:08 cross-refs across included documents I'm trying to assemble a large document, and many of the included (sub-)documents refer to the same illustrations. The illustrations all go into one file of their own. This results in several advantages: one image can be repeatedly cited and still easily found; the whole run of illustrations can be printed on a different paper stock; it eliminates problems from Word's shoddy text flo... 7 29.03.2006 20:40:53 How to restrict footers to sections. I am trying to combine many Word 2003 documents into one. Each footer should identify the document from which it came. I am having 2 problems: * If I start a footer in section 2, it shows up in secton 1, even through there is a continuous or "next page" section break. .. * Inserting a section break will cause each footer to identify itself as applying to a different se... 3 29.03.2006 13:10:13 Formatting the Endnotes Style Hello, I have a word XP document with endnotes at the end of the document. I want to have the endnotes indented, but it seems to not let me create a style. If I want to change the style, it tells me something like 'underlying properties' and I can not change the paragraph style. Is there any way to change this style or solve that problem other than manually formatting it? Thanks Oc... 6 29.03.2006 04:58:02 Word 2002 slow printing multiple copies All my single-page Word 2002 documents are slow to print multiple copies with my Dell 1100 laser printer. The files are 50K-300K long. I am running Windows XP, have 50GB hard disk space free and have 512MB RAM. Other files (eg EXCEL or JPEG up to 1.5 MB) are fine. Can I change anything? Any help would be appreciated David ... 6 28.03.2006 20:37:53 Switches in Table of Authorities - retain formatting does not retain character styles Just a short note that I've discovered the switch in the Table of Authorities field to retain original formatting does not work if that formatting is applied using a character style. It does work if the formatting is applied using direct formatting. Once the TA field is generated, it is the formatting contained in the field's long citation that is used, not that in the original entry. B... 2 28.03.2006 09:06:44 Different line spacing for outline items. This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C651B5.C5F70AF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm trying to figure out how I can set different line spacing for items = in an outline. for example, I want double spacing after each item when I = hit enter. But for items that just wrap on their own, I wan... 5 27.03.2006 22:17:13 FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - please read before posting - unofficial March 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... 4 27.03.2006 12:44:15 Modify default formatting of pasted text Is there a way that you can make default formatting of pasted text to ALWAYS match destination formatting, instead of having the little menu come up and having to choose that option each time. Or, maybe change it to "Keep text only?" Basically, I'd like the ability to change the default paste format to and fro. Thanks ... 7 27.03.2006 03:30:50 Compare docs wont stop comparing I'm using Word 2000. I recently compared documents and found a few edits. It was handy. Unfortunately, when I closed the "good" document, and opened it up again, the red lines in the margins were still there! I can't get rid of them! Now, if I'm goiing to used this document, after having compared and confirmed that the edits are proper, I've got to turn the dang red-margin lines OFF.... 2 25.03.2006 11:28:06 Formating of the Endnote Layout lines Hello, I use word xp and have Endnotes at the end of the book activated. Now there is a line on the top of each page where the endnotes are. How can I get rid of this line? I haven't been able to find a way to get rid of it. Thanks Octavee ... 4 24.03.2006 20:04:09 No header on first page Hello, I would like to be able to NOT include the header on just the first page of my document, because I want the first page to be the Table of Contents. Any advice? Thanks! ... 9 23.03.2006 11:03:18 Ink Sorry guys. The spam stuff was not my intent. I do oppoligies and won't happen again. I have never been on newsgroups before and not sure how to work them. I hope you guys can forgive a bad choice. Murphey... 1 20.03.2006 12:28:07 Numbering in different sections Hi There I hope someone can help me on this one. I have a long document, but want to start the page numbering from page 4 and for it to show page 1 on page 4. I cant seem to do this as when i make page 4 a different section, it only shows page 2 onwards even when i select to start at 1. Many Thanks Jill -- jilldean... 2 18.03.2006 21:07:02 Page 0 (zero) problem I’ve inherited a 6 page Word document from a former colleague and have been asked to insert page numbers into it. The problem is that after I insert the page X of Y into the footer, I get the following: on page one it formats as page 0 of 6; page 2 it formats as page 2 of 6 and page 3 as page 3 of 6 etc. How do I get rid of the page 0 (zero) on the first page? I’ve tried resetting the page nu... 3 18.03.2006 06:08:32 Different hearders within the same document Hi All I was advised that if I want to have a different header from a given location within the document I should insert a Section Break which I did but the headers are still the same throughout the document Thank you, Samuel Shulman ... 3 16.03.2006 17:28:27 Normal.dot versus blank document template I have been involved in several discussions regarding this recently and would like to try and clear this up. My firm hold the normal.dot (and all other templates) in a central templates folder on our network. Each user has a copy on their C drive which updates every day when they log on. This means if the network crashes they can still work with their template(s). Normal.dot contains all ... 15 16.03.2006 14:47:44 Auto Correct -- wants to double space! I've started using AutoCorrect to insert some text -- I want the text to be formatted. It consists of a pleading caption. It should be single-spaced. It goes in with double-spacing. How do I make it keep the single-space format? <*((((><{ Fishy@Ocean.Net... 10 15.03.2006 21:54:39 14 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14