Threads Replies Last Post 14 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14   Lines look skinney, but print big and fat. I created a lot of lines across the page in my documents by inputing 3 or mor underscores, then hitting the enter key. These lines are acutally the bottom side of an outside border. They look perfect on the screen, and also when I do a print preview. When I actually print them, however, those lines come out about 4 points fatter than they apprear on the screen or in the preview. ... 4 13.03.2006 20:55:45 Join a document Hi How can I join a document while keeping the page setup of the inserted document the same as it was (smaller margins than the rest of the document) Thank you, Shmuel Shulman ... 2 12.03.2006 16:23:45 Forms? Checkboxes? Gray Shading? What have I got here? Some kind of a form -- it's got checkboxes. If you click on one, you get a dialog box. They have gray shading. I want to keep the checkboxes, and I'd like a user to pick one and check it. But I don't want the dialog boxes or the gray shading. I'm dealing with something new -- for me. ;-) Using Word 2000 on XP Home. <*((((><{ Fishy@Ocean.Net... 4 10.03.2006 01:35:15 BECOME A DOT.COM MILLIONAIRE WITH ONLY $5.99Cents or $1K. ... 1 09.03.2006 20:46:05 Master document and section numbering issues and what about Chapter label? Greetings I have a long document spread across 8 separate files. I know how to create a master document, but when I put all the files into the master, the section headings all have the same numbering. That is, instead of 1.1 I get 5.1. For file 2, I get 5.1 instead of 2.1. Etc. I think this occurs because in each individual file I changed the Heading 1 style to the corresponding chapter (... 4 09.03.2006 05:59:55 Body Text vs Normal Hi, My company has undergone a few mergers and I am now tasked with standardizing our style sheets across offices. I'd like some advice on this. The templates I have been using till now use "Normal" as body text rather than a specific style called "Body Text" or similar. (One of our offices uses "Body Text".) Most tech authors seem to advocate staying away from Normal, but I ... 14 09.03.2006 05:01:25 How to delete unnecessary paragrath brakes in a midle of a paragrath Hello How to delete unnecessary paragraph brakes in a middle of a paragraph? How to set a small caps "?" wild card character after the "^p" in the replace window? ... 7 07.03.2006 06:31:53 Track changes showing formatting I have a user who swears she unticks the formatting in the show track changes when she prints. Very often it actually still prints the formatting changes. Is this possible or has anyone else even come across this. Thanks GwenP... 7 06.03.2006 08:32:31 Styles and endnote problem Hello, I have the folowing problem with my 360 page word xp document. It will not let me use the endnote feature. Word gives the message that the number needs to be between 1 and some astronomical number. Even when the number would be 1 for the first endnote. When I start with a new document I do not have a problem. Now I thought just copy part of the document in a new document, and s... 2 04.03.2006 02:56:24 Style lists in the Styles and Formatting task pane Hi, I've spent half an hour trying to work out how the dropdown list entries work at the bottom of the Styles and Formatting task pane and I give up. I checked the help file but it really didn't help. The entries on the list are as follows: -Available Formatting -Formatting in Use -Available Styles -All Styles -Custom When you click Custom, the "Format Settings" dialog box appea... 6 03.03.2006 20:36:41 Paragraph "Outline Level" is changing to Level 1 I am using Word 2002 with styles. When I right-click and go to Paragraph, some of the styles under "Outline Level" are changing to Level 1 where it should stay at BodyText. However, when I go to modify the style, the "Outline Level" is properly set to BodyText. I can press Control Q to clear the "Level 1", but when I save the document, it reverts to Level 1 again. This is a real probl... 5 03.03.2006 19:25:54 Disable INSERT Key in Word XP Hi -- I keep hitting the INSERT key on my laptop. Rats! I need to disable it in Word XP so that I don't turn on the overtype mode. How can I go about that? <*((((><{ Fishy@Ocean.Net... 2 03.03.2006 19:22:51 Global Find/Replace to get titles into TOC..!! Hi all, Note: My aplogies for my earlier multipost! Thanks to all help I recieved! I am writing a very looooong test plan (I am a verifier) and I have about 100 test cases. What I need to do is do a global search and replace to update each of the titles with an 'outline level of 3" (I think this is correct) so that the titles will appear in the table of contents' on page 2 of my do... 4 03.03.2006 13:09:08 How to lock styles to prevent changes? I have a lot of documents created with the same styles, and I have a tendancy to inadvertantly chang them by dragging the mouse around and clicking at the wrong time. I solved the problem up to now by having them set for auto update from the initial template. The link to the template, however, is vulnerable and I want the documents to stand on their own. Once I break the link... 3 03.03.2006 05:03:36 Question about Fillins I have created a fillin that reads { FILLIN "Please enter title:" }. How do I have the contents entered by the user repeat elsewhere in the document? Basically, I want the title the user enters to appear in the header. I haven't been able to figure this out and will need specific wording, if possible. -- Kat... 3 02.03.2006 21:11:09 How do I do a inteliigent "find and replace" operation? Hi All, I need to do a inteliigent "find and replace". How do I have MS Word do a search and replace using the following rule: Find the word Test ID (followed by anything up to a newline) and replace it with a constant word. eg. Here are three lines of text Test ID (723) - Success Path - CLI Configure Acct-Interim-Interval (AII) Timer Test ID (724) - Success Path - Session Rele... 2 02.03.2006 19:59:09 Problem with unhighlighting a document Hi, I got a word document where one paragraph is highlighted in yellow. Now I want to unhiglighht it so that the white backgound shows up again. Could anyone tell me how to do that. The problem is in the highlight color area I do not see the white color to unhighlight with white. Thanks for any help in advance. ... 3 02.03.2006 15:50:34 Outline View at start: how to preserve levels of expansion First post - apologies if topic covered .... I have a version of Word on an old computer that opens my documents in outline view exactly the way they were when I saved and closed them - with the sections I'm working on expanded like I left them, and the sections collapsed that I wanted collapsed. On my new computer, with Word 2003, the document opens each time with all levels expanded so... 3 02.03.2006 13:05:04 Master Documents & Subdocuments - HELP!!!!!!!! I am having major problems using this feature, I always save the document the same way, In Outline View - Collapsing the subdocuments and saving the master document. Sometimes the work is all there when I come to use it again, others it isn't and I have to insert all the subdocuments again.... am I going wrong somewhere??? I'm getting really fustrated with it!! Please help! Thanx -- ... 6 01.03.2006 09:00:13 EARN $3,000.00 A DAY. 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A quick search on the net yields a number of... 4 28.02.2006 00:02:27 Document Imaging Hi, Not really the right place for this post but I can't find a group dedicated to Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) so please forgive me trying my luck here as I've found you're a very clever bunch! I have a client who recieves documents in TIF format (they are scans of articles). She prints these documents to paper, then scans them to turn them into PDF. Obviously I have rec... 5 27.02.2006 23:46:20 My own style I want to have my document look like this: Day 1 Day 1-1 Headinga Day 1-2 Headingb Day 2 Day 2-1 Headingc Day 2-2 Headingd : The numbers must be automatically generated. (Afterwards I want to make an automatic list of content.) Is it possible in Word? Regards Knut... 2 27.02.2006 13:59:23 Format->modify style option in Word 2002 One of my clients is using Word 2002 SP3 and has a 'style' and 'modify style' option under the Format menu. Her assistant does not have this option (but she does have the 'style & formatting' option. Does anyone know how to add these to her menu? ... 2 24.02.2006 18:36:33 Style and formatting behaviour changed for a large document Hi, in a large document all the fonts changed! Heading 1 from fontsize 20 to fontsize 12, Heading 2 from 16 fontsize to 12 fontsize etc. If I start a new document everything works perfect. Automatically update document style is unchecked and was unchecked also before this unwished change. I have restarted the computer, used word repair, changed the view normal, printlayout to but nothing... 5 23.02.2006 21:49:47 14 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14