Threads Replies Last Post 14 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14   Heading 1/2/3 TOC entries -- what's the secret to removing? Folks: 1. Permanently unsetting Heading 1/2/3 TOC ----------------------------------------- We work with some docs that are assembled by copy-and-paste from other docs. In those docs, people have used Style Heading 1, 2 and 3 for random purposes, not needed for the Table of Contents, and in the big doc we define our own styles which we *do* want in the TOC. No problem using the Ed... 7 17.08.2006 13:06:12 Word doc analyzer tool? Folks: Are there any useful tools for analyzing and troubleshooting Word docs? I'm thinking along the lines of a tool that might read (via Automation) all the data in the Word document model, and present all the data in some intelligent fashion -- suitable for troubleshooting oddball problems. Anything in that neighborhood? Graham ... 2 17.08.2006 12:34:34 Word won't allow us to open two documents in seperate windows It keeps wanting us to switch to the other document by going to Window on the menu and selecting the other document. We want the two windows to open in seperate instances of Word so we can put them side by side. One will be a copy we got back from the proofer and the other the document we need to edit. We tried the Window>Compare side by side with menu option but as we are scroll... 2 16.08.2006 19:03:42 MS Word's View of Tables and Figures Hi, Does anyone know how MS Word decides something is a "Table" or "Figure"? When I look in cross-reference, I only have two of my tables listed and no figures. When I create a Table of Figures or Tables it seems to have found a whole bunch more. My table/figure captions are set up with fields, not Word's built-in captioning tool so I just wondered how Word was designating the different... 5 16.08.2006 00:32:55 Corrupt tables I know this isn't much to go on but I have to try. I have a user that believes his word document is getting too large to work with. It is full of tables and had a logo inserted into the first page. He gets to the point where he gets an error that his document has a corrupted table. I'm not sure yet when exactly this happens or what exactly he is doing. I have a copy of the doc at a ... 4 15.08.2006 15:45:00 Tab Not Changing Levels In Number Lists Hi, This strange thing happened a few days ago and I can't remember what I did to start it and can't figure out how to stop it. For example, 1. Level1 a) Level2 Generally, when you're in outline numbering and you hit tab (i.e. after 'Level1', I enter then hit tab), it takes you to the next level in (i.e. the a)), but now for some reason, tab just gives me a tab! I will ... 3 14.08.2006 02:02:55 Differences Between Auto Text to Building block Hello, Is there a difference between the "Auto Text" and the Building Blocks" Feature? or maybe the Building Block is the same as "Auto Text" only with a new name in Office 2007? Appriciate any help, Thanks, FunkyFish ... 2 13.08.2006 12:09:26 Random Invisible Section Breaks I work with long documents with many section breaks (mostly page breaks, but occasionally there are continuous breaks). In my problem document, I have mysterious invisible section breaks that I can't seem to delete. I've tried every view possible in Word 2002, but I cannot see the breaks to delete them. The first line of text is part of Section 21. When I place my cursor before the first... 3 12.08.2006 16:21:48 Table at top of page I'm doing a long document in Word 2003 on XP with not enough time to learn my soon-to-be answer to Word, Adobe Framemaker. The document is a set of species accounts and each page begins with a small table containing Latin and common names and Family for each species. The problem I'm having is that when I insert a break with Ctr+Enter and paste a blank table on to the next page top it a... 3 12.08.2006 12:01:02 Word refuses to unbold TOC 3 style Hi, I have a document in which it seems completely impossible to make the TOC 3 style unbold. Here's what I've tried and learned: 1. TOC 3 is based on TOC 2, which is itself not a bolded style. 2. When I go to the Modify Style dialog box for TOC 3 and make it bold (the B icon is not selected when I open the style), the text will unbold, but the next time I update the TOC, it goes back to be... 4 11.08.2006 13:05:06 Automatically print part of a document I want to create a document which displays small amounts of information on each page, navigated by hyperlinks. However, I need a section at the end which is a summary of all the information and can be printed without printing all the other stuff. Is there anyway that I can insert a button (or other control) that allows the user to click it and have just this section printed without them... 5 10.08.2006 03:00:02 Resetting Document Styles.... I have a long document that I want to start over as far as formatting. Is there a way I can reset the formatting of it (i.e. remove all custom formating styles and revert to Microsoft defaults). ... 2 08.08.2006 16:13:13 Booklet creation How can I create a booklet using WORD? I seem to remember seeing somewhere that it can be done automatically - but how? Please help. David ... 3 08.08.2006 16:11:09 What jobs involve formatting of long word docs? Hi Everyone, For the last three years I have worked for a large IT company creating and formatting long, complicated proposal documents. I usually work with a bid/proposal manager and a team of technical writers. They provide the content and I produce the actual documents - keeping on top of the editing, formatting, version control, reviews etc through to final print and despatch to custom... 2 08.08.2006 10:54:21 FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - please read before posting - unofficial August 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 http://users.tpg.com.au/bzyhjr/liszt.html Reading these articles will h... 1 07.08.2006 16:40:16 multiple copies in different printer trays I need help........ I have a word template and want to print 3 copies, where the first copy goes to tray 1 and the remaining copies to tray 2 of a printer. Can someone help me. ... 2 05.08.2006 13:02:20 Track changes on when template is opened I have created a template it Word 2003. It contains paragraph styles on which will be used on some of our documents. When I opened the original document on which I've based the template, track changes was turned on. I turned them off and carried on creating my template. I saved the template with the track changes turned off but now every time I open the template the track changes are on! ... 4 05.08.2006 02:15:33 setting default values for tables How can I control the default paragraph settings of a new table? I sometimes need to convert text to tables. When I convert, the table applies left and right indentation to text in each cell, though these values are defined as 0 in the original text and style. How can I control the document so these tables are created with 0 indentation? ... 2 03.08.2006 23:22:50 On tracking down styles Win XP/Word 2003 - I had a question this morning about highlighting all the paragraphs in a document that are using the same style. I have a very vague recollection of this coming up before, but I can't remember if I refuted it or if I actually discovered a way to do this. Can we do this in Word or is this a tool from something else?? Much obliged, -Monica ... 2 03.08.2006 13:31:51 Where's the style area in Word 2007 Could someone tell me if there's a "Style Area" associated with the draft view in Word 2007, as in Word 2003? Or if it's gone, what replaces it? I hope the Style Area wasn't eliminated, just because hardly anybody uses it. Stephen R. Diamond... 2 03.08.2006 00:21:44 scrolling problem I have a minor but annoying problem which may or may not be related to Word itself. I am using Word 2002 in a XP Home laptop. Very often when I scroll down a document using the touchpad it will scroll to a certain point in the document and refuse to go further down even there is still much more document to go. If I click lower on that page scrolling resumes normally. I've clicked on the "s... 3 01.08.2006 19:18:41 Very slow editing doc loaded from network share Folks: I am encountering a situation where editing a Word doc which is loaded from a network share is extremely slow, whereas editing the same doc copied to a local drive is fast -- and for none of the simple reasons I guessed. More clues: -- Word 2003 SP2 -- Doc is about 500 K, and contains a large table about 10 columns wide and 8 pages long. Example slowness: move the table c... 4 01.08.2006 11:04:46 Smart quotes and index codes I work in a law firm and we repeatedly have documents that have been marked for index that have smart quotes that go "stupid". lol What I mean is that the closing quote mark after the index marking appears as an open quote, e.g., is the example of a term like (the "Issuer"{ XE "Issuer" }" the final quote would appear as an open quote. This usually arises when we have to do a Find & Replace... 6 29.07.2006 14:37:07 Problem with outline-numbered headings My company uses a customized template in which headings are outlined numbered. My customer sent me a document that I copied into the right template, but there's a problem--the 2nd-level headings are not updating when the document moves on the next section. Heading 1 has 2nd-level headings 1.1 and 1.2. Then after the Heading 2, the 2nd-level headings are numbered 1.3 and 1.4, and so on. C... 2 28.07.2006 16:59:49 Find and replace, insert tab before I trying to parse this into a database and was trying to use the find and replace to insert tab characters such that I can then programmatically parse the data. This is a rtf file that has Indenting to indicate a sub field. For example, Aberrant is the main topic. Adrenal gland is a subtopic and under the paragraph heading Indentation is 0.25, Hanging by 0.5, the main topic is left 0 hanging ... 2 27.07.2006 18:25:36 14 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14