Threads Replies Last Post 19 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19   What is my file reformatted in another computer? I have a long document (172pages) in which I defined some of my own styles such as 'Body' (24pt line spacing). However, on my boss' laptop, the line spacing is changed to single space; other headings have been changed too. We both use Windows XP sp2 and Microsoft Office 2003. My file reads all right on other computers. Can anyone suggest some way to solve this problem? What could be the ... 9 5/12/2006 10:20:09 PM text boxes inside drawing canvas I use two text boxes inside the drawing canvas. As soon as I type letters in either of the boxes the other box is filled with the same letter (the same is valid for deleting). They behave like clones. Boxes are not linked (did not use pouring mug) and the button for unlinking is greyed. I'm getting crazy on this... ... 5 5/11/2006 9:37:39 PM Help: Word Corrupted All My Field Codes? Hi All: I have a long document with embedded equations, figures, and text. I noticed something really bizarre. My field codes will still turn gray when I click on them but they will not update with the F9 key. They will toggle. Here is the strange part in my table of figures, the codes look like this TUFigure1. This figure is interesting.UT. For cross-references they have become ... 3 5/11/2006 1:45:06 PM HELP: Image Formatting & Text Anchoring?? Hi... I could use some help... I've a tutorial document; 106 pages but shouldn't matter except to show level of my frustration. This document has 100-150 "screen shot" graphics and I want the text to flow around the text. For each graphic, I've clicked FORMAT PICTURE / LAYOUT / ADVANCED / TEXT WRAPPING style as SQUARE and all margins are set to 0.125. Then I move (mouse or arrows) ... 5 5/11/2006 1:48:26 AM Word XP decreasing decmials in calc Not sure if this is the right group. In Word XP (SP3 - latest securty, W-XP SP2, 1.4GHz, Latitude D600), I've mailmerged somce values from Access XP. The merge numbers are ok (formatted Single with 10 decimal places in Access). When performing a simple calc (division), Word is displaying the right number of decimal places. The equation looks like: =1.02154*.45 + 1.104*.2 + 1.01613*.1 +... 4 5/10/2006 2:45:48 PM Can mail merge data source be relative? I have an MS-Word "Address List" file with a table having the typical address fields. A number of MS-Word mail-merge documents refer to the Address List file. They're all in the same folder as the Address List. From time to time, I rename or move or copy the folder. I'd like the mail- merge documents to continue using the Address list in their folder, but Word seems to use an absolute... 2 5/9/2006 8:57:42 AM ? about templates custom menu in word 2003 I have a template I have placed in word startup directory with a custom menu. the primary purpose of this template is to give user a place to click and start a new report that is based on a separate template. template 1 (loaded in startup dir) has custom menu "Reports" When word starts the "Report" menu is available. One of the items on the "report" menu is start new report. If you click that... 4 5/9/2006 1:58:30 AM hyperlink within footer I wish to embed a hyperlink in the footer of a Word document (Word XP). How can I do this? Insert / hyperlink doesn't seem to work. David ... 6 5/6/2006 9:11:39 AM how to fix a Flowchart on one page I have created a flowchart on page 3..whn I delete some paras from page 1 or 2 ..the flowchart moves upwards tht is it moves to page 2 and continues to page 3...the whole look is runied..how to fix it on 1 page....??pls answer immediately ... 2 5/5/2006 12:37:00 PM 'continuous' section break I'm trying to divide a document into sections so that I can change the header every few pages without having to signal a break in the text. I'm running Word 2003. I've got as far as working out how to create the new sections, decoupling the section header from that of the previous section, and writing the new header. So far so good. However, when I try to create the section in my doc... 4 5/4/2006 5:44:53 PM Two formatted lines for the price of one I have a rather complicated document, really a form, that is duplexed and Legal sized. It has all of the space used up, now I need to add another part without changing the 'size' of the doc. What I need is basically two lines to take the space of 1.5. I have a line currently sized at 1.5 lines, and it has a first part 'Amount of clissified loans:' followed by labeled spaces for entry. I... 8 5/4/2006 5:42:33 PM Word to pdf Conversion Hello All, I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I am facing a problem while converting my documents to pdf. I use Word 2003 for the preparation of the documents and Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional for conversion to pdf. Now my problem is that if the word file is large, around 200 pages or more, Acrobat displays a message "Do you want PDFMaker to turn off tagging for this docume... 2 5/4/2006 1:54:05 PM Zero Width Space I've heard there is such a creature -- lets you use a slash, but lets the work break at the right margin. So typing "petitioner/respondent" can do a line break thusly: * * * petitioner/ respondent * * * In Word 2000, how do I get a zero-width space? <*((((><{ Fishy@Ocean.Net... 5 5/3/2006 10:14:33 AM WinWord 2003 looses images Hi there, I have a document with ~100 pages, 60 graphics, and I start loosing images. Instead of the image a clear square of 1" is displayed. Is there a way to recover the images? How do I proceed in the future? Thanks for any help, Thorsten ... 8 5/2/2006 5:04:01 PM 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 5/2/2006 7:31:43 AM '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 4/30/2006 12:41:21 PM 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 4/29/2006 9:19:30 PM 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 4/29/2006 8:24:00 AM "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 4/28/2006 9:49:25 PM 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 4/28/2006 6:04:31 PM 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 4/28/2006 10:51:29 AM 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 4/27/2006 12:15:35 AM 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 4/26/2006 6:09:17 PM 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 4/26/2006 12:19:04 PM 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? 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