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/r/MicrosoftWord
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Grammar check not changing anything. Please help!
I finish writing in a document and use spelling and grammar check. Even when I click on the suggested change it doesn't actually change it in the document. For example it wanted me to change "Is just" to "Just is" I clicked for the change, nothing happened in the document. Please help.
13:45 UTC
The Layout is a mess and I need help!
Hey Guys!
I have this problem already quite some time and I can't find a soultion. This word document is supposed to be in protrait orientation, but is clearly landscape. But once I turn it to landscape, it looks like portrairt. BUT: It prints like the one selected.
And it is with all new opened Word Documents. But if I get one with the "right"/standard properties, everything is fine. How can I make this mess normal again or how can I "take" the properties of another Word dokument and set it as standard?
08:42 UTC
I have Microsoft Word For Android Phone. It won't let me make a 6×9 paper size.
I need to make the document 6×9, but it won't let me. The option for "more sizes" does not come up. How can I get around this using my android phone?
04:45 UTC
Word on Mac OS crashes on start up
I could use some help, please. I run the latest version of Word and Mac OS. When I try to open a blank document, I'm presented with the beach ball until the app finally becomes unresponsive. The only "solution" I have found is to empty Word's font cache folder. After that, it works until I open the app for a second time without emptying the folder.
I reinstalled Office, the damn new font Office uses now, replaced the default template, reset my system fonts, and switched the default font for Word. Nothing worked.
I would be grateful for any pointers.
20:16 UTC
which is your favourite Word version ? (2021, 2022, 2023, etc.)
i ve been using Word 2021 but it s a bit hard to edit so called "Smart art" on it - which is an important thing for me to do.
overall i was wondering which is your favourite Word version ? and why ?
19:26 UTC
How do I add a cover page from another document?
For my uni work I need to add a cover page to my assessment and the cover page is an overview of the module along with a checklist to confirm any use of AI. I know how to add a cover page but I don’t know how to insert this other word document into the file as the cover page
19:10 UTC
Document skips a page?
The word document I'm formatting is skipping page number 8 for some reason? In the word program, the pages go straight from 7 to 9. However, when I transfer it to PDF, page number 8 appears (as a blank page) for some reason. I need the page currently numbered 9 to be the 8th one for the project I'm working on, how do I fix this?
18:45 UTC
Weird formatting in bullets
18:38 UTC
Formatting a Bibliography after Endnotes errors
Hello,
As the title suggests, when I email or print my document, my Bibliography section is automatically placed before my Endnotes. I am going to attach some screenshots of a sample document showcasing the error.
The first few are what happens after the document is emailed; the Bibliography and Endnote sections get flipped. The latter few are what the document looks like before I email or print it.
I have a larger document that has this issue, these are just a sample of what the issue is. I reached out to Microsoft's online chat board and have not received an answer yet. This document needs to be submitted as a Word document and cannot be submitted as a PDF.
I'm happy to provide additional details or other screenshots if necessary.
18:37 UTC
Book-Chapter-Page three-part page numbering and three-part TOC page numbering - possible?
tl/dr: I want to have an automated, three-part page numbering system that is visible in both the page headers and the TOC that would be similar to Book-Chapter-Page# 2-3-12, 2-3-13, 2-3-14, 2-4-1, 2-4-2, etc.
Some background:
I have a few 1000+ page company manuals, all maintained in a Word/PDF format. Each "Chapter" is a separate word document.
Every even page is concluded with a "Section Break Odd Page" and "link to previous" is disabled. This is because we must have version control for each and every page, with a list of all pages and their revision level at the front of the manual ("list of effective pages"). This is in a heavily-regulated industry, and our federal oversight inspectors must approve any change to any page. So I might have Page 23 at Revision 12, and page 24 at Revision 26, etc, and the header must reflect this unique revision level information, so every other page must be in a new "word section".
Each manual is divided into "Chapter Section Page" format (company terms, not Word terms). Chapter 4 might have 15 sections, and each section might have 30 pages. Each page is numbered at the top in this C-S-P numbering format. Example: "Page 4-12-32" is the 32nd Page within the 12th Section of Chapter 4.
In "Word" terms, we use styles. Heading Level 1 is used for the Chapter Name, Heading Level 2 is used for the Section Name, and then we use Headings 3-8 for the structure/outline layout.
The word-generated Table of Contents field includes Heading Level 1,2,3,4, and also lists each page number in the C-S-P numbering format.
HOWEVER... the top of every page, and the table of contents, currently is only automated for the Word-based "Chapter-Page", two-part numbering format, using the word tools to insert a page number based on the current "Heading Level 2 - p.no.". The Chapter Number is then manually inserted in front of this page-number in each and every page header AND down the list of each and every Table of Contents line.
This. Is. Exhausting. Whenever changes are made that push outline levels down a page and the TOC must be refreshed, the entire TOC must be manually edited to add the Chapter number in front of the Word-generated, two-part page number.
Finally, to the question, which hopefully is obvious: Can this be automated with field codes, or otherwise, to have a three-part page number that is recognized in both the header (less important) and the TOC (very important)?
16:28 UTC
Ribbon button disappeared, cant get it to lock again.
Hi all,
Can someone help me please.
My ribbon just minimised itself one day after I restarted my PC, but the button that normally allow to lock the ribbon has now disappeared.
Any help is welcome and appreciated! I have tried right clicking, messing with the options but to no avail.
16:23 UTC
How do I keep the text folded in? Help!
Hi everyone, really hoping someone can help me out. I have created a document in Word. On the left you see the small arrow, because the text folds out (i've opened the last one so you can see). Now, everytime I open the document, everything is folded out. I want everything to stay in. I have already checked the box in settings telling everything to stay in, but when I close Word and open the file again, it doesn't work. Any suggestions...?
15:18 UTC
i couldn't find (shapes) to create an arrow in the illustrations group! W11
i couldn't find (shapes) to create an arrow in the illustrations group, where to find it exactly?
15:05 UTC
remove space after paragraph in new documents
Every time I create a new word document, the default setting is that there is a space after every paragraph. I dont want that. It's not that much of an issue, a couple clicks to change it but its starting to bother me, having to change it everytime I start a new document. Is there a way to change it, so that it starts a new document without the spaces?
13:12 UTC
Word stuck in "focus mode". Button to fix menu ribbon disappeared.
[Windows 11]
Recently, I used Word in focus mode with my touch screen, then, when I wanted to return to normal view, I turned off focus mode, but the menu ribbon kept disappearing. I googled how this is usually fixed, and all solutions I came across included either the illusive arrow button on the top right or the pin at the bottom right corner of the menu ribbon, neither of which are present on my screen. CTRL + F1 also does nothing. I do remember a pin icon being there before I entered focus mode, but it's gone now.
I tried restarting the laptop and even reinstalling the entire Office 365 suite to absolutely no avail.
Please help me, I really really need this to work again.
Edit: After some more experimenting, I managed to bring the pin to fix the menu ribbon back by switching from full screen to windowed to access the quick access toolbar customization and setting it to "Show above the ribbon". However, I doubt that the pin is supposed to disappear in the first place, because even after setting it back to "Show Below the ribbon", the pin is still there and the quick access toolbar is still there even after going full screen again.
05:58 UTC
How to split page numbers
I am so confused I am turning in a big project and I need to use roman numeral numbers for the first few pages and switch to arabic numbering. For some reason though when I try to follow other tutorials or advice I can't find anything?? Like when I select my header and then page numbers I see no options to change it, please any help is needed I am supposed to turn this in today and I've been struggling to figure this out for like an hour.
21:05 UTC
Translation of large document doesnt work
The built in translator of word always generates an error no matter how i try to translate some text parts in my document, with the built in translation function. It is a large document 120MB with a lot of high quality images and elements, is that the reason?
I try translate from danish to norwegian.
20:43 UTC
Edited file not saved
I was editing my report on Ms word and usually when I close it save changes option always pops out but today it didn't and I lost all the new words added. Please help me in how to recover that file.
18:16 UTC
Footnotes don't show up at end of page
I'm trying to finish my essay right now but no matter what I do the footnotes don't show up at the bottom of the page and I can only see them by clicking "Show Footnotes". Does anybody know how to fix this?
16:27 UTC
Pictures not embedded?
I have a .docx file that I created, where a portion of it is copied from a webage (I have authorization to do so). The copied content contains pictures, and on my machine, everything looks good.
However, when I email the file to someone they see do not see the pictures, and instead have the message "The linked image cannot be displayed. The file may have been moved, renamed, or deleted. Verify that the link points to the correct file and location."
If I upload the file to Teams, and open it from there, same result, but the message is just "Unable to load the picture"
Is it that the pictures are not embedded? I don't have a copy of the pictures outside of the document I've created. Is it possible to embed them somehow, without doing them one at a time? (there's a lot)
This is with Office 365, version 2402.
Thanks!
15:37 UTC
Help me to enable this feature
A: Injury to <! [PL-INJ-BODYPART,<#>] !>
<! [HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL PROVIDER WITH DIAGNOSIS] !>
this is a part of the whole content from one of my word document. Now, there is a feature in ms-word document, such that whenever I open this whole word document, the ms word kinda understand these words like "<! [PL-INJ-BODYPART,<#>] !>" that are written inside the <>. And, a separate side panel opens up where we can basically write down the appropriate values in place of these words. What is that feature?? and how to enable that in the ms word setup?
11:52 UTC
Combining multiple documents with their own formatting and keeping that formatting
Hey all,
I am attempting to put together a master document of 20 (at the moment, in a couple of days it'll be 25) documents for a journal proof. Usually I just save everything as pdfs and combine them that way but my editor likes to get nitpicky and find mistakes which means editing the word document, saving as a pdf, replacing that page etc, its a process.
BUT I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to combine multiple documents that keeps their own running headers and footnotes, so far nothing I have found online has been of much use, nor has it actually appeared like this is a thing that can happen anymore. Page/section breaks don't appear to do the trick, but its possible I am doing that wrong?
Any/all help would be really appreciated.I am on a mac if that is of any help/difference.
05:30 UTC
Looking for a good word add-in coder
Hi all,
I'm looking for a good word add-in to create a product with me.
Best,
01:49 UTC
Prevent closing the document if there is highlighted text
Hello everyone,
I work with and edit pre-made templates. These templates come with parts of the text highlighted, which should be edited as usual.
The issue is that I often forget to remove the highlighting or even edit certain parts of the text.
What I would like is for there to be a way to prevent me from closing the document if any part of the text is highlighted... Or at least a warning like 'Some parts of the document are still highlighted.'
Is there any way to do this?
Thanks
01:43 UTC