Questions tagged [microsoft-word]
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How do I disable shortcut long-press ctrl "Layout Options" in MS Word?
Going nuts for the long-press on ctrl keyboard shortcut, continually interrupting my workflow in MS Word documents.
Anyone of you smart creatures know how to permanently disable this?
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How to paste word documents with internal bookmarks into a new document, while keeping the bookmarks linked internally
I have generated multiple word documents from a tool, that each contain dozens to hundreds of internal bookmarks. I want to then paste each of these documents into a different document. The issue is, ...
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Include another Word document in a Word document given a relative path
I have a file main.docx in which I want to include the content of another word file, snippet.docx. I have been following various suggestions on this (e.g. here {INCLUDETEXT} does not work with the ...
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How to prevent Word on Mac OS X from deleting/renaming an already saved document?
I am using MS Word (Ver 16.77) on Mac OS X (Monterey, 12.1.1), with Mendeley Desktop plug-in to insert references.
I was making edits to an already saved file when Word crashed and deleted the file, ...
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MSWord on MacOS Track Changes Balloons message has a typo
MSWord 16.85.2, MacOS Ventura 13.6.7
I'm working in an MS Word document that was created by comparing two documents. I'm using Track Changes with the changes identified in Balloons. The Track Changes ...
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I want my macro to find all words (in a certain unformatted document) that start with a certain string ("yyy") give these words a different formatting
I want to find all words (in a certain unformatted document) that start with a certain string ("yyy") and give these words a different formatting.
The following VBA-code executes once and ...
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Emojis are shown in black and white in MS Word
I recently reinstalled Windows 10 and also reinstalled the fonts and Microsoft Word. Prior to the reinstallation, emojis were displayed in color. However, after the reinstall, they appear in black and ...
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Unable to create/open Word documents Windows 10
I was trying to clear up storage space on my computer and accidentally deleted something. I now seem to be unable to create Word documents, and the ones I have are all grayed out and ask me "how ...
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Why is my MS word (mac) document adding a page break after text of certain custom style?
When planning my assignments, I scaffold my MS word document (mac) with a three-tier heading system using custom styles, which are named as follows: 'Primary Headings', 'Secondary Headings', and '...
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Automatically use another font as the italic type
I've got a question about something that could make my life a lot easier.
I'm using Word in Office 2021 to write documents and I write texts with the Times New Roman font. When I have to write with ...
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Why are the new lines getting indented in my Microsoft Word document? [duplicate]
Why are the new lines in the following sentence getting indented in an Office 365 Microsoft Word document, and how can I fix the issue?
Data Shuffling: Distinct clause in a query in a distributed ...
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How to format a large amount of text to look as if they are text messages
I have downloaded my girlfriend and my conversations on messenger for our entire relationship and want to make something for her. We met through these texts. Moved in together, etc.
What I want, is a ...
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Text in Word--specifically file paths--gets moved to a new line
How do you prevent long strings from starting their own line?
I frequently use documents where file paths are referenced. Regularly, a file path is longer than the text width of the page. The file ...
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Word: Show page numbers to left of entries in Table of Contents
How can I create an automatic Table of Contents in Word in which the page numbers are shown to the left of the entries? Example:
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1 – Introduction
3 – First Section
4 – First ...
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Word prints a non-filled square filled as solid black
My colleagues shared a Microsoft Word file. It contains a square (without fill) with some text in it.
Computer A prints it out without any problem.
Computer B prints the square filled black (see ...
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Word Override Table Formatting with Header Formatting
I'm trying to create a header format in word such that I can apply it to each table. So far, I have a header called "Table Header". For the most part, it works. For example, I can go into ...
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Word document has links to other docs in onedrive. How to make these documents accessible to others
Ive spent a lot of time on the report and didnt think of this up front. Now I realise that nobody can read my linked documents unless I manually create a shared link for each one and then edit the ...
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Cannot remove OneDrive files shared with links
I'm having a really frustrating problem with shared files in my OneDrive. I'm cleaning up some old files, and there are a few Word documents that I was sent using a link that I can't remove. They ...
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Hardware acceleration is making Microsoft Word glitch and lag. What can be done to fix it?
Microsoft Word is glitching so bad due to hardware acceleration being on.
Unfortunately there is no option to turn it off neither the registry trick worked. Disabling HW acceleration from Windows is ...
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Microsoft Word deletes paragraphs from my manuscripts during OneCloud syncing. Is there a way to recover?
Background: I decided to write my manuscript for my novel in Microsoft Word, due to the quick start and apparent syncing possibilities (even from the smartphone). Now I write most of the time in ...
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Is it possible to set the space characters used around punctuation characters?
In France, there are multiple conventions related to spacing around punctuation characters. For example, some people and entities recommend using the narrow non-breaking space character before colons, ...
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Word file with emoji results in bigger PDF file after export
I have updated my CV in Word by adding rating of my skills and used the star emoji (⭐) to categorize my skill by experience (i.e., by number of stars). My Word document size didn't increase that much ...
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MS Word: How to create a grid with many small checkboxes
Please check this image. I want to create the same template but I don’t know how to create this grid. I tried with a table 52x88 but it doesn‘t look good. Any other ideas?
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How to divide a Word doc into two Horizontal rows (1:3), such that I can have a text and its translation
There are many solutions to have 2 columns sidd by side for such a thing, and making the boundaries invisible. But I'm working on translating and having purport on a Text, so I need to divide the doc ...
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Why does pressing Ctrl + Q (align left in Spanish) on a paragraph that is already left aligned justify it?
In Spanish the keyboard shortcut to align the paragraph to the left is Ctrl+Q.
I use the Normal style, whose alignment is left.
Pressing Ctrl+Q on a left-aligned paragraph justifies it.
I don't know ...
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How to convert a numbered list into a list with static ("unformatted") numbers that don't change automatically when the list is edited?
I often get Word documents converted from books in PDF format that have complicated nested chapter and chapter section numberings in the headers of the document, and I need to convert these numbered ...
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I've printed a two columns word document, but texts overlaps where columns meet, on paper
How to fix overlapping first column text over second when printing. I tried to go "wrap text in columns" but that doesn't seem to be an option. My file shows as no text overlap but when I ...
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Print a 120 page word document as 30 separate 4 page folded booklets
I have a 624 page document which is made of 156 separate 4 page documents. I want to print pages 1-4 as an A5 folded booklet (i.e. one sheet of A4 folded), then pages 5-8 as a folded booklet etc. to ...
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How to replace parentheses within parentheses with square brackets in Microsoft Word?
I have a bunch of citations in my documents that are within parentheses, like:
(Susan Schreiner, Are You Alone Wise? The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ...
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How to add text to the end of each line in Microsoft Word ONLY IF that line contains a specific character
How can a specific character be added to the end of each line in Microsoft Word if that line contains only a specific character? For some reason, they appear in the wrong place at times.
Before trying
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MS Word performance issues when editing large files [duplicate]
The problem: MS Word is very slow and freezes for a few minutes when editing large document [.DOCX] (1000+ pages). I've been unable to work on this document due to this issue for a couple of months ...
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Find/replace inside Word 2019 equations with formatting
I translated a German text that contains many equations with Fraktur symbols. Here is an example:
Now I want to replace the symbols in the equations with the corresponding Latin letters, but also ...
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Word table formula with SEQ operators not working properly on one computer but fine on others
I'm trying to resolve an issue for a customer with a document that uses SEQ formula operators.
I've created an invoice document template and the table uses some SEQ formula operators to calculate the ...
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How to print your word document with background color on mac?
I would like to print a word document with a background color on a macbook. The problem is that when I want to print the document it remains white. Here an example:
And here the result when printing:
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How to clear persistent "Normal" style, after exporting from Google Docs
All right, this is really bugging me. I started a document in Google Docs and worked on it for several weeks. Finally needing some more advanced formatting options, I exported it to a Microsoft Word ....
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Mail Merge messing decimal places
When using an Excel spreadsheet as input to Word Mail Merge feature, the decimal places get all messed up:
8,1 becomes 8,0999999999999996
7,0 becomes just 7
(commas are the decimal separator, and ...
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Running a multiple word search macro in Word
So I'm running this macro to find and highlight multiple words at once. However, I want to set it to find only whole words as it currently finding letters within words and highlighting them. For ...
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MS Word - Converting a custom footnote to a continuous numbered footnote list
I have some footnotes that I am editing (on a Mac), which have cross-references to the footnote (so copying and pasting the footnote text into a newly inserted footnote is not really an option).
How ...
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MS Word, how to manage the Headings in a document
In Word, I can press CTRL+F to go to Navigation, and then press the "Headings" tab in there to see section headings, which is quite useful. However, I noticed that not every heading was ...
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How to paste all PowerPoint slides to Word?
I need to paste all PowerPoint slides into a table in Word, but each slide must be in a separate block?
Is this possible or must I copy and paste each slide on their own?
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How do I exhibit the character Ň (U+0147) in my Word 2010? Why the method described in the first paragraph below doesn't work for this character?
As far as I can understand, to exhibit a Unicode code point in Word, one should press the Alt key, followed by the character + and the Unicode code point, both typed in the numeric keypad. That’s ...
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Word shows Print Preview but won't send anything to any printer, even a PDF writer [closed]
I edit or create a document in Word. I check the print preview which looks fine. When I select Print I just return to the editing view. It's not a printer problem because:
the printer works with ...
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Word document with two inserted excel spreadsheets, cross referencing cells between them
I have a word document in which I have inserted two separate excel spreadsheets using the Insert tab, then Table button, then Excel Spreadsheet in the drop down menu in Word. Let's call them sheet1 ...
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MS Word, cannot remove final blank page - Table at the end of document
On the last page of my Word document that I have text, I have a table. This table ends about an inch from the bottom of that page. However, Word has then decided that it will insert a completely blank ...
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How to find and replace superscripted Numbers wrapped in square brackets in Microsoft word
I need to find all superscripted numbers wrapped in the square brackets like this [23] for example but for any number up to 90. Because I cited some references like [1] down to [90]
but now I need to ...
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How to convert a list or a table of latex equations into word format
I try to convert automatically a large table of latex equations into a word table. How to do that automatically, without having to select cells, one one by one and click on convert to professional ...
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Microsoft Word keeps reverting the proofing language of non-English quotations to English
I am writing a commentary on a French publication. My own text is English, but I have a lot of quotations in French, and occasional quotations from German, Greek, and Latin texts. I carefully "...
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How to add text to the beginning and end of each line in Microsoft Word
How can a character be added to the beginning and the end of each line in Microsoft Word? For some reason, they appear in the wrong place at times.
Before trying
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Create cross-page border in Word
I am trying to find some way to create borders that can run across a page break in Microsoft Word. The closest I have come to this objective is to create a table with a single cell. However there ...
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How to copy paste Kannada text from pdf or word doc to google translate text field?
I have a document written in Kannada both in pdf format and doc format. It is readable. But if I copy paste some text from it to the google translate text field (language set to Kannada manually), it ...
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