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    - How do you edit the text in an address template? Several years ago a Word expert at my former employer set-up an address template for me that I use on my firm letterhead when I prepare a letter (my printed letterhead does not contain an address). I have moved my firm so I need to modify the address on the template, but I am unable to access the text so that I can make the necessary changes. Apparently, the text tab in the edit-template window has been blocked in some fashion. How can I unblock the text so that I can make the necessary changes? Thank you. Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115505
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    - I can't fix my copy/paste I am trying to copy text and paste it as I've done a zillion times before, but now when I copy/paste all it pastes is an asterik sign. I've obviously created some type of short cut and don't know how to fix this, any suggestions? Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115495
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    - Type-Overs Word automatically writes over stuff im trying to correct, but it deletes the next letter constantly as im going along. what can i do to stop it? -- ___-___Eoin___-___ Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115491
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    - opening word 2002 documents i can't open a word 2002 document using word 2003. i receive a popup saying "your trying to open a word document that was creating in an earlier version of microsoft office. this file type is blocked by your registry setting policy." how can i solve this issue? Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115489
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    - How are correction marks, red and green wavy line, removed? In word 2007, how are the correction marks (red and green lines) on a document be removed so that the finished copy can be e-mailed? Thanks, Hank Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115485
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    - Can't get traditional outline format to autonumber in Word 2007 I am trying to create an outline. In Word 2007, there are icons for "numbered lists" in the Paragraph section of the "ribbon". Within the selections available in the pull down menu are various formats for numbered and bulleted lists. All of them work for me correctly except one. The ones with symbols for the different levels work; but the one in the traditional Outline format of I.A.1.a.(1) does not autonumber. So, for example, when I select that format, I get a roman numeral I. and I can type text; but when I hit Enter, I don't get a II. on the left margin. I have auto-format-as-you-go to automatically do numbered lists, and, as I say, every other format available works right. Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115484
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    - Passing data into Word template causes font to change I have a table on a word.dot template with a monotype font. In this font, the number 4 is shown as a little tick. Sometimes, but not always, after the data has been inserted, the font for that cell has been changed to Arial. It is an intermiitant problem, in that I can run the same script on the same dataset with the same parameters, and some cells will change font, others won't. Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115483
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    - Word doesn't open scanned file from Document Imaging I have scanned a document to Document Imaging. After running OCR I try to send the file to Word so that I can edit the text. It gets to where Word opens (partially) but then no more. I never get to see the file in Word. Any suggestions to help the problem is more than welcome. Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115471
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    - Unable to see pictures in word I am unable to see any pictures in word, theres just a box with a little red cross in it, anyone got any idea? Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115470
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    - Exception When Setting Password Hi I have recently released a COM-AddIn for Word 2007 product in beta test. At two customer sites an error is occuring when the program attempts to set the password programmatically. To restrict the number of variables, I have created a bare-bones program that does nothing but the following operations: starts up Word; opens a blank document; and then attempts to set the password to an empty string. i.e., activeDocument.Password=""; This is about as simple as you can get and works fine most everywhere I have tried it. But on these two machines an exception is thrown every time: Exception: Bad Password Stack: at Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.DocumentClass.set_Password(string) We have done a 'repair' installation of Word and I have looked for any obvious problems in his setup and not found anything. This one really has me stumped. Any help or even wild suggestions of things to try would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Chris K Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115469
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    - i cant type every time i try to type on top of start it tells me that the modification is locked? what should i do and ive tried using help but nothing worked. Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115465
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    - office application version does not match I am an owner of Office 2003, which was installed on my previous computer under Windows XP. I had to replace my XP machine and now have a Vista Home Premium machine. I installed Office 2003 on my Vista machine and updated it with SP3 for Office 2003. However, each time I open one of the Office 2003 products, such as Word, I receive a message which says "Office application version does not match"; after I click "OK" on this message a window pops up with the Microsoft License agreement which has to be agreed to each time. Anyone know how to stop receiving these messages? Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115464
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    - Hot-keys don't work anymore Recently all hotkeys have stopped working. For example, using Ctrl+B no longer makes words bold. This is not the first time this has happenned, but is a problem that has only appeared on this computer in the past couple of days. This applies not only ot word but to all windows applications, e.g. media player, etc. For example, Ctrl+F no longer fast forwards in wmp. Any suggestions? Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115463
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    - Error 4198 Hi folks, Using: Windows XP/Word 2003. I'm mystified by an error that pops up when I (and another person) open a template (as a template). We get the error message "Error 4198 command failed". We can click past this message and get to the template. The template has custom styles but no macros, toolbars, autotext. There is very little text, just enuf to show samples of each style. On the documents based on it, Auto Update of Styles is set OFF. There's a problem which may or may not be related to that error. On documents based on the template, if we modify the Space Before of a style and save the document, when we open the document, the spacing has reverted to the orginal. I've switched to Normal.dot temporarily to see if the problem goes away -- and it does go away. I'm continuing to look for other causes of the spacing problem, but I can't help wondering about the error message. -- JohnTheTemp Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115460
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    - cannot open embedded excel worksheet in word 2007 I have a client who uses 'Insert/Table/Excel Spreadsheet' with Word 2007. This does not link to another existing excel document but basically makes a table in the middle of the word document. It worked fine for some time but suddenly he is getting this error when he tries to open/edit the embedded worksheet: "The program used to create this object is Excel. That program is not installed on your computer. To edit this object, you must install a program that can open the object." Excel is installed and works perfectly fine on its own. In fact, if I make a new Word document and do 'Insert/Table/Excel Spreadsheet' to this new document, it will open the worksheet just fine until I save and reopen the file. He has another computer at his office that has this problem too, but most of them are fine. We have done repair and full removal and reinstall of Office 2007 Pro and still get this error. I found something that referenced Norton antivirus plugins but he does not use Norton. I disabled his antivirus anyway but that didn't help either. Anyone have any ideas? Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115458
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    - Word 2003 question on file not available warning. I am currently working on a project that writes to a word doc. In one step, I call the Word.doc that I have already created and saved onto the pc. When calling the Word.doc I get a microsoft warning message "The file "name".doc is not available. What causes this warning message? Is it not finding it? Is it not available, because the Word.doc is already open? Any information on this warning message would be very helpful. thanks! Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115453
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    - Win32 application error Hi, I've had some word attachments on my email that won't open. I am assuming that they are an older version of word however, I have opened old word documents in the 2007 version with no problem. The error message I am getting is 'file extention' is not a valid win32 application. Can you please help? Thanks Abi Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115450
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    - image from word doc I have an image that is in a word document that is not a jpeg image. How can I extract that from the word doc and make it a .jpg image? Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115449
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    - how do i remove unwanted characters in my word document such as a I am a new user to Word 2007 and the program tries to (and succeeds in some cases) to insert a heavy black line at various parts of the document particularly when there is a hard carriage return, what do I do to remove it? Please help! thanks Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115446
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    - Software restriction policy: problem opening documents I have set up a software restriction policy on my Vista Ultimate PC. This works fine. However, as a side affect I can no longer open PDF (adobe reader) or Word (2007) documents from a CD or USB flash drive by double clicking them. They will open if dropped onto an already running program. They open fine from the main drive. If I double click on a word document on a flash drive (F:) I get "Windows cannot find F:\test.doc. Make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again. I can open a DPF by dropping in onto an already running instance of adobe reader. If I try the same with test.doc on a running copy of Word it opens in a strange mode where I am unable to edit it properly. F:\Test.txt opens fine by double clicking. I am a limited user and user account control is on. I have restricted it so ordinary users can only run programs from "program files" and the "windows" directory. Do Word and Adobe Reader use some special mechanism to open the files that is being interfered with? Text files appear to open OK. Can anyone help? Theo Carr-Brion Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115445
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    - All Formatting Changes when I change 1 Paragraph Help!!! When I am working on a Word 2003 doc. and change the formatting of 1 line, the entire document assumes that formatting style! I have to hit the "Undo" button, and the remainder of the document returns to its previous formatting, and only the area 1 wanted to change actually remains changed. This is most frustrating when I want to change several types of formatting. For example, if I want to bold and center a heading, I highlight ONLY the heading. I hit "Bold" and the entire doc. becomes bold. I then hit "Undo" and all but the heading return to their previous non-bold font. Then I have to repeat the process for "Center." Anybody have a clue why this is happening???? Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115441
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    - Error in replacing words via highlighting [Error in replacing words via highlighting] I have an error in deleting words. In the past, if I have any typing mistake, e.g. I typed "Appla" instead of "Apple", I can highlight "a" and then type "e" to replace the "a" by "e". However, now, my Word setting have a strange practice. If I highlight "a" and then "e", it results in "Applea" .... Could you tell me how to solve this problem? Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115440
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    - word office assistant is not changing due to insuficient word mem. some days back i upgraded my MS word application through windows update, but since after that i noticed that i am unable to choose another office assistant due to the message which says "There is not enough memory to complete this operations". Could you please help me, which memory are they refering to. I have suficient space on my harddisk. Also i have also received a message that i need mirosoft agent 2 or higher. I checked for new MS Word updates through windows update and found that my Windows Vista and all other Microsoft applications are uptodate. Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115432
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    - Global Template/Normal.dot issue I know this has been addressed several time throughout the newgroup. And I have tried all the fixes suggested. However, I am still experiencing a problem. I run Windows XP Pro Version 2002 SP 2, with Microsoft Office 2003. Not only do I get the question about a change to the global template, (and this is where my slight difference comes into play) BUT I also litterally can get several WINWORD.EXE applications running even though I don't have Word or Outlook actually running. The only way I know that I have several instances of WINWORD.EXE running, is that my computer will lock up and I have to do the famous "CTRL + ALT + Delete" and will see it in my list of processes. I have to individually 'end process' them. At first I thought it was a toolbar that I had to install that was interferring, but I just don't know anymore. I use a program called Reference Manager and there is a toolbar that I can have running in Word so that I can create reference lists for articles. There are a few others in my office that also have this program installed, however, no one else has this interference issue; so I don't know that Reference Manager toolbar is the issue. I am about at the end of my rope!!! Can anyone help? Thanks Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115429
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    - SKU1E3,CAB When starting Word this often appears ;cant find missing file SKU1E3,CAB. eventually Word appears but what is this file Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115425
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    - Word 2007 Spellcheck not working I have just started using Word 2007 (was using office 2000) and my spellcheck is only catching the grammatical mistakes but not the spelling errors. I.E. only green curlys and no red ones. I have already ensured that: "Do not check spelling and grammar automatically" "Detact language automatically" "Hide spelling errors in this document only" "Hide grammar error in this document only" are ALL UNchecked. "Check spelling as you type" "Mark grammar errors as you type" "Check grammar with spelling" are all CHECKed Please advice!! Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115406
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    - Can't Make Line Shape Longer I am using the drawing feature of Word 2007. I draw a horizontal line by holding down the Shift key while drawing. Later, if I want to make the line longer, I select it, hold down the Shift key and drag one of the ends of the line. This is supposed to let me make the line longer without changing the orientation of the line. What it does instead is make the length of the line extend clear off the end of the document, to what seems like infinity. At that point there is no way to make the line shorter again since I can no longer see its end. Is there a fix or a work-around for this problem? Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115403
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    - comments initials change when printing hello everyone, i have been having this little problem and it's driving me nuts. word 2003 when i add a comment on my document my initials show up. and as i add on more comments, the comments with my initials get numbered. now the problem is when i print them. my initials disappear and they get replaced by other letter(s). sometime just a letter. the comments remain and the numberings. so in summary, my initials in my comments get replaced by letter(s) when i print the document. any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance. R. Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115400
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    - remove addins from Word 2007 I have Word 2007 and some addin called Zeon is stopping Word from opening properly. I don't know what this addin is but can someone please tell me how to remove it? Thanks-- Millie Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115391
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    - "Invalid Source Specified" Word 2007 I have WORD 2007 OFFICE. When I use the INSERT CITATION button, and I enter a new source first, the citation that appears in the document then always says INVALID SOURCE SPECIFIED. And, when I try to insert the WORKS CITED in the document, by using the BIBLIOGRAPHY button, this appears in the document, "THERE ARE NO SOURCES IN THIS DOCUMENT"-- but the 3 sources are shown in the bibliography. please HELP!! Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115390
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    - Cant add page border Word drives me to distraction. I,m using an A4 page, the set up knows its an A4 page but when I try to add a border to an entire page it only does it on both sides. I,m almost at stage where I get a ruler out and do it, be a darn sight quicker. Any ideas? Many thanks John Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115387
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    - blank document has symbol I've reviewed and tried the fixes in "blank document not blank" but they don't work. I recently installed Word 2002 onto my new laptop. Its operating system is Vista. I have the same program on my office computer & it works fine but from the first, when I open Word the blank document has a border (for lack of a better word) in each corner. It looks like part of a square... top left corner has right and bottom of square, top left has left and bottom, etc. I can't click on them or access them in any way. Maybe its because I'm trying to use this program in Vista. Any help would be appreciated. Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115385
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    - Insert Symbol causes loop In Word 2002, the Insert Symbol function frequently enters a loop, where the window updates continuously, and no commands are recognized. Pressing escape repeatedly and clicking on the top bar manages to shut the window and return to Word, but the function is rendered useless. This typically occurs when a symbol from a particular font has been used, and another font is chosen from inside the Insert Symbol dialogue, which does not utilize that particular slot. First inserting a Wingdings symbol and later trying to choose a Unicode font is a good example of what would trigger this. I have experienced the problem on several different computers. Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115381
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    - =?Utf-8?Q?odesl=C3=A1n=C3=AD_listu_word_po=C5=A1tou?= DobrÃ½ den, poÅ?Ã¡d nemohu odeslat list wordu poÅ¡tou.hlasÃ mi to poÅ?Ã¡d Å¾e systÃ©m nevÃ z jakÃ© pÅ?iÄ?iny.tak jsem zpustil , teÄ? pÅ?esnÄ? nevÃm, jak se ten nÃ¡stroj menuje, asi kontrola office.tak to kontrolovalo , disk, instalaci, pÅ?esto hlÃ¡sil Å¾e nenaÅ¡el Å¾Ã¡dnÃ½ problÃ©m , a mÄ? pÅ?esto poÅ?Ã¡d nejde odeslat list wordu. hikari@o2active.cz S pozdravem ZdenÄ?k Ä?erveÅ?Ã¡k Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115376
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    - New Blank Document When I start up Microsoft Word an old document always comes up. How do I get rid of it for good so that it will be a new blank document each time I go into Microsoft Word? Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115369
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    - THIS DOCUMENT COULD NOT BE REGISTERED ERROR IN WORD when opening a new empty document or any existing document in WORD (2003) I now always receive the error message : "This document could not be registered. It will not be possible to create links from other documents to this document" Other than this annoying message, there does not appear to be any other effect. This message only recently started appearing. I don't know what the message means, I could find no reference in the Office help site to this message, nor any reference to "registering a document" anywhere in the Word help. I have tried running regsvr32 for old32.dll - no effect on the problem. we also tried completely uninstalling MS Office 2003 and reinstalling it - also no help. Another recent problem of much more significance is that I now am unable to use MS Access at all, whenever I attempt to open an existing database or just open the bare program I always get the error message "A problem occurred while MS Office Access was communicating with the OLE server or ActiveX control" It is impossible to regain control of Access, whenever we close the message box, it just reopens again, and we cannot do anything at all in Access including closing down the program. We have to kill it in Task manager. Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115368
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    - the modification is not allowed because the document is blocked? Please help. I need a paper for tommorow! -thanks. Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115367
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    - downloading to word I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me what to do as far as trying to download to word...whenever something needs to be downloaded to word, a screen pops up and says what language can you read the file in???? In addition; while typing it constantly moves the typing space around and frequently causes me to go back and fix the spelling of words...I would really appreciate any help. Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115366
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    - Page Number and Table of Contents When I try to set up Page X of Y, I get this: "{PAGE \* mergeformat } | Page" and when I try inserting the Table of Contents I get this: "{TOC \o "1-3 \h \z\u}" what am I doing wrong or what setting is turned on or off? My email is rmitchell@charter.net Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115363
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    - Formatting entire document, not selected text I am trying to format individual words in Word (italisize, bold, unerline, etc) and individual bullet points. But whatever I do to one word in the text, the program does it to all words in the text. So trying to boldface one word boldfaces all words in the entire doc. Any suggestions? Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115357
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    - after deleting a footnote Word does not renumber the notes I have used Microsoft Word's automatic numbering system to write footnotes in an article I am writing. But when I tried to delete two footnotes Microsoft Word did not renumber the footnote. I need help to correct this error. Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115354
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    - Footnote Creates an Additional Footer Weird Word 2003 problem in one document. When I insert a footnote, I get an additional complete footer above the footnote, which is itself above the standard document footer. This additional footer is from a previous document. I can't select the additional footer in either doc editing mode or header/footer editing mode. Text flows gracefully around the additional footer, but I can't find a way to delete this. Have tried export to XML and back, no change. Do I have a corrupt template? Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115353
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    - APA sytle format The APA style format does not allow for correct citations when a document is retrieved from an internet source. For example, this is the correct way this should be referenced: Jedd, M. (2005, October). Merits of Planning. PM Network , pp. 58-63. Retrieved October 30, 2007, from Business Source Premier database. however, MSWord 2007 does this: Jedd, M. (2005, October). Merits of Planning. PM Network , pp. 58-63. Are their plans to correct this? Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115352
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    - Word 2003 fatal error Suddenly my Word program has started to encounter a fatal error. After a few seconds the "Microsoft Word has encountered a problem and needs to close." message appears and I have to close the program. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the program to no avail. Uninstalled and reinstalled Office to no avail. Any help greatly appreciated. Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115351
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    - Word 2007 won't save a .docx file, saves ONLY to 2003's .doc I created a fiule on word 2007 from blank, iit saved..later, i edited it and when i tried to save it Word would just crash. I tried several times, even copied pasted the entire text to a new blank doc, and had no luck. However, the file does saves as a word 2003 .doc file from the same word 2007...I have no idea what the problem can be. I could send the trouble file to anyone if he need to investigate further... judas Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115350
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    - Run-time error I am receiving Run-time error '5825' object has been deleted. I started receiving this after opening visual basic and looking around. I didn't think that I deleted or changed anything... Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115348
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    - "Read-Only" file insanity I'm writing along in Word '07, saving with no problems, then suddenly my file becomes "Read-Only" without my permission. When I go outside of Word, or inside of Word, the file's properties has Read-Only NOT checked. Word just seems to be tossing it in. Then I have to save it to another file, then resave it to its proper name. This is SO very annoying. Is there a fix? Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115346
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    - my paragraphs condense to less than an inch when I print. Just starting today, I typed up a document and sent it to print and as soon as it printed, the paragraphs condensed all their text to less than half an inch (all the letters sit on top of each other). The only way I can see the text is if I look in Reading Layout, but when I print or when I look at regular layout I can't read the text. Please help!! Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115345
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    - Time/date on comments keeps getting reset I am working in Word 2003 with a document containing comments from many times and dates. Within the past day or so, I've seen that when I roll over the comments, they give a time/date within the past few minutes, as though I've just entered them all. Fortunately, the correct author has been preserved in each case, but I'd really like the correct date/time there as well. Any suggestions? Thanks! Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115343
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    - How do I get Word to Recognize EndNote X? One month ago, I was able to use Cite While Your Write between EndNote X and Word 2003. Now, I cannot get Word to recognize that EndNote exists. I have not consciously changed anything, although I did import a Word file from a Mac. I have Windows XP. Thanks for the help. nancy Tag: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows Tag: 115342

I recently upgraded a few workstations from Office 2000 to Office 2003.
There's a problem with some of the computers that can't open Word documents
when the file is double-clicked from Windows. Word opens, but it's grayed
out with no visible document. However, if you open a document from within
Word using the File menu, the document opens fine. Can someone tell me how
to fix this.

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Re: Word 2003 not opening documents after double clicking in Windows by Stefan

Stefan
Fri Nov 09 01:20:20 PST 2007

Try to re-register Word. Click the Start button on the taskbar, and then
click Run. In the Open box, type:

winword /r

and press Enter.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

"Larry R." wrote in message
news:7ADDE166-99B9-4079-979D-58A7A2C4A90E@microsoft.com...
>I recently upgraded a few workstations from Office 2000 to Office 2003.
> There's a problem with some of the computers that can't open Word
> documents
> when the file is double-clicked from Windows. Word opens, but it's grayed
> out with no visible document. However, if you open a document from within
> Word using the File menu, the document opens fine. Can someone tell me
> how
> to fix this.

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