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    - save as creates a hidden copy When I save as it creates a hidden copy called the same but with ~$ at the front. how do I stop this from happening? -- matt j Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96498
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    - linked Excel files in Word: printout shows wrong files Hello, We've encountered a problem when printing out Word documents that have numerous linked Excel files. A linked Excel file may appear to be pulled in correctly onscreen, but in the actual printout, a different file shows up in its place. The same problem carries forward when we print out a PDF of the Word file. The linked file in question is often one that is linked to other Word files, which likely complicates matters. Would anyone know of any ways to avoid this problem, or how to fix it once it happens? Thanks, Kathy Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96495
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    - Reset Word macro security settings. | Word 2003 V11.6359.6360 SP1 | | The problem on my work computer is that my Word Macro Security settings are | set to Very High and I can't change this. I want to set it to LOW. I am the | administrator of my PC. | | I can change the setting to LOW, but when I restart Word, the setting is | back to Very High. -- | +-- Thief_ | Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96487
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    - Why does "save as" function make my Word program quit responding? When I try to save a new document with the "save as" function the program locks up and Word stops responding to commands. My only recourse is to shut the program down and start over. But, every time I try to use "save as" the same thing happens. Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96485
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    - FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - please read before posting - unofficial July post 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 Reading these articles will help you get a quick and meaningful response to your question rather than just more questions for you. It may keep your message from being screened or bounced. A few basics, in case you decide you can skip that article: (1) Be nice; everyone answering questions here is a volunteer. (2) Post a question in only one newsgroup generally. If you _have to_ post in more than one, post a _single_ message and put both newsgroups in the header for that _single_ message. (3) Do not attach anything to a message. (4) The only really stupid question is the one you don't ask. (5) Do not use your real email address unless you enjoy spam. (See bottom for sample.) The reasons for the requests are spelled out on the web pages. A longer version of this FAQ is also on the Internet at http://addbalance.com/word Newsgroup Archives: http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search Best way to access these newsgroups: http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm MVPs FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word/ Note that July 4 is Independence Day in the United States of America. It is a national holiday and responses to questions during this time may be slower than they otherwise would be. --- Also, before posting, you might want to look at the following questions to see if yours is among them. 1. How can I change the default font from Times Roman New 10pt to something else? http://addbalance.com/word/defaultfont.htm 2. Page X of Y doesn't work! (You're right, it doesn't!) http://addbalance.com/word/pagexofy.htm or http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/PageXofY.htm 3. How do I insert a date? Why does it (not) change when I re-open the document? http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm 4. How can I use calculated dates in Word? http://addbalance.com/word/datefields2.htm 5. How can I get a different header/footer on the second (and subsequent) page(s)? http://addbalance.com/word/headersfooters.htm 6. What are some good books for me to read about Word? http://addbalance.com/word/wordbooks.htm or http://www.mvps.org/word/Tutorials/BookRecommendations.htm 7. How can I best use the Master Document feature? http://addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm 8. Word 2K - How can I keep Word from opening separately for every document? http://addbalance.com/word/w2000taskbar.htm 9. Where can I find more information on the Web? http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm 10. How can I get rid of that ^$#*@& paperclip? http://addbalance.com/word/officeassistant.htm 11. How can I get rid of that ^$#*@& web toolbar? http://addbalance.com/word/webtoolbar.htm (Works for reviewing toolbar, too!) 12. How can I get rid of that weird line that appears magically? http://addbalance.com/word/borders.htm http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CantGetRidOfLine.htm 13. Why doesn't Word's Fonts list show all of the fonts I have installed in Windows? http://addbalance.com/word/fontsmissing.htm 14. What are some basic tips for someone who is converting from Word Perfect? http://addbalance.com/word/wordperfect.htm 15. How do I use (What is?) the Work menu? http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WorkMenu.htm http://addbalance.com/word/workmenu.htm 16. What are some common errors people make with Word? http://addbalance.com/word/wordcommonerrors.htm and http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/TipsAndGotchas.htm 17. How can I print a booklet? http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/BookletPrinting.htm 18. How can I get a template to show up under a tab with File => New? What are templates? Global templates? Document templates? http://addbalance.com/usersguide/template.htm 19. I need to make a form to... If you want a fill-in-the-blanks form you want what Word calls an online form. Look in help for that and then follow the links at: http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms especially Dian Chapman's series of articles If you want a custom dialog box that you code with VBA commands you want a UserForm. Take a look at: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Userforms.htm 20. How can I enter something once in a document and have it repeat elsewhere? http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm 21. I keep getting insufficient memory errors... http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/InsufficientMemory.htm 22. All my menus / toolbars have disappeared! Help. http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm 23. Changes I make to my toolbars / AutoText aren't saved! If you have Adobe Acrobat version 7, see the last section of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm 24. When I try to delete I have to confirm it. Tools => Options => General -- uncheck the two Word Perfect options 25. I lost my CD Key, disks, etc. and can't reinstall with out it. If Word came with your computer contact the manufacturer. If you got it separately, contact Microsoft. Starting place: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823570 26. I'm having trouble with automatic numbering! There's more to this than meets the eye. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/numbering.htm 27. I am asked if I want to save changes to the global template every time I quit Word. http://addbalance.com/word/savenormal.htm http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011514521033.aspx 28. My blank document has text in it - an old letter, etc. See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm. 29. I changed the formatting on one thing and now my whole document has changed. http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/WholeDocumentReformatted.htm 30. Where can I find a good tutorial? http://addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/Tutorials/index.html 31. What is an MVP? http://www.mvps.org/word/AboutMVPs/index.html and http://addbalance.com/word/mvp.htm There are more questions than will fit here. For more questions and answers, take a look at: http://addbalance.com/word/index.htm and http://www.mvps.org/word Comments / corrections / additions may be sent to mailto: wordfaq@nospam.addbalance.com. Change the address by taking out nospam. Posted 4 July 2005 Charles Kenyon, editor Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96480
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    - Word should work in landscape on a custom paper size When a custom paper size is created in Word it does not seem to work properly in landscape mode. It forces either the left or right margin to be large. As an example I tried to make a custom paper size 8.75" wide and 5.75 " high and print in landscape mode. Each time I attempted this Word insisted one of the margins was outside the printable area and forced the right margin to 3.35". If I chose to ignore it, it would let me make the edits but only print to its percieved right margin. I eventually picked the "Organizer L" paper size 8.5 x 5.5 and it worked fine (except my paper was 8.75 x 5.75) in landscape with the margins set to 0.5 inch. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=eb84d398-8285-47b5-b10d-bc9baa4868b7&dg=microsoft.public.word.application.errors Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96479
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    - Document Map and Reviewing Pane aren't displayed simultanously I have the Document Map visible on the left side of the main window. If I make a selection in the document and click on Insert -> Comment the Document Map gets hidden and the Reviewing Pane appears. So far so good. However, after inserting the comment, I want to get back to my previous view. If have different possibilities, e.g.: 1. Resize the Reviewing Pane until it disappears 2. Click on the Reviewing Pane button in the Reviewing Toolbar 3. Select View -> Document Map All of them display the document map, select the first entry in the Document Map and jump to this, which is normally the beginning of the document. Therefore, my suggestion, don't hide the Document Map, when the Reviewing Pane is displayed. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=6976c5ba-86df-4294-9190-ce9709306d84&dg=microsoft.public.word.application.errors Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96474
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    - frames insert thousands of blank pages Having terrible trouble with inserted text boxes. When I insert 2 text boxes on adjacent pages word (word 2002 10.2627.2625) inserts over 10 000 blank pages (i stoped it from repagenting at 10k). I get this error even when the text boxes are completely empty. If the text boxes are separated by more than one page, no problem, if they are not, sometimes word inserts thousands of blank pages. Tried many of the text box options with no joy. Word is doing this on its own, there is no VBA modules etc in this document. If i convert the text boxes to frames, its seem to be a reasoanble work around. (took me hours to figure that out of course) However this seems a scrappy workaround for commercial software, does anyone know what the problem is here? My guess is word is trying to put both text boxes on the same page (in some fashion), but they wont fit, and so it keep increasing the page number in the hope of finding a page they will fit on..... Im guessing 64k pages are added, but i could be bother to wait that long. Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96473
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    - "save" or "save as" will not function unless Word 2003run in safe clkg on SAVE or SAVE AS produces no result. clkg on X for closing brings the usual "do you want to save, etc..." clkg on YES produces no result; clkg on NO will close WORD without saving, of course. If I use RUN & type in WINWORD /A, the resulting use of the program will allow saving the document with no problem. I am using WINXP PRO with OFFICE 2003. Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96471
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    - Compile Error in hidden module: AutoExec can't get this to work! ALWAYS get this error (Compile Error in hidden module: AutoExec) unless I hold shift-key down when opening and closing. I have read articles that tell me to do various things -- I have done them all... PLEASE HELP! Thanks Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96466
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    - Why is text of old document repeatedly present when I open MS Word I have tried clearing clipboard, no results. I have tried defragging and disc cleanup, no results. I have tried 'select all' and then 'delete' and STILL when I try to open a new and fresh page to create a new document the text of an old document long ago copied and saved under its own specific title is pre-inserted. Please give me instruction as to where this might be 'hiding' so that from now on when I use WORD it will open a clean page for me to create a document vs. my having to 'clean' the page of this OLD document. Thank you! Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96464
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    - Images don't show complete while scrolling in MS Word 2003 Image don't show complete while scrolling in MS Word 2003. If I change the view to "Reading Layout", the images show complete. Is there any error somewhere. I have a new PC with 512 MB DDR RAM. Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96463
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    - Task Pane? When I start MS Word I always get a wide column on the right side (stage left) of the monitor. (I think this is called the task pane.) How would I get rid of it - at least when I start the program? Thank you, Barry Karas Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96459
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    - Spelling errors in Word in a Spanish doc I do a lot of bilingual documents. English is fine, but Spell checking in Spanish is a problem! It'll miss obvious errors! For example, I'll put l casa instead of la casa and l is NOT a word; yet, it will not be questioned or corrected! Can anyone help me? Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96455
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    - Problems Selection fonts Hey! I have just installed MS-Office 2003 on a Windows XP SP2 fully opdated. After starting Word I wanted to change to an other font. BUT when I clicked in the little arrow at the right to the shown active font, the only choices was: Device Font 10 Device Font 12 Device Font 17 Opening the fonts in control panel I had at least 40 different fonts. Can anyone give me an explanation? On forehand: Thanks a lot! Ebbe Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96451
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    - Access privileges Unable to open some important Word 2003 files, get the message " User does not have access privileged" Please Help. djenk Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96448
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    - Delay in responses Can anyone tell me what would cause a delay in the information being typed to show up. We will type several words but they do not show on the screen for several seconds later. We have Microsoft Office 2000. Thank you. Linda Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96447
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    - How to get FIND to work when it does not FIND words that exist? For example, I type "the" in FIND and yet having 100's of occurances, it comes back with no FINDs. Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96438
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    - Opening word 95 documents in word 2000 I am having problems opening word 95 documents in word 2000. Whenever I open a document created in word 95 it hangs for about 5 mins and then opens. It opens all other documents exept to ones created in word 95. I have done all the usual things like delete temp files, ran defrag, scandisk, reinstalled office, installed service pack 2 and 3. The files are on a network share, but its nothing to do with that as I moved it to my PC and the problem was still there. Can anyone assist me in my problem? Russ Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96431
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    - Can not seem to find away to turn off email tool bar in some Word I have found two different client machines that have what would look like the email sendto, carbon copy, blind carbon copy and subject fill in boxes at the top of the Word application that I can not seem to find away to get rid of. I have right clicked on the blank area of the tool bar to see what tool bars are active but I find that the email tool bar is NOT active. I have also tried to go into the customizing of the app and still could not find a way to get rid of it for my clients. Both clients wanted to get rid of it because it takes up too much room at the top and wanted a bigger picture of the forms they were making or viewing. The first computer was on Windows 98SE and the other Windows XP Home edition.... Pretty bad when I can not find the solution.... help people???? Did I miss the obvious???? -- Ken Technician PCOLOGY Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96425
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    - Word repaginates continuously Since late this afternoon, my Word software has developed a problem whereby it continually repaginates some of my documents (not all, just some). I have observed the problem in documents derived from three different template files (none of them Normal.dot), and the problem is in multiple documents, not just in one or two. In the documents that show the problem, if I switch to Normal View (I usually work in Page Layout View), the page number shows correctly initially, and then changes to say "Page 0 Sec 1 1/1", as if the document was on both page 0 and page 1 of 1. Other symptoms: - When I first load one of the offending documents, it initially shows I'm on page 1 of 2 (these are documents with multiple pages, mostly in the hundreds), and remains like that. - If I Page Down, the page count begins to go up, as if Word is repaginating - After a few seconds, the page counting re-starts - It then begins to repaginate rapidly, showing "Word is repaginating x.doc, page n. Press Esc to cancel." (I do not normally get this message while repagination is occurring). - The only template file that has changed today is Normal.dot. None of the other templates from which these documents are derived have changed recently (going by their Modified dates). I have tried: - Deleting Normal.dot and making Word re-create it - Restoring Normal.dot from a backup copy from yesterday evening (before the problem manifested itself) - Repairing my Office installation I have found articles about troubleshooting damaged Word documents, but I am not yet convinced that this is my problem, given all of the above (I hadn't even touched some of these files today until AFTER I first observed the problem). I have good anti-virus software (Command AntiVirus), and have scanned both my templates and the documents showing the error, and have found no infections (in any case, I am not in the habit of opening attachments in odd-looking emails). Can anyone suggest other possible causes of these symptoms? Is there any software I can use to verify corruption of a Word document? The procedures outlined in Article 826864 are a bit hit and miss, and that article doesn't even say what it means by instruction 1: "Look for similar behaviour in other documents". Okay, yes, I've looked and found it. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??? Does it mean I DON'T have corruption or that I DO? I have not found similar behaviour in other software. Again, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??? The article is a bit of a chocolate teapot in this respect. I also don't have an "Open and Repair" option on my Open dialog box, so the first suggested remedy doesn't even look possible. Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96421
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    - I autocompressed files and now word hangs on internet word docs. Is there a fix to download? Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96419
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    - Saving existing document results in .tmp filename Hi, When an existing Word 2003 document is opened, editied and then the user clicks on "Save" Word will rename the file to one of those "wrlxxxx.tmp" filenames, and save it to a temp folder. I know Word does this in the background automatically, but it is getting hung up somewhere. The user has to remember to click on "Save As" and manually re-enter the proper file name each time. Has anyone come across this before? If so, what was the solution? I have reinstalled office 2003, but it didn't help. Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96409
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    - Word shuts down and gives error code when deleting in dual screen I am using a Compaq notebook and have the secondary monitor contected to form and extened screen. I open Ms Word 2003 and launch a document on both the extended monitor(2) and the laptop monitor(1). I then go and highlight the section I want to delete on the extended monitor(2) as soon as I highlight and hit delete the program freezes. I then receive an error message stating "Word has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for any inconvienience". It is at this point Word closes my documents and then restarts and shows them as being recovered. ****Attempted fixes****** (1)So far I have tried a seperate secondary monitor and it had the same error. (2)I have tried working without the seconday and I have no problems at all. (3)I have even tried to use another notebook a Fujitsu Lifebook and had the same problem on it as well. (4) I have tried to uninstall and re-install with the same results as well. ***********What am I missing, or overlooking? Please help. -- Chris Mc. Document Producer Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96408
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    - space in equation editor I cant use space in equations-editor. I am using windows 7.0. Earlier, I used to press CTRL and tap the space bar and I get the space inserted. Now whatever I do, no space gets in. Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96407
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    - Word 2003 crashing some other W2K applications Hi, So I've just repaired my installation of WIN 2K, and reinstalled Office 2003 and done all of the windows updates that are available. Then run resistry firstaid to clean things up. Now when I open windows it keeps asking about a macro problem with pdfmaker.dot. So I disable the macros. Shouldn't Word be looking for the normal.dot file instead of this pdfmaker.dot?? So in trying to delete all normal.dot files so that word will create a new one when it opens I start My Computer. When I attempt to search for the normal.dot file... or anything at all I get an error: Office Pro comes up saying it needs to configure Office 2003 and it begins to configure something. Then I get a Program Error that tells me explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. And it creates an error log. My Computer then closes as do all of my applications running in the task bar in the lower right corner except for McAfee security center. Why is all of this happening? Any leads on what to chase down here? TIA! Chris Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96403
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    - I get the message COM ERROR Command is not available because there is not an open document [...] Dear colleagues, Whenever I open a Word document by clicking on the filename I get this box: COM ERROR Command is not available because there is not an open document. CritiqueWordAddin:: Document change. With an OK button. The OK button doesn't work, I have to close the window on the status bar, and then the document opens normally. This does not happen if I open MS Word and then search for the file. It´s MS Word 2003 (11.5604.5606). Thank you very much indeed for your help! Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96402
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    - Word open as Document Imaging I used Microsoft Office Document Imaging to edit a picture and since then all word docs have been trying to open with this softaware. A message pops up saying: The select file is not a valid microsoft office document imaging. Anyone, any clues? I got hundreds of word docs and is happening to all of them. -- Claudia Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96400
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    - Blank Documents I have a user that seems to posses the unique skill of being able to erase documents just by opening them. Any one ever heard of anything like this? Got any suggestions? Can't find anything wrong. Sometimes, when she opens a document, weither she makes changes or not, and closes, when she goes back in the document is blank. The size of the document has been reduced to 0. The modification date never changes. Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96395
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    - right indentation problem on program opening every time i start Word, the screen looks fine, but when i start typing the wording will not go to the right margin. it will always stop about 10 characters to the left of the margin and then go to the next line. nothing centres properly and if i were to justify everything to the right, the space would be greater than if it was justified on the left. i think it is a problem with the program, but if anyone has exoerienced this, please tell me how to fix it... Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96390
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    - paAttach error in Word My initial installation of Office 2003 was fine but then while setting up my signature in Outlook I ended up getting an error within Word. When I want to send or just open Outlook I get "paAttach is not a valid macro or command name" then I get "paInsert" and finally "paAbout" iwth the same warning. It will then finally open but sometimes I get a Normal document error. I have resintalled and tried to repair Word but dont' want to uninstall and resinstall all of Office. Sometimes the scroll bar in Word will not work either. How can I fix this? Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96388
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    - Saving Word file A user here is using Office XP. Saving a file from the Word program results in the saved document with a "generic" Windows icon. She can reopen the file but other user's can't. Using Explorer and viewing the file types, files with a .doc extension are associated with the "generic" Windows icon. Deleting this file extension and recreating it results in the "generic" icon being recreated for the .doc extension. How can I reassociate the .doc extension with the correct (Word) icon? TIA DDS Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96387
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    - update Dictionary Hi: The "Spell Checker" says that the word "outgassing" is two words. It is one word. On your next "Dictionary" update... Here is a reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outgassing ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=6237b3c0-4d3d-4c2c-96ec-50f6fa9123bb&dg=microsoft.public.word.application.errors Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96386
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    - Opening Word crashes every time Using office XP, word worked fine, now just started to crash every time we try to open it. reads: Word failed to start correctly last time...etc. asks to start in safe mode. If yes, starts in safe mode if no, get microsoft has experienced a probem and needs to close...etc. If you recover and restart, does the same thing. I tried uninstalling and re-installing with no luck. Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96379
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    - Numbering pages with roman numerals I am trying to number pages with roman numerals and after a few it reverts back to arabic ones, i.e., i,ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, 8, 9, 10... Any ideas of how to fix this? Thanks Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96374
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    - Word crashes when spellchecker is run When I run the spellchecker in word it completes checking the document but just freezes thereafter - ie it dosen't return to the normal layout I need to end the word application and re-start it. Any ideas folks? Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96372
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    - Word gone? Suddenly, when I try to run Word (as well as other Office programs) I receive the following message: The application must be installed to run. Please run Setup from the location where you originally installed the program. The .exe files seem to be in their proper places. What's the solution? Any help will be most appreciated. Rita Goldberg Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96370
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    - picture - now you see it/now you don't I have a template which I copied over from Word97 to Word2002 which includes a picture. In Word97, I never had any problems - the picture always came up on the screen and always printed. However, in Word2002, sometimes the picture doesn't print and sometimes it doesn't appear on the screen except as a frame with a small box with a cross - if I right click inside the frame and chose edit picture, the picture appears. Any ideas on how to get this to behave? Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96368
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    - Word locks up when replying to Yahoo emails Hi all, Not sure if this is "off-topic." If so please let me know if there is a more appropriate group. We (my wife and I) are having a problem when replying to emails sent to us from anyone using Yahoo. We are using XP professional, Outlook 2000 with Word as our email editor. When we reply to an email, Outlook will hang. I can only get control back by ending the Word "process" under "task manager" even though there isn't a Word application running. I can "turn off" Word as the email editor and there is no problem.That is why I believe that there is something going on with Word...I may be wrong. Any help would be greatly apprecitated. Sincerely, Scott Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96366
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    - close exsisting dialog box When I start my computer or open word a box comes up and says to close exsisting dialog box " go to word and close exsisting dialog box) how can I stop this or close the dialog box which is not oprn Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96362
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    - The file *.doc is not available I recently started getting a message when attempting to open an existing word document. It says "the file "filename.doc" is not available. When I attempt to close the word application, I get the message: "changes have been made that affect the globaltemplate, Normal.doc. Do you want to save those changes?" I am able to create a new word document but then if I attempt to reopen it after it has been saved I get the "not available" message again. The same type of thing is happening when I attempt to open an excel document. I did a repair on the office 2000, but I still get these messages. Any ideas? Thanks Jeff G Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96361
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    - compile error in hidden module: cannot fix Hi and thanks in advance. This morning when I started Word and Excell, I got the error: compile error in hidden module: AutoExec. I followed the recomendations from a web site that word help steered me to. I followed all the startup paths and renamed all the .dot files, it did not help. Next I Added the Com add ins to the menus and looked to see what was there, nothing was. I restarted word again and I still received the same error! Any ideas would be appreciated, Larry Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96357
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    - "The number must be between 1 and 600." Running Word 2000, editing a document that was exported from FrameMaker as RTF, then imported into Word. When I try to edit a Style, I get this message and can't do anything with the style apparantly until I correct whatever it is complaining about. Anyone know what Word wants me to do and how to do it? Thanks! -- tom c Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96355
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    - I get Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! abnorma While in the middle of a document on Word I get the message Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! Program: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\WINWORD.EXE And right up under that is abnormal program termination, and when I click ok the program terminates Tag: backspace mysteriously broken Tag: 96354
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With a range of text selected, applying the backspace key fails to delete its
content. Rather, it simply moves the cursor to the starting position in the
range. Similarly, selecting a range and attempting to overwrite results in
prepending each new character typed to the selected range (not overwriting
the selection). Is anyone aware of a way of returning Word to its original
state? Thanks in advance,
Charles
charleshenderson[remove this]@hotmail.com

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Re: backspace mysteriously broken by Anne

Anne
Tue Jul 05 12:15:05 CDT 2005

Try Tools-->Options, Edit tab and check "typing replaces selection".
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"Charles Henderson" <Charles Henderson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:80AAA8F8-B4D0-4E00-88ED-13D2FE1946FB@microsoft.com...
> With a range of text selected, applying the backspace key fails to delete
its
> content. Rather, it simply moves the cursor to the starting position in
the
> range. Similarly, selecting a range and attempting to overwrite results in
> prepending each new character typed to the selected range (not overwriting
> the selection). Is anyone aware of a way of returning Word to its original
> state? Thanks in advance,
> Charles
> charleshenderson[remove this]@hotmail.com

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