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    - Font Question, Please Hello: Thanks for previous help. Is there a single font called "Arial Times New Roman" ? Or, is it (only) an "Arial" Font, and another, second, font called "Times New Roman" ? Thanks, Bob Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77689
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    - Building a hyperlink I am using Word 2003 to create an email merge (connection is to an SQL Server). I want to customize the hyperlinks something like this: htp://mysite.com/mypage.aspx?id={xxx} The value of "{xxx}" will be different for each message - a field from the database. How do I do that in Word 2003? Wayne Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77686
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    - Word 2003 is forcing two pages on a doc that was one in Word 2000 A document that was one page in Word 2000 is now two in Word 2003 and it has not been edited. Formatting on both documents (i.e. font and spacing) are identical. Why is it doing this and how do I fix it? I'm in the middle of a quarterly report and need immediate resolution. PLEASE HELP!! Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77685
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    - M.S.Word 2003 already installed,how can I use, I don't have CD . First off, I should say, I'm a newbe, I guess it's called. I know very little about this PC stuff. I have PC that microsoft word is already installed on, but it won't let me use. It keeps wanting me to enter 25 digit code number from CD. I don't have any CD. What is "certificate of authinticity"? Can someone please help me in dumb peoples terms, that I can understand? Or am I s.o.l.? Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77678
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    - Problem With Drop-down Field--Word2002 I am trying to create a form with drop-down fields. I have created a Table. I select the drop-down field icon from the Forms Toolbar and place the field in a cell. I double-click on the new field and the property dialogue opens. I enter and add each item in the list I want the user to choose from. When I close the dialogue, the first item I entered displays, but no drop-down arrow to enable a choice. TIA Stu Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77677
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    - Portrait to dual landscape I have a document with a graphic above and below some text. It has been created to print out correctly in portrait mode on an A4 page. I want to print it as two smaller versions side by side (with a space between) on the same size paper but in Landscape mode. Is this possible? If so some pointers would be appreciated. Thanks Brian Tozer Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77676
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    - use word perfect setting prompt as you go I am switching from Word Perfect 2000 to MS Word 2003. In WP there is a setting for the tool bar in which you see each word as you type it and it will either offer you spelling choices or it will offer you thesarus suggestiosn just by clicking the down arrow. The word appears in this little window and does not need to be highlighted. I used it a lot but I cannot find this in MS word or even if this is available in their program. Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77665
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    - Unwanted pattern matching I have a simple document - no (intentional) tables or graphs or paragraphs or anything. Here's some text. A 8 A- 7 B+ 6 B 5 B- 4 C+ 3 C 2 C- 1 The problem is that when I hit a carrige return after "c- 1", a "D-" is automatically inserted on the next line. If I hit <cr> after "B- 4", a "C-" is inserted. The "A-" doesn't have this problem. Somewhere a pattern seems to have been established. How can I get rid of this? TIA LAS Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77657
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    - Hyperlink PowerPoint Presentation to Word Client is using XP He creates a presentation, saves it, then File | Send to | Microsoft Word. He selects to Paste Link. He gets the slides and comments in Word. However, they do not update when the presentation is changed and saved. I tried both changing Comments (which he wants to see updated) and the slides themselves. I have closed the original Word document and reopened it after being sure the "Update automatic links on Open" is checked in Tools | Options | General. Are we doing this incorrectly or does Word NOT update when the presentation changes? Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77656
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    - Text editing problem.. Guys - I have got myself a list of files from a folder on xp opened in word (it's a list of all files within my music singles folder so I can print them off and put them with my mp3 player). However this list contains the date, time and file size etc. (standard file view in xp) and I'm trying to delete it to just leave track name part of the line. Is there an easy way I can just delete the first 60 or so characters on each line of text without having to do line by line - obviously if I try to delete a block by moving the mouse downwards, it grabs everything right to the end of the line and highlights that for deletion to. In other words I highlight the bits i don't want, move the mouse downwards to the next line and the rest of the line I wanted to keep is highlighted........a very complicated explanation of a very simple thing methinks!! Thanks in advance... Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77640
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    - Importing Of Fonts Into Word 2002 Question ? Hello: Using WORD 2002, and XP. There are a few fonts from an even older Word that I have on my PC that I would like to import and use in Word 2002. How can I do this, please ? Also, is it possible to import any fonts that might be available for free from outside of Word ? If so, how and from where ? Much thanks, Bob Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77634
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    - AutoText Certainly not a new user but don't know where to post this one (Please tell me where may be better). Some time ago we prepared a Word 2000 template using a table and Autotext. Sentences (from a different document) were added to autotext (some were 700+ characters) and each given a code. Typing the code successfully inserted the text into the table (of the template and 'new' documents). This template still works OK on Word 97, 2000, XP. We are now trying to set up new templates on the same basis. However, we cannot enter more than 255 characters (on any version) into autotext. What has gone wrong/are we doing differently. Please help before I lose all my hair!!! If the original was a 'quirk', any other ideas for automatically entering text using a code? Many thanks Terry Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77631
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    - how to create a calendar in word Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77623
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    - footnote to endnote conversion problem Using Word 97. My wife's publisher wants all her footnotes converted to endnotes. When I did it, in one of her files, the endnotes converted but with a short line on the left of the top of the page as it did when they were footnotes. How do I get rid of the line at the top of each page of endnotes? Thanks. -- Jeff Stevens Email address deliberately false to avoid spam jeff@stevens.com Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77617
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    - Top border of pie chart does not show in print preview. I have a pie chart with a border around it; however, the border does not show in print preview, no matter where I place the pie chart on the page. Any suggestions? Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77615
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    - Delete old style and formattings I rarely use all the available style and formattings. How can I delete those default ones so that I don't have to scroll down a long list to get to my customized ones. Right clicking shows a delete option, but is greyed out. Can't select delect. Thanks in Advance Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77610
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    - .pdf file too large We have a new scanner in our office. For some reason, it seems that it produces .pdf files with a much, much larger number of bytes. Now, many of our files can't be sent to certain recipients because of their size. Do you have an opinion as to why this is? Could it be because the scanner is not as high-end pricewise as the previous one? Is there some kind of magic I can perform to get the files smaller in size? Thanks for all you do!!! Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77608
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    - web pictures not appearing Hi all, I have a real mystery here. I have copied from a document that was originally in html format then pasted into word. Everything fine but when I send this document to someone else all they see is a red cross where the picture was! How can I resolve this? Most grateful. Sam Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77604
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    - Unable to delete a Word Document. Unable to delete Word Document. Cannot drag and drop in recycle bin. Cannot get to properties. Microsoft Office 2003. Tried Safe Mode to delete, still could not delete it. Thanks Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77598
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    - Problem saving files Ok, this is very weird, and my previous mail is probably slightly related to this problem too. I will detail what I do and what goes wrong. I have a master document (and 10 subdocuments) with which I work fine. I always work in my master document. When I save my master document (and therefore all subdocuments), I always make two copies. The one that I am working on currently which I leave in my working directory, and a copy (of the masterfile, all subdocuments and everything else that is called up in the master document) and put that (always) in a new directory (which I usually name after the time/day it was saved. Each consecutive master file is named also with a time/day in it. If for one reason or another something goes wrong with my masterfile, I just copy the old masterfile (and all the subdocuments that I had saved at that same time, etc) I had saved before back into my working directory and I continue from there. This always works. And now something weird happened. Many times while I was working in my latest masterfile, a previous version of my masterfile was opened up. This happened often when inserting footnotes or other text. I always closed the older version and went back to the version I was working on but somehow I was suddently on quite a different page and I had to scroll back (or forward) to get back to my cursor (where I was). often my whole master file goes into a "flickering" mode and many pages suddenly scroll in front of me and then too I have to go back (or forward) several pages to where I was. When I saved my masterfile (and therefore all the other subdocuments, as usual), I saved it, as usual, under the new name, including the time/date in it. I noticed however that this latest version of the masterfile is much smaller than the previous saved version 20kb vs 180kb). That was weird. All other previous saved versions were 150kb, 160kb, 170kb, 180kb (they became sligthly bigger as I added things to it). It seems that when I open up my latest version, it needs to "open" up the previous (old) version as well. Somehow my latest saved version doesn't seem to be a saved file, but a saved link (although this is not stated anywhere!). When I remove the old version of the masterfile (but all subdocuments etc stay) from my working directory, WORD can not open my new masterfile anymore and gives me the following message: Word experienced an error trying to open the file. Try these suggestions: Check the file permissions for the document or drive Make sure there is sufficient free memory Open the file with the text recovry converter Digging deeper, it says: The file you tried to open was not found. It may be missing, in a different location, locked by another application, or unavailable due to file permissions. If you are sure the file exists but you cannot locate it using the Word File Open dialog, start Microsoft Windows Explorer and perform a search. If the search dialog returns a listing of your file, double-click on it to open it. If the file does not open, it is either corrupt, locked by another application, or is protected by file permissions. What I want of course is that Word saves my file as it always did and not save it as a kind of link or so. Does anyone have a clue? ta Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77593
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    - footnote problem Hello all, I am working on an old document of mine. It was created in W0rd 2000, but I am using now Word 2003. One footnote is set at page 100, but is now printed at the bottom of page 94. No matter what I do, I can't get the footnote at the bottom of page 100. Also, it's nr is 3, although there are no other footnotes on that page and should say 1 (and only 1 footnote on page 94 but even than it should say nr 2 and not 3). What worries me most is that even when I delete the footnote completely and recreate it at the right place on page 100, it automatically puts it on page 94 again. And not only that, Word opens up an older version of my file too, and starts working on that one. All other footnotes work ok, this is the only one that is weird. Anyone any suggestions? Thanks. Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77592
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    - Word is incredibly slow to open up large documents - on network and when copied to local machine ? Hi all, I have a number of large documents that we are trying to open, and they are taking an incredibly long time to open fully. I get the first few pages quickly, but then you see the pages down the bottom left increment very slowly. If I do a ctrl-end it repaginates very quickly and gets to the last page fast. Any ideas what could be causing this ? Office2K on both XP and Win2K machines. cheers, Adam Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77591
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    - Problem with automatic-capitals in new line. I have Word2000 & Windows XP I make labels by using tables, and in these table cells I use pictures, textboxes and just plain text. However I get the annoying property of an automatic capital letter at the beginning of each new line, and I don't know how to switch this off. Please help, Frank Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77586
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    - document template and settings When I type text color is blue. I've changed the font color and saved over the normal.dot file. Still the text is blue when i open a new blank document. Searched through the preferences, can't find a thing. I've also clicked on the default button in fonts window after changing to automatic black. Nothing worked. How do I set the defualt font color to black? Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77585
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    - document tabs don't line up on different pc's Hi folks Hope you may be able to help with this annoying and seemingly unintentional problem. I have a word document saved on one pc that I have emailed to other pc's. The document is basically a list of people and their phone numbers, laid out on the page using tabs so that it reads in columns...name number name number...down the page. Although it displays fine on my original document and some other pc's, there are a number of pc's in which the document, when opened, has the text all cramped up and basically in a right mess. There doesn't seem to be any way to reorder the lines easily so that the original orientation of the 'tabbed table' is recreated. Any clues? Hope this all makes sense. Many thanks in advance for any assistance. Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77583
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    - Passing Parameters into Word from a Hyperlink If I open a Word document from a hyperlink, how can I see the full hyperlink used from within Word, e.g. <a href="mywordoc.doc?name=fred&city=london">click here</a> I'm using Word 2003. Thanks Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77578
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    - Microsoft Works Suite I have a Windows XP and just purchased the Microsoft Works Suite. As I loaded the 5 discs they all seemed to load properly. After loading I opened Microsoft Works Suite and everything loaded properly except WORDS. I have rebooted, this did not work. I've tried to reload the Word Disc and it won't download. Has anyone had this problem? Any suggestion. Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77572
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    - Footer help (for last page only) Does anyone know how to edit the footer of a document on the last page only? What I have is a document where every page needs to be initialed except for the last page; the last page has a section where the person signs and dates the document. Any help would be appreciated, Ian Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77567
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    - Problem using Insert/Symbol: not all of my fonts show I've installed a new font to print Romanised Pali and Sanskrit characters in Word 2000 using XP. The fonts show up fine in the Word document, but when I go to "Insert", "Symbol" to make shortcuts to special characters they don't show onthe drop down menu. In fact, that drop-down shows a limited set of fonts. All my fonts, including the new ones, show up on Character Map and they're all listed in the Windows/Fonts folder. Anyone have any idea what might be going on? -- Michael Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77564
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    - Which view for wysiwyg and embedded objects? Hi All As a novice word user I tend to use "page layout" view as it seems to give me the closest version to WYSIWYG when you print.This does not always come true especially if you insert/add an object such as a "check box form field" or "digital ink handwriting" which show up as {EMBEDDED CODE of some sort}which also makes it difficult to format the remainder of your document as you now have a lot of gibberish on the screen.You have to go to print preview to see the true layout."Reading Layout" does not seem to help. How can you see such objects as they will print and still work within Page layout (or other wysiwyg view)? TIA Sam Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77549
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    - How do I scan a document and make changes to it? How do I scan a document to my computer to make changes/update. I have Windows XP. Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77548
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    - =?Utf-8?Q?Why_do_I_get_#_when_=C2=A3_typed_=3F?= I have checked Regional Settings in Control Panel - ? is it a keyboard problem ? Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77545
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    - HOW CAN I MAKE A RESUME FOR WAREHOUSE? I WANT TO WORK IN A WAREHOUSE BUT THEY DON'T GIVE OUT APPLICATIONS THEY SAY THAT THEY NEED A RESUME. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW CAN I MAKE MY RESUME. IF YOU CAN HELP ME PLEASE I WILL APRECIATED. THANK YOU CINCERELY JORGE Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77538
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    - Word Icon Missing How do i get word 2003 icon to show in saved word documents, it just shows default file icon Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77537
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    - Help working with Track Changes, please? I've got to use Track Changes to edit some reports. I turn it on, then turn off Highlight On Screen and Highlight in Printed Document. The problem I've run into is that sometimes after making a change, I can't backspace or delete. I have to move the insertion point somewhere else and then move it back. Today, I was working with some tables and had to completely turn it off! Can someone give me some pointers understanding how this beast works? Ed Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77532
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    - Cannot change style after copy/paste Hi Using Word 97 (from Office 97). My wife is copying footnote references from one document to paste in the text of another Word document. The pasted text appears formatted as "Footnote Reference". Obviously she wishes to change that into "Normal" in the new document but is having a lot of trouble doing so. She selects the new pasted text (presently formatted as Footnote Reference), clicks on the drop down style box, selects "Normal", presses the Enter key, but the pasted text remains formatted as reference text! She's tried selecting everything (Ctrl-A), and doing the change style thing, again with no result. Then suddenly, selecting in different ways, the change occurs. So it is very frustrating and time consuming. What is she doing wrong? What is the correct way to effectively change the style of a pasted text? Thanks. -- Jeff Stevens Email address deliberately false to avoid spam jeff@stevens.com Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77528
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    - Upper Case to Lower Case Change text from UPPER CASE to lower case. How do I do it???? Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77527
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    - Keep With Next I have a Word 2003 table that has Keep With Next marks on every row, yet Keep With Next and Keep Lines Together is NOT selected. Any idea what else these marks indicate, and how do I get rid of them? Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77520
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    - downloaded template doesn't appear in the list when I click "File>New..." This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001C_01C55AA2.F18CB760 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I bought some announcement cards and downloaded the template from = Hallmark to the same directory that Word keeps its templates. Only now = when I try to open a new document by clicking File>New...that template = doesn't show up in the selection. =20 It just has the same old generic ones that Microsoft includes in Word. How do I get this template to show up? I twould really be nice to be = able to use it instead of entering everything by hand. TIA ------=_NextPart_000_001C_01C55AA2.F18CB760 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>I bought some announcement cards and downloaded = the=20 template from Hallmark to the same directory that Word keeps its=20 templates.  Only now when I try to open a new document by = clicking =20 File>New...that template doesn't show up in the selection. =20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>It just has the same old generic ones that = Microsoft=20 includes in Word.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>How do I get this template to show up?  I = twould=20 really be nice to be able to use it instead of entering everything by=20 hand.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>TIA</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_001C_01C55AA2.F18CB760-- Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77519
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    - Page Numbering after section break I have a 3 page document (a cover letter which doesn't need page numbers). But I want to include a section break at the end of the cover letter and then add some sample pages of a novel. These pages will need to be numbered. How do I do that? Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77517
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    - How to hide the comment mark? In word2003,I want to hide the comment mark. And when I move the mouse over it ,the comment can be shown. How to do that? Thanks in advance! -- Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77515
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    - Can I 'paste' something onto my MS Word page? I am trying to copy some text from the web onto the MS Word page that I have created. I can't seem to 'paste' it onto the page. Is there another way to get it there? Thanks! Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77513
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    - How do I save the actual Word settings? Okay, I am having problems with my Microsoft Word 2003. I have the same program for another computer in my house and I want to save those settings to my computer downstairs. I already tried to remove Microsoft Windows 2003 from my computer and reinstalling it, but the results werenâ??t different. Please respond an easy step by step response to me at gogochar@yahoo.com. Thank you. Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77502
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    - Microsoft Word I rebooted my computer but I cant open Microsoft Word what can I do to get the program back on my computer. Please Help Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77501
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    - how do i retsore my background back in word 2003 how do i retsore my background back in word 2003 Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77491
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    - how stop Word from opening with a new document When I launch Word 2000, it opens with a new document. I've looked all through the options trying to find out how to stop it from doing this, but have been unable to find such an option. Being notorious for looking right at things and not seeing them, I'm wondering if there if there is such an option. Thanks in advance, Terry Liittschwager Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77489
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    - Way to replace Envelope template? Is there a way to replace the envelope template used in the Tools => Envelopes and Labels command? I like being able to select an address in the letter and having it automatically entered into the Delivery address portion of the dialog box of Tools => Envelopes and Labels. I also like having the option of turning on and off barcodes when needed. But I have some graphics I'd like to print as part of the return address. Messing around with bookmarks and the {BARCODE} field is a bit of a chore. Any ideas or hints would be appreciated. Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77480
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    - Watermarks I have a Word document with a watermark starting in section 2. When I go to Format > Background > Printed Watermark, the No Watermark option is selected. There is also no watermark selected in the Print > Properties > Effects > Watermarks list box. And there is no picture in any of the headers. I can't figure out how the watermark got in there. Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77478
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    - how do i set template to continue on next page in word? i would like to make a template where users will see particular tables they can type through in the document, and as they go on to the next page i would like the tables to be "locked" in the same position on the next page kind of like a watermark so they dont have to open the template again. Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77472
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    - how to unhide file menu in word I am not able to view the file button in the menubar in Word. How can I unhide that. pls suggest? Tag: Funny characters Tag: 77465

While typing I seem to have hit the wrong key and a whole lot of unusual
characters came up. I can't paste them to show you wht it is but in Symbol
box it is 00B6 or Shortcut key Alt+0182.

How do I get rid of these signs?

Thank you very much

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Re: Funny characters by Jay

Jay
Sat May 21 14:09:18 CDT 2005

On Sat, 21 May 2005 19:28:34 +0100, "Peter" <abc@here.com> wrote:
> While typing I seem to have hit the wrong key and a whole lot of unusual
>characters came up. I can't paste them to show you wht it is but in Symbol
>box it is 00B6 or Shortcut key Alt+0182.
>
>How do I get rid of these signs?
>
>Thank you very much
>

The "wrong key" was either Ctrl+Shift+8 or the ¶ button on the toolbar
(they're equivalent). Press that key combination or click that button
again to turn off the symbols.

The symbols are all explained at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

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