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    - Web Page Wizard I'm using Word 2002 and was reading about the Web Page Wizard in the office Assistant. How do I find the Web Page Wizard? Thanks Evan Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65583
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    - WORD 2000 (1) select text and (2) double lines. I have WINDOWS 2000 as the operating system and Word 2000 presents two problems: 1) Is there a way to select text "page by page"? Or character by character? I've been simply holding down the Control key and dragging. 2) I have some odd double lines that appear (I do not know their source) and they are not subject to normal deletion methods. Selecting above and below the offending lines, attempting to delete the double lines: Format/Borders & Shading/Borders Format/Style - Normal "Help" is no help. Neither method worked. Any help on either item would be appreciated. Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65577
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    - How to reverse foreground/background colors I occasionally copy web pages into Word. On some pages, the producer has used strange foreground and background colors. One of the more common is white (or other bright colored) letters on a black (or other dark colored background. I'd like first to switch foreground and background colors, and then to change them around to normal God-fearing black text on white background. If I click Format Font, I can set the color to automatic, but that doesn't do it. Please suggest alternatives. -- PT Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65576
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    - Word and Windows ME Can anyone tell me which version of Office, if any, is compatible with Windows ME? Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65573
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    - Document Range containing Entire Document Hi, I need to create a range object that contains the entire document. This is what I wrote in C#: object start = 0; //start of document. object end = docTemplate.Characters.Count; //end of document. rngDoc1 = docTemplate.Range(ref start,ref end); //range object Is this the correct way of doing it? Any help would be highly appreciated Regards, Wamiq Ansari wamiq@msn.com Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65568
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    - Pop Ups Is it possible to create a hyperlink that appears as a Pop Up in Word 2002? Thanks Evan Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65563
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    - Word Double-Spacing when I hit return Normally when I type in Word and hit return, it goes to the next line. Now it is skipping a line. I've checked my paragraph settings and it is set on single-space. I can't figure out how to get it back. Help! Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65562
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    - Odd formatting problem I'm using Word XP (2002) and have encountered an irritating formatting issue. Whenever I apply a formatting change in a document--e.g., adding a bullet list, or bolding a line of text--the change gets applied to the entire document. If I then do a ctrl-z to undo the change, I am left with formatting applied as originally intended (i.e., the erroneous formatting to the entire document is removed, but the intended formatting to a specific section holds). Has anyone else encountered this, and know how to remedy it so I don't have to hit ctrl-z every time I apply formatting changes? I've looked at the autoformat settings and nothing there looks like the culprit. I'm thinking it may be an issue with the Normal template, but can't see any way to make changes there either. It sounds like a corruption, since I can't think of any reason you would ever want a setting that applies every format change to the entire document. Thanks in advance for any insights. --Jerry Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65557
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    - Translation Hi All Could someone tell me what I need to have Installed in order to perform English to French and French to English translations in MS Word ( Office 2003 SP3 ). TIA Cas Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65556
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    - product key I have a microsoft word 2000 disk. I lost the product key, but the number I wrote down is wrong. Does anyone out there have the right one. This is the one I have: DRGD9- RTY3T-6G7DP-FQ640-QJ8WB. I think that one of these letters or numbers is off. Can someone help me? Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65551
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    - problem with tabs and formatting I'm trying to create a word document with the simplest of formats. I want the tab length to be 0.5" and I want the return key to trigger a new new. I DON'T want any MS Word "smart" formatting where a <return> starts a new line indented at the depth of the last tab. I've tried to turn off every possible automatic formatting option I can find but Word persists in trying to "help" me. Can't I make MS Word work more like notepad or some other rudimentary text processor? I'm using Word 97. Thanks in advance! John Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65548
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    - Page Break Somehow I inserted a pagebreak that separates the bottom cells of a table I created. How should I elimanate the pagebreak to reconnect the cells to appear as one table? Thanks Evan Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65546
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    - Run Word2000 without a new document I'm trying to open Word2000, but I don't want it to start with a new document. I used /e on my Excel97 shortcut and it works. But I can't seem to figure out how to do it with Word. Thank you in advance for any help ! Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65540
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    - Email Slow I recently setup Word 2002 (sp3) to enable Email within Word using Hotmail under Windows XP(up to latest security fixes as of 7/15/04). After I select the from, to addresses,etc, I click the send or send copy button, Word indicated it was sent, however, there were no trace of the email. Three hours later, the receipent got the emails. If I do this over Hotmail, it is done within seconds! From what I gathered, the Hotmail setup is correctly done. The issues is why does it take so long? Any help will be greately appreciated! Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65538
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    - Table with hyperlinks OK I've created a table of photos and I have a question 1. I want to create a hyperlink on each thumbnail photo in my table to a larger copy of the photo with a caption which is on a later page in the same document. How do I do this? Thanks Evan Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65535
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    - Equation Editor v MathType Can anyone comment on MathType vs Equation Editor 3? I am writing a document with some moderately complex equations. Equation Editor is not as easy to use as I would like, but it's not that bad. Will MathType make my life $130 better? ;-) Thanks PS: Is there a better ng for this question? -- Running Word 2K in Office 2K on Win2K-SR2 For email, use Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65534
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    - Can't Install Works Suite 2004 This is embarrassing. Trying to install Works Suite 2004, but can't get past "must close following programs: "Norton AV (navapw32.exe)". I assume this is the AV autoprotection executable. Tried closing it via Task Master, and have tried disabling it via Norton AV options, but neither appear to temporarily disable the autoprotection...and I can't get to first base with the Works Suite 2004. Is there any way I can get past this first step, short of uninstalling Norton and then reinstalling it once Suite 2004 is installed? -- thanks,bmc Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65526
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    - Can't copy a symbol into Find what box Find and Replace will not let me copy anything in my Word document and paste it into the Find what box. I want to search for symbols I come across in a document from someone else I am reviewing and find all the instances of the symbol in the document. Even though the question mark in Find says paste into the Find what block it won't let me. Anything copied and then pasted goes into the document, not into the Find what box. Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65523
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    - ASCII HELP! I have a document I've typed in Word, and I need to save it in ASCII format. I thought that all you did was "save as" Text only. I've tried it both "with line breaks" and "without line breaks." But then when I tried to pull the converted document up in WordPerfect, all my page breaks are gone and my headers and footers are gone. What am I doing wrong???? Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65522
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    - Table w/ popups I've created a table of photos that I 'd like to be able to click on each photo and a larger photo of that along with its caption appears. Is this or some variation possible? Evan Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65520
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    - Shortcut for degree symbol If I click on Insert / Symbol and then locate the degree symbol, it says at the bottom that the shortcut key is "Ctrl + @, Space". Is that correct? What does it mean? If I hold down the Ctrl key and press the "@" key, it does something to the line spacing. Then pressing comma and/or space does nothing. Thanks -- Running Word 2K in Office 2K on Win2K-SR2 For email, use Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65516
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    - business cards Does Word in Office XP have an option for business cards?.. thanks tcoop Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65513
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    - I need to get rid of the clipboard... I'm sure there is an easy setting. Thank you. Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65502
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    - Word versions compatability I use Word 2000 and Works 4.5 (prefer it to Works 2000) at the moment.If I install Word 2002 and Works 7 on the same machine, can all four programs co-exist? (Win 98se) Regards and thanks in advance Pat Macguire Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65499
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    - search parameters I have Word 2002. Is there a way to delete previous search parameters when I'm searching for a file with a certain word in it, and start with a clean slate? In other words, if I've chosen several directories in which to look for something previously, I may not remember that those directories are chosen the next time I'm searching, and depending on how large those directories are, the search could take a lot more time. Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65496
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    - Speech Recognition Is there any way to import a wav file that I created into the Microsoft speech recognition software? Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65494
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    - problem starting when we startup we gethis message activex component can't create object alsowhen we open a text file the font comes in an script even thought we have saved the normal.dot with courier we have reinstalled office but matter didn't change Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65487
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    - "Normal" Template WIN XP HE, Word 2002 Hi, I get a message that the Normal Template has changed, etc., when I open or close Word. How do I restore that Template back to the "original" default one that comes when you first install Word? Tx, S Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65483
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    - Keeping a hyperlink fresh Hi, I have created a hyperlink in word. Once I click on that hyperlink then the hyperlink loses its freshness ( that is it no longer has the blue color which it has before clicking on it.) Is there any way to always keep it fresh ( I mean my hyperlink works each time I click on it as expect it to, only thing is it will not appear blue after the first time.) Regards, Hari India Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65477
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    - Page/Section breaks are printing XP Page/Section breaks are printing in Word XP all of a sudden. I've been using this version for some time and it just started doing it. Does it on 2 different printers and I also had someone else print and it does it from their XP Word. Tried it from Word 97 and it was just fine. I have never run into this in any of the Word versions before. Does anyone have a clue? Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65475
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    - Mail Merged fields My mail merge fields in Word are highlighted in Gray. How can I remove this highlighting? Thanks in advance, Aaron Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65473
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    - Count specific word I'd like to see how many times the same word has beed used in the document. How do I do that? Word count only gives all characters used, not specific one. Thanks for your feedback! Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65470
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    - two columns and footnote the title of my document is one column, the body is divided into two columns. i wanna add a footnote to the title. but once i add the footnote, the two column part (i.e. the body) will automatically be moved to the next page. i want them to stay in one page. how can i do? thank you very much. chain Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65469
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    - Open in Word? Hi--I am sure that I used to be able to right-click on my WORD icon in the taskbar, and use an option that asked if you want to open (the page ) in WORD. Please don't tell me I'm dreaming, and that it's something obvious I'm too blonde to see. Thanks if you can help! Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65468
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    - Opening files in Word 2003 Backed up all doc created with WORD 2000, upgraded OS to XP pro also updated to WORD2003. Issue is that I can not open many of my documents. Error message indicating that I need to check "Permissions" , Text Recovery converter? These are all documents that I created. Why can I not open them in Word 2003? Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65467
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    - Correction modus Office XP, standard settings after new installation Former Versions (up to Office 2000) showed the proofreader's mark in the overwork modus in two colors (red and blue). In Office XP this changed to one color and a signe format (e.g. underlined). The reason for this change might be to allow the proofreading in teams (one color per person). I would rather like to keep the old modus with two colors (new: blue, delete: red). In the extra option menu is no button to make this change. I positiv know, that it is possible (I mad this change over a year ago, due to an new installation I now again have to deal with the standard settings) -- but I cant remember how I did it (registry?) Does any body know how to configure word in this way (or where I can find it in the knowledgbase) Best regards Jens Fabry Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65464
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    - Fonts not showing in Word I installed some new fonts into my font folder and I can see that they are in there but then when I open up word and go to change the font there are blank rows where they should be listed. I can even click on that blank space and it will change to the font that should be there. It is just annoying that I cannot see the sample as I am scrolling through the fonts The fonts I installed are all True Type fonts. I am using XP Any suggestions? Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65457
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    - Cut and Paste This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0014_01C469EC.105F5CE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Any idea how to change Word from erasing stuff in clipboard when it = opens. I am using MS Office Word 2003. ------=_NextPart_000_0014_01C469EC.105F5CE0 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 6.00.2800.1400" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D4>Any idea how to = change Word=20 from erasing stuff in clipboard when it opens.  I am using MS = Office Word=20 2003.</FONT></STRONG></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0014_01C469EC.105F5CE0-- Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65451
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    - overlapping letters Sorry if this post comes up twice, my computer freaked out at the same time I clicked send and since it has been a few hours and it has not posted I thought I would try again. Ok now to the question - My Word 2002 is overlapping the letters in a Word when I bold that word. So all the letters are being placed on top of each other. Any suggestions to what went wrong? Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65449
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    - Online Collaboration - How is this done? Hi - exactly how do you set up online collaboration? I checked the Word 2000 Help File (Clippy), but nothing about it came up. I am assuming that online collaboration allows multiple Word users on different computers to simultaneously edit a document via the internet. Thanks Joe Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65448
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    - Letters overlapping All of the sudden my Word documents are overlapping the letters in words that are bolded. I am using word 2002 Any suggestions? Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65447
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    - Copy & Paste chart into Word Hi, I have a chart in Excel that has several drawings (lines) superimposed but separately. The whole thing looks the way I want now and I would like to copy and paste it into a Word doc. The problem is that it only copies one element (the one selected, for example the underlying Excel chart) or one of the lines that I drew on it. How do I copy the whole image composed of the 4 or 5 superimposed elements in one shot, as a picture for example, and paste into a Word doc? Tx for your help. Sat Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65444
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    - XP/2003 I couldn't find any place to put this question so here seemed the best place: What's the difference between Office XP and Office 2003? Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65434
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    - Browsing for selected styles I use Word 2002 for manuals. Occasionally I find that I've messed up a Style and I open the Styles and Formatting Task Pane and choose "Select X instances" where the messed up Style has been used. But I don't know how to browse from selected instance to selected instance. Is there a way to do that? Thanks! Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65433
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    - Speed up access to Word documents Hi, I have a server named \\Server that has a folder called WordDocs, that has a load of Word documents that contain links to images in a folder called Images. I have remote offices that access the Word documents over a VPN using ADSL lines and that works OK. However to speed things up I thought it would be a good idea to make read-only copies of WordDocs and Images onto the remote local servers. Then the users at the remote office could access the Word documents locally when they just wanted to print them. However when they open the local document it accesses the images from the remote server and not the local server (because the links are stored as UNC file names eg \\Server\Images\Image1.JPG. The only way around this problem would seem to be to use a mapped drive (say drive Z) to specify the location of the image files and then to point Z to the local image folder on the remote systems and to \\Server\Images on the central system. That means the links would be Z:Image1.jpg) However, I read in these Newgroups that Word does not like mapped drives. Is there another solution to my problem apart from mapped drives ? Thanks Iain Hamilton Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65432
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    - Showing clipbard In using Word 2002, I did the following to have the Clipboard Icon always appear on the right hand corner: Edit > Office Clipboard, clicked Options button near the bottom of the clipboard's display and checked the box beside 'Show Office clipboard automatically'. However, it still doesn't automatically appear, even though there are two items in there but the only way I can view them is manually going to Edit > Office Clipboard. Any advice? thanks in advance, Regina Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65431
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    - Drag and drop does not work There are times when I cannot drag and drop text in Word 2000. I cannot move it around inside the document, or move it from a paragraph to a table. Is there some setting, or is my installation bad? Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65428
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    - Merging percentages from Excel to Word Using XP, when I merge a percentage from Excel into Word, I get the following: If the number in Excel is 4.5% (.045 formatted as percent), when I merge it to Word, I get 4.999999999999E+. It works fine in Window 98, but not XP. Does anyone know how to fix this. Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65426
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    - Fonts in Word XP. In Word for XP, what has happened is that the non truetype fonts in the fonts folder are not appearing in Word, but the truetype ones are and I've no idea how to get the non-tt ones in there? Any ideas? Thanks. Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65422
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    - New tab created automatically when applying a style I want to have the first tab stop in style Heading 4 a bit further out than its default - at 1.65cm rather than 1.52cm. If I edit the style definition, create the new tab and clear the original one, it saves fine. But if I e.g. use the format painter to copy the format of a Heading 4 paragraph and apply this format (style) to another paragraph with the same format, the whole underlying definition of the style is altered and the original tab re-introduced! I don't have 'automatically update' checked, by the way I tried creating my own style based on Heading 4, but the same thing still happens with that. The earlier tab always seems to want to creep in. Does anyone have any ideas why? TIA. Tag: Mail Merge Tag: 65416

How to be able to edit my mail merge recipient list.This is the message that I get:
"This operation cannot be completed because of dialog or database engine failures, please try again.

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Re: Mail Merge by Suzanne

Suzanne
Tue Jul 20 09:33:24 CDT 2004

This dialog cannot be used if you have more than 286 fields in the data
source (unlikely). It is also extremely slow if you have a huge number of
records.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"nemeimporta@loquepase" <nemeimporta@loquepase@discussions.microsoft.com>
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> How to be able to edit my mail merge recipient list.This is the message
that I get:
> "This operation cannot be completed because of dialog or database engine
failures, please try again.
>
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