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    - Word crashing consistently Hi, we've been having a problem with a user running WinXP pro with office XP pro SP3. Essentially, if he opens up a new word session and clicks the bullets and numbering button, the application crashes and closes. Also, we have custom templates (dot files) that we created for our business documents and whenever he opens this template to create a new file, he is unable to open the style and formatting pane. If he does attempt to open it, Word crashes in the same way. We tried uninstalling office and reinstalling. Nothing changed. We tried renaming the Normal.dot file to have it recreate a new one, and once again, nothing happened. We also noticed that this problem only occurs on his profile. If I log into his computer with my account, everything is fine, and I can open up all the panes. Anyway, I hope you can help me out here. I looked on MS website and couldn't find anything in the knowledge base or their hotfixes. Thanks a lot, Marc Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64228
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    - page numbers showing as 0 on every page word 2002 working on a document (which as crashed - so i copied & pasted all into a new document etc) but now i've noticed that the page numbers are showing as 0 on every page - even when i tell them to start at 1. I inserted the page numbers using the icon on the headers & footers toolbar. any ideas???? Cheers JulieD Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64221
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    - two problems Hello, Small Problem: Is there a way to force Word to always open a document at 100 percent size. My program often opens a document at 140% or even 200%. Bigger Problem: 60 percent of the time when I close Word it crashes. If I tick "Use Word as editor" in Outlook this will increase to about 90 percent. Then it wants to recover the document (I've learned to always save the document before I close) and it wants to send a report to Microsoft (and I've let it send hundreds). Thanks Word 2002 SP3 O/S is Win XP Pro SP1 Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64219
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    - Problems When typing a word document and i come to the end of a line the word is not going down as a word. eg if there are 3 characters left to end of line and i have a 6 letter word then instead of moving the whole word down to the next line it just spilts up the word HELP Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64217
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    - Insert an Oval picture into a Word Document? W97, W98SE Can anyone tell me how to insert an oval picture into a Word document and have the text wrap around the oval shape? I have a portrait in the oval shape but when inserted it goes in as a square (white around oval). I have tried putting the oval shape on a transparent background but same thing happens. Any help appreciated. (Am I in the right newsgroup for this question?) Patti Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64213
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    - How many installations do I need? When I install Word, I always select the option for a complete installation. Nevertheless, shortly after I start typing or using a spell checker, I am told that the part of the program I need has not been installed yet and I need to dig out the disc and install the necessary component. How do I get absolutely everything I need installed in one go? Why doesn't it do this anyway when I select the complete installation method? Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64211
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    - office xp I would like to make changes to a doc & show the pages & changes on the pages. Markup does some of that but what happens when one adds text & the page overflows to the next page. One could end up printing all the rest of the doc :-(. What I would like is to add a page x.1 or something like that. One would just have to print page x & x.1 for distribution. Page x+1 would remain unchanged. HELP! TIA Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64210
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    - Menu toolbar - rearrange permanently I have Office 2003 and Win XP. Each time I startup the toolbars are not in the position I left them in at the top of page. How do I permanently keep them arranged the way I select them? This will save me doing it everytime I use the software. Thanks in advance, Jeremy Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64207
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    - Comments - remove initial I have Office 2003. I insert a comment but my initials and a number are next to every comment I insert. I need to remove my initials and numbers from displaying in my documents when inserting comments. How do I do this please. Thanks. Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64206
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    - Word template I have created a document template in Word 2003 that contains a custom header. When I open the template I am not able to see the header in normal or print layout view without going to view Header and Footer. What setting do I check to? Thanks, Aaron Neunz Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64195
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    - Date format for Track Changes Hi everyone, When I have a document with Track Changes information, currently if I rollover a change I get the date of the change in American format (month/day/year). Can I change this? I want the standard UK format (day/month/year). The odd thing is, i'm pretty sure i'm set up using a UK dictionary and UK settings (also my global computer regional settings are all UK based). So, i'm not sure what's going on. This is driving me nuts!! Also, is there any way to change the date format to something more friendly (e.g. Mon 2nd July instead of 02/0604). Help much appreciated, Stu Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64193
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    - Word saves a copy of all changes I make? I've heard that Word XP saves some evidence of all changes and revisions that I make to a document. For example, if I am keeping a log and in June, I correct/rewrite an entry from April (in the same document), someone would be able to detect that the entry was not written in April. This can be a problem with legal ramifications. Is there a way to shut this feature off and get rid of any record of changes made? How would I check if any record of re-write was left on my hard drive? Is there a negative consequence to shutting off a feature like this? Thank you for any help. Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64192
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    - Remember what printer to use in a doc file Can Word 2003 on Win XP Home remember what printer to use with each doc file? I cannot seem to make this happen. If I print a doc file on a specific printer, then save that doc file, and then in a subsequent session reload that doc file, the printer gets reset to the default printer. I've a bunch of documents which should always print on one printer, another bunch that should print on a second printer, and so on--they are special-purpose and customized for their target printer. Lotus WordPro remembers. Would like to replicate this in Word. Have not found how in the help system or on Google. Thanks. Randy Scarborough Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64191
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    - Master style document ? Hi, Is it possible to have one master style template which defines fonts, headings and other general stuff, which other templates may refer to? I know it is possible to copy styles from e.g. normal.dot to another template, but I wan't to define the font we're using in one template, and the rest of my templates will automatically use this font. We're using Word '97 Regards Bo Rasmussen Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64190
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    - floppy I've found an old floppy of mine and would like to see whats on it. However, whenever I try to open it, I'm told that the disk needs to be formatted. How can I see whats on the disk without having to format it? Thanks Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64188
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    - Bulleting NatureCan someone explain bullets for me. Sometimes when I want bullets I click it and then select which one I want.When I close it everything except what I want have bullets. I have to click Undo and every time I make a selection I have to Undo again. When I Undo it does erase all bullets except what I want. Does anyone understand what I am trying to say. Thanks Bruce --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.701 / Virus Database: 458 - Release Date: 6/7/2004 Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64178
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    - Find and Replace Wildcards I have some text (example): <html> <body> </body> </html> I would like to do a find and replace like so: Find: <*> Replace: [*] With the output: [html] [body] [/body] [/html] Is there a way to do this? Matthew Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64167
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    - 3D borders My son would like to get a 3D border around some text (Word 2003 on Win XP Home). We try the Format->Borders and Shading menu to get a dialog box and push the 3D button, but the border stays flat (no change from the standard Box border). When we reopen the Format->Borders and Shading dialog on the text around which we have placed the "3D" border, the Borders-And-Shading dialog indicates that the border is "Box", not "3D". So somehow the 3D is refusing to take. How do we get a 3D border (and what does it look like, anyway)? (We have gone through the help system, online and offline, and we are doing what it says we think.) Thanks. Randy Scarborough Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64163
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    - Mini Labels I am trying to locate very small inkjet labels for a project of mine. I am trying the Avery 8658, 189 per page at 27 x 7. Even they are too big and I end up cutting them laboriously. Ideally I need a selection of about 12mm by 3mm, 12mm by 6mm, 16mm by 3mm. Naturally I would prefer A4 sheets but anything will do if they are hard to come by. If they are clear labels, see-through, even better, but that is making the search even harder. BJ Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64150
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    - Custom Dictionary: Can more memory be allocated? Hi I maxed-out my custom dictionary. It won't take any more words. What's the best thing to do in that case, apart from deleting some of the words in it -- I've been doing that, but it's very tedious because there are few errors and it would take a much longer time to properly purge it. Thanks for any and all help. Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64149
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    - inserting files - problems with formatting i have a user who has 300 files that he wants to insert into one word document .. okay, no problem, have code that will do this - however, each of these documents is formatted inconsistently to the others but he wants each one to retain its own formatting. I thought that placing a section break before the insertion of the first file & in code after the insertion of each additional file would mean that the documents retain their own formatting but its not happening. Font colour is staying okay but font type / size / borders etc is being "lost" and changed to the document that the other documents are being inserted into. Any ideas? Cheers JulieD Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64147
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    - Winword caused error in GDI.EXE Crazy thing this morning: When I opened seemingly innocent Word documents, I received this error message: "Winword has caused an error in GDI.EXE. Winword will now close." And it did. Poked around on Google and saw a few hits that mentioned a connection between this error message and Internet Explorer. (Didn't make sense to me, either.) So I did a repair of IE via Add/Remove programs (knew a repair wouldn't hurt anything) and the problem went away. Any thoughts on how the two are/were connected? Just curious. Mike Maltby in the house? Thanks, Joe Starin Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64143
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    - document template I need to create a transmittal template and want to be able to do to things 1. want to select a drop down form field which has a recipients name....and allows me to add new recipients 2. I want to link that name to an adress field it's probably very simple, but I'm pulling my hair out trying to find the procedure \Thaks. Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64142
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    - keyboard shortcuts In word 2000 premium, I would like to be able to format text that has been copied into a document based on a custom template. I would like the text to take the format of the custom template. And, I would like to do this by using a keyboard shortcut such as Ctrl-X. Thank you! Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64133
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    - Word New Documents When using Word 2000 premium, I'm trying to customize the standard toolbar. What I'd like to happen is when you click the "New blank Document" icon, a new document appears based on a template other than Normal.dot. Is this possible? Is so, how? Thank you! Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64132
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    - Word 2003 Markup problem for Comments We're trying to convert over 200 Word 97 templates to Word 2003. In Word 97, we used the comments feature to display pop-up help text. Worked great. In Word 2003, to display the comments, Markup is selected. But, it also displays the comment numbers behind the highlighted text. Is there anyway to keep the highlighted text but lose the numbering? For example, yellow-highlighted text has "C1" following it, for example. If Markup is turned off, users can't see the highlighted text to view the pop-up help windows. I'm new to Word 2003 so maybe I'm approaching this wrong but it was very simple in Word 97. Any suggestions? Thanks, Charlie Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64107
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    - Excel-VBA_Protection_ON_OFF Le 8 Juin 200 Sujet: Feuilles de calculs Excel: Protection_OFF_ON par VBA sans le Password prompt Bonjour J'ai crÃ©Ã© une petite application standard en Excel 2002 en utilisant des macros Visual Basic Application - VBA Les feuilles de calculs Excel se doivent d'Ãªtre protÃ©gÃ©es. Toutefois, je dÃ©sire enlever la protection d'une faÃ§on ponctuelle lorsque je veux faire des changements de donnÃ©es dans la feuille(s) de calcul par une macro VBA et, une fois les changements faits, remettre la protection par la macro VBA et ce, SANS faire appel au "Password prompt", fenÃªtre qui demande Ã l'utilisateur d'entrer un mot de passe. En effet, dans le cas de l'affichage d'un "Password prompt", il faudrait donner le mot de passe Ã l'utilisateur et la protection ne servirait donc Ã rien et serait inutile. Ce mÃ©canisme de protection, OFF et ON, par programmation VBA devrait prÃ©fÃ©rablement Ãªtre compatible avec Excel '95 ou,pour le moins, Excel '97 jusqu'Ã Excel 2003. Mais, tout de mÃªme, peu importe les versions d'Excel Toutes les suggestions sont bienvenues Merci de votre aimable collaboration. Bonne journÃ©e, Wilky Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64105
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    - Save Macro (amongst others) I have just had to reinstall all mt progs and in doing so I have lost a set of macros that amongst other things gives a pop up message in MSWord when it is time to save your work but I can't remember where I downloaded it from. Does it sound familiar to anyone? TIA Mike H Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64103
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    - Text Box When inserting a TExt Box in Word97 you would click on the TEXT BOX button and then click on the screen where you wanted the box to appear. You could than size the box. In WordXP a box appears that says CREATE YOU DRAWING HERE and creates a larger box aroung the text box. How can I disable this action so that it behaves like the 97 version did? Thanks Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64101
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    - spelling capers When checking the spelling in Outlook Express (MS Office XP Dutch) it sometimes stops at a "misspelled" word. 1. The word was NOT misspelled. 2. The new suggested word = exactly the same as the so called misspelled word. I can choose to "change" or to accept the "misspelled" word. What's the logics of all this hotch-potch? -- regards, |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os mccm dot vos at hccnet dot nl URL http://home.hccnet.nl/mccm.vos/ ICQ 326628 Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64099
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    - Converting Power Point presentations to DVD mpegs Support needed urgently! Anyone who knows how to convert a PP presentation with animations into a mpeg file that can be burned to a DV Thanks in advanc Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64098
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    - Mail Merge with an Underline Background I am doing a bunch of certificates and on the certificates there is tabbed ledger with an underline so the name could go on top of it. Problem I have an excel spreadsheet with fields ready for a mail merge to go. When I go to insert the fields the underline goes away. I guess it is because it overwrites it. I tried putting the mail merge fields in a text box, but it causes word to generate VB errors when trying to merge. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Reem Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64090
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    - Your FROM ADDRESS has been rejected by server. SERVER Hello We had recently got the following error for one of our user in our exchange 2000 server Bu after that & before that there was no problem .But this is crucial as this should not repeat again .. Where the problem will be . Can any one help. Your FROM ADDRESS has been rejected by server. SERVE ERROR: 554 Command not implemented. Bounced back mail attached Bye - Deepak .R Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64086
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    - Style "Clear Formatting" Problem (Office XP) Re: I have a document in which the "Clear Formatting" box which normally appears at the top of the Styles list has somehow corrupted. The box, which normally simply has the text "Clear Formatting" with a hover tag "Clears formatting and styles from the selected text" still has the hover tag but now displays (to the very small extent it's able given the fixed dimensions of the box) "130" in Wyatt GB CFA font at 130pts. In addition, when clicked it doesn't clear anything - it changes the selected text to Wyatt GB CFA 130pt!! I note also that when I try to page number, the page numbers appear in Wyatt ... 130pt. Nowhere in the document is that font used, however I have no knowledge of what may have been done in the past. Firstly, is there any way I can repair the 'Clear Formatting' function? Secondly, how can I reset the default Page Number Style? Thank you & Regards Ian Bull Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64079
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    - microsoft word border problem lexmark printer The bottom border on my Microsoft Word document will not print no matter how I set the page margins and border points "from edge of page". The solution was to set border points "from text" and then adjust the page margins. Here is where I found the answer: http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/BottomsDontPrint.htm Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64075
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    - Word 2003 and EndNote I use Word 2003. I also use the bibliographic program EndNote 6 with it. I've noticed recently that when I have them both open (which I need to if I'm using EndNote to make citationxs in a Word doc), Word freezes and then crashes. Perhaps this is just a coincidence and there is a glitch of some sort in Word. I'd appreciate any help that you can give: 1) Is this a problem with the Word 2003/EndNote 6 combination? If so, how can I fix it? 2) Is the EndNote piece just coincidental and there is instead something going wrong with Word itself? if so, how can I fix this? Thanks! Dave Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64073
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    - .WPS File I hope someone can help me. I have received a file via OE that has a .wps extension, I tried to open it in Word ( Office XP) and was told that I need to install the converter, inserted the XP Office CD and apparently installed that, but I still cannot open the file as all I get is those square box things and nothing legible. I have also tried changing it to .doc, .rtf, text. pdf but none of those seem to work for me. Any suggestions please?? -- Regards Joe Tasmania Remove NOT to reply Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64070
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    - prompting - re changes to normal.dot I'm trying to get my pdf toolbar (it's gone). When I delete my normal.dot ... I keep getting prompted that changes have been made to normal.dot. Where do I disable that from happening. Please and thanks. Diana Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64069
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    - Why?Why?Why?Why? Can anyone tell me as to why I have to re-install Word 2002 every week or so? It will work fine and then for no obvious reason it will present the message "That it is not installed for the current user and to re-install it". I am the ONLY frickin' user of this machine. I have de-installed and re-installed it so many times that I wonder as to "Why did I ever purchase this piece of crap"? This pgm came as part of Works Suite 2004. There must be a registry hack to stabilize this pgm so that I don't have to re-install the beast. Doug Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64065
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    - Copy-paste problem I have Word (Office 97 SBE version) installed in my XP Home. Since upgrading my Jaws Pdf Creator software, a blue pdf icon has appeared in the Word toolbar, and every time I copy/paste text an identical blue pdf icon pastes instead of the text. A second copy/paste is successful. How can I resolve this problem please? jbag~ ..... Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64064
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    - a custom bullet style I can't get rid of A few days ago, in Word 97, I created a new style called bullet, then I tried to delete it and I couldn't it. And now, if I place the cursor in a paragraph and click on the bullets button on the formatting toolbar, instead of bullet formatting being applied to the paragraph, the bullet style is applied to the paragraph. I go to Organizer and delete the bullet style from Normal. But when I open a new document and click on the bullet button, it still assigns the bullet style to the paragraph. I can't even get the style out of Normal, though I've deleted it. In fact, if I open a pristine copy of Word, it will initially not show the bullet style in the all styles list. But if I click the bullet button, it applies the bullet style. And when I open the Styles dialog again, bullet style is now there on the list! So I can't make any sense out of this. Larry Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64063
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    - Intall new font I'm trying to use a font called Burweed ICG. I've put it on other computers but there are a couple that I put the font file in the font folder (c:\windows\fonts) or any other font folder I've seen. Then the choice for Burweed is not there when I open word. Is there any other place I need to put the font for Word to find it Thank cj Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64062
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    - Remove section lines I have this problem. In a document, I used this: __________________ and a side to side line was created. I thought it was just a draw to enhance the underscores line, but I found that it is other thing. Now I don't know how to remove these lines and they appear when I don't want to. In some paragraphs, when I press the enter key a line appears. I don't know how to explain it better. If someone can help me I can send a .doc file with the problem. Regards, Diego F. Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64058
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    - Printing in Word I want to create a document (Ballot) and print out 500 copies but I want each ballot to have a seperate number on it. Could someone please help me. Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64057
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    - Can I do a Tick? That's my question, really! I don't know if other countries call it a tick, but I mean the mark that teachers use to indicate you have done something well. It's the opposite of a cross. (I used to get a lot of crosses at school!) I want to use it in a table to indicate that something is present. I can use the multiplication sign for the cross, but can't find a tick anywhere. Any help will be appreciated, and sorry if I'm just being stupid. -- Anna Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64053
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    - Word 2003 Does anyone know whether Word 2003 allows creation/editing of SGML files? I know it handles XML, but have been unable to locate any information on SGML capabilities associated with this application. Thanks! Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64052
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    - Anyone know Keyboard Shortcuts? Is there a keyboard short for: Increasing/Decreasing character spacing by 1 point and/or Increasing/Decreasing line spacing by 1 point Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64039
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    - Removing a name throughout a report I have an 11-page report and I'd like to remove a last name throughout this report-- say "Smith." Isn't there a way in Word to globally remove one name from the whole document ? Smith comes up about 50 times in the report. Isn't there a better way then picking through the doc and deleting one-by-one ? Thank you. Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64037
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    - Why does size of picture change when it is inserted? Hi, W97, PS7 Hi, I have edited a photo in ps, saved as a tiff at say 2" x 3". When I insert it into my Word document the size is always larger and I have to reformat in Word. Can you tell me why this extra step is needed. Thanks Patti Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64034
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    - EXT function stuck on. Please help I have been typing ok all day and now when I click or use a direction key the monster selects a paragraph instead of letting me type. The EXT button is off and I've turned off everything that seems relevant in Tools>options>edit Please answer in plain english. I really am challenged Thanks. Tag: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. Tag: 64033

When I click on the Word Icon in the Program list, it takes 1 minute 53
seconds to open, open a blank document, and allow me to start working.
Excel, Access, and other programs don't have this problem. Any ideas ?

Thanks,

Rob

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Re: Slow (very very slow) opening Word. by Suzanne

Suzanne
Sat Jun 12 10:50:30 CDT 2004

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm

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"OM" <lepperrj@loxinfo.dot.co.th> wrote in message
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> When I click on the Word Icon in the Program list, it takes 1 minute 53
> seconds to open, open a blank document, and allow me to start working.
> Excel, Access, and other programs don't have this problem. Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
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