How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields?

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    - Word won't allow a font change - rectangles appear, but no letter Word will not accept font changes - no matter which font is chosen, only rectangles appear. I'm stuck with font Super French, and I can bold it or change the size and changes made earlier today show as letters, but I really would like to see the rest of the letters. Any ideas why this has happened? Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77745
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    - I am in college and need to learn how to use word for my document I am now in college and need to use word for my documents. anyone out there? Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77738
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    - Signature macro I have worked out a signature macro, but there is one small annoyance with it. It does not underline the email address. If you enter an email address directly into a document, Word can recognise it as an email address. But running this macro does not underline it. Any suggestions, or is this just a genuine "feature"? Selection.Font.Bold = wdToggle Selection.TypeText Text:="Firstname Lastname" Selection.TypeParagraph Selection.Font.Bold = wdToggle Selection.Font.Size = 8 Selection.TypeText Text:="Email: ab@abc.com " Selection.TypeParagraph Selection.Font.Size = 12 With ActiveDocument.PageSetup .FirstPageTray = wdPrinterLowerBin .OtherPagesTray = wdPrinterUpperBin End With End Sub Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77737
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    - How do I stop style changing Although I'm not a new user to word, there is something basic that is happening that I just don't understand. I have some text in the cell of a table that is essentially clear formatting but with typeface blue. There are several lines of it. If I delete one of the middle lines the line below changes - in this particular case to Heading 3. (This is just one example - deleting a CR would also have the same effect.) However much I 'para format' the whole column the problem still occurs. Can SKS help out It is Word XP, WinXP Pro OS. TIA Robin Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77732
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    - How do I start a Title page for a 10 page report? -- Melissa Claire Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77728
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    - How do I get rid of extra address books? When I loaded in Microsoft Office, It picked up all of the address books on my computer. I need to get rid of all of them except contacts. Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77727
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    - How to protect a doc? I know that a doc can be protected from being modified by setting a password.But others who can't modify the doc can copy the content of the doc to other doc.Is there a way to forbid the copying? Any help is appreciated.Thanks. Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77725
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    - fuck microsoft :P fuck microsoft! what more is there to say lol ---------------- 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=dab42dcc-d56a-4982-a110-609e024a0aca&dg=microsoft.public.word.newusers Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77717
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    - Page Numbering & Section Break Hi, I have a title page in the first section, a table of contents in the second section, and the main body of my report in the third section. In my header, I have Page 8 of 16. The number "8" is correct, because I instructed Word to start over at the new section. But the 16 is 2 too high. It is including the Title and Table of Contents. If I look at the field codes, I have this in my header: Page { PAGE } of { NUMPAGES } How do I get NUMPAGES to only provide the count in the current section? I am using MS Word 2003 on a WinXP PC. Thank you. HS Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77715
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    - Blank page when I open msword 2000 Help I recently had a virus wipeout my computer. I reformated an installed XP, and msword 2000 The problem is when I open a new or old doc the is no menu Bar at th top. Just a blank window. I do have the scales at the top and side. I can us word if I use the approprate keys... : Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77713
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    - Character Position Hi , I am working on word automation in vb. I am finding bold characters in word file using find.execute function, every time when i got the bold character in find function , i want to check previous character bold or not. I want character position of the current character. Range.start is giving big number compare to range.chharacter.count . Thanks Karunakar Gade Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77711
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    - What Font(s) For A Resume Hi, Thanks for all the help re my font questions. As this question is a bit different, will start a new thread. Anyone have any experience with, or opinions on, what is the best or most appropriate font(s) to use for a resume ? Thanks, B. Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77707
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    - How do I get rid of ads for "marketplace" merchandise in help When I click on help I just want help. I'm not interested in being bombarded with ads and 'featured links.' Aside from being annoying, these strike me as a major security risk. How can I restrict help to looking for help and not the rest of this extraneous content? If the convenience of the user is what's at stake here, this 'feature' should be disabled by default. At the very least instructions on how to disable it should be prominent and visible. If on the other hand the idea is to steer users into yet another online shopping site... More generally, Microsoft has a tendency to come up with all kinds of new features that may be exactly what somebody is looking for but are an annoyance to at least as many other users, and then make it all but impossible for the user to figure out how to get rid of the feature he never asked for and doesn't particularly want. I really wish they'd knock it off. Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77701
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    - Explode text box? A certain PDF converter program places text in text boxes when it converts to Word. How can I get the text out of the box? I think the boxes are linked, because if I delete one the whole page disappears. However, I know next to nothing about text boxes. Also, how can I get the boxes to be invisible? Not the text, of course, but the dashed outline around the box. rs Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77696
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    - shortcut key for Full Screen? Is there a shortcut key for Full screen and what is it? Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77693
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    - Funny characters 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 Tag: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77692
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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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77631
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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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77617
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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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? 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: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? Tag: 77592
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I need to print out 500 documents from an existing word document. I need to
change the name, ssn, and a few other fields. What is the best way to do this
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Re: How do I create a document that lets me change certain fields? by Doug

Doug
Mon May 23 15:03:56 CDT 2005

Use Mailmerge. See the article "How to create a Mail Merge" at:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/CreateAMailMerge.htm

and "Creating a Mail Merge Data Source" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/CreateADataSource.htm

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Frank" <Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I need to print out 500 documents from an existing word document. I need to
> change the name, ssn, and a few other fields. What is the best way to do
> this
> faster?

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