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    - How do I make a template? I have a front page from a register book that I would like to be able to fill out and print from the printer. Do I have to make a template in order to do that? Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89051
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    - expanding Headers I am working on a large doc that was created my several people. In the middle of the document, I have 4 pages where the header is taking up the entire page. This is driving me crazy. Any suggestions? Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89047
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    - Conditional fields I'm just starting to appreciate and understand conditional fields in page numbering. Although I don't at this time need to have the following circumstances apply, I was just thinking "what if?" Suppose I wish to have the Page 1 header of a document read "Beginning" and the last page to read "The End" with all pages in between showing the actual page numbers. Could I do this all in one header or do I need to divide the document into sections? Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89041
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    - What does the Reset Field Form do? I am in need of understanding what the Reset Form Field button on the Form toolbarin Word 2003 does. I have searched Microsoft web site to no avail. Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89039
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    - Exam question wrong about Word? Opinions, please! I had an exam in which the following question was asked: http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c180/digitaltoast/OCR_ICT_L2_602_q22.png (You may need to "click the pic" to make it full size) There were 4 questions, but as we were under exam conditions, I had to do a rather clandestine screen dump to the fileserver, so I didn't get the other two options, but there were regarding alignment, I think "paragraph alignment" and "indent". Definitely nothing to do with it. So, we are left with "font" and "font size". Definitely not font. But not font size either! So, I called an invigilator over. She scratched her head, and along came another one. Eventually, they said "skip that question, see us after". So, I was sent to the the Office expert, who said "Ah, this is font - the font size is different". She then struggled to demonstrate it on Word 2000. She was able to make a bullet change size, but could not make the line text the SAME size as shown, AND get the font size dropdown to show a consistant font. We then tried it on Word 2002. This time, she was able to highlight the bullets, and make them change size. But this time they didn't change pattern! She gave up and said "it must be a different version, I don't know, but the question cannot be wrong." This is the ONE question I got wrong (because I hadn't answered it), had this question been possible, I would have got 100%. Yes, I still passed, but I'd like to get it sorted properly, for the sake of other people in the future. So, before I make a fool of myself to the exam board, is there ANY way this question CAN be right? For me, it was just about the satisfaction of getting 100%, but for someone else, that question might be the difference between pass and fail. Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89032
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    - What is violence? what is violence and what should we do about it? Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89031
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    - Saving a custom color When I'm using the custom color chart to color text, is there any way to save a specific color without setting it up each time? for instance: hue 2 ..........red 222 sat 255 .........grn 11 lum 111 .......blu 0 DSG Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89025
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    - create table of contents using headers Hi, I am not having any luck using individual headers to create a table of contents in a word.doc. Can this be done? Thanks. Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89023
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    - creating online forms Hello, I'm trying to develop an online questionnaire to access people's satisfaction with an assessment tool. I want to email the questionnaire to people, ask them to fill it out, and then email it back. The only way I found to do this is to create a webform with a 'submit' button included at the bottom. When I formatted the submit button, I set the submit form method to 'POST'. The email response I get back contains the information but it includes a series of extra numbers and symbols. Two questions then, (1) Is there an easier way of doing this? (2) Is there some way to open the sent text file within the questionnaire without the extra text and symbols? I am a relatively new user and only somewhat familiar with MS Word. THis project was dropped in my lap a few days ago and its causing me nothing but frustration. Help! Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89022
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    - Add to Favorites Missing in Word 2003 I've found where Suzanne Barnhill said : "Instead of adding the (Windows) Favorites folder to the places bar, why don't you create a Favorites folder in Word and add shortcuts to your most-used documents there, then add that folder to the Places Bar?" Can someone give me a step-by-step on how to do this? It sounds so simple, but I can't get it to work. Thank you so much for your help. Ardell Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89021
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    - Still frustrated trying to add buttons! It seems like adding menu command and macro buttons to my toolbars has become specific to documents, or at least Word instances, in Word XP. I was in Word 2000 last month, and had no problems adding a button for a menu command or a macro to a toolbar - it would be there the next time I opened Word, and it would be there for every document. Not so in Word XP - a button added may not be there the next time I open a different document. For example, I am using strike-through a lot on my current report, so I added the button through Tools >> Customize. I can open the report doc again and it's still there. While the report doc is open, I click New - and the button is missing! Normal.dot has been saved a dozen times since I added that button - but it's not there is a New doc created on Normal! What gives??!? Ed Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89019
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    - How to quickly blend my digital photo onto another image? Magic Photo is a photo editor. If you want edit photo, just use this photo editor. You can easily blend your digital photo onto another image to create special effect. It makes your photo interesting and pretty. This photo editor is very easy to use. Give it to your girlfriend or wife. I think it a good present. see sample at http://www.picget.net Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89014
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    - verticle FONT?? looking for a font (Arial) that will print vertically.. okay if it lays horizontal, I'm cutting the words out and mounting them on an edge (like a book binding). googled and found a million font sites, but went cross eyed trying to find a vertical one.. thanks Jack Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89011
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    - preserve/keep original vertical spacing and layout after deleting paragraph or sentences Hi, I am working with 10 (soon to be 14 and later on 18) word.docs that are about 25 pages each. These are kinda / sorta annual statement type reports. Each year, certain paragraphs change substantially, are deleted entirely (no longer applies), or new paragraphs / sentences are inserted. Example: say at the top of page 12, I want to delete an entire paragraph, or a piece of it. Word automatically shifts upward everything after what was deleted, disrupting the layout and indivdual page headers and footers. Since these word.docs are not final, I want the space that was occupied with what was just deleted to remain - it may be used for a replacement paragraph or sentence later, or it will remain blank, which is OK. I want everything that was after the area of deletion to stay where it was originally. These word.docs are mega-important, and ASAP turnaround is required. I currently have 10, which will become 14, and later 18. Using the enter /backspace /delete keys to shift things back to their original locations, or to restore some aesthetically OK appearance (and re-working headers / footers) is becoming increasingly time consuming and burdensome. In short, I want the word.docs to behave as if each page is a separate compartment - deleting a paragraph in one page will not affect the text layout & header/footers of any subsequent pages. If anyone can provide a solution, or anything that can at least mitigate this problem, I would sincerely appreciate it. I have researched this issue without success. PS - I inherited these word.docs from prior users, and re-building from scratch won't be an option due to time constraints. Thanks in advance for any replies. Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89006
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    - Changing "My Data Sources" Is everyone a robot? I just do not understand Word. I do not want my data sources in the My Data Sources directory, I don't even know where that is. I want it in particular place, and it's different with each merge. How can I change it so that each time it does not default to My Data Sources and have I have to spend 15 minutes clicking my way to where I need to go. At the very least, have it default to My Documents. Thank you many times. Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89003
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    - Merging documents Whatever happened to the simple way to merge a document in Word? I can't even find information on it so I will be ever grateful to anyone who can help me. I ahve a simple document, with about 10 places where the data changes. It is not a letter, it is not an email, it is not a fax, nor any of theo ther documents the merge tries to make you do. The main document is a regular document with regular information. The variable data is a regular document, not a database. I believe I can do the main document but I can't figure out how to do the variable document. In the main document, I have several fields in several places as follows: {MERGEFIELD "Email address"} or {MERGEFIELD "Section"} or {MERGEFIELD "Color"} My data is similar to the following: aaa@bbb.com Wall Dividers Red I seem to remember a way to enter the above data so that aaa@bbb.com always will merge into the Email address field, so you didn't have to worry about having exactly the right number of data, etc.. Can someone tell me how I'm supposed to be doing this? Thank you very very much. Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 89002
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    - Linking to pictures I have a document with several links to images, and now I'm getting a message throughout the entire document Error! No Topic Specified. What does that mean? What does that have to do with my pictures and why aren't they appearing. I went through each picture and field code, and all the picture files are there, but they are not displaying in the document. I spent a lot of time doing this, it seems like I always have to redo everything when I do documents in Word. Can anyone help please please please??? Thanks. Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 88998
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    - about indexing is there any complete tutorial web or other document for help in indexing best Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 88994
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    - protecting text boxes I have created a survey using word. I have created a table in which I have arranged all my text, text boxed & check boxes & am happy with the layout, look etc. I have locked the document using the lock icon. HOwever, when I have tested the form teh check boxes work but the text boxes don't can someone pls help, as I have spent all day trying to figure this out & am sick of looking at it now Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 88985
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    - Why is my scanned document different after I sent it to Word Hello, I would like to scan a blank form into Word and be able to fill it in over and over again with different information each time. When I scan it using MS office scanning, it looks great and shows the ocr in the thumbnail in the image to the left. Then I use the icon and "send to Word" at which point the document looks different with parts of it being in the wrong place. I don't know why this happens. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you, breighdi Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 88984
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    - with microsoft viewer how do I open a floppy file I downloaded the word viewer. How do I open a floppy disk. Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 88982
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    - Need a Word XP tutorial for beginners Please send me a Word XP tutorial to download. It's for my father who does not have web access. My email address is vaedmiston@hotmail.com Thanks, Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 88981
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    - How do troubleshoot saving a file? When I try to save a document in Word, I get the error message saying that Word does not respond. Does anyone know what this could be? Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 88978
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    - Normal.doc template problem some how I put a file name on my "Normal.doc" template.. how can I remove it, and just have a blank space, so that when I go to save a doc I don't ALWAYS have to remove the (wrong) file name ??? thanks... Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 88968
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    - Dropdown box in "Open" dialog won't. Not sure whether this is a Word problem or Windows, hence the crosspost. A client of mine runs Word 2000 on XP Home. When he goes to File-Open and clicks on the arrow next to the box that is labelled "look in", instead of a folder tree showing, nothing happens and Word locks up. can anyone suggest why this is happening and a cure? Thanks -- Gordon Burgess-Parker Systems and Management Accounting www.gbpcomputing.co.uk Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 88966
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    - Use Word2003 to send email Hi, I have two questions. 1, In a web page, how can I let use click a link of an email address to open his Word2003 to send an email to that address? 2, How do I specify my default email address in Word2003? My email address is the "From" address. I can type my address in the From box. But I want to specify my default email address so that I do not need to type it. Thanks. Chris Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 88961
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    - Perplexing Word Problem I'm not a new user but I don't see another place to post this. Word 2003 (from Office 2003): When I open word and start a new blank document, my cursor is positioned at the very top of the page, and that is where typed text is placed, even though a one-inch top margin is set. I am an experienced word user (since 1991), and I cannot find out what is causing this. I've delted normal.dot and let word recreate it, and it doesn't help. If I go to View / Header and Footer and then immediately click close (without doing anything), the cursor is then positioned in the proper place, as specified by the page setup top margin. Anyone have any ideas what is causing this? Barry Watzman Watzman@neo.rr.com Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 88957
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    - Word HTML Emails Send Graphics as Attachments I'm using Word to put together a newsletter that will get sent out as a HTML email. During testing I have found that a recipient using Outlook sees it as intended (formatting and graphics look great). A user viewing the same email using a service such as Hotmail also sees the HTML email as intended. However, in Hotmail any graphics that were included in the message also show up as attachments. Is there a way to prevent the graphics from also being sent out as attachments? Thanks!!! Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 88941
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    - FIGURED OUT TEXT LINES I just sent a nastygram to MS over the inability to determine what line/inches a given line of text is on. I must apologize because in reviewing the options window, View tab, out of frustration, I chose view 'text boundaries' and now I can see the actual line info like I used to in Word 2K. However, I am STILL upset that I don't have my Office toolbar anymore with this new Office 2003 version. I used that toolbar to access all of my standard office and non office applications in one click and now i've had to update my quick launch area with those same applications (and not all of those at that). Would MS consider returning the toolbar to Office 2003????? Pleasssssssssse! :) ---------------- 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=165322f9-978f-43af-bd5f-78fd8cc7f81d&dg=microsoft.public.word.newusers Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 88924
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    - Prompt text Hi, I have been asked if it's possible to have guidelines appear in our Reports template which will disappear as soon as the user starts typing. E.g. Under a heading SUMMARY could be some text to describe the details required in a summary. As soon as the user starts typing the summary the guidleines are replaced with the information the user types. Is there some way this could be achieved? Thanks, John Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 88898
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    - Spell check not working properly? Here's one for you Suzanne. (I mention you by name because you seem to spend your life on here, helping strugglers like me!). I have Word 2000 on Windows 98. The spell check often lets mis-spelled words go - DINNING (when I meant DINING) comes to mind. I've looked in my dictionaries and dinning doesn't appear to be an actual word of its own. It is not in the custom dictionary so I haven't accidentally added it during a previous spell check. Is there a way of editing it out of the main english (Australian) dictionary. The other thing that happens is that the spellcheck seems to isolate just the parts of words that I'd previously edited using the track changes option. So for example I may have changed HOPING to HOPED and spell then highlights the ED on its own and thinks it's a mistake. Any comments? One other thing, sometimes find won't pick up a sequence of charcetres but if I delete and retype them it now does! I've tested the files in question by saving them as HTM, which appeared to pick up the normal.dot curruption I previously suffered (and I've started a completely fresh normal. dot after renaming the old one), and toggled on the prompt me.... Tag: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? Tag: 88894
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In word, I continually get dots "printed" with each stroke of the spacebar.
How this was begun escapes me, as does how it stops.

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Re: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? by garfield-n-odie

garfield-n-odie
Tue Apr 18 00:35:25 CDT 2006

Please read the reply to the same question you posted earlier
today in another newsgroup. Please do not multipost.

Howard R. Wolf wrote:

> In word, I continually get dots "printed" with each stroke of the spacebar.
> How this was begun escapes me, as does how it stops.

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Re: How does one stop the spacebar from "typing" dots? by Suzanne

Suzanne
Tue Apr 18 08:07:43 CDT 2006

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

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"Howard R. Wolf" <HowardRWolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> In word, I continually get dots "printed" with each stroke of the
spacebar.
> How this was begun escapes me, as does how it stops.

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