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    - Deleting User-Created Styles in Word 2007 Word 2007. I am attempting to delete several user-created styles from the template (not just the current document). In the Styles Pane I go to Manage Styles, the Edit tab, and then choose (near the bottom) "new documents based on this template." Then I click delete and hit yes when the confirmation comes up. When I exit Word I save the changes to the template (which happens to be the normal template). But when I open Word again the styles are still there. What am I missing? Thanks, Ross Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 114025
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    - Vertical location indicator In Word 2003, at the bottom of the screen it would tell you what your vertical position was. In Word 2007, the only tool I can find is the vertical ruler which I find very hard to determine my vertical position. Is there something that will tell me that my cursor is so many inches from the top of the paper? P.S. I am not wanting to change my top margin. Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 114023
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    - help I have Word 2007 installed on my computer, but for some reason, it's not > working. I am not able to type or edit anything at all. When I try to, the > message reads, "This modification is not allowed because the selection is > locked". Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 114021
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    - Lists Hey I am trying to make lists in word 07... but it keeps doing something weird on me. I go: 1. Page Setup: a. Text i. ii. b.Text That is what I am trying to do but when I go off of a. Text to i. text it just ticks me off what am I doing wrong. Do you understand what I am saying? Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 114018
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    - Is there any way to undo "Arrange All"? I had 5-6 documents open and carefully arranged so that I could compare information across documents. I needed another view of one of the documents and aiming for View | New Window, I hit Arrange All by mistake. Now all of my careful document arrangement is lost. I don't suppose there is a command to restore the previous document size and placement...? Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 114016
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    - How do I find a deleted word document letter? Hi there, I've deleted a very important word document by accident from recent item folder. Now I'm desperate to find. Please help me if you can. Best regards Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 113999
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    - Downloading MS Office Hi all! This is actually an Office 2007 question but seeing as there are no categories here for just Office I have placed it here in the MS Word category. I downloaded MS Home and Student Office Suite 2007 trial some time ago. I subsequently bought the full version. I need to reinstall it on a new PC. Where can I re-download the files from? I have no reference point anywhere in the emails I received when I bought the product. On the MS website it says I have no purchase history (presumably whatever cookies they gave me at the time have since disappeared). Many thanks, Troy Filipek -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/ms-word-general/200810/1 Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 113975
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    - inserting own letterhead and logo on top page I use Windows Vista Home Premium, Office 2007, Office Word 2007 In Word 2003 I created my own company letterhead with logo and register it so when I need it, all I have to do is to type few letters that are assigned to that letterhead. In Word 2007, I am unable to find such feature. Can someone tell me how one goes about accomplishing the same? Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 113974
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    - How do I ressurect a file I did not save in Word 2007? I was doing a school assignment and thought I hit save and apparently didn't. I know the file was saved every so often while I was working on it. Is there anyway to find those files? Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 113972
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    - How do I revert back to a previously saved version of a file? I erased a file to reuse the format of it and accidentally pressed save instead of save as. In other versions there is a simple command to revert back to the last saved version, but I can't seem to figure it out on Word 07. Please help. Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 113965
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    - Odd Page Section Break - Word 2007 Hi folks, Microsoft Word 2007 I inserted an Odd Page Section break at the end of the first page, continued creating my document. When I duplex print, the page of text following the first page prints on the reverse of the first page. I had wanted that to be the next odd page, with the page number set to 1. The page numbering is correct, but the odd page break did not do its task. I am at a loss to fix this. Any suggestions? Pepper Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 113943
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    - Saving to the desktop with no .doc extension displayed I've searched for the answer to this but with no luck. Is there a way of saving a document to the desktop but not have the .doc extension displayed? Many thanks. Bert Coules Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 113932
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    - scan 2007 Har endelig fundet ud af at fÃ¥ makroen sat pÃ¥ hurtig adgangsbÃ¥ndet. Men hvordan fÃ¥r jeg den til at kÃ¸re igen?? altsÃ¥ Ã¥bne scan? Der sker ikke noget nÃ¥r jeg dobbelklikekr pÃ¥ det ikon jeg har valgt. -- Birgitte Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 113929
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    - Scan in Word 2007 Kan nogen fortÃ¦lle mig hvordan jeg scanner i word? I 2003 udgaven havde jeg en "knap" der hed "billed fra scanner eller kamera". Den kan jeg ikke finde mere. Jeg har Office Enterprise 2007, hvis det har nogen betydning. Har fÃ¥et en engelsk forklaring til hvordan jeg kan gÃ¸re, men den kan jeg ikke fÃ¥ til at fungere. -- Birgitte Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 113924
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    - PREVENTING FOREIGN STYLES COMING INTO WORD Hello Team, I have created some templates for our staff to use and everything works very well. None of the styles are auto update and they are based on "no other style" which means I update each end every one individually if I need to. Thats the way I want it. What I can't do is prevent users from bringing in external styles when they "cut & paste" stuff into the documents. Pretty soon the styles area looks like a shambles with all sorts of styles that I have not created. I'd like people to be able to paste text in, and despite me telling them to convert their source to "TEXT ONLY" before pasting, they want to preserve their original tables, drawings and other items, so they still manage to inundate the styles panel with rubbish. Any ideas on how to prevent external styles being pasted in. Cheers Peter pedro61@gmail.com Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 113923
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    - Making text stay the same when merging from Excel Our information for the cover page of our contract documents is set up in Excel. We then merge this to Word. The last time we did this, 2nd Addition in the housing development name of Sugar Creek 2nd Addition came up in a smaller font than the name. How do you make all of the text stay the same size when you are merging from Excel to Word? In Word we use the Update Link or Linked Worksheet Object to pull the information from Excel to Word. -- mw Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 113916
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    - Use Matte Paper? How can I specify that I'm using Matte paper. I want to include a picture in my document and the picture will look better if I can use Matte paper. Thanks, Doug Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 113905
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    - Two versions of Office on the same computer... Hello, I am running Vista and am having problems with Word. It opens but I do not get a cursor. I had Office 2007 Basic, which came pre-installed on my computer. Needing Powerpoint, which Office Basic does not have, I also purchased and installed Office Home and Student edition. I also installed a another product that I use to create PDF files. This was working for a while, then I ran into problems with it and had to uninstall/re-install. When uninstalling my PDF creator software, Word threw up an error message saying "Word has encountered a problem". Since then Word will open but I can never get a cursor, I can't type anything. I do know that the pdf software does install/remove an add-in to Word. But now, even with the pdf creator software removed, Word still doesn't work. Is it OK to have both version of Office installed? Can they work side- by-side? Thanks for any info! Geekgrrl. Tag: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? Tag: 113901
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Writing text using microsoft word, a line of close square dots has appeared.
It will not select. How can I get rid of it? Auto-format doesn't touch it.

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Re: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? by Graham

Graham
Mon Oct 06 21:47:20 PDT 2008

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CantGetRidOfLine.htm

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Kamh wrote:
> Writing text using microsoft word, a line of close square dots has
> appeared. It will not select. How can I get rid of it? Auto-format
> doesn't touch it.

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RE: what is a line of square dots in text, won't select or delete? by BobT

BobT
Tue Oct 07 15:03:02 PDT 2008

How big is your document - do you have multiple pages? The dots could be an
indication of a page break. If you change your view to Normal (choose NORMAL
from the VIEW menu), do the dots go away and a page break appear?

"Kamh" wrote:

> Writing text using microsoft word, a line of close square dots has appeared.
> It will not select. How can I get rid of it? Auto-format doesn't touch it.

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