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    - How to deactivate I bought Office XP for students and teachers for college. I installed it on to my PC at home and activated it. Just recently I bought a laptop for school and installed it onto my new laptop. After using it for alittle while the program froze and every time I tried to press a key a caption came up on the bottom of my screen saying; 'This command is not available because the document is locked for edit.' I tried everything possible and then I discovered that I needed to activate it on my laptop, but it wouldn't let me because it was already activated on my other computer at home. I need to have this progam on my laptop for school. Is there some way that you can help me? -Lindsay Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48660
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    - OT: Office XP Academic I know that the academic version is available to teachers and students. Does anyone know if that includes retired teachers?? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48629
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    - aleatory page-numbering Somebody knows what is "aleatory page-numbering" and how it works? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48627
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    - styles I followed shauna kelly's explanation of numbering to the letter (I think). (http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering .html) and still can't get outline numbering to work properly. I am getting the following problem 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 4.1.1 The third header doesn't follow properly. The only thing that doesn't work in terms of Shauna's directions is that when I select "Previous Level Number" and try to indicate that the level before Level 2 is Level 1 and so on it does not allow the level to stay selected. It reverts to blank. Any thoughts out there? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48625
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    - Word Count I am writing a document for university with a strict word limit. This limit includes the main text only, and not text related to pictures, headings, references and certain other parts of the document. I would like to know what is and is not included in the word count (for example are headers and footers, or text in text boxes included), and is there any way I can get it to only count words in text of my choice (blocks of text I need to count are interrupted by other text that I don't need to count) or am I going to have to do it by hand? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48624
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    - word perfect Hi i have an HP deskjet printer (dj 5550). It works beautifully and prints great, however when i try printing from word perfect it does not prints. Need some urgent help Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48621
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    - Paragraph Styles How do I control which Paragraph styles appear in the drop- down menu box? I created a new style in one document, and would like for it to appear as a style choice when I open a new document. Also,I only use 3 or 4 styles, and would like to make the rest of the styles in the menu not appear as choices when I use the drop down menu. Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48618
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    - downloading word My question is what is my product id number? I have the id number on my certificate of authenticity but it's only 20 digits and my computer is asking for 25 digits when I try to download word. What are the other five digits? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48616
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    - Need VBA code to loop through a document I would like to be able to loop through every page in a document, starting with page 1. Any help would be appreciated. Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48610
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    - mixed numbers- fractions How do I express 2/5ths as a fraction,so it shows up the same way 1/2 does in word as a smaller number next to the whole number Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48606
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    - Word freezing I am having a problem with Word 2000. Everytime I try to open a file it freezes my computer, gives me a variety of error messages, like I am dangerously low on resources. I have tried rebooting, shutting off antivirus (using msconfig) but to no avail. This is not a new installation. I can open other office files, there isn't a problem on other machines with my network, and I tried reinstalling word. I thought about bad ram, but so many other large files, and mutliple files will open. I have also ran scandisk and scanned for virus' (updates downloaded daily). Any ideas? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48605
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    - Word is Word is bad in XP? I have a new computer running XP. I have been 2 days now trying to get either Word / Excel 97 or Word / Excel 2000 to run in XP. The 97 version has so many little quirks I know it is not working right. When you go to Format\Fonts for example, only the first letter of the font name will display. Same with the size - select a 12 point and it w show '1'. This is just and example. The 2000 version opens and then shuts down with some long message about sending a report to Microsoft. Am I the only one w these problems? Solutions? If I was assured Office XP Standard would work I would buy it but suspect the problem is deeper than that. AliBaba Blue Master Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48597
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    - Date in word documents highlighted In my Word documents the date is highlighted in gray. How do I get rid of the gray? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48591
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    - Lost Word menu and buttons I have lost all of the menu's and buttos on Word 2000. I tried Jesse's suggestion of Alt T and renaming normal.dot. Nothing seems to work. I am on Windows 98...Any thoughts? I have reloaded once... Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48584
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    - Where to save templates ? Hi, I use Word 2000 and notice that when I make and save a template, it goes to this path: Local Disk (C:) + Windows + Application Data + Microsoft + Templates. When I want to open up a saved template, I have to go through that whole path to get it. Is there a way I can have them saved in a more convenient folder? Thanks, Dave Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48582
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    - Can't Print Word Attachment When I open a Word file that I open as an email attachment or from a template program I cannot print the document. The button bars blink. I can't even close the document without going through Ctrl-Alt-Del. When I do that there's some little message in the list of running programs that says, essentially, "you can't close this window while a dialog box is open." I can't SEE any dialog box. Just blinking bars. I had this issue with WordPerfect documents. I could save the attachment, then open WP, then open the document and print. Some kind soul on the Corel user group told me how to solve that issue. (I have zero recall of what the fix was.) Now it's happening with Word. Is this an either/or proposition? Is one or the other (Word/WP) set up as a default something-or-other? HELP! Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48581
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    - Lost HD with Word 97 I had the SR1 and SR2 fixes but they are gone now as well. Looked at the MS site from oh so long with no results. I seem to get lost most every time within the MS site. 8^( Can some kind person assist these oldbones? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48574
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    - Customizing Bullet Styles I am trying to customize a bullet system that integrates both the main bullets and sub-bullets. So far I can only customize each bullet type indiviually, and save it as its own style...is it possible to create/modify an entire system and save it to a template for later use on other documents? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48572
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    - Why does WordXP ask me to save almost every I close a document, Whether I make any changes or not? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48557
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    - read-only Word keeps saving to read-only files. How do I turn it off? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48551
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    - Task Pane will not display by default when Wood 2002 opens. The Task Pane will not display by default when Microsoft Word 2002 opens. I have gone to Tools>Options and under Show I have checked Startup Task Pane. This does not cause the Task Pane to display by default when Microsoft Word 2002 opens. I have also gone to Tools>Customize>Toolbars to see if there was an option there for displaying the Task Pane on startup. There is not. Isn't there supposed to be such an option here? At any rate, I cannot get Microsoft Word 2002 to display the Task Pane when it opens. What can I do to correct this problem. Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48537
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    - lining up graphics with text I am creating a form which needs check boxes in front the text. The problem is the boxes I created don't always line up with text, they are either slightly above or below the horizontal line of the text. The way I created the boxes was to shrink a shape and copy to the page. Even minimizing the shape does nothing to change the alignment to the text. Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48523
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    - I lost my cursor Something happened to my cursor - - I cannot see the blinking line in my WORD document when I go from one page to another. As soon as I type, I can see the cursor, but I can't tell which line I am on or where in the line I am. Any Ideas ? gypsygranny Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48522
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    - Left and right aligned text in same line Hello - working on my resume and would like to have a line of text that is both left aligned and right aligned. For example, my name on the left hand side and my phone number on the right hand side. The only way I've been able to do this is create a 1X2 table which would be fine for the hard copy but the electronic copy shows the border outline of the table and I'd like to avoid that. Thanks Mike Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48517
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    - Cannot create hyperlinks to the current document anymore Hi all, i'm working on a document containing about 150 pages. I have quite a few links allready created, whitch are working well. All links have targets, to headings in the current document. The problem is, any NEW created links to targets in the current document are chanched to links to another document named by the displayed name of the link. Can someone help please. System information ------------------- Word 2000 SR1 Windows 2000 Pro SP4 Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48510
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    - Header on Page One Only I use Word very seldom and have failed to find the settings that will provide a header on page one only. Thanks for your help Robin Chapple Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48505
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    - Normal Blank Document Hi Group, By accident I changed my normal blank document template in Word 2000. How do I revert back to the Normal.dot (global template)? Thanks, Rod Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48502
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    - Changing a MS Works file to MS Word file My previous PC came with MS Works and I made a couple important files in Works format. I made a floppy backup, but it became corrupt somehow. The PCs HD crashed and was not recoverable. I presently have a Dell with Office XP that includes Word 2002. Is there any way to change the Works files into Word format without having Works installed to open it? Is there any viewer that will open the file so I can get to the material and copy it to Word? Any solution or ideas will be much appreciated. Bill Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48482
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    - lost document in Word, trying to copy and paste online I am new do not know how this works. Do you email me? I am having so much trouble. I lost my resume last night, it vanished as I copied it. Please help. Where do I find answer? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48478
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    - Relocating the endnotes In a book divided into several chapters, every chapter has its own endnotes and footnotes. In a MS-WORD file, all endnotes of all chapters will be located at the end of the book. But in fact, we want that endnotes should be located just at the end of a certain chapter. I have tried for a long time to do so, but I failed. Can you teach me how I can do that? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48474
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    - Linking powerpoint drawings into a Word document (or vice versa): Word hangs Hi all, the deliverables for our current software project include a design document as well as a presentation to deliver at the end of the project (sounds familiar...?). The presentation is more or less done, and now I am writing the document. But of course I would like to spare me the work of having to draw all kinds of sketches again in Word and so I would like to "hot link" some of the drawings from the PPT presentation into the Word document. This seems to be more difficult than I had expected! While it is possible to "Edit => Paste Special" => Paste Link" an entire slide, this is of course not what I want, since that includes the slide's header, footer, etc. which looks completely cheap and unprofessional. I only want the drawing being pasted! But when I try to paste the drawing only the "Paste Link" option is grayed out and I can only insert a *copy* of the current picture into the document. If I modify the picture on the slide later (which is almost 100% likely to happen) then I would have to repeat this process. Funny enough - the inverse seems possible, a drawing created in Word using "Insert => Object... => Office Drawing Object" can be hot-linked into a PPT slide using Copy & Edit => Paste Special => "Insert Link". If only I had known that before! Because, as a work-around to this asymmetry I tried to move some pictures over to Word and then hot-link them in the other direction. But this causes all kind of weird effects. Some seem to be full-blown bugs (e.g. for no apparent reason some arrow-tips are suddenly HUGE while most others are perfectly fine. Elements that have filling effects (patterns or transparency are filled with solid black, etc.), others are probably due to the fact, that graphic elements and texts obviously are not scaled alike, i.e. after pasting the text inside boxes changes has a different size relative to its surrounding elements, such that some texts suddenly don't fit their boxes or circles any more, others are wrapped at stupid places, etc. As workaround I tried to paste the stuff as Extended Meta File (.emf). While this at first seemed to work perfect, as soon as one wants to edit that picture, Word declares that to do so it has to convert that picture into an Office Drawing Object and ask whether one wants to do so. If clicking OK Word starts consuming 95+ percent CPU and hangs there. I tried a couple of times, also with different drawings but always with the same effect. Once I tried and left it running, to see whether it maybe completes after some longish period time, but after half an hour I gave up and killed it. So, what other options are there? * Is there some other way to hot-link a PowerPoint drawing into Word? * If not: what options do I have to move or convert an existing ppt drawing into Word, such that I can later also edit it there? Michael Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48466
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    - What can do to identify individual pages altered in long document What can I add to a document to know if an individual page has been altered or revised so I can print out only those pages or notify others to just review the changed pages. Of course I could write down the page numbers but that seems silly. The document is quite lengthy and I dont want to keep sending the entire book when only individual pages have been altered. Thanks. Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48458
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    - spacing Help! I cannot space between characters when typing in Word. It simply will not let me. I know it's not my spacebar as it's working with this e-mail. What's wrong? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48446
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    - Envelopes & Labels grayed out I'm running Word 2002, and in normal.dot my Envelopes and Labels icon is grayed out. If I open up Tools/Customize, it is not grayed out, but as soon as I close Customize it grays out again. I have removed it, and replaced it with a new one, but it remains grayed out. In otehr templates it's fine. Any ideas? (I've tried Help/Repair and it didn't change anything.) TIA Terry Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48437
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    - hyperlink file was saved as a hyperlink and cannot retreive it. It also has ct listed before the link Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48431
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    - footnotes I have received back a Spanish translation of my book which already contained many Spanish citations. So what I did when I sent the manuscript to the translator was to cut out all these citations since he didn't have to translate them. Now I am trying to paste these citations back into the translated text but the ones that have a footnote attached to it don't continue the numeration of the text but begin with what seems to be a random footnote number. It seems that the program sees these as two independent sets of footnotes. How can I make this work? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48430
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    - Prinitng on index cards In MS Word 2000, I cannot seem to print on index cards landscape. I have tried every combination of landscape and portrait settings both in the page setup as well as the printing options. It either prints out portrait, or the printer completely misses the card and tries to print as if it's an 8.5" x 11". I even tried to put the cards in with the long side forward, but the printer still was too far over to center on the card. Anyone else experienced this? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48421
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    - Autocomplete problem Hi, When I'm composing a message and typing things in Outlook 2002 with Word 2002 as the editor, suddenly some text appears in blue. The text that appears is: [FirstName LastName]. This text appears all the time, no matter what words I type and it is annoying. Can someone tell me how to disable it? Thanks. Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48413
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    - Run Word in XP ? I just built new computer with Win XP. I installed Office 97(only Word, Excel, & Office Tools). Could hardly open programs, all sorts of problems. Then I uninstalled 97 and installed Office 2000 - same three selections. Was marginally better but you could tell it still was not right. Then downloaded the three recommended patches to run in XP. This program is now better, still not right. just for example, when I use the space bar it moves letter by letter. Will not scroll left or right quickly. Other minor annoyances where you can tell this is not a great installation. Any one else run into these problems? Any suggestions? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48412
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    - Font(s) I scanned a document and pasted the text into a Word document. That text came in as Courier (not courier new) ... however, small patches of text somehow got Courier New attached to them. COURIER is NOT in the drop down font list ... COURIER NEW is! Now, while both LOOK the same on the screen, when I PDF the document, there is a BIG difference in appearance. COURIER comes out nice and dark and sharp. COURIER NEW looks like it's faded and been sitting in direct sunlight for a week. HOW do I get the entire document to use the COURIER font, when it fails to show in my drop-down font list? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48410
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    - Pls Help, Inserting Superscript into Property Field How do I insert a superscript TM or (R) after the product name into a File, Property field? Thanks for any help. Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48405
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    - Transfer data from Word to Works Is it possible to transfer data that is in a word document to a works database or spreadsheet? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48391
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    - WORD keeps trying to Recover Documents We're caught in a loop. We keep getting the error message that Word has encountered a problem, do we want to tell Bill Gates (no), followed by a reference to do we want to save a modified normal template. (no) Have removed many temp file trapped on a previous power loss, but there may be more. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thx much Haz Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48386
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    - autocorrection options won't stay I'm really tearing my hair out. I know I've asked before, but I still haven't seen an answer. How do I get my autocorrection selections to STAY selected the next time I open Word? I've discovered that Word seems to have three separate memories, one for the "regular" Word, one for the Word that opens via Outlook to write an email, and one for the Word that opens via Outlook to Reply to an email. It seems to the the third "version" of word that can't remember from one day to the next that I DON'T want it to automatically capitalize sentences. Anyone have a clue? dale Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48382
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    - Scanning Document to Word When I scan a docunent to Word it comes up scrambled, different text and misaligned and usually blown way up. Thanks for your help Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48381
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    - Using bullets crashes Word Not sure why, but every time I use try to use bullets, Word crashes and shuts down. Any advice? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48380
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    - W32/Lovsan.worm.a I have a system that recently became infected with W32/Lovsan.worm.a. The system has been disinfected and the required patch applied. However, I am not experiencing problems with Word. Everytime I open Word it automatically shuts down indicated an error in WinWord.exe. I have completely uninstalled Office and used Microsoft's Eraser2K file to clean the registry and system files. After reinstalling Office I am still experiencing the error. Any suggestions? Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48376
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    - help...? HOw do these "newsgroups" work? How do I find an answer to a specific problem? Do I just have Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48375
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    - caption labels Greetings, I have a few question re. caption labels: Where are these defined and how can I change these? As a preamble I should maybe add here that I have to write documents in different languages - some docs in German, some in English. When I right-click a figure and select "Caption..." to add a caption I always get the German label for "Figure" (i.e. "Abbildung"), even if the document is in English. And in the drop-down list I find both language versions for all captions labels (e.g. "Figure" AND "Abbildung", "Table" and "Tabelle", etc.). Isn't it possible to have only those labels in this list that apply for the current text language? Another question: I prefer to have colons following the caption number, e.g.: ... <some figure here> Figure 1: <caption text here (note the colon following the number)> However, the caption label does not include that colon and so when writing a caption's text I always have to memorize that and to prefix the text with ": ", i.e. <colon><space> first. Can't that be automatized? Cheers, Michael Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48374
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    - ghost files Why am I getting so many "ghost" files that are not going away after closing the document. The nomenclature is like this ~$filename.doc. Tag: windows xp and word Tag: 48371

I have got the home edition of xp and it has a microsoft
works 6.0 word processor and also wordpad, I have been
trying for almost a week to post a resume online, but it
keeps telling me to use a .doc extension. with this
version of xp do i still need to purchase a verion of
word too, or is it inplemented right into the works word
processor. any help on this would be great. thanx,dale

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Re: windows xp and word by Suzanne

Suzanne
Tue Aug 19 23:12:26 CDT 2003

Works 6.0 may be able to save in Word 6.0 format, and WordPad certainly can.
In the Save As dialog, check on the file formats you can use.

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"dale" <dalehanstad7@msn.com> wrote in message
news:07aa01c366cf$0b916fd0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I have got the home edition of xp and it has a microsoft
> works 6.0 word processor and also wordpad, I have been
> trying for almost a week to post a resume online, but it
> keeps telling me to use a .doc extension. with this
> version of xp do i still need to purchase a verion of
> word too, or is it inplemented right into the works word
> processor. any help on this would be great. thanx,dale

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