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  1. viveknayyar007

    How to Make Links in Microsoft Word Clickable

    When you type a URL for a website or any other link in MS Word 2013, in order to follow the link and go to the website or the linked object, you are required to press and hold down the Ctrl key while clicking the URL. If the Ctrl key is not pressed, the entire URL can be selected as a normal...
  2. viveknayyar007

    Changes Are Not Tracked Even after Enabling ‘Track Changes’ in MS Word 2013

    This is not true at all. The changes are tracked. However in order to make things simpler and easily visible to the users, MS Word 2013 does not display all the tracked changes by default. The application instead uses only the simple markups so that the users can only see the modifications that...
  3. viveknayyar007

    Reduce Autosave Interval in MS Word 2013

    Autosave is a new feature that has been introduced a few versions back in MS Word. With the help of autosave, the documents that you type are automatically saved in a temporary folder. In fact, the contents that you type in the document are saved in the cache of the system until you manually...
  4. viveknayyar007

    Spellings Are No Longer Checked for Errors in Real-Time in MS Word 2013

    According to the default MS Word 2013 configuration, the spellings are checked on the real-time basis when you type a word. This allows you to assess the correct spellings of the words without having to type them completely and then using the backspace button to rectify them. Although this...
  5. viveknayyar007

    Spelling Errors Are Not Visible for Uppercase Words in MS Word 2013

    As per the default MS Word 2013 configuration, when a word is written in uppercase, it is ignored for spelling errors. This default configuration has been set by Microsoft considering that the words written in uppercase mostly represent the abbreviations for the larger words. For example, USA...
  6. viveknayyar007

    Selected Words Are No Longer Replaced with Typed Ones in MS Word 2013

    As many of you have noticed that every time you select some words or sentences in MS Word 2013, the words or sentences are automatically REplaced by the new text that you start typing after selecting them. This is the default configuration of MS Word 2013, and is available in earlier versions of...
  7. viveknayyar007

    What to Do When Rulers Are Not Visible in Microsoft Word 2013

    By default in Microsoft Word 2013, both horizontal and vertical rulers are kept hidden. Microsoft allows users to reveal the rulers with just a few mouse clicks. In fact it is suggested that you should always enable/unhide the vertical and horizontal rulers as soon as you start using the MS...
  8. viveknayyar007

    MS Word Replaces the Words Even in Upper/Lower Case

    When talking about MS Word, it is true that the application ignores the text cases, and searches for and replaces the words even if they are in uppercase or lower case. Although this feature is integrated in MS Word to make the search and replacement process user friendly and comfortable, this...
  9. viveknayyar007

    MS Word Replaces the Words Even If They Partially Match

    If MS Word does so, it is correct at its own part. Every time you want to replace any specific word with another one, and you initiate the Find and Replace box to specify the word, MS Word searches for the given word and replaces it with the new one even if the specified word partially matches...
  10. viveknayyar007

    MS Word 2013 Saves Documents in DOC Instead of DOCX

    MS Word 2007 and above versions of Microsoft Word save all their documents in DOCX file format by default. The new DOCX format is more efficient than the legacy DOCformat in many ways. The latest version of MS Word which is MS Word 2013 by default saves the documents in DOCX as well. One of the...
  11. viveknayyar007

    Which Is the Simplest Way to Type Hindi in MS Word

    Which Is the Simplest Way to Type Hindi in MS Word If you are from India and want to type applications, articles, and other formal or informal letters in Indian language, i.e. Hindi, you have various options among which you can choose the best one as per your convenience. The options are...
  12. winkay

    Microsoft Word Trial

    Hi everyone, Sorry to be annoying, but does anyone know where I can get a free trial (30 days) for microsoft word (any version) i'll look into purchasing the full copy at a later date, but would like to experiment at first. Thanks in advance, Winkay
  13. jbosari

    How to Fix Copy and Paste Problems Associated with Microsoft Office

    This is a quirky problem with a few answers depending on the source of the issue. Before you try any of these, just make sure your Esc key isn't stuck down. That's the easiest fix :) ■ General Fix #1: Go to registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet...
  14. Inquisitive Builder

    Is my copy of microsoft word secure?

    Hey guys, I recently installed a copy of Microsoft Office 2010, but I think I may have a problem. The installation went great but when it got to the point where it asked me whether I wanted to use the "recommended" settings verses the "updates only" or the "no updates" options, and I realized...
  15. L

    Office suit in nokia asha 302 phone?

    Hi, can i have some office suit similar to microsoft word in nokia asha 302 phone? I want to type some small files and save them in the phone itself, can this phone let me do it or am i supposed to go for expensive phones to use mobile office suits? Thanks!
  16. C

    HELP Microsoft Word. See picture please.

    So I am trying to update my resume. MS Word is being retarded. Here is a picture of my problem : http://imgur.com/cSDQCMP Basically my sentence isnt word wrapping within the cell. But instead, it just goes out of bounds, and doesnt appear in "Print preview". If I can borrow your guys'...
  17. I

    Cheap laptop to play sims 3

    I want a laptop that i can play sims 3 on. I want to be able to use the internet, microsoft word and olay sims 3 with expansion packs and thats really all i will use it for. I would play sims often though. I cant afford to spend more than 350 but i can go up to 400 is i really must. I would...
  18. D

    All versions of MS Word crashes when trying to print a document

    Hi, When trying to print of a document, MS Word hangs, become unresponsive and ultimately dies! This only seems to happen when printing one type of document. Everything else is working and printing fine. it only seems to be this one template that causing this problem. Also I found that when...
  19. T

    The file ______.docx cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents

    I trying open Docx file while Docx file got error message like The file ______.docx cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents then I got information from the MS Word with some very complicated instructions about unzipping the Word file to get the XML document. Please help me.
  20. M

    MSI GE60 0ND-288au Help

    hey so on these fourms was convinced toge the msi but i need some more knowledge from it... The fourm: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1633062/urgent.html The Compuer: Mwave: http://www.mwave.com.au/product/sku-ab47868-msi_ge60_0nd288au_notebook_i73630qm_cpu8gb_ram750gb_hddgtx_660mwin8...
  21. S

    product key access

    i just bought an Acer Aspire E1-571 laptop but don't know how to access the produt key for MS word 2010 to get started. please help me with this
  22. S

    MsWord - how to swap columns in existing table?

    I have some 1000+ tables in ms word, table has 2 columns. some tables have the 2 columns merged Is it possible to batch swap the columns content ? Thank you! example convert 1000 tables with this layout: Car | Top Speed -------------------------------------- Mustang | 100 Gt-500 | 120...
  23. S

    64bit document on 32bit Word

    Hey guys I wanted to know, would a Microsoft Word file created on a 64bit Microsoft Word, be able to be opened on a 32bit Microsoft word? Cheers
  24. T

    Dell xps 15, L502X. Caps Lock Problem

    Hey, a couple days ago this randomly started happening: Whenever I'm pressing caps lock, the current window decides to flash. Also when you are in login windows/save windows (e.g.: ms word), when setting the save file name, it highlights the entire text. I already tried the settings in the...
  25. A

    Uninstalled Microsoft Word Starter 2010...Problem

    Hi, I have uninstalled Microsoft Office Starter 2010 because it suddenly kept asking me to purchase or enter a product key in order to continue to use it. My understanding was that it came installed on my Toshiba Win7 laptop. I never opened it until about a month ago because I was using...
  26. G

    Saving styles for the other documents on MS Word 2010

    I don't even know If this is possible but for me it would be very convenient If I could open some document and have all my previously created styles. Unfortunately, now every time I edit some document I have to create those styles all over again so I could apply them. I think there should be...
  27. A

    Do I need a document converter?

    Hi, I have used "Open Office" on my laptop in the past with Win7. Now I tried to transfer some if those files to my Android Nexus7. I get the message about "Text Encoding 1252". (??) I was impossible for me to use the "save as" function and I have changed the file extension from "odt" to...
  28. commissarmo

    Microsoft Word 2010 | Question about saving documents prompt

    After a near-disastrous loss of data (Win7 auto-restarted my machine with an open word document which had been named already and saved, but the changes had not been - as it turned out it was caught by auto-save)... I'm still very surprised that this really primitive model for saving created...
  29. S

    Icon won`t open?

    Hello, My icon are all blank paperwith a fold on the upper-left corner , when I click on the icons (any type , even something like MS Word ) it asks "Choose the program you want to open this with" and gives you a few options. How do I correct this ? Is it maybe the virus on the software suppose...
  30. J

    Maximize Picture in MS Word

    Please bear with me. I scan sheet music from a fake book and want to print it as large as I can on a page (I'm old). For example, the jpg may be 4" x 6" in size but I want to print it expanded to fill one entire page. In Adobe Photoshop Elements it's easy as pie - there's a print option...
  31. L

    Keyboard shotcuts for ms word 2010 do not work

    Hello, Shift + F3 does not change case in ms word 2010
  32. J

    Microsoft Word 2010 issue

    My microsoft word 2010 is having a issue. The blue loading circle next to my cursor wont stop spinning and flashes every couple seconds, how do I fix this?
  33. O

    Vaio laptop /wont let me type anything in search or microsoft word

    My daughter has a vaio laptop she had for Christmas and it has suddenly stopped letting her type anything in search window 'bing' or google and when you try a pop up 'finder' offering to highlight or find sites for you comes up but it won't let you type in that search box either, and there is a...
  34. H

    Applications of ms word

    give applications of ms word 2007
  35. G

    Keyboard not typing on dell latitude laptop

    Hello, my dell keyboard on my laptop cant type anything. when i try to type in ms word, it just selects the menu
  36. C

    Microsoft Word 07

    Using Word 07. When I right click on mouse it has begun to freeze program. Generally have to re-boot system to get out of it. Help! :ouch:
  37. C

    Recovering Word documents, please help.

    I have been using a program called Abiword as a alternative to MS Word (having to pay for office.) It still creates a Microsoft Office Word 2003 file to read from when making a document I recently had the program open when my computer blue screened. When I came back to open it, it gave me a...
  38. M

    Office 03

    dear all I hav win XP, and office 03. Now a days i hav a problem in ms word. when i open any word file, it says "a dialouge box is open" 2ndly the dialoge box says word cannot open existing (normal). plz help me..................
  39. B

    Microsoft word document does not print certain pages

    What happened in Word 2010 to printing specific pages of a document by just putting a comma between the page numbers?
  40. omermaras

    Disable clipboard pane in word xp (permanently)

    hi folks, I'm disabling the "open clipboard pane after CTRL+C" in Word XP (or other versions of Microsoft Word), but when I press CTRL+C (or CTRL+X) too fast twice, the pane appears nevertheless. I want to disable this pane permanently, but couldn't find any option to do so. Can you do that...
  41. F

    Why when I right click microsoft word closes

    whenever i am on microsoft word and right click to copy, paste etc. it always shuts down on me with a pop up saying " a problem caused the program to stop working correctly. please close the program." So annoying!!
  42. A

    Microsoft Word Not Displaying Text

    I'm with the IT department at my office and a co-worker is having issues where Microsoft Word 2003 will not display text that has been typed. It will however print the text or (Outlook is configured to use Word as its text editor) once emails are sent the body of them can be viewed by the...
  43. N

    Best laptop under $400

    Hello, I am looking to purchase a cheaper laptop that will be used for college and some work. Mostly used for downloading lectures and MS Word etc. Not too heavy because it will travel and needs to last as long as possible, well over 2 years. No gaming will be done and very little entertainment...
  44. G

    Turn of ms word starter

    My document open in ms word 6.0 and 7.0 but when saved are saved in ms word starter. How do I correct this. Word starter is a headache!
  45. C

    Microsoft Word cop-n-paste images from webpage bug

    Hello, When I try to copy and paste a series of images from the same webpage to my Word (.doc) file, then only the 1st image on the said webpage is repeated at all the image-place-holders in the Word document -- not the actual images. I pasted the said images, one-by-one, from webpage to in...
  46. D

    Microsoft Word/Photoshop

    No idea where to begin looking so I figured I'd just ask. At my work (we clean air cons in industrial buildings) so we take before and after shots of our work. Once the job is complete we do reports, this is where Word and Photoshop come in. What I'm wondering is if there's an application out...
  47. robin banks uk

    What laptop should i got for my gf?

    hello what laptop would be best for use on ms word,facebook you tube, and a cheep £5 games lol http://www.ebuyer.com/product/259424 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/257135 or any better in this price range?
  48. kylothian

    Sending mails via MS Word

    Hi guys Just a question, whenever i made a document i could just hit file - send - mail and microsoft outlook wil open up with the attachment there. Now for some strange reason when i follow the same procedure now it opens up in outlook express. I only have an e-mail account in microsoft...
  49. F

    Microsoft Word Starter

    I find Word Starter unnecessary and annoying. How do I disable it? I am using Windows 7 and MS Office 2010.
  50. A

    Solved! Freeware online website to detect peoblem in acer laptop

    I am getting problem in my acer travelmate 2400. While typing in MS word, internet explorer some keys s,e,d,n opens new items of same application. how to troubleshoot??
  51. Z

    Microsoft Word Starter

    In safe mode how can I switch back to normal mode?
  52. J

    Can a word program generated by a 64-bit word processor run on a 32-bit computer

    Hello, Can a file generated by MS word running on 64-bit processor be opened by another computer with a 32-bit processor?
  53. G

    MS Word Product Key Problem

    Hello, microsoft word asks me for a product key and i put it in it tells me its the wrong key wat should i do
  54. G

    Why my right-click doesnt function properly on my Microsoft word??

    Hello, why my right-click doesnt function properly on my Microsoft word??
  55. jgrumby

    Microsoft word document does not print certain pages

    Hello, Pages 150-175 of a 175 page doc. do not print. The job is sent to the printer but does not go into the queue. Exporting as PDF and printing works fine. Is this a formatting issue within Word 2007?
  56. S

    How do i back up applications such iphoto etc to my passport essential

    how do i back up applications such as iphoto, microsoft word etc to my passport essential
  57. S

    MS Word 2003 Numeric Character

    Recently, my MS word 2003, been having a problem. When I try to input a Numeric character code or ANSI code, such as ALT + 161, it does not appear to show up in MS word 2003. I've been looking for ways to solve this problem. Could it be possible that some how it was disable?If that the...
  58. S

    Solved! Too many netbooks to choose from...

    going back to school in september, decided I wanted to buy a netbook and add in a corsair nova 30gig drive cause theyre only 70 bucks. Decided on a netbook over an ultra-portable because its dirt cheap and can do what I need it to do: MS word, facebook, IM, and thats basically it. Ive been...
  59. G

    Microsoft office word 24 character key

    Hello, I bought microsoft word and have installed it only on one computer of mine. When I went to go install it on my econd computer, I noticed I had lost the 25 digit key. Would it have saved it on my computer somewhere? How can I access it? -Kristin
  60. C

    Microsoft word wont work it wont bring up the icons

    Hello, For the past month or so my microsoft word will not work, it opens the white page up but wont bring any icons up such as file,edit, or any of the tool bars it then says "not responding". We have tried un-installing wind and re-installing and that doesnt seemed to have worked, we have an...