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Gray screen on opening existing docs
I was editing an existing WORD for MAC doc & pasted 2 words from an online article. The 2 words I copied & pasted ("hempen home-spuns") were in a Shakespearean quote included in the article, "7 Shakespearean Insults to Make Life More Interesting" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/shakespeare-insults). I pasted the text initially using the match existing formatting option, which worked fine, seemingly. I then deleted one of the words in the quote, and reconsidered whether I wanted to use both words. But instead of clicking undue, I chose to repast the text to look at the phrase again & decide if I wanted to use both words. However, this time I just clicked paste because I just wanted to think it over & not necessarily use the pasted text . . . and that's when all the trouble started! My doc then seemingly locked & wouldn't allow me to do any more editing. I closed it & reopened it & was greeted by a grey screen, without any text, and 3 items in the menu bar -- the "Normal", "No Spacing" & "Heading 1" items -- keep flashing. I tried several times opening other docs by either double clicking or displaying them from a menu listing & clicking open, and in every case, I go a gray screen. When I go to File > Properties, it shows the words & characters are still there. So, whatever happened when I pasted the text w/o saying match formatting caused a problem in my Word for MAC. Doesn't MS have an app to FIX Word for MAC or at least diagnose what the hell is wrong, along with the steps required to fix the problem? I'd really appreciate some HELP, ASAP. Thank you. -- Wayne
Add-in Error: We could't connect to the '{0}' catalog server for this add in
For the past month every time I try to use an Add-In in word I get the following error "we couldn't connect to the '{0}' catalog server for this add in." I have tried from multiple computers, Safari, Chrome, different accounts, etc. and nothing is working. It is a personal account and I use word online. It happens for multiple add-ins and I have reached out to the companies directly and they said it was a Microsoft issue.
Text get cut off on page switch if table spans across pages
I have some code that creates a docx document that includes tables. At first i used some other code that could create doc files, through html, but to update it i now use docx instead, which is build differently. But the problem Im facing after the switch is that text gets cut off through the middle when the table spans across a page. See screenshot below. The only thing I've found to work, is if i change the table theme when the document is opened in word, but I cant find a way to do this via xml. It is also worth noting that the document is generated via code, that creates a html file holding the main content, and loaded via the <altChunk> tag in the xml If i upload the document to word online there is however no issue I've tried lots of things in the xml which is used in the docx generation, like padding, spacing, line-height etc. but haven't found anything yet that works, and at this point im out of ideas, hence why i reach out to the community.
Equation editor renders properly on screen but does not print properly
For multiple people at my workplace, on both their home and work computers, Equation Editor expressions are often not printing properly, either to pdf or to physical printers. On screen, everything shows correctly. It's especially frustrating because equations are partially rendered -- cos x will be printed as co , a polynomial expression will be missing the last term, etc. -- which means that the errors don't jump out in a quick look at the printout or pdf. As far as we can tell, the longer you wait after opening the document in Word, the more renders properly, but there are no guarantees, and there are often a great many errors on a one- or two-page sheet with lots of formulas. I didn't see this problem before this last year or so. We are using version: Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2604 Build 16.0.19929.20164) 64-bit
3 column layout and footnote to appear in the same column bottom of page
Hi, I have a 3 column layout of text. In the third column, I need to insert a footnote. I need the footnote to appear at the bottom of the page but it must be under the third column at the bottom of the page. see below screenshot. I tried several ways to setting the footnote and it still appear on the left hand side (1st column) bottom of the page.a table but not really a table
I have this word document that has an addin that linked to financial system in terms of extracting values. so usually we will create an excel report with excel table in the financial system where it will populate the figures in the excel table and then in the word document, we just use the addin to extract the entire table into the document - we called it a table object. It is not an embedded excel table instead it behaves just like inserting a word table in the document. The benefit of this is user just need to refresh or update the extraction parameters to update the figures in this table object. so now, we need have a weird request where it is not possible to do this excel table but we can extract exact amount from the system instead - they called it an amount object. this amount object can also be refresh and updated like table object. BUT we cannot insert an amount object as "nested" in a table drawn in word document. In usual case, amount object is inserted in text content....like CEO words about performance of business in an annual report. I need to be create a "table like" visual in word document so that I can insert several amount objects. The final visual of these will look as if I use a table. Like below: As long as it is inserted as a table, I can insert amount object in the respective "cells". Does anyone have a creative way to do this?
