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Footer Template Not Updating
I have 14 documents that need to have the same footer. This footer consists of three hyperlinks and a page number. When updates need to be made to one, all documents need to be updated. To do this, I created a footer template by selecting everything in the footer and then Save Selection to Footer Gallery. I then went to another document and was able to successfully add that footer. However, when I make a footer update (i.e. link or text change) on one of the documents, it doesn't update to the other 13. I tried selecting everything again and then Save Selection to Footer Gallery with the same name to overwrite it but the footer doesn't update where I've already added it. If I delete what was there and readd the footer, the updates will appear but it does not make sense to do that 13 different times. What am I doing wrong?
Cursor jumps to the beginning of the document
Hello, I have a problem in my document. Since I tried to insert a table heading, the cursor keeps jumping to the beginning of the document. I can no longer insert or select anything. I have opened a new document and I don't have this problem there. On another laptop, the "problem document" has the same problem. I have also tried to save it as a template but there it is exactly the same problem. I am working on a MacBook. I would be very grateful if you could help me as I have written a lot since my last backup. Thank you very much!
Word Online like Excel Online
When using word for the web, all formatting features constantly popup over the page. Why? Excel for web has a beautiful and convenient side menu that pops up, AND STAYS! Any time i make a format change in a drop down in word online, the pop up goes away, and I have to make two clicks and mouse movement back and forth to achieve repetitive formatting. It's it better to have both applications working more like one, solitary, uniform UI?
Underscore not working
I have a 2020 Mac Air. Word is running via MS 365 account that I keep updated. In MS Word, the underscore does not work (shift+hyphen). This anomaly is true on the Mac keyboard and on both of my wireless keyboards--underscore will not work. When I use shift+hyphen, I get a hyphen. Underscore works in all my other apps. My workaround has been to used a tab and then underline the tab. Any thoughts?
Excel link does not work in a word document saved at onedrive
Hello, I have a word document with some links to excel workbooks. The update process between excel and word was working properly until I started do save these files in One-Drive. I've checked the excel links in the word document and they appear ok. But when I try do update (forced, because the automatic process does not work) I receive a message of server authorization problem. Could someone help me with what to do?Can I make a Word document with text that can be hidden/revealed prior to making a PDF?
I am using Microsoft Word to create multiple PDF files. Each of the PDF's are nearly identical, but where some PDF's have additional text that is not included in the other PDF's. However, due to the complexity of the files, it would become unreasonable to have separate documents. (See the bullet points below.) One solution for this is if there was some way to hide/reveal text depending on a variable; below is some rough pseudo-code showing this idea: var variable = 0; \\I can set this to be 1 or 2, depending on what PDF I want to make [Text Block A] if( variable = 1 ) { [Text Block B] } else if( variable = 2 ) { [Text Block C] } [Text Block D] if( variable = 2 ){ [Text Block E] } By its nature, the text blocks all have the same level of importance, so using headers to reveal/hide information would become confusing. Further, this would leave irrelevant headers in the PDF's (such as a header for Block C when "variable = 1"). Is there a way to implement this idea into Microsoft Word? If not, how else could I create the PDF's in a way that minimizes the amount of copy-and-paste operations? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Reasons why it would be difficult to create multiple documents and use copy-paste: Large portions of the PDF's are identical, so it would be laborious to copy-and-paste between the two documents. Note: The example above is only a portion of the total document. There will likely be more than 20 text blocks that are the same between the two documents. This number could reach triple digits. I need to work on building adjacent text blocks simultaneously, so it would be difficult to go between multiple files while writing the documents. The documents may end up being very long. As a result, I could run out of space on my computer. This can be further compounded if I need more than two different PDF's. The PDF's will be updated over time, so the copy-and-pasting work would need to be repeated every time I want to update the PDF's. Reasons why it would be difficult to create one document and manually edit it to make the other PDF files: The PDF's will have several more blocks of text that need to be hidden/revealed, so making one document and then editing it to make the second would become extremely laborious. Note: The example above is only a portion of the total document. There will likely be more than 20 text blocks that can be hidden/revealed. This number could reach triple digits. It would become difficult to keep track where each text block goes: "Did Text Block B go before or after Text Block A?" I may have more than two PDF's, depending on what the needs of the documents are. Keeping track of the changes would become difficult. The PDF's will be updated over time, so the manual edits would need to be repeated every time I want to update the PDF's. Additional Info: I know of ways to do this in LaTeX, but I wanted to use Microsoft Word since the equation buildup is easier in Microsoft Word than in LaTeX. If you know of a way to make the equation editing in LaTeX similar to how equation editing in Microsoft Word works (namely, having a built-up form that can be edited directly, as opposed to editing the source code), that would work as well. However, my attempts to find a LaTeX compiler that can do this have been fruitless.
