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Word won't open on mac
Hi, For the last couple of days, the word app on my mac won't open. It bounces after clicking in the icon and then nothing happens. I have to force the app to shut down. All the other office apps are working fine. I downloaded the latest version of Mac OS. What should I do to fix this? Thanks
Lagging cursor in Word while using arrow keys
Hello, As of a few days ago, my cursor in Word cannot keep up with my arrow keys. For example, if I press the right-arrow key five times, it takes Word a few seconds for the cursor to get there. This is particularly annoying if I want to say, highlight a sentence using arrow keys alone, as it takes Word much longer than usual to accurately move the cursor. The problem persists after a re-installation of Office. Thanks in advance for any help. Edit 1: The problem only occurs on my personal PC, which has Windows 10 Home. It does not occur with my work PC, which has Windows 10 Enterprise. The computers otherwise have similar specs (former is Lenovo; latter is Dell). Edit 2: Reiterating some points made below, the problem occurs in Word only. Powerpoint, Excel, etc. are fine. Edit 3: The problem only occurs when multiple docs are open. Others have noted that disabling the Mendeley add-in fixes the issue. I confirmed this worked for me as well. Disabling Mendeley is not a satisfactory solution for me, however, as I rely on Mendeley for reference management.How do I Stop Word Switching to Multiple Pages View
I have a high resolution wide screen monitor. Every time I open a Word document in full screen, it switches to the Multiple Pages view (typically 2 pages, side by side). I hate this view! I can't read 2 pages at a time. I always want a single page view. Does anyone know if there is a way to stop Word changing to this view? I am using Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2202 Build 16.0.14931.20128) 64-bit
Captions in Word
I am trying to place a caption under Tables and Figures that include chapter numbers as follows: Figure 1.1, Figure 1.2, Figure 2.1. I follow all instructions but when I enter the caption it returns it as Figure 0.1, which means it is not picking up the chapter number. Since I am using custom headers that are not reflected in the Caption dialogue box, I go back and set up a new header style (Header 6) that is not used anywhere else in the document. Then when I apply that to the Chapter number header, it applies it to all section headers in the document. Anyone know what I am doing wrong?Printing a range of pages in a multi-section document stopped working
Hi, we recently encountered problems with printing multi-section documents. For example: a document with 3 sections, 10 pages each. I want to print pages from 5 to 15. Print >Settings > [Custom Print] > Pages: 5-15 > Print. Done. That always worked but it stopped now. The pages are not printed at all and there is no error message nor anything else. [Print All Pages] works. [Print Current Page] works. No problems with documents without sections. All other programs print normally as usual. The only solution I figured so far is to specify section numbers like p5s1-p15s2. But it is tedious and almost impossible with big documents having many sections. As a workaround it can be printed from a PDF export but there are some minor quality issues. The prints don't look the same. The same problem appeared on several computers. I don't know exactly when it started. Probably with some updates at the start of the year 2021. Is it some kind of intentional change or a bug? Is there any way to just print range of pages regardless of sections? Version: MS Office Professional Plus 2016 (16.0.13530.20132) 64bit Thanks.
Word 2019 spontaneously corrupts all other open Word files
So, recently, my Word 2019 software has been exhibiting a serious problem: when I have files open, and am typing in one of them, all of a sudden this entire file will go corrupt. That is: all the text is diminished, and scattered everywhere in tiny little pages. All of the control icons are obscured, and broken. The whole document is an unusable mess. More importantly: any other Word doc open at the time is similarly corrupted. I close these files without saving...no way to save them, anyhow...and go into MS Office repair protocol. I do a quick repair; no problems are shown. I do a full repair; all of the Office programs are downloaded over the internet, and replaced. I supply my software key, and all works well. For a day or two. Then, it all happens again, randomly. I have gone through this repair cycle numerous times, with no final improvement. I check each individual doc, and none are corrupt, or have any diagnosable problem. I see no discussion of this type of problem; has anyone seen anything like it? A fresh install of Office should eradicate any corrupt software...but doesn't. A full computer scan hasn't yet shown any lurking malware. Thoughts? Suggestions?New spell check highlight--how to disable
I've noticed a new red highlight (not the red squiggly underline) connected to spell check in Word. It only appears when you mouse over a word that has been flagged by spell check. When you click on it, you get a pop up of suggested "did you mean?" words. Screenshot below. I would like to turn this red highlight off WITHOUT turning off spell check, the red squiggly underline, or the ability to right click and get a list of spelling suggestions. The highlight is incredibly annoying and gets in the way of other functionality (like clicking though a hyperlink). I found one post about this on another forum (here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/419624/how-to-turn-off-new-popup-for-spell-checking-in-word-for-mac-on-macos-11-3), which suggested un-checking "Automatically use suggestions from the spell checker." I have un-checked this and restarted Word, but it makes no difference. What can I do to get rid of this thing? In case it is relevant I am using Word 16:50 on Mac OS Catalina 10:15:7.
Simply cannot delete a section break. It is impossible. Cannot be done. Please prove me wrong.
So I was introduced to section breaks as a means of getting page numbering up-to-spec for book I've written (roman. numerals in the front material, arabic numerals in the book itself). I'm using the latest version of Word (16.8?) on Mac. To my horror, I've found that it is impossible to delete section breaks once they're in my document. I have spend an entire day in Google on this subject, and every single suggestion fails. So I have enabled showing markup, so I can see page breaks, section breaks, paragraphs I cannot select a section break. Word will not allow that. So I can't select and delete it. I cannot put the cursor after a section break and then hit the delete button as many suggest. Word will not allow the cursor to be placed after a section break. Putting the cursor before the section break, as other articles recommend, is just wrong. All you're doing there is deleting text before the section break. Why is this so hard? I've lost a whole day on something that should be simple. In the screenshot from my document below, The section break simply cannot be touched.
