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Word count dropped but the number of words hasn't changed
Dear All Please help with this problem. I’ve been working on a document for months. It's about 95,700 words. Two days ago, the count dropped by about 700 words. The same thing had happened in two other versions of the same document that I hadn't opened for a few days. I follow the counts closely. There's no rational explanation. It was the same when I opened the documents, via my external hard drive on a different PC. I did a virus scan, that was OK. I hadn’t deleted any words. If I opened the documents on Microsoft Online, it showed the correct word count. Other, unrelated Word documents were not affected. Microsoft support tried to resolve this but couldn’t. Then I fixed it myself by uninstalling and reinstalling Microsoft 365/ Office. But now two days later it’s come back. I work on this project every day. It’s vital that I see the correct word count. Having to use Microsoft Online would be a pain. Please, does anyone know how to correct this, permanently? Regards Thom
Word 2010 page number problems
Help! I'm trying to renumber my 2010 .docx file, starting at physical page 11 as page 1. In certain sections of the document, the page number shows up, but in earlier sections, it completely disappears. I've been online, done everything that all the "help" posts say to do, all to no effect. Is there a free app out there somewhere that allows you to renumber your entire document, starting at a specific physical page number, and also allows you to determine where and how the page number is displayed? Or, if anyone knows a trick I don't know, I'd be all for that, too! Thanks for any help you can provide! God bless!!! Pastor Ray Young
Dynamic Pages in Mail Merge
Is there any way to dynamically turn pages in a document on or off during a mail merge? Building a welcome packet for an event, and some people need to see Page A. Others need to see Page B instead. If it were just simple text differences between the two, I could merge in the content itself, but the pages are wildly different, with images and other elements. ThanksHow can I remove the shortcuts with AltGr?
Guys, I have to use a new keyboard (Greek one) for some academic research and some accents conflicts with the AltGr + shortcuts. There's a way that I can just remove them all? I've tried to find and remove the shortcuts for Add a New Commentary (AltGr + A) and the topic structure (AltGr + o) but I can't find them in the list of shortcuts (Options > keyboard shortcuts > Personalize) I really need that ;(
Restrict Editing of styles, allow new breaks, TOCs, etc.
I've restricted editing to a selection of styles in my Word template. This, however, also restricts some key essential functions, for example, you can't add in a new Table of Contents or add in page or section breaks. Is there any way to just limit the Font and Table styles, while allowing everything else?
Change gradient above Word menu?
I would love to remove this gradient from the Blue theme and replace it with a solid color, as in the Black theme. I doubt it's possible, but I guess it never hurts to ask. This is just annoying - having to squint every time I need the menu. I've set a 200% display on the 4K monitor but it doesn't help much.Word Templates Opening Multiple Times
Recently upgraded some templates from Word 2010 and 2003 (yeah, I know) to 2016 and 365 with, frankly, disappointing results. :o/ Since 2003 we've been using a pair of macros to merge some smaller files, doing some automated and manual clean up then running another macro that saves them back to the individual files. BUT, in 2016 and 365 when the macro creates a new document with the very basic command like this: Set NewDoc = Documents.add TemplateName.dotm A new document is created with the template attached, but as soon as it's saved, THE TEMPLATE IS NO LONGER ATTACHED! The only way to get the template to stay attached is to give the full path of the template, which then opens (inexplicably) a second version of the template. There are time when Word gives messages during macros that the template is read-only when a new document is created based on the template. Isn't that kind of the whole purpose of a template? To create similar documents based on, gosh, well, a TEMPLATE?! Is this all new "security" (and I use the term lightly) measures? Does anyone know if there is a way to make the "modern" versions of Word work like to the "good 'ol days" where templates just worked and Word didn't open multiple versions of the same template file and give read-only messages? With the help of a network admin we've done everything we could think of to try and convince Word that various network drives are "safe." Sorry for the snark, but it is immensely frustrating that code we've relied on 20 years all of a sudden doesn't work. Thanks for any ideas or insights. Best, -Ken
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
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.
