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Cannot turn off Copilot in MS Word for Windows as "Enable Copilot" is missing...
This is ridiculous. I have spent over 2 hours trying to turn off Copilot in MS Word O365 version. I am running MS Word in I I Windows 11 (updated) and running what I believe is the most current version. I have been able to go into Excel => Options and uncheck the "Enable Copilot". I do not see such a box in Powerpoint (thank God - I don't see it in the app at all) and have been able to turn it off on my Mac Office Apps. I have an O365 account. When I open Word in Windows and then select the Options I get what is displayed below. Do not see the enable coPilot option, but CoPilot is on. This is ridiculous. I have cleaned the registry and I have seen hacks on how to turn off coPilot by butchering the registry, which I refuse to do. I even removed the coPolite App. MS, I DO NOT WANT TO USE AI TO WRITE. How do I get rid of this? I am EXTREMELY frustrated with this. Bryan
Trying to create a form field that uses images (but not a simple one!)...
I have a Word form that uses a https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/lifelines-toolkit/lifelines-icons used in the public safety community. For each icon, there are four different border colours, indicating a certain level of urgency, using the TLP model - green, yellow, red, grey. What I would like to do is create a dropdown (elsewhere on the form) where someone chooses an option in that field, and depending on the choice, the icon with the corresponding colour displays. Example: Any assistance is appreciated!
Word - Same Line Page Breaks Visibly Change Formatting
Within the last week or so, Word suddenly has started changing the formatting of visible text when a page break is used on the same line. How can this be corrected? (To be clear, yes, a page break could moved to the next line or deleted if there is not room for the extra line, but this impacts dozens of templates I have been using for years and I just want to set the formatting back to how it has worked in the past, where a page break inserted at the end of a line with centered text did not change the formatting of the visible text in said line.) Example 1 below is how it always used to appear whether the page break was on the same line as the centered title text or not. Example 2 below is how it looks now when the page break is on the same line.Indenting in numbered list has gone haywire
My office uses custom Word templates that are updated to a legal software site, populated with an intake form through the same site, and then downloaded to our individual computers to edit as needed. The templates mostly use legal numbering under the Normal style. On Tuesday February 3, everything was working fine when I put my laptop to sleep. The next morning, I opened a Word document that I had downloaded from the legal software site and edited a week or two previously, and the formatting and indentation of the numbered lists was suddenly completely wonky. I had not changed any settings from the end of one day to the beginning of the next to cause this issue. In addition, I am the only one in the office of five people to be experiencing the problem. I contacted tech support, and the support person walked me through fixing the styles settings, and when that did not work, they uninstalled and reinstalled the entire Office suite. That also did not solve the problem. I'm completely stumped here; why would this issue suddenly arise with no input from me and also only affect my version of Word? And why didn't reinstalling the application fix it?? Details of the formatting issue: Normally, the numbering should look like this FIRST 1.1 The text goes to the right margin of the page and then wraps so that the second line is indented by the same amount. 1.1.1 The first sub-paragraph begins at the indentation of the text in the first paragraph 1.1.1.1 The second sub-paragraph starts the same way, etc. Now it looks like this: FIRST 1.1 The text begins closer to the number and goes to the right margin, then the second line is not indented to begin at the same point as the first line. When I click on the leading number (e.g. 1.1), some of the text jumps over to the right slightly. When I try to use the markers on the ruler to adjust the indentation, the text doesn't move at all. In addition, I can open a document, not mess with the wonky formatting but change something else, for example remove a watermark, then save and close the document, and one of my colleagues can open the same document and not have the formatting be messed up. Please help!
Word for Mac: markup turned on by default
I've recently had problems when saving Word docs as PDFs on my Mac (using the Word process, not the built-in Mac process): the PDFs have included the comments markup in a column on the right. After a big of digging around it seems that Word now turns on the mark-up by default in some recent Mac builds. Even after I amended the Normal.dotm template so that markup was turned off, new documents still have the markup enabled. Has anybody else come across this? It means that whenever we export to PDF, 3 extra mouseclicks are required if we want to ensure that the comments pane isn't included. And even after we've done this, if we re-open the same document, mark-up has been turned back on. There doesn't seem to be any way of changing this behaviour.
those annoying ~$ files
My Word (using Mac Sonoma) leaves behind these ~$ files. They are supposed to be temporary, but they look like files I was last dealing with months ago. They are NOT temporary. I wanted to clean them up, and rm ~$* doesn't do the trick. What works well is rm -i './~$'* . Go figure. Now, WHY are these files getting left behind by Word and polluting my Desktop folder?
