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Word Writing Problem
Hello, I am experiencing a problem with the web version of Microsoft Word on my Android phone and tablet. For about a week, I have noticed issues when typing in Word. After typing something and pressing the Enter key, the text I wrote sometimes disappears. In some cases, even though I press Enter, the cursor does not move to the next line and the words start overlapping each other. This issue occurs both when I use the on-screen keyboard and when I use a physical keyboard. I have tried several different browsers and devices, but the problem still persists. I also tested it with a different Microsoft account and the same issue occurred. What could be causing this problem, and how can I fix it?
Copy and Paste Will Not Using the Destination Formatting
I am writing a book in Wood and will submit it to Amazon KDP, and I have set up the document per KDP guidelines. I am working on an English version and a Spanish version at the same time as two separate documents. The text is justified. Both documents have Normal/Modify settings set up exactly the same. The Fonts and Paragraph settings are exactly the same. I have gone into the Options/Advanced area of Word and played with all of the Cut, Copy, and Paste settings to try to fix my problem. But I can't figure out what is going on. I created the Spanish document by using Google Translate to take English paragraphs, translate them, and pasted them into the Spanish document The Spanish document is completed, and all of the formatting looks fine. So I already have paragraphs that are a certain size in the document, meaning they take up a certain number of lines. I am now editing the book using the English document. Something has changed with the Spanish document! If I make a small edit in an English paragraph, use Google Translate to deal with the edit and do a new translation, and then copy and paste that edited Spanish paragraph from Google Translate back into the same place as the original paragraph in the Spanish document, the words are slightly more compressed together, so the paragraph gets shorter! This happens if I even change just a single word in a paragraph, which has not really changed the length of the translation. The paragraph will become shorte by a half of a line, or a full line on long paragraphs. This is all becasue the words are being spaced slightly closer toegether now, versus when I originally crated the document. Also, when I start to do the paste, from Paste Option only get the option for "Keep Text Only." I don't get the multi-paste option box. Something has changed in my setup of Word from the time I created the original Spanish document, and what is happening now. I can't figure out why the formatting of the destination, or using merge formatting, is not working! It's making up it's own jutification spacing all of a sudden. I can't figure out why now a cut and pasted paragraph from Google Translate is making the spread between the words just slightly tighter. The latest thing I tried was Review/Language and choosing Spanish for the Spanish document, and that did not work. Any ideas? Gordon
MS Word is throwing up 'Error 4608' I haven't a clue what to do.
Hello, I wonder if anyone can help me here, because I am at a TOTAL los... I have a Word document that I have been updating for a few years, which is a sort of log. It has worked well up until today. Now, whenever I try to save the updated document, a very old fashioned (looks like Windows 3.1!), error message window appears which is headed 'Visual Basic for Applications' and in the window it says: Run-time error: '4608': Undefined dialogue record field There are then four buttons at the bottom labelled Help, Continue (which is greyed out), End and Debug. I have no idea what this error message means. Clicking on End gets rid of the error message, but prevents me from saving my updated document, and the next time I try to save it the error message just reappears. Clicking on Help takes me to a website with the title 'No F1 help match was found', followed by a load of technical computer-geek stuff I don't understand. Clicking on Debug seems to open a new window, but I do not know what it is... Here is a screen-shot of it: The highlighted text seems to refer to Bookmarks, which is throws me because I only associate Bookmarks with my web browser, not MS Word. I'm sure I haven't added any bookmarks to my document in any case. Can anyone enlighten me as to what is going on here please? ThanksAccents & Characters using "Alt+Code" appear twice on Word
Hello everyone I have been struggling with a bug on Word. Everytime I type a character using "alt+code" such as ô which is alt+0244, the character appears a second time at the next stroke of a keyboard key. Has this happened to anyone else? If so, do you have a fix? Many thanks Michael
Table Style - Top Left Cell
Hi This worked previously, but now does not I have a Customer Table Style where "Header Row" Font is White and "First Column" Font is Purple My Issue is that Neither seems to change the Top Left Cell - value "AAA" Whole Table Font is Orange - So it seems None of the "Apply Formatting to" Changes the Top Left Cell Am I missing something? Thank you
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.
I am getting the message "WORD did not save the document C:\...\AutoRecovery save of...
Recently I am getting the message "WORD did not save the document C:\...\AutoRecovery save of..." This happens when I am working on large WORD documents, of about 700 pages. I have gotten the message when using WORD on two computers, in different locations. I have worked on these large documents for months without getting this message. I will appreciate advice.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.
Link path update in Word fails for multiple fails in Office 2024
On my old PC i have created an excel file with data. I also have several doc and docx files on Word, that contain many links to the excel file. For each new project i have, I use this files as template and transfer them in a specific way to the new project's folder. Normally on my old PC with win 10 and office 2021 professional, for each of my projects i fill the project data in the excel file. After that I open the excel file, open the first word file and when it asks I click to update links at open. As soon as the update link bar at the bottom taskbar finishes I open the second word file, again update links in it and then the third file and so on. I do not close any files at that moment. After that I go into the opened excel file and click save as - to another location (my new project folder). This triggers in all open word files the system to begin update of all links paths. I wait some time (about 5-10 minutes) the update to finish an the word files to become responsive, and then I click -save as- for every word file and save it as a new file in the new project folder. This way worked for me - I had all the word files with updated links paths, linking to the new excel file for the new project. I moved to a new PC and recently installed windows 11 pro with Office 2024 LTSC. I transferred my word and excel files to a folder with the same name and path. And when i tried to do the same thing to create excel and word files for my new projects, it starts the procedure of updating link paths, but about half of the link paths finally are not updated in my word files! When i try with opening and updating and saving only 1 single word file, it works and updates all the link paths. But with multiple simultaneous word files it fails! I tried everything - trusted locations, different settings, even changing some registry. It was interesting that I managed to get it working 2 times. But immediately after that, without changing anything - it again was not working. I know i can do it manually - for every single link i have to choose the excel file - but imagine this for hundreds of links is too long. I can do it for a single word file, but i have to repeat it and wait for the word to become responsive - again very time consuming. This is not acceptable. I read this has something to do with the Office 2024 has changed the way to deal with links - it was synchronous in 2021 and olde, and now is asynchronous. The system gets something like timeout and does not finish the process or something. My question is how i can fix it? Or is there an option to choose between the two ways Office deals with links? Or is such an option coming out or should be planned for the next releases? This is the main part of my job and really troubles me. Now I am installing 2021 so i can do my job, but I really want to be using latest software and features. I appreciate your help and answers!
