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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.
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!
Word Mail Merge document will not print.
I have created a mail merge document using an Excel s/s as my list of recipients. The merge completed successfully and I saved the completed document of 50+ pages. I want to print page 23 of the document and find it will not print. As a matter of fact, the whole document will not print. Please do not tell me I have to go back and set up the document over again...it has many fields and I never had this problem with Mail Merge before. PS I am returning to work after 2 years. Did Word 2016 change something in Mail Merge?? Thank you, Gaye
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.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!
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. BryanIndenting 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!
