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29 TopicsWord Online is the worst program I have ever used.
I understand that this is a free software, but the fact that I can't align two images next to each other at the same height is so bafflingly moronic it almost brings me to tears. Can you please remove this software offering and strop tricking people in to believing that this is a useable product. Microsoft sucks. We'll see how long this post lasts on the forum.721Views2likes2CommentsSession Expired - Please refresh error message
Another user and I are working on the same word document online. When he works in a table entering data, we both receive the "Sorry your session expired. Please refresh the page to continue". This only happens when he is entering data in the table. He can copy and paste tables in the document and he can enter text in other places without issue. It is only when working inside the table. I receive the same error when he does even if I'm not doing anything in the document. I could just be watching what he is typing and I get the error. Any suggestions?14KViews1like2CommentsUsing Canvas for Figures creates large files
Hello, I am looking for a solution / help regarding file sizes. To describe the problem I'm facing: We have a lot of Word documents describing different tasks. The documents contain a lot of pictures, some with many inserted shapes to highlight / point to a certain things. Currently I use Drawing Canvas to keep the pictures and shapes in place and not to fall apart when editing. The problem is, doing it this way, the file size dramatically increases. I have compared the same document with figures in Canvas and another with pictures inserted without Canvas, the size increases drastically (e.g. form 10MB to 120MB). Some things i've tried: -Not using Canvas - obvious, but the shapes and figures do tend to fall apart, leaving small shapes scattered in the document. The documents are edited by many users with different levels of Word knowledge and attention to detail, thus rendering this solution unviable. -Using Tables to anchor the shapes - this also proved unviable, because when deleting a picture from the table, the cells resize regardless of the shapes (which are still anchored to the table itself, but are now outside of the table overlapping a text), and when deleting the Table, the shapes remain. -Inserting already edited pictures - while this solves the problem with shapes, it is also unviable, because the shapes often changes. Creating a collection of stock pictures that can be re-edited to suit changes could resolve this, but there are thousands of different pictures, so that would be counterproductive. -Using an alternative software to Word - unviable due to internal restrictions...and the fact that almost everyone has at least some experience with Word to be able to edit a document. -Compression of pictures - that is the only "kind of" working solution, but another problem was discovered. When trying to compress all pictures and deselecting the option to "Apply only to this picture", strangely not all pictures get compressed. When multiple pictures are in a Canvas, only one picture gets compressed. When pictures are "Grouped" with shapes, sometimes the compression skips them entirely. Hopefully my description of problems is understandable... Thank you all in advance 🙂859Views1like2CommentsEquations not rendering in Word
Hi everyone, I have an Office 365 Subscription and so I use the online version of Word for my work, I've done so for a number of months. All of a sudden today all of my maths equations stopped rendering. Now all I see, if I try to use the equation editor, is a grey box that says [Equation]. This is true for new documents and also all of my old documents that included equations. I've tried logging in and out again and tried on Chorome and Safari. I lean on this function quite heavily for my work so any help would be appreciated.Solved33KViews1like17CommentsCannot Pin Online Word Document to Recent Files List in Word 2019
Hello! I am co-authoring a large document with several different users in Word. We started several years ago using Word 2013. I uploaded the document to our SharePoint so we could all edit collaboratively. I pinned the online document to the top of my recent documents list to make it easily accessible by just opening Word. This worked flawlessly for years, but my organization just made us update to 2019 and it seems as though I can no longer pin online/shared documents to the recent list! Non-shared files, even those stored on a network drive and not on my local machine, pin just fine. Is there a setting I need to tweak somewhere to get back this capability? Or was there a change made and this useful capability is no longer available? Thanks!1.4KViews1like2CommentsONLINE word table numbering does not work
When selecting table rows and pressing numbering it does nothing in ONLINE word. Is there any other way of numbering table columns, rows? Because there are hundreds of columns and numbering them one by one is quite time consuming. Need to number it like that ,but it only works one row at the time. If I for example select 10 or 50, 1000 columns the numbering button does nothing. Need help 🙂1.2KViews1like3Comments