MS Word and Excel Mail Merge Certificates (advanced)
I need to run a mail merge (using Word and Excel) for certificates where per Course each student has a unique number of competencies they have achieved, example code attached. I cant manipulate or add data to the excel content with additional columns. I need one certificate per student each with their related competency achievement(s). Has anyone else found a solution without having to use an add in? Ive seen a template where the creator used the "next if" rule and the "if" condition is if the student ID is equal to, but i cant recreate it.
Default search scope in "find and replace"
Hi all, is there any way to make the search scope in the "fine and replace" menu (under "more") default to "all"? I have files with text boxes and the only way to make sure they are included is with "all", so every time I have to change it manually... Many thanks ahead!
Word freezes when using modern comments with tables
Hi everyone, I’m running into a very frustrating issue with Microsoft Word and I’m hoping someone has seen this before. Word Desktop consistently freezes when I try to use modern comments with tables. The freeze happens after typing into the comment field and trying to save the comment. The application becomes unresponsive and needs to be force-closed. What’s strange: The exact same document works perfectly fine in Word for the Web. I can add and edit comments in tables there without any issues. Brand new Lenovo laptop (Windows 11) Microsoft 365 (latest version) Issue started immediately on this device Same workflow worked fine on my previous laptop What I’ve already tried: Running Word in safe mode (winword /safe) Creating a new Windows user profile Quick Repair and Online Repair of Office Fully reinstalling Microsoft 365 Disabling / removing McAfee antivirus Testing with a completely new document Disabling modern comments (old comments work, but are not ideal) Testing local vs OneDrive files (same behavior) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!Word freezes or crashes when pressing the G key in the file search
When pressing the letter G in the file search on Word, it either just freezes and doesn't respond or crashes immediately. Regardless of whether Word is in Safe Mode or not. It also pops up a "Word couldn't start last time" pop-up when I try to open the app again and asks if I want to open it in Safe Mode. Which, as I said, still has the same problem. As far as I can tell, that's the only issue with Word. Everything else works great so far. This does not happen with other apps like PowerPoint or Excel. I have only recently reinstalled all the apps and it does not seem to have helped. Windows 11 25H2
Conditional field code
Hi, I'm trying to create some conditional code as seen in the screenshot below: But when I update the field it just shows a field code saying STYLEREF I need it to insert the paragraph number from the referenced paragraph if it's above 0 and if it's zero I need it to not insert anything. Where it says "Error!*", I tried removing that and inserting "0" but this had no effect. I was wondering if someone could help me out? Thanks in advance.Space between Sentences changed in recent update
Before my PC was rebooted for an OS update on the fifteenth, the space checking behaved as expected. Since then, it is incorrectly adding grammar squiggles and pauses when checking where it should not. In the proofing settings for this, I have (why is this panel not in dark mode? xD): Which used to ignore quoted sentences such as: However, you can now see a squiggle where one does not belong. This happens with all "special ending" punctuation (question & exclamation) provided the following character is a capital letter. (A full-stop in quotes should be followed by two spaces as a comma is used when ending followed by a "(s)he said.) In other cases, if followed by a lowercase, it remains correct: I changed nothing about my settings between the update and also tried with the latest one this morning (the 25th), but the problem persists. This was also working correctly with mixed sentences before the update: Here, we see a new sentence after the first question, indicating a bit of extra movement or, in some cases, a thought. Again, this worked correctly before the update and has since started doing this. I hate to disable this option because I sometimes forget to space correctly (or I am deleting stuff and remove too much, where the squiggle helps me fix it, as it should). And no, I am not interested in a "how many spaces" fight. The live support told me to post here to find an answer or get this fixed… I hope it helps in finding the change and reverting it back to how it should be. Thank you.
Large text which repeats more than 500 times in a document - how can I delete it?
Hi all, I have a Word 365 document - 1170 pages, where I have one and the same text repeating more than 500 times. This repetitive text contains several paragraphs and a table and I want to remove it from all its instances. Is there any way to remove it quickly? I am not a word advanced user and cannot use macros.
