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Word Management
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Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
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Teams file with Track Changes on is only opening as Read Only in desktop app
A colleague has reported that they have word files that they / colleagues need to edit. But the file is only opening in the desktop app as read only. The file has track changes on. They do not want track changes turned off in order. They prefer to…


HTML format mail merge is not working
When use mail merge in HTML format, emails from Word (Standard 2016) to Outlook are not received. Works with plain text and attachment options. Could this be due to a patch? Can anyone help?


Unable to get captions to appear in a list of figures in Microsoft Word
I've done everything I can think of, but my List of Figures only shows the Figure # and then the page number: The first two figures for some reason work just fine, but the rest won't. I've right clicked the images, inserted a caption, but it…


Creating Excel and Word Objects in old Visual Basic 6 broken, again
Since mid January 2023 one of Microsoft Updates broke this functionnality. I need to support for at least one year old Visual Basic Applications for a client that uses VBA objects like Excel and Word. We are using Office 2016 32 bits edition. This was…


Word trusted locations not changing with GPO, is there another place? Azure?
We are running the latest version of Microsoft 365 Apps, including Word. Our on-premise domain controllers have GPO that lists our includes a list of trusted locations. We recently modified the list removing two locations and changing another one. In…


Update of Word/Excel links on server
Hello Community, First, sorr for my english. I hope you will understand. :) In my work, I often use the links between a Word file and an Excel file. In fact, each of our computer files has an Excel sheet as well as a Word document. Each of the…


Word document - worksheet object not opening in word it is not opening a new file in excel
Beginning last week, my word document excel object stopped opening in the microsoft word program. Instead, it opens up the excel workbook. The problem with this, I have lost the ability to resize to the inputted rows in word. This is a shared…


Office 365 Apps Functions Limited On A Mac
I have an Office 365 subscription, and have for several years. I use the apps in my business. My primary computer systems are Mac computers. For years the Office apps have worked just fine on my MAc computers, but now I am getting a warning message when…


How do I use thetext recovery converter on word?
I have a corrupted file. Word suggests I use the text recovery converter. where is that?


Word doesn't show on screen
Hello, This error message pops up when our program (Software from my Company) wants to generate a Word Document. According to Task Manager Word is open, but I don't see it on Screen. The customer already tried to restart the PC and I'm not aware of…


APA 7 level 4 heading with immediate body text and NO line break.
I'm helping a friend update her APA 6 document to APA 7. I have set up a multi-level numbered List Style to handle the numbered headings and have mapped the levels to modified standard heading levels for proper formatting and outlining. This seems to be…


How to remove US English from the Windows 10 / Office 365 forever. Permanently.
No matter what I do my computer keeps trying to use US English. I am a professional. This makes me look so stupid if I use US English in a document. I have been driven to distraction trying to remove it. I simply want US English removed from my…


Microsoft Word Drop Down List and Dynamic Contents based on Selection?
Hi, I am working in MS Word to create a drop down list. In this list I have few items, let's call it Apple, Nuts and Milk, see below: Depending upon selection, I would like to show some text or description of the selected item in a specific…
AutoRecovery Failed
My MacBook Air just restarted without warning and an important document that was unsaved seems to be lost. I didn't even realize that the computer restarted but when I sat down to my laptop only 2 of the 4 word docs I was working on were open. I have…


Is it possible to show all values from a sharepoint column in a Word quick part?
Hi, I have a Sharepoint library with a column that contains one or multiple persons. Based on this library, I populate a Word document with quick parts. When I have more than one person in my column, it shows only one in the Word document. Is this by…


Microsoft Word blocking PowerShell creating a new Word Document
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How to restore F4 "repeat last command" function?
Something got knocked loose in one of my documents, and F4 no longer repeats the last command as it normally does. Instead it sets the selected paragraph's style to Normal. I know how to assign a command to a shortcut, but what command do I want to…


how to remove unknown email
how do u remove unknown email etc


Hiding a barcode in a mailmerge in Word
Hi there! I'm trying to hide a barcode on a label if the barcode value is empty, but I'm having no luck with the IF-statement. This is what I have now: { IF { MERGEFIELD Barcode } = "" "' "{MERGEBARCODE Barcode CODE128 \h 1927…


Word does not Print page range, only full document 2021
Hi, I have Office 365 2021 Emprersarial, more than a week ago I have problems with printing some documents from My PC, it happens that if I send the entire document to print, it prints perfectly, but if I send a range of pages to print or a specific page…

