Hello I am writing a thesis(it is in linguistics) and I provide a lot of example sentences in it which are subsequently numbered throughout the thesis. When I open the Document map those sentences appear as if they are headings so I suppose I have to apply a style for those numbered sentences so...

Is it possible to print ALL the formatting properties of a given heading? I am completely baffled by my inability to get a heading to be centered. I do see that when I left align the heading, it goes 'outside' the left border - suggesting that the starting position for the format is off to the...

Hi - I am new to this group and hope to be able to use it to get some questions answered. Here's my first of I am sure many questions :-) I have a 175+ page document that is broken up into multiple sections/chapters/appendices using section breaks and I have the footnotes set to restart at 1 in...

Hello All, A problem I've been struggling with: I noticed my page numbers increasing even though I added no new pages. It turned out that for some reason, whenever I save the document, some of the images (the ones created within MS Word) keep duplicating. I got as many as 4 dulicates for some of...

Hi All, Wondering if anyone could advice me on how to lock/unlink all field codes in the footers of my 1600page document. A different footer appears on the first page of each section of the document (about 140 in all). I can go to each one manually and hit CTRL+F11 to lock but there are just too...

Hi, I am writing a document and I would like to know the best practice made while formatting a word 2010 document. I have several levels of headings in my document. For example, I would like to know for the scenario mentioned in the attached document, the best practice. Please tell me if my...

I would like to autonumber chapters such that I get Chapter I Chapter II .... and so forth Is it possible to have a field that not only provides an autonumber but also the word "Chapter" before the number? If possible I would like each Chapter and (auto)number to be associated with a style, say,...

I've got a very long document with many heading levels. When I try to use the format painter to transfer the style of one heading to another, I get an unwanted change in format. First, I click on the heading that has the format that I want to copy, and then click the format painter icon on the...

Hi, I am using a german version of Office 2010, writing english documents. I want to insert a REFerence that automatically expands to "above" or "below". Problem: it always prints out a german version "oben" or "unterhalb". I tried to change the language of the field itself (Alt-F9) as well as...

My footnotes are indenting and I am getting 1.5 spacing. Tried to change via "modify style" and used advanced tab and changed font and para but it changed the whole document. Now I can't reset modify style because the fields for "style type" and "style based on" fields are greyed out. Possibly...

Hi, I want to create excel vba code which will open word file then on the basis of criteria create range and then replace some word in that range again do the same with remaining document. e.g. ----------------------- Text Text Criteria text Rang 1

Hi, In my MS Word document, there are about 50 pages. I need to add "0" where decimal value is in this format .25 or any Number. I need VBA code. I have tried with below, but it is time consuming is there other way of doing same. Sub a() With ActiveDocument For i = 1 To .Words.Count

I'm formatting a 30+-page documents that will eventually include about 50 figures, and I'm using Word 2003. I've been able to reset the caption numbers most of the time after deleting figures or changing their position. However, in one place, the caption numbers are not in sequence, and number 10...

I've used Word since were born. And I've almost mastered it. I've even written code that "wrote" Word docs for me into the many hundreds of pages. But I've never been able to do certain basic things (except in VBA, sometimes). One of these is now eating my lunch: The doc is about 100pp. ...

Hi, I have been having trouble in formatting captions for a very long project. I want it to include the chapter numbers on my pictures but whenever i change the chapter number, all the top captions change with the same chapter numbers These are the steps i have undertaken Changing the...

I'm experiencing an odd problem with a multi-page document of instructions I'm currently formatting. The document consists of several sections and subsections, and I have created styles for section headers of different levels and the body text. The body text has a margin that is about half a page...

Hi, I just got word 2010 and I am facing an annoying problem. When I change font or alignment for example on one particular sentence, the changes will be applied to that sentence and then automatically to the whole text. I need to click the undo arraw to come back to what I wanted (and click...

I engaged someone to format a document for me in Word 2003. The document calls for having pagination and headers, as well as endnotes unique to each section. In other words, for example, the idea is to have the endnotes for chapter 1 appear at the end of chapter 1 and so on. Now the individual I...

I've searched this forum for an answer to my specific question and have had no luck. I have a 350-page book that I'm editing, and even though I have no options selected to ignore words in caps or words with numbers in them, Word's spell checker is missing things. Just ordinary words. I don't...

I OCRed an old Maya to Spanish dictionary (hundreds of years old and thousands of pages, as a hobby, not getting paid). Now I want to copy it from the pdf format and put it into word, then paste it into excel (I want the word in one column and the definition in another, so a tab between them,...