My Logitech cordless mouse acts as a uncontrolled magic wand. When I pass it over text in my large document (90,000+ words) the text jumps to another page. The mouse does not act like this is other applications. What is happening and how can I stop it?

When I attempt to edit a long document in Word 2007 I find the text shifting around as I pass my mouse over it. This happens although I am not holding the button on the mouse. The problem does not arise when using my mouse in other applications. I can be on page 25 but a pass with the mouse...

So I am working with a ~100 page document which has a linked table of contents, doclinks etc. in Word 2007. The issue I am having is this: -One page (22) I added had to be landscape (all the rest are portrait) -Ever since inserting one landscape page, header/footer disappears off of the page after...

I have windows Vista home basic. If I want to add "WORD" program, how much should I pay to buy it directly from Microsoft?

I am editing a very large document that contains paragraphs that need to be deleted. Finding the offending paragraphs is easy, using search and replace. They are paragraphs that contain specific words or phrases. I do a search for the word or phrase (example: University of California) and...

I am trying to combine separate files for a book saved in the latest version of Word into one document, as requested by my publisher. But as a result the page numbering, spacing, and documentation (endnotes) are adversely affected. The pagination for the bibliography changes to lower case roman...

Have they all had the appropriate Style applied to them? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

Hello, I have a word document which has many links to excel documents. When I change something in excel document and open word document, word asks me whether to update the document or not. But, it does not update links now. I have to update links one by one manually. I do not know why it does...

Hello, I have a word document which has many links to excel documents. When I change something in excel document and open word document, word asks me whether to update the document or not. But, it does not update links now. I have to update links one by one manually. I do not know why it does...

Hello, I'll try and explain this the best I can. I started a new job and every so often I am responsible for downloading reports from an online server (.txt files), then copy/pasting them into word so I can format them (margins, font size, alignment, etc). Twenty types of reports, about 22...

I would like to have a variable year in my Word Document. I want to have a sentence that reads, in part, Please print your reports through period 11 of 2008. which is fine during 2010, but as soon as it become 2011, I want it to read: Please print your reports through period 11 of 2009.

I would like to have a variable year in my Word Document. I want to have a sentence that reads, in part, Please print your reports through period 11 of 2008. which is fine during 2010, but as soon as it become 2011, I want it to read: Please print your reports through period 11 of 2009.

I have a long document that is used as a template for many clients. I would like to be able to customize certain words (job titles) within the document from an excel spreadsheet. It also has to update the Word doc when the Excel Doc is changed. Any help is greatly appreciated! -- Frustrated...

I have a long document that is used as a template for many clients. I would like to be able to customize certain words (job titles) within the document from an excel spreadsheet. It also has to update the Word doc when the Excel Doc is changed. Any help is greatly appreciated! -- Frustrated...

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I use Word 03/XP. The widow/orphan control prevents individual lines in a paragraph from appearing at the beginning of a page. Can I change this to cover more than one line?

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I write quite long documents (50 to 60 sides) using Word 2007. I quite often need to use formatting such as bullets or numbering. However, I note that changing bullets on one page changes a whole bunch of bullets (or even removes them completely) elsewhere. I can't see this immediately as I am on...

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