Spell check is working in MS Word 2016 but not Grammar Check. it is neither highlighting/underlining error nor recommending suggestion. for instance if i type " The is was a" nothing happens. i did the following Review - Language - Language - set proofing Language - unchecked "Do not check...

Office 2010 all the way: I have a Word document in which I've inserted an Excel object -- from a file, but not linked to it, so it's embedded, and it's an inline shape. Every time I either Edit or Open the Worksheet Object, either Excel or Word or BOTH change the size of the object, and in Word I...

Word 2013 - References I have references in Word. Word fills the left (Master list) and right side (Active list). I do not understand why because for each reference I do work equally. In the same way, fill out the book/web page etc.. information and have the same form of the APA citation style,...

Hi, I have a technical editing macro that identifies and fixes various glitches in technical reports. I'd like to highlight instances of repeated characters, where authors have entered repeated characters to remind themselves to fill in the specifics later. For example, "The details are provided...

Hi all, My issue is that I have written a macro to combine Tracked Changes and Comments from multiple reviewers into a single document. The code appears to work on its face, and I end up with a single document with numerous Tracked Changes and Comments, all associated with different Reviewer...

I work as a translator (French to English), and whenever I start working in a document, I switch the language of the document to English. Otherwise, there are various formatting errors (spaces before question marks and colons, angle quotes, and Word getting cutesy and trying to "fix" my "spelling...

Hi all. I'm using Word 2010 have a 3 page document in doc format. Each page is separated by an odd page break. My printer is set up with white and ivory paper. I have placed a PRINT field code with the following text on the 2nd page: { PRINT \p page "/MediaColor(Ivory) setpagedevice"...

I have a document with two columns. I would like to type in the right-hand coiumn with out having the words wrap from the left-hand column. HOW DO I GET MY CURSOR TO THE RIGHT-HAND COLUMN???

Hi, I am wondering if there is an 'easy' way to automatically replicate the text in one text box to another? For instance I have a bilingual letter (English on one page and Welsh on the other), so when entering the address in a text box on the English page is it possible that the same address is...

The graphics in my Word 2013 documents have disappeared and have left a bunch of random lines in their place. If I click on these random lines, then click on "Picture Tools Format", then click on one of the "Picture Styles", the graphic returns. The graphics were fine in Windows 7 and worked...

When I create a Table of content, page numbers are written at the left margin in each table entry. In order to do that, paragrahp styles TOC 1 to TOC 9 must have left tab stops defined at the left margin position. By using reveal formatting button, I can see the tab stops defined in their correct...

Help please... I have created a MS365 Word fill-in Form. We don't want our users to be able to SAVE. We just want user to be able to email filled-in form. - I have a working macro that takes the filled in form and emails it, however it saves the data on the original form automatically. -...

Hello all I have a question about collapsed or expanded text as explained for instance in a Microsoft article: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/collapse-or-expand-parts-of-a-document-701786e0-95e2-40bf-bfe5-f0233cd3520c My question is that as the little arrow pointing downwards and to the...

Word 2016 - Office 365 PRINTDATE inserted into footer of Word Template not updating when printed. Field code says { PRINTDATE \@ "M/d/yyyy" \* MERGEFORMAT } File | Options | Display | Update fields before printing is checked. I have a number of these templates which are all behaving the same...

On Monday, December 9, 2019 at 3:16:00 AM UTC+1, Macropod wrote: Use: {1}{1}* Hi Paul, Sorry for the huge delay in answering. Thank you very much for your professional help. As always with your solutions, works like a charm :-) THANK YOU Very Much.

What does the squiggely blue underline on my word documents mean?

Hi everyone. I basically want to do the same as a macro: I want to "record" my formatting changes, and then I want to be able to open another document, click a button (or something similar), and have those exact same formatting changes apply. It seems as though macros can only do this for new...

I have a 150-page Reference file where the dates are in UK format and I'd like them in US format. Is it possible to use Wildcards to search and replace and transpose all instances of? I have found this online: {1,2} * Which searches and selects the DD and MM, I've just not figured out how to...

I have a style which I change to font color when I start a new document. Now I need a way to have that font color to also be the font color on another style without changing the font and size. How can a do this?

I have a report that pulls info into excel in preparation for a mail merge report in word. One of the mail merge fields contains a string of text that is 279 characters (including spaces). When merged into the Word document, it seems to cut it off at 255 characters. Is there a limit to how...