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Page numbers appear with hyphens in the Table of Contents in MS Word

Here is a downloadable sample of my Word document. I have created a custom table of contents in my word document. However, the pages numbers in my "Table of Contents" appear with the hyphens ...
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Double-blue underlines in MS Word

I have a document with an entire paragraph double-underlined in blue. There's another post of the same name where a respondent says it's due to "wordiness." I do believe I'm looking at an example of ...
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How does Office 2013's document locking work?

I've run into a couple of problems with files being locked/unlocked in Office 2013 in my company. documents (Word/Excel files, mostly) are getting unlocked if not regularly saved. A user has a server ...
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Table of Contents based on numbered lists

I have a large document formatted with lists (numbered items) and I need to create a table of content based on these lists. The problem is that there is no heading style used so regular TOC doesn't ...
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What is Custom XML Data in MS Word Document - Office 2013

While inspecting a Word Document originally created in Office 2003 but opened and edited in Office 2013, the results show 'Custom XML Data' as an item that can be removed from the document. What is '...
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Minimize the number of pages a table takes by adjusting column width

I have a Word document (.doc) containing a table which spans across 150 pages or so. Table cells contain long text lines which are word-wrapped to fit into given column width, making them multi-line. ...
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Disable hiding of the mouse cursor in Word 2013 when typing

Whenever I start typing, the mouse cursor disappears in Word 2013 on Windows 10. I understand that this is a feature, but it's incredibly annoying. I went trough the options in Word but couldn't find ...
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Unable to Position Table in Word 2013

I have a table in Word 2013 which spans a page and a half and covers pretty much the full width. I would like a caption above the table which will remain attached (visibly) to it. By that, I mean, ...
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Fields in Word: OR function

I'm using fields for a complex mailmerge. I'd like to use an OR function, but I can't seem to get it to work; if a=0 or a="" I'm assuming I must follow the excel format; OR(a=0; a="") I do find the OR ...
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Cell shading not shown when table rows break over pages

I have a table with several cells in the left columns merged to span large amounts of the table. This is to colour-code the cells the the right of them - different parts of the table are grouped ...
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MS Word 2013: path to local copies

I am using Microsoft Word 2013 Because I have a network share which is somewhat unreliable, I enabled the following option in File=> Options => Advanced : Copy remotely stored files onto your ...
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How to prevent Word 2013 from detecting a comma used as a thousands separator as a grammar mistake?

I have a text, which contains a lots of numbers, in which a comma is used as a thousands separator like this: 1,000, meaning one thousand. When I check spelling and grammar Word underlines these ...
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Add Text to Microsoft Office Content Control Date Picker

I am creating a template document that allows a user to pick a date and it will insert the date in the document with some formatted text. i.e. if the person picked today's date, it would output 14th ...
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Captions gets extra line between object

My problem is pretty annoying I am adding caption to my table, image etc any object And these captions sometimes gets extra new line I mean an empty line between caption and the object When i ...
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Set language for comments in Office 2013

I have Polish version of Word in Office 2013, though I'm working mostly with English language documents. So far, when I was opening any document with language set to English, it was used for spell ...
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