Questions tagged [microsoft-word]
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Stop MS Word from selecting more than I want
I would like to just select (¬Q) without word selecting both brackets.
I know if I move my cursor back to the same position word will select correctly, but it's annoying to have to do that every time....
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Word heading number blacked out
When opening the document I am working on in Word 2010 this morning, the number in heading level 1 is a black rectangle:
however, it still look ok in the bookmark pane:
Weird, ey?
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Type math formulas in Microsoft Word the LaTeX way?
I wonder if there is some free solutions for typing math formulas the LaTeX way in Microsoft Word document (Office 2007)?
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Word: Disable spell checker for a paragraph?
Is it possible to disable the automatic spell checker in MS Word 2010 for single paragraphs of a document or just for some parts of a document?
I'd like to get rid of the squiggly lines in some parts ...
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What is the keyboard shortcut for pasting without formatting in MS Word?
In Microsoft Word 2019, if I want to paste using: Ctrl+Shift+V, that doesn't work, what is the new shortcut?
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How should I convert Markdown (or similar) to a Word Document?
Here's the deal:
In school I want to write my actual content in Markdown (using [Q10] or Notepad++) in school so that I can actually focus on writing without the ugliness of Word 2000 on my screen, ...
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How do I update all fields in a Word document?
I want a way of updating all fields in a Word 2013 document. (If it works in other versions, all the better; I originally had this problem with Word 2007, and nothing seems to have changed since then.)...
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How to convert an Inkscape SVG file into a Microsoft Word drawing?
How can I convert or insert an Inkscape SVG file to a Microsoft Word document?
Note: It has to be editable. The resulting exported PDF has selectable text.
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Export word document with high resolution PNG to PDF
I have a nice high resolution PNG. (Download from Dropbox)
When I paste this into a new Word document, it looks good. I can't zoom in more than 500% but at that zoom level all lines are smooth, as ...
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Breaking the Outlook 2010 e-mail blue quote line for inline responses
UPDATE:
I've finally figured out a way to comprehensively fix this problem, though it took a lot of work and the creation of an Outlook 2010 addin! See below for the addin download. As far as I'm ...
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How do I set up continuous paging in Word across different sections?
Background
In a document I'm preparing, I have the following sections:
Cover page, table of contents, introduction, etc. -- portrait orientation
The second section, some challenges -- landscape ...
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Why are PDFs generated from MS Word so large?
I created a simple MS Word document containing just this sentence:
This is a small document.
Nothing else. Then I've saved this document as DOCX and a PDF. Here are the file sizes:
DOCX: 12 kB
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How to make Microsoft Word selection behave like it would in a plain text editor
Whenever I select a section of text in MS Word, it automatically alters the selection to add or remove whitespace depending on the context of the selection.
As a developer that works with plain text ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to indent a nested bullet point in a table cell the proper way?
Open Word and insert a table (1 x 1 will work just fine).
Right-click in the table and, in the context menu, select "Bullets" and a bullet image from the bullet library.
Type something and press ...
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How to change the background color of a single page in Word 2010?
I can easily change the page color of every pages in my document thanks to the Page Layout Tab in the Ribbon, but I would like to change the color of a single page.
Any idea about how to to this with ...
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