It seems that most annoyances are not solvable using the existing tools in Word. It's only the gifted VBA users who are capable of building macros that skate around some of the many Word blunders. Thank goodness those users are willing to share their knowledge!!
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I think Microsoft's day of reckoning is coming, and it can't happen soon enough for me. I will look into Scrivener. To Tim, writing above - try Scrivener. That is what pro writers use. I agree with all your critiques, Word really sucks as a writing program.
It overthinks and second guesses the writer constantly and then it can be very difficult - without the "reveal codes" feature of much-missed Wordperfect - to figure out how to stop the frikkin thing from changing stuff you don't want changed and adding dumb formatting stuff, constantly. NO, Word, just because I started numbering things doesn't mean I want to suddenly change my indents and line spacing! Yes, Word, I really did mean to capitalize two letters in a row, NO, word I don't want the date changed to today. I hate that there is no way to keep the current line of text in the center of your field of vision rather than scrolling it down to the bottom and then just leaving it there.
I hate that their own search function is incapable of finding tabs and menus example, try searching the Help menu for Document Elements, it's like it doesn't exist. So dumb. I hate the Header thing where there are other commands in different menus that overrirde your choices so you can spend ages trying to get different headers in sections, even though you followed the instructions exactly. There are too many horrible things about Word to list here. We should all switch to Scrivener which is now for PC too.
Tim, I still think Word is only a good program with which to replace the typewriter. When Microsoft created the program, I wonder if they knew that professional writers would use the program to earn a living some day.
Somehow I doubt it. On a professional level the program needs to be scrapped and rebuilt from the very first line of code. The only users I receive documents from who actually use styles, are fellow technical writers and my students. Word text styles are pretty slick. The bullet and numbered styles are so poorly designed, you often spend a lot of time getting them to work consistently.
It seems the basic architecture for indents involves a convoluted process that is full of little trap doors. When you must share documents, your whole Word world comes crashing down.
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I wish someone would design a reliable word processor that quickly shoves Microsoft off the map. As long as so many people just use the program as a typewriter substitute direct formatting , Microsoft will never be forced into fixing the bugs in what is otherwise, a pretty good program. I think my issue is similar. I want my styles for comment balloons to remain the same from document to document.
Mind you, these docs are from students and they are all different. Each new doc has settings for the comment balloons. Each time, I have to go in and change them. Is there a way to ensure that my comment balloon style always override what's in another's doc? I hope you're still doing this I'm a translator using Word and frequently paste text from one document to another, all in Word. When pasting the font frequently changes and has to be redone. I've reset all the "paste options" and the default style for normal.
Is there a way to set Word to always use one font in my case, Times New Roman, 12 pt. I have a. These are Hearts, Spade, Diamonds and Clubs signs. When I open the document it changes those symbol signs to some another unknown but in Arial fonts. It counts the of pages on the left bottom and reaches to end say mins later. Also the default language of the document changes although I fixed it to English US. Do you have some suggestions for it? Thanks in advance.
I have I have a template called SOW. I open a file, go to the style menu, select Manage Styles. I select them all they are the same because I've not done this 50 times , and select to copy them all. I accept the "overwrite styles? It update the styles in my document.
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I save it. Next time I go back into it, it reverts, again, to the bad styles. I'm getting super irritated with this crap tool. Does anyone have any idea how to prevent this? Art, the Restrict Editing feature is quite powerful in preventing style updates. However, it also prevents any direct formatting in the document.
We have experiemented with several techniques, none of which are perfect. The proper solution is to prevent style updates, but still allow direct formatting in the document When providing feedback to Microsoft, and the feedback is accepted, you won't see the results of such feedback until a few versions later, since the coming versions already have their requirements locked down. I learned that when Microsoft visited us because of the long list of gripes we had with either Word 6 or Word 97 too long ago to remember which version we were using at the time.
Art thanks for that tip. Correct me if I am wrong, but if create a Document Template for scratch this might help solve the issue, but it is only a guess at this time.
If checked, when you open the document, the original definitions of the styles in the template replace any modifications the user made to the styles unless they enabled the 'New documents based on this template' option in the style definition. It's useful to check that if you want to 'force' the styles, but it confuses the end-user because they don't see the effect until they re-open the document and find their document-specific modifications gone. Click that and find the style in the list, and the instructions in this article then apply.
Note that in Word Mac the Normal style does not have the option to Automatically update. I haven't tried the macro in this article to see if it will work on Word Ernest: Creating macros is, literally, a subject for book-length treatment. You often refer to using a Macro. In this tip. Presumably you have to bring up a command line window, within Word but where is that. Do you use the Visual Basic window and if so, beyond opening the VB window how do you use it?
One problem with keeping the new fonts Cambria and Calibri as the default is that users who have not installed the new version of Office will not have these fonts, so even if you give them a version of your file they can open, the fonts will be substituted. Embedding the fonts when you save the file or saving the file as a PDF will maintain the fonts you use, but are not good solutions for collaborating on a document with other users. Hi I don't know if anyone might be able to help me.
I did what I was not supposed to do and changed the default font the improper way. Is there any way to reconnect my document themes, which are no longer working? Lost your password? Powered by the Parse.