An equation created using the new Word 2007 equation editor will appear as an image that cannot be edited when you subsequently open the document in Word 2003. This is the case whether you saved the document in.docx (Word 2007) or in.doc (Word 2003) format. An equation created using the new Word 2007 equation editor will appear as an image that cannot be edited when you subsequently open the document in Word 2003. This is the case whether you saved the document in.docx (Word 2007) or in.doc (Word 2003) format. Strange bug though. My guess would be Word somehow changed/shifted the encoding to a double-byte character set, causing pairs of English characters to get mistakenly interpreted as one Chinese character each.

Orange Blossom edited to add: In fact, I can see the decreased spacing after the l's in this post. Edited by Orange Blossom, 19 June 2011 - 03:28 PM.

I saw a comparison recently about Word Perfect and Word, and the person correctly noted that what happened with Word and Word Perfect was similar to what happened with VHS video and Betamax. The inferior, but better marketed product (VHS), ran the superior product (Betamax) out of business. That person closed his post with the comment, “you can have my Word Perfect when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.” Word Perfect users are a committed bunch. I cut my Word Processing teeth on WordPerfect.

Press the button and all your formatting will become visible. How do I hide the Paragraph marks and other formatting? If the marks appear and you want to hide them, simply find the Paragraph Marks button and press it again. It should stop being orange, and your formatting marks will no longer be displayed. Thanks to Linda for the inspiration and Mac screenshot! ——————— This is part of my on how to avoid time-consuming “short cuts” and use Word in the right way to maximise your time and improve the look of your documents.

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Scroll to and select Table Properties On the Table Tab, notice that the ' Preferred width' is grayed out? Select the check box and change the preferred width to a size that fits within the margin--6' should be good. Then click on the OK button to apply the formatting change. Be sure to save the document between major format changes in case the application hangs or if you get an unexpected result you can close the document without saving and continue from where you left off.

• The symbol’s code: You can insert symbols by typing the symbol’s code and then pressing the Alt+X key combination. For example, the code for the sigma character is 2211: Type 2211 in your document and then press Alt+X. The number 2211 is magically transformed into the sigma character. A quick Web search will produce a resource with a list of symbols and their corresponding codes. Some symbols have shortcut keys. They appear at the bottom of the Symbol dialog box.

There are a couple of different ways to simply force your formatting to behave. Format Painter If you see some other text in the document that looks like what you wish your misbehaving text looked like, the fastest way to make it conform is to use the Format Painter. Go to the Home tab (or, in versions 2003 or earlier, go to the Standard toolbar), place your cursor inside the text you want your misbehaving paragraph to emulate, click the paintbrush icon, then click or select the text you want to fix.

Only the pdf is rendered useless and you will be unable to distribute a pdf document but will be able to print documents. I hope there is a quick fix to this idiotic bug introduced in El Capitan. Thank you for your reply, but I have to say that the Apple Font Pack is not the issue. I have tried fonts not included in the Apple Font Pack, and many other system or non-system fonts for testing purposes.

Outlook 2016 With Exchange Errors If you’re having problems adding an Exchange account to Outlook 2016 then it’s probably because your version of Exchange is not supported. The error message will usually be something like: The data contains an exchange 2010 SP1 or older account or EXC_BAD_ACCESS or error -3253 Connection to the server failed or was dropped Office 2016 For Mac only supports Exchange 2010 SP2 or higher – meaning you’ll have to upgrade Exchange if you’re still using Exchange 2010 SPP1 or Exchange 2007. Update Microsoft Error Reporting If you’ve just upgraded to Office 2016 on your Mac, you also need to make sure that Microsoft Error Reporting is updated to at least version 2.2.9. If not, the older version of Microsoft Error Reporter will keep conflicting with Outlook 2016 and make it crash. To update, simply go to the Apple logo in the top left corner of your Mac and select “Software Update” and install the available updates.

And when you’re in a hurry, isn’t that what you really want? Featured image: “” from Shutterstock. All of this begs the question: the reason this article is even necessary is because Word has major formatting problems that defy logic at times and drive you out of your mind. I’ve have been using Word Perfect for 25 years. Word Perfect lets you fix formatting problems easily. Ask someone who uses Word Perfect about “reveal codes,” which is what method of disclosing the formatting codes hidden in the document is called. On the rare occasion when the formatting has gone awry, a simple push on F3 lets you see all the hidden codes instantly.

Whether you choose to try and repair the problem or not, you’ll probably find that OneDrive For Business will then hog your Mac’s CPU and crash. To fix this, you must simply delete your OfficeFileCache.

The shortcut for this is Ctrl-L (Press the L key while holding down the Ctrl key.) •. Thank you for the advice! However, this has not directly fixed the problem I'm having, that the spaces between words are different. The document is set to 'left justified'. If I set it to 'right justified', everything is reversed to the right side. However, the spaces still remain at different lengths between words.

My suggestions are: A Copy the whole text, paste it into a text-only editor (like Notepad) then copy and paste it back into a new Word document. If your Notepad supports the font, of course. B If you don’t have a text-only editor that will work is to SAVE A COPY first, then highlight all the text and in Home, Font, press the remove formatting button (an A with an eraser in front of it), which will remove all formatting.

Thank you for sending the screenshot: after you pressed the Show Paragraph button it gave you lots of odd characters in the middle of words. My suggestions are: A Copy the whole text, paste it into a text-only editor (like Notepad) then copy and paste it back into a new Word document. If your Notepad supports the font, of course. B If you don’t have a text-only editor that will work is to SAVE A COPY first, then highlight all the text and in Home, Font, press the remove formatting button (an A with an eraser in front of it), which will remove all formatting.

Hello- Wondering if anyone is having this issue after the good old El Capitan upgrade. When using Pages, and opening previously created documents OR newly created documents, when I print them as PDFs or print them in my normal printer, black square boxes are showing up throughout every document. The black boxes show up wherever there is a paragraph break. If I use a line break everywhere (shift+enter), the black boxes do not appear when printed. But everywhere the normal paragraph break (enter) is used, these dang boxes show up.

I am attaching the document to this link if that helps: ‏. The file is corrupted or it does not get read correctly by its os (Windows XP). If you have not installed East Asian languages Do this: • Access the Control Panel by clicking on Start --> Settings --> Control Panel.

Solution: Specify which font Word uses for substitution. • On the Word menu, click Preferences. • Under Output and Sharing, click Compatibility. • Click Font Substitution. • Under Font substitutions, select the font that you want to replace. • On the Substituted font pop-up menu, click the font that you want to use for the substitution.

Solution: Install the missing font. • Drag the font into /Library/Fonts on your computer.

Barcode programs for mac. My friend was writing on microsoft word. She saved the document and closed out, then left. When she came back the next morning and opened the file, the ENTIRE thing was strange symbols.

I've accessed it often and for 5 days straight making minor changes. Starting this morning whenever I try to open the file I get the message 'The open XML file filename.docx cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents or the file name may contain invalid characters (for example /)'.

It’s worse than that. ‘Unicode’ is an encoding of characters as integers, which it calls code points. UTF-8 is a method of encoding each code point as a variable number of (8-bit) bytes, at least one and possibly as many as three. UCS-2 is actually a subset of Unicode, which encodes the first 64,000 code points (there are more!) as two bytes.

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Try to research your issue before posting, don't be vague. State everything you have tried and all the guides/tutorials/sites you have followed as well as why they were unsuccessful.

Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” Lazy people want a singular, simplistic answer to their singular local problem. Since it’s never singular, and it’s never simplistic, and the audience SURE isn’t local, Leo’s site is a learning experience that helps deal with future problems encountered that are related to an earlier one. Since my issue can’t be resolved with one simple answer, I’ve learned how to apply the general principle to dealing with it. And if I still can’t, at least now I’m armed with more information to search for an answer that does apply to my particular situation. Did you ever stop to think most of us asking how to fix this problem are not computer software engineers? All your lengthy jargon does absolutely no good.

• Divide the document in half to determine which half (or halves) contains the corruption. • Divide that half again, etc., until you have isolated the offending element(s). • Repair the corrupt element if possible. In the case of a corrupt paragraph or section, copy all but its last paragraph mark into a new Word document. If it’s a table, your best bet is to Convert Table To Text and then immediately Convert Text To Table again. A corrupt graphic may have to be replaced.

How would I fix spacing letter by letter, especially if one press of the spacebar puts a large space? I don't think there is any way to make a smaller space than one press of the spacebar. Unless I just expand all of my spaces, in which case you're right, it would be very time consuming. Also, would you have any other fonts in mind that would have set spacing?

Also, escaping can be overlooked, which, technically is a ‘bug’. These are just some additional reasons quote characters get messed up – especially on mass-produced interactive web pages. It’s worse than that. ‘Unicode’ is an encoding of characters as integers, which it calls code points. UTF-8 is a method of encoding each code point as a variable number of (8-bit) bytes, at least one and possibly as many as three.

Except I’m getting it converting my double-quotes ” into & quot; in the comment, and when I edit the comment, it’s actually entered in the comment as & quot; instead of a double-quote. But when I edit the comment and change those back into ” and re-post the edited comment, it shows up correctly as a double-quote. I’m suspicious of an extension, because I haven’t seen anyone else complaining about the issue online recently, so it’s probably pretty isolated. My suspicion is that it’s my Lazarus extension that saves copies of my comments as I’m entering them so that they don’t get lost if I inadvertently close the tab or get navigated away from a web form. I’m going to try a little experiment with disabling that and see if it’s my culprit or not. Otherwise, I’ll try a clean profile in my Chrome browser and see if that does the trick.

It is true, sometimes we must simply accept reality for what it is, cruel, unexpected, and incomprehensible. We live in a world where it is impossible to get away from the ordinary and extraordinary frustrations of ordinary experiences.

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Outlook Hangs Or Crashes Importing PST Files This is unfortunately a recurring problem with Outlook on Mac. Large PST files, especially those more than a few GB, tend to send Outlook into a tailspin.

In Word 2010 (I think 2007 did the same thing), the spacing between words is different depending on the words and how they fit together on the line. I assume that Word is automatically trying to fit as much information on one line as possible by adding or subtracting small amounts of space (smaller than what the spacebar can do) between words. I understand the purpose of this, but it is getting very distracting and confusing in my written pieces. For example, some words look almost as if they are one large word (e.g. 'teaching position' looks like 'teachingposition' because of the small amount of space between the two words) while others look as if a small word (like 'a' or 'I') could possibly fit between them (e.g. 'teaching [ ] position').

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How severe the loss depends on the complexity of your document, how damaged it is, your version of Word, and which of the procedures below you choose. Because Word 2004's HTML capability (actually, its XML capability.) is well ahead of Word X’s, you are likely to lose less formatting by using the Save As Web Page method with Word 2004. Furthermore, while using this method, Word 2004 produces a compatibility report that tells you beforehand what, if anything, you will lose. Procedure #1: Save As Web Page First line of defense for Word 2004 (but if it doesn't work, definitely try Procedure #2). Second line of defense for Word X (try Procedure #2 first). • Save as Web Page.

• You can insert symbols by typing the symbol’s character code and then pressing the Alt+X key combination. For example, the character code for sigma is 2211: Type 2211 in your document and then press Alt+X. The number 2211 is magically transformed into the following character.

Close OneDrive For Business 2. Go to: ~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/Microsoft/AppData/Microsoft/Office/15.0/OfficeFileCache If you have trouble finding it, the easiest way is to go to Finder and select Go in the Menu Bar, hold down the ALT key and you will see the Library folder appear: 3. When you’ve found the OfficeFileCache file, delete it, restart OneDrive For Business and it should work. How To Fix Word 2016 Crashes If you’ve been having problems with Word 2016 crashing on your Mac, then there’s actually a simple solution to fix most of them. There are a variety of problems and issues in Office 2016 For Mac that mean Word 2016 keeps crashing, some with error messages and others that just display the spinning beach ball of death and require you to Force Quit.

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NOTE: While Word writes screen tips to Web pages, it does NOT reimport them. Any screen tips in your document will be lost. • Close the Word Document. If you do not, the Word Document version, with its corruptions, remains the file in use. Word simply continues to use the bad file instead of rebuilding a new file from the stored information in the web page version. • Open the Web Page version.

When I convert the.doc file back to.docx, I get the error message again. This is a large file that I am editing down to make smaller. I will eventually have to share it with collaborators who need to follow what I've done, so keeping tracked changes is important and I can't just copy/paste everything over to a new document. I contacted Microsoft support and the best they could do was suggest fixing any disk permission issues, which I did and didn't solve the problem. Can anyone offer a solution? I uploaded the.docx file to icloud (first time using it). It's a step in the right direction at least.

And when I print on my inkjet printer from Pages, these boxes also print out on real paper. Hello VikingOSX, I have already sent a bug report of this through Pages own Pages menu, Provide Feedback option. How to turn on notifications for imessage on mac. I still find it weird that only two of us have this issue. I'm sure some others will jump along the way, but using Pages and printing or exporting as PDF seems something that thousands would do everyday. My issue is the same as jessefromtuolumne.

In the app, you can also see the Character Viewer popup when you click in the lower-right corner. With macOS Sierra or later, emoji you send in Messages appear at the same size as the text they're part of. If you just send a few emoji without any other text, the emoji appear three times larger. To type an accented or alternate version of a character, press and hold a key until its alternate characters appear.

When you re-open the file, Word builds a new document using the saved instructions. Because the saved instructions cannot cause Word to make a corruption, the new document is automatically not corrupt when it is re-created. Procedure #2: Copy All But Last Paragraph Mark First line of defense for Word X. Second line of defense for Word 2004 (try Procedure #1 first).

I have to say that just selecting the left alignment gives me perfect spacing between words; can't remember ever having to fiddle around with these extra settings. My text is left aligned, as well--however, there is still awkward spacing going on. The character spacing option does not help with word spacing, as far as I can tell. Rather, it expands or condenses the space between all characters, not just between words. Even then, i'm not sure that character spacing would allow me to set a standard spacing between all words.

Other useful Word settings I always have turned on via Word Options > Advanced include: • in the Show document content section, set Field shading=Always to cause any field code content to be set with a light gray background so you know it is a field code result and not typed content (i.e. Table of contents, cross-references, page numbers, styleref content in header/footers, etc.). The shading is for the screen views only and won’t print. You can toggle between the field code and its result with Shift-F9 when you are within it, or Alt-F9 to toggle all field codes. • in the same section, turn on “Show bookmarks” to have light gray [ and ] characters contain any defined bookmarks so you can see them.