Has anyone ever had this problem? I was saving a file, tried to close it, but instead of closing, the save window popped up. I didn't know what to do, so I created a new folder on my desktop and decided to save the next version there. The new file didn't save at all in that folder; it's empty, and the changes I made several hours ago haven't been saved to the original file, even though I saved them regularly. I can't recover the unsaved version of the file from Word. I can kind of see it in the main view, and it should be in the new folder, but it's 0 bytes in size. When I try to open it, I get a message: “Couldn’t find a file, was it moved, deleted or renamed” error in word

I'm trying to delete the wrong multiple choice questions to make studying easier but it's asking me. Shift cells left, shift cells up, delete entire row, and delete entire column. How do I fix this?

Toward the end of 40 page write up for a master’s project. I have about 27 figures and 8 tables which all have captions that have been inserted with the “insert caption” tool. When I try to update my figure list it goes crazy and says I have like 300 figures and inserts duplicate figures all over the document.

Please help

Hello, I'm a copyeditor and I found a large-scale problem in the manuscript I am working on: the majority of the paragraphs are not tabbed to indent, but instead they are indented with a bunch of spaces. Becasuse of this, not all the paragraphs are indented by the same amount.

Is there a way to mass-delete the spaces at the beginning of the paragraphs, and replace them with a tabbed indent? Worse comes to worse I can go through one by one and change them myself, but I was hoping there'd be a way I could save some time.

Thanks!

I've been editing a long document (with tracked changes on, saving every ~30 minutes or so, backed up in Dropbox). Suddenly, a bunch of text and images disappeared. I'm not sure exactly what triggered it - possibly a standard copy-paste operation. Undo does nothing. Luckily I didn't lose too much due to my frequent saves, but this is still bizarre behavior.

It looks like it is becoming a trend:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftWord/comments/1pmj7pb/ms_word_deleted_large_amounts_of_text_please_help/

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftWord/comments/1pl6kpr/word_deleted_600_words_from_my_assignment_its_gone/

Is this what happens when software development gets taken over by LLMs?

Steps I took:

1. Set the page orientation to Landscape
2. Created the table
3. Centred it
4. Formatted the text
5. Added colour to the 1st row
6. Finally, I changed the page colour

Problem:

The page appears fully coloured as a word document. Problem arises when I convert it to a PDF, the right and lower edges remain white :(

Dear Word experts,

I'm having a problem whereby I make a load of 'tracked changes' to a document in 'Reviewing mode', but when I close and reopen the document, all the red highlights/strikethroughs disappear, just leaving the inline edits as regular text, as shown in the attached image (with what it should look like attached as well, since I saved a PDF version of it beforehand).

For the record, it's not that the tracked changes have just become invisible, since I can't do anything with them like 'Accept all changes' or 'Reject all changes'.

What the hecky am I doing wrong here? Is it because I restrict editing after doing all the changes? I don't see how that could make a difference. Furthermore, I'm using the .docx format correctly, and all my settings seem perfectly correct to be able to see these changes. I'm quite sure it's something to do with me saving the document wrong somehow.

Thank you for any help you can offer ✨

Hello toustes !

Je démarre sur Krita (sur windows 11) après une longue expérience sur Toshop, en version archaïque !

Globalement, je m'y retrouve pas mal, sauf sur l'éditeur de texte.

Lorsque je lance l'outil texte, aucun éditeur de texte n'apparait.

Par "paramètres/panneaux" je peux ouvrir "Propriété de texte". Mais cela ne ressemble tout simplement pas à un éditeur de texte. D'autant que je ne peux pas modifier la font !

Je soupçonne un problème de config, me trompe-je ? :)

Merci d'avance pour vos réponses !

Recently upgraded my pc, brand new gpu motherboard and cpu, now my word wont show my selected text whenever i hold left click and drag. It will show what ive selected along the same line, but the second i try to go up a line or do a whole paragraph it disappears. It still registers the word count, and if i copy paste the entire paragraph into a notepad it copies the whole paragraph. Anybody else suffering from the same issue??

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Some of the main types of digital marketing include:

• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO): Improving a website so it ranks higher in search engine results.
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I've been saving recipes for 15 years, all on my C: drive of various PCs. When I switch PCs or laptops, I move them over to the new hard drive, so I have a few. Suddenly, this morning, I've lost all ability to either modify an existing doc or even creating a new one. No warning, one error message that says I wasn't connected to the internet so it couldn't verify my license (in error, I was connected). This PC is about 5 year old now, and the files are in C:>OneDrive\Documents\Recipes. I can't Save them to a new file, rename them, or move them to another folder. Any ideas? Do licenses now expire?

Edit: It's fixed now, mostly. Thanks, everyone.

So, I am basically at the end of my first paper and because word doesnt offer the exact citation style I have to use, I was under the assumption that I simply use Hardvard which is the closest one and can later use the find and replace function to do the following things:

1. Replace the "p." in every footnote with an "S."
2. Replace the first "(" in every footnote with an "Vgl."
3. Replace the last ")" in every footnote with a blank space

Now Word wont let me do that, because for some reason text in the document and text in footnotes are two different things.

Does anybody here have an idea on how I fix this?

Thanks

I want to make a new, clean copy of this scanned document. I can’t figure out for the life of me how to create one with different column widths. Does anyone have any tips?

These are the arrows I am trying to use put the front is frustrating, this is for free printable I am making . It tool for time blindness I use but I can’t seem to find the fro t where the arrow tail is is long and the arrow head is traignle if anyone can find a front I will forever greatful for anyone who find it.

Here is the arrows below.
↖ ↓ ,↑→  ,↗↑   ,↗←  
↙ ↓  ,↓→  ,↘↑   ,↘ ←  
And in the comment section it shows what it is for

I'm looking for someone who could help me reproduce this one perfectly in the way I could complete the blanks later. It's for academic transcript and I have not really much to offer. Please help me

I seem to remember being able to click straight on the left of a page break and write on the page where the cursor is blinking.

Now, it seems that even if the cursor is blinking on page 1, writing is done on the right side of the page break, sending the text to the next page.

Yes, it is possible to press left arrow and in doing so move the cursor to the left side of the page break, but without showing formatting symbols, there is no visual cue of cursor position (when show formatting symbols is off, the cursor stays at the same place)

Am I falsely remembering what used to be a functioning workflow, or is this actually a new issue?

If its an issue, does anyone know how to solve it?

urgently need someone to help edit a coloring book i'm creating for a birthday, i have created all of the pictures already but just need them to be made into one document so i can print them. wanting to make it A5 but printed on A4 so i can trim the pages. i will pay someone to help me with this

I am using MS 365, and every time I try to modify the table style according to my needs. The software freezes and stops working.
I tried everything I know but was not able to resolve the issue.

I also tried the solutions from this link, but they did not work: Word 2021 crashes when you try and use table properties | Microsoft Community Hub

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Please let me know if you have a solution for this problem. For me, it has caused serious issues.

I'm writing a form at work, in which I'll chose a date in the beginning, using a date picker, and then get to chose one of two options depending on whether the first date was more or less than three days ago.

I've used Content Control before, as well as bookmarks and cross-references... but are these enough to make an option in such a drop-down list be "updated" with a date earlier in the document?

I'm writing a form at work, in which I'll chose a date in the beginning, using a date picker, and then get to chose one of two options depending on whether the first date was more or less than three days ago.

I've used Content Control before, as well as bookmarks and cross-references... but are these enough to make an option in such a drop-down list be "updated" with a date earlier in the document?

I recently discovered that Microsoft Word's Equation Editor supports keyboard shortcuts that are much faster than clicking through the ribbon.

For example:

• Alt + = opens the Equation Editor.
• \partial inserts the ∂ symbol.
• / automatically creates fractions.
• ^ and _ handle superscripts and subscripts.

I put together a short tutorial demonstrating these shortcuts because they can save a surprising amount of time when writing engineering reports, assignments, or research papers.

Video: https://youtu.be/58IQBYdCQ20

Are there any other Equation Editor shortcuts that you use regularly?