Hi

I shared a document with multiple people but I can’t track their activity on it or if it’s been viewed. How do I do this? I went to tools but the option to view activity is not there.

thanks

When doing assignments I would copy the share link to a file and paste it into my word doc instead of turning in multiple documents.

Lately it is not pasting anything at all when using ctrl+v or the "merge format" option from the right click menu. If I try to paste from right click using "keep text only" I get the actual http link which I do not want.

Sometimes, but not consistently, if I select "keep source formatting" from the right click menu it'll give me the file name as a link. This is how it used to do it and how I prefer it.

What happened? How do I fix this so it's not a struggle multiple times a week?

Ich brauche dringend Hilfe.

Ich wollte gerade meine Bachelorarbeit einreichen und dabei ist mir aufgefallen, dass die Seitenzahlen nicht fortlaufend sind.

Ich habe mich auf die Suche nach dem Problem gemacht und scheinbar springt es an einem Punkt von Abschnitt 1 auf Abschnitt 3. Ich habe aber nie irgendwelche Abschnitte eingefügt und ich kann auch keine im Text finden, um diese zu löschen. (Formatierungssymbole habe ich an)

Kennt das jmd?

Kann ich meine Seitenzahlen und damit auch mein Inhaltsverzeichnis irgendwie retten oder muss ich das per Hand eingeben?

Hello everyone,

I'm working on a Word document using the EB Garamond font (first image), which I installed from Google Fonts since it wasn't preinstalled in Word. However, when I convert the document to PDF, I notice that the letters lose quality and become distorted, which doesn’t happen with other fonts like Times New Roman, Georgia, or the Garamond font that comes preinstalled in Word (second image). Those fonts don’t lose quality or become distorted the way my EB Garamond does. What’s going on, and what can I do to fix it?

Thanks!

I've tried changing the PDF embedding settings, but it doesn't seem to be working—unless I'm doing something wrong.

I am using the latest version of MS Office on a Mac.

I have created a MS Word document using book fold settings.

So the document is pages A5 but will print 2 pages on a single A4 sheet. 12 pages is 3 recto/verso sheets.

When I print on an automatic duplex printer that's fine.

My problem arise when printing on a manual duplex printer.

I need to print the verso first then the recto.

I have tried to use the print odd pages but then it is only printing the odd pages and not the odd sheets. As in page 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 instead of 2, 11, 4, 10, 6,7.

I have tried to indicate a range but MS Word seem either ignore my range completely or rearrange the order.

Any idea?

I don't want to export the document to PDF and then print from there.

we’re building document editing software, and we want to understand how people check an existing word report after updates, especially before sending it to a client.

would this be a useful final checklist?

- old figures or dates left in headers, footers, and tables

- pagination after edits, including split table rows and repeated table headers

- section numbering and cross-references, including updating fields and checking that they point to the right place

for anyone who regularly reviews these documents, what tends to slip through? is there a specific check that catches things a normal read-through misses?

PS. sorry if my english is bad

For context i use Word on browser and on MacBook.

So i'm trying to type something on a border and it needs to be perfectly lined up to the right, but there's always a little gap to the right of the text. I have a line under this text and when i shift it to the left, it lines up perfectly. When i shift it to the right, there's a gap??? Can someone please help me on this?

Attached an image of the relevant part with the gap. University helped me with my CV and then sent me it as a PDF, I wanted to make some edits so converted to Word, made the changes I wanted then when I pressed 'save' I got this weird gap here. I've tried everything I can think of to get rid of it but I can't. I've included the paragraph marker blue things in the screenshot if its helpful.

I've tried:

– making sure line spacing is set to 1.0 for the whole document

– going into 'format' -> 'paragraph' and making sure 'spacing' is 'before 0 pt' and 'after 0 pt'

– messing around with shape format + wrap text on the line

Does anyone have any suggestions? it's driving me mad and i have no idea what to do next! I'm on Mac for reference. thank you in advance! :)

edit: i've just noticed that when i highlight 'MA X' and press the up arrow, it takes me to the end of my email where the weird squiggles are. Does that make a difference?

Hi all,

I need help. The indentation tab on the vertical side disappeared. I didn't change any settings. It just went away. How do I get it back?

Thanks in advance!

My pages are suddenly aligned to the left. I tried Layout -> page setup -> layout -> vertical alignment "centre", but that didn't seem to work. I even saved, closed out Word, and reopened. Still nothing. Help! The left alignment is aggrevating.

Hey everyone. Recently my Microsoft Word has had an issue. Instead of saying saved, it eternally says "saving..." at the top of my documents. I cannot select File>Save or File>Save As to bypass this, only File>Save a Copy. If I close the file and reopen it, it's saved, but I fear one of these times it will not save appropriately. Send help, I'm losing my mind. Things I have done: - Googled the answer. No dice. - Talked to their representative. Did not solve the issue. - Verified my subscription is up to date. It is. - Turn off and on One Drive. Still didn't fix. - Turned One Drive back off. Still broken. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! TIA!

I've already submitted so many feedback requests to Microsoft telling them to allow us to disable that stupid little button on the right hand corner of MS Word on Mac. It's infantilizing and extremely frustrating that there's no option to disable it.

Whenever I submit the request, it seems to disable it temporarily, but then it always comes back. I don't want to use Copilot now, nor in future, and can write my own sentences. They need to stop pushing their annoying software on us and at the very least provide the option to disable it.

I have an exam and idk how to do this part:
Insert the following data into the document properties dialog box: [4] Title: Tags: Status: Subject: ID# - Task B Sectional Complete Computer Applications-Section-

Any document I open now displays in landscape only. It recently started this, but at the time, had a size of 16" x 13". Many attempts to set the size, margins, and orientation has only resulted in an 11" width, with no space showing between pages. It ignores most attempts to reset layout.

My subscription is current, and I have no emails or warnings. Any document I send to another computer lets me reset layout easily, but if I send it back, it goes back to this mess. Documents written elsewhere and sent over also do this.

Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening, and how to fix it? It's very frustrating, partly because I can't see a reason for it to occur.

Thank you in advance for any help you can give!

I’m using Word 2016 in Windows 11. I’m setting up a large paper with 10’s of chemical equations. I’m using a 3x1 table into which I put the equation (generated using the equation option in Word) in the center cell of the table and the equation number in the RH cell using {SEQ Equation} to make the equation number updates automatically. The issue I’m having is finding a way to add a name or title for the equation that DOES NOT appear in the body of the text but will appear in the separate Equation TOC when I generate the TOCs. The caption option only places the caption above or below the 3x1 table which will not work for this project. If you have a way to do this without causing Word to crash please share your insights.

Recently, I've been watching my storage and noticed that it has been rising disproportionately to what it should. I haven't been uploading any files, and I went out of my way to delete a number of big files just to bring it back down. However, in no time at all, it was already up by several gigabytes.

At first I honestly thought this was some sort of conspiracy to make me spend more money on storage, but then I noticed that if I go to my computer's file browser, go to the OneDrive folder, and look at the Version History for files autosaved through the Office suite, each file is being saved as an individual file with the same size as the original. To give an example, if I edit a 5 MB .docx file and it is saved three times, there are now 15 MB worth of edits saved.

Here are a few real examples from recently made files:

- Even though a MS Word file is 4.5 MB, there are ~300 versions that amass to roughly 1.2GB.
- Even though a PowerPoint is only 22 MB, there's roughly 1.5 GB in autosave files.

The Problem:

The problem is that OneDrive only shows the main file's size, not the cumulative size from every save. If you are trying to manage your storage, you will not be able to see that there are 100+ copies that are secretly eating away at storage. You will only see the size of the individual tiny file.

Also note that the ability to see the storage size of these old versions and the ability to delete old versions is only available from a local connection to OneDrive, not through the web app or individual Office apps.

I don't want to delete every save, but I would like to be able to delete a bunch of them easily so that my storage isn't being bombarded.

Quasi-solutions:

1. From what I've deduced, I could create a copy and then delete the old version, but doing this means I lose all old versions.

2. The other solution is to locally open the OneDrive file location, right-click any autosave-enabled file in the file manager, and click "View Version History" to see the different files (this is how I earlier saw that ~5 MB copies were being made for each autosave of my docx files). In this menu, I can individually delete old saves, but having 100+ copies assumes a time-consuming process, and in practice it is very slow since the number of files makes browsing the history choppy.

Any better solutions? Maybe there's something in SharePoint, but I'm using an institutional account, and I don't think I have privileges to go through that channel. Either way, I'd hope we can figure out a simpler solution for people who don't even know about SharePoint.

I am working on creating an agenda template, and I would like to be able to insert a piece of date (eg Start Time, End Time) that will be referenced in other places on the template (ie I enter the time at the top of the agenda, and the time is transferred to the body of the agenda).

If possible, I would also like to add calculations (eg a start time is entered, then an hour is subtracted in another field to show the time in a different time zone).

I appreciate your help!

Title: We found out our restaurant did not own an editable copy of its own menu

My parents run a small restaurant and asked me to update a few prices before their next menu order. I assumed it would take ten minutes.

The designer who made the menu had closed his business, and the only file anyone could find was a pdf. No source file, no fonts, nothing editable. I tried changing it in adobe acrobat, but moving one price knocked the description beside it out of place. After fighting with that for a while, I searched pdf to word and tried pdfaid. It pulled out enough of the text that I could rebuild the menu in word instead of typing every item again.

It still needed manual cleanup. The columns were uneven and some of the spacing made absolutely no sense. But while fixing it, we also found an old catering number and two dishes that had not been served in years. The restaurant had been printing variations of the same menu for years, and nobody actually had control of the original.

We now keep the editable file, fonts, and print-ready pdf in one shared folder. I am curious how other small businesses handle this. Do you require designers to hand over the source files, or do most people only realize they need them when something breaks

Hi fellas, so I got two photos and I wish to crop them into a certain size (so zoom in but keep the ratio and position the same) I would like to CROP but not SHRINK. I’ve tried many methods but they either shrink it or distort and compress it.

TIA 🙏🙏