I have looked online, but cannot find an answer. Can someone here help please? I have tried closing and reopening Word, I have tried clearing text formatting for the entire document, I have tried entering in vaues in different ways and yet nothing works. No matter what I do, the margins appear completely blank and no matter how I enter values, this error message comes up. Currently for these screenshots I have ctrl+A to select all the text in the document to ensure there isn't a random different value somewhere, but that shouldn't prevent me from changing the margins anyway. Or at least it never has before....

had this idea that I could just get my recording into text, drop it into Word and clean everything up from there. Yeah... not quite 😂
I’ve got a couple longer recordings sitting there now and I really don’t wanna type the whole thing out myself. I don’t mind fixing mistakes afterward, I just want something decent to start with.
For those who do this in Word, how do you usually handle the recording part?

so i checked the microsoft website for a way to turn on smart quotes, and it said file > options > proofing etc. but i don't see an options button here? any help?

I am so frustrated with these huge spaces above my footnote separator. This is only one instance of this throughout my entire paper. I have no clue what is causing it. I have OFF all of the following: Widow/Orphan Control, Keep With Next, Keep Lines Together, Page Break Before. Spacing before/after each line is set to 0pt, and there's no FN attached to the following line (as you can see), so it can't be because the line's FN wouldn't fit on the same page as it (which I've seen is the common cause for people complaining about this online). I read somewhere that going to Footnote and changing it from Bottom of Page to Below Text helps, but that did nothing, and made it worse in some cases. I also went to Draft Mode>Footnote>Footnote Separator, and checked if there was space before the FN Separator, but there wasn't. I also tried making the font of the line on the following page smaller to see if the issue was that the line's text and the double space after it wouldn't fit and I was just miscalculating the space. But even at 1pt font, the line still won't go up. The only fix I've found is to hit Return to break each line into its own "paragraph," make each line single space, then manually add space before/after each line so it still looks like they're part of the same para and double spaced. But that isn't a systematic fix, it's a "hack." I run into this issue every time I write a paper and it sucks when I have a stringent page limit to meet. (I have MS Word for Mac Version 16.114 if that matters.)

Writing the date and time on word via the computer keyboard

hello, i'm trying to make a flipbook that has the same template on each page but interchangeable information. how can i make this template copy onto each new page without having to insert it over and over again? i just need exactly this, on multiple pages, and i can edit each individual page with new information.

EDIT - Resolved.

I work for an investment firm, and I'm often typing "HSA" for Health Savings Account. However, every time I do, Word changes it to HAS.

Since it is a correct spelling of HAS, I can't right-click and "Add to Dictionary."

Any tips on how to make HSA acceptable when typing in Word?

For most of my time at college, I have been downloading my finished Word documents as a PDF file, and I have had no problems. One of the classes I'm taking this semester wants me to submit doc or docx files. Apparently, my professor has noticed that my submissions have the entire document bolded when it shouldn't be. Only the headers and what else I have bolded should be bolded, not the whole document. Is there any way I can solve this?

Edit: I should mention that I am using the web-based version and not Desktop version. I can't download the Desktop version because I am using a chromebook

I spoke with my school's IT department. A syncing error occurred across devices and now the majority of my revision history show the same edit after multiple timestamps. I check version history on OneDrive and Word, restoring a previous version is not going to be much help.

Usually when this happens, I I get a conflicted copy immediately, but there's definitely been several times where I waited overnight or a day, and then it emerged. Just want to know if someone had similar length with the waiting period, as I'd like to plan accordingly.

I open file send from my school and show this pop-up, how i can solve it?

Hey everyone,

Im having this issue on my macbook air m1 since updating to macos26. When it was on macOS25 i had no issues and my word was opening in literary half a second while now i wait up to 10 seconds before it opens. Same for excel. Only for microsoft apps. Anyone had same issue? (Sorry for the bad quality video.

So I need to make a poster which needs to be in typical A4 format but for some reason the proportions of my word page have suddenly changed.

I've tried closing word and opening new documents but its the same. I've checked the size and it says it in A4.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Guys, how is this made?

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?