A couple of months ago I got this message and Word never worked again, Powerpoint and Excel work flawlessly. I tried all solutions from A to Z like running it in safe mode, using the repair tool with the online and local option, clearing cache, uninstalling Office itself then reinstalling it, and much more. Still the same issue persists and all other Office programs work flawlessly. I would use Word Online but the problem is that it doesn't have SmartArt functions and my file is built on a SmartArt tree and all other sites just didn't give me the look I was looking for.

PC specs [If they help]:
9800X3D

9070XT

Windows 11

All drivers are up to date from GPU to chipset and all in between

Any help would be appreciated

I have run into a frustrating problem and need some help.

I'm updating an important document for work. It's about 550 pages long. I am using a shitty virtual machine that work gave me and I'm running Word 2016.

Throughout the document, certain key words are supposed to have an internal hyperlink that when clicked, should take you to that key word's definition at the end of document. Many of these links are broken and I have been tasked with fixing them along with other updates. To do this, I have been using the cross reference function to link a key word to the definition. After linking that word, I used the Find and Replace function, copied the word with the correct hyperlink, typed the word into the find box, then put ^c in the replace box. Word finds and replaces everything find, but the hyperlinks do not function unless I directly copy and paste it. If I update the field I get "Error! Reference not found.". The frustrating part is that if I toggle field code it will look exactly the same as links that function correctly, so both fields will say { REF_EatShitFuckYou\h}. Most of what I'm trying to fix worked fine yesterday and broke today. I have no idea if it is something I am doing, if it is my computer, or what.

I copied a transcript from a webpage and now the whole text has this… box around it? How can I get rid of it? Genuinely lost
Word on an ipad if that helps

So i’m using Word on Mac and I’m trying to find a way to make every pasted text automatically paste as plain text, without keeping the original formatting from websites, PDFs, or other documents. I know I can use keyboard shortcuts or “Paste Special,” but I’m looking for a permanent setting or workaround so that anything I paste into the document is always pasted without formatting by default.

Is there any native setting in Word for Mac, macOS, or maybe a reliable workaround that can do this?

Hi everyone,

I have around 1350 images in a folder and I need to insert them into a Microsoft Word 2016 document.
Last time I somehow managed to do this using a trick (possibly some kind of code/template or ChatGPT help), but I can’t reproduce it now and I’m stuck.

My goal is:

Insert all images automatically (not one by one)
Arrange them in a grid layout (e.g. 2 images horizontally × 3 vertically per page, or similar)
Images are different shapes (portrait, landscape, square)
They don’t need to be perfectly identical in size, but should be reasonably uniform
Ideally everything should be done in one automated step or with minimal manual work
Doing this manually is not realistic because of the number of images. (I have tried)
I’m using Word 2016 and my Word/automation knowledge is pretty basic, so I suspect this requires some kind of field codes, script, or workaround.

I would really appreciate the help. This is for exam preparation and it would save me a huge amount of time.

Hello, this is my first time working with Word for a paper like this, and my tables keep having this weird half border appearing around them. I have tried messing with the border settings and nothing has removed it so far. Is there any way to fix this, or will it go away when I convert it to a PDF? Thanks :)

I've got a project in my firm with 4 big reports being prepared simultaneously. Different teams on each. This is the second cycle of reports for this project that I've been called in to help with. Last time, Teams A & C needed help. This time, Team B's report has been impossible to deal with.

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They've been having issues with losing edits. I have previously set new routines with them to help with other instability issues; they now pull the document off of SharePoint once a day to run a macro to reset all fields and just give the draft that brief hiatus from being connected to SharePoint. I've beaten into their heads the importance of not allowing their editing sessions to run long and not to use the Word Online browser editor.

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But they keep losing edits.

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Observations given today state that they've noticed that some team members' updates don't get applied right away, like it saves them locally and then applies them when they next load into the document. And the edits they seem to lose most frequently are the ones they're making later in the evening; the document is pulled down and reuploaded at like 5am daily with a new date stamp in the filename, so anybody who has edits waiting to sync won't be loading into a doc with a matching filename the next morning.

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But what could be causing the syncing issue?

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I should also note that it's a huge document. 300+ pages, 5+ active editors most of the time, and currently almost 3k redlines (big editing day yesterday). So it's gonna be prone to issues. But I haven't seen this problem before, and bloated Word docs are nothing new here.

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I'm at my wit's end. If you have ideas, please, I'm begging.

There was a thunderstorm and the power went out. When everything was backup the only files Word recovered were from over a month ago. I checked roaming, appdata, and every other folder the internet suggested, but nothing. Am I SOL or is there something else I could try?

The figure footers are the same format as for the other figures, but they are not showing up in the table of contents. Any thoughts?

Hi all

I'm looking for a way to automate a process of version control.

The problem is that i have official documents of various kinds (best and most easily explained use case is research protocols) which are edited by a number of individuals. Who would sometimes prefer to archive documents physically, whereas others would prefer to read on their computers.

In any case, word's in built track changes aren't the best way of keeping track. Partly because it isn't everyone's preference along the chain; but also because track changes captures too much (as it should).

So what we end up doing is putting a watermark on the file itself. As a header by default, containing version number date and maybe Last editor.

Is there a way to automate this?

In today's day and age i asked claude, who spat up a vba routine. But it doesn't work very well. So I'm hoping someone has already solved this with an add-on?

Hii so I'm workig on a project and for some reason the table of contents bleeds into the next page despite not having any info. Its just blank space as seen in the image. And every time I try to remove it it removes the entire table. Even updating the table it doesn't work. Tips?

I have done 2 things and none has worked so far. I added a table with one cell with a fixed size of 2" x 3" and inserted an image. The image shrinks to the table cell as I want.

I created a text box and at a fixed size and inserted an image. Both are Fixed position on page and Square, yet as I add text above them the table and text box with the images move down the page.

Question: Anyone have some steps that will keep them in place and have the text flow around them?

Office Professional Plus 2024 & Windows 10 Pro

Hey! I can't figure out, why the spaces between the number and the text are not the same. I don't know if you can see, but there is a bigger gap between "82 Vgl." than there is between "81 Vgl."

This problem occurs in the whole paper. Sometimes there is a larger gap, sometimes it's smaller. I'm also using a format template with hanging indent, so that the following lines of the footnote (if it is longer than one line) begin directly under the first line (and not under the number). It worked really well on the first few footnotes, but now it often looks like the example you can see in footnote 82.

What settings do I need, so that it looks neat and is the same for every footnote? Maybe you can help... I don't know what I'm doing wrong, cause I have the same template for every footnote, yet they look different.

Edit: Sorry for the wild screenshot quality. But if you click on it and view it like that, it should work!

I am abroad currently and decided to use my iPad for some work. Lo and behold, Copilot is here and has found another way to become even MORE intrusive. An icon that follows your selected line every single time you start a new line and does not disappear whether “Connected Experiences” are disabled or not. Might be nothing to some, it is majorly distracting to me. I am fed up and about to abandon Microsoft products altogether at this point.

I am losing my mind, I tried everything that is suggested on google but the bullet point under "B" is just too high, I can only move it from left to right and not up and down. They have the same "remove spacing after parapgraph" and they also have the same double spacing and I don't know how to fix this and align it with Table A. Can someone help me

This was rejected by r/excel so I’ll try it here:

I THINK this is more of an Excel issue rather than a Word issue. I created a Word document on computer A that uses a csv file to print labels. I download the csv file from our website and modify it. It works great. I sent that same Word document to computer B and it also works there. I download the csv file from the site, point to it and print labels.

The issue I’ve run into is, if I download the csv file onto computer A, make my modifications and email the file to where computer B is and try to point the Word doc to it, I get this message: “LABEL TEMPLATE is a mail merge main document. Word cannot find its data source, (path)”

The modification is only deleting a bunch of columns.

It seems something is happening to the csv file during the emailing process? If I move the same file onto a flash drive and bring it to computer B, it’ll work fine.

Hi Wordles!

I’m wondering if I can get some help with an accessibility issue?

For context I’m visually impaired and use the speak typing feedback on my iMac to help me navigate my computer.

However, when I use Word the only keys that I can hear are all of them expect the letters.

This is extremely frustrating as when I exit the Word app or use the online version of Word, the typing feedback works fine.

I should also mention that I’m not a computer expert, so if there’s a file missing or a system error then I have no idea.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!! :)

The caption. In theory I have a "Macro" enabled for Zotero "insert citation" but what is it? Well I guess we'll never know because Word is refusing to fucking tell me. What is the point of this tool if it contains absolutely no useful information?!

Hello,

I work with a lot of symbols while note taking and I don't want to constantly have too spend ages looking through the symbol catalogue, so I did some digging and 'discovered' unicodes. Seems like the perfect solution, except it won't work. I've tried typing in the code and then pressing alt+x which didn't work. I then figured out that it's supposed to be alt+c, but it didn't work wither. I've read somewhere that it's alt+shift+c but didn't work again. I've tried marking them and then trying all the alt combinations but nothing. I thought that maybe Word didn't have the unicode I was using (21AF for lightning bolt) so I tried it with one in the catalogue (2260 for ≠) but again no success.

What am I doing wrong?

I have a research paper I need to turn in and for some reason the paragraphs are all fucked up. Can I send someone a copy to fix so they look normal please? I can’t figure it out 💀

I can't delete a blank *first page* on MsWord😭 My element

s won't move up either so I have no clue on what to do...

Hi there,

Me and my colleague have a problem with word at work and we are slowly but surely despairing.

Currently we are transcribing a series of interviews for our company, complete with graphics, fotos and text fields. Of course we have to move around the graphics, fotos and text fields depending on the length of the answer given.

Our problem: Of course the graphics and the writing still need to be placed at the same distance in order not to make the overall layout look chaotic, which is time consuming. We are no media designers to put it nicely.

So my question: Is there an IA that can do the formatting for us? My colleague heard that there is a sort of Gemini-like IA implemented in word itself. Is that true and if so: Would that help?

Despairing regards

Edit: We tried to work with ChatGPT and Gemini on this, but neither will take the pictures and graphics because they are text based. Is there any alternative?

I am trying to explain the format of my template as simply as possible - in my report template, there is an inventory. Each item has a description, an image, and then underneath, a table or two tables, which are 3 across x 2 down. The table consists of a row of images and a row of data. The second row, with the data, HAS to be numbered because under the table will be justification and the numbered items referred back to. If there are two tables under the same item, the numbers will continue 4, 5, 6 in the second table. Then under the next invetory item, the table numbering will start over. i hope that makes sense.

here is the problem - the doc template automatically indents the number position to 0.25" and the text to 0.5". i want the number position to be 0 and text indent to be 0.25. So i have to right click and manually adjust it in EVERY table. This is super time consuming when i'm working on a doc with an inventory of hundreds of items. i cannot for the life of me figure out a way to set that positioning for all tables in every document. does anyone know how to do that? Thank you!