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Soemthing is seriously wrong with my Word install (part of Student version of Office 2013). Slowing to a crawl after a few minutes of use. This is a fresh reinstall from yesterday, one that I had to do via the phone b/c MS squawked that I was unable to install it on another computer (which I wasn’t since a drive failed and this is part of a new Windows install on another drive). I installed using the phone method and it was fine.

This should not be happening.

PS I am noticing that my Heading 3 numbers are continuing as single numbered list, even when seperated by different heading 2 entries:

A (which is heading 2)
text
i (heading 3)
text
ii
text

B
text
iii
text

Where “iii” should be “i” having reset the numbered list when B (heading 2) began

I looked around the paragraph settings, font, and numbering settings (no numbering shows as assigned) but didn’t see any options.
I am working in the clients Word template, so I have use it.

Thanks. Amazing oversight on the part of M$.

Thanks, Pam. I followed your advice and saw exactly what you described. I deleted u and now have {TOC o “1-3” h z}
That didn’t fix the problem however…still the same issue with figures, tables, and bullet points appearing in ToC

Andrew- Figures are given Figure Style, captions are given Caption Style, and notes are given Note style within the Word headings styles. When I look at the ToC settings I don’t see any indication that the ToC is including any of these styles.

Figured it out. Because tracked changes were on and all changes hadn’t been accepted, I think this “ghost text”marked for deletion (which included figures and captions) might have been messing Word’s ability to update the List of Figures and Tables properly. I pressed Ctrl+A and accepted all changes, then Ctrl+A and F9 to update all.

The takeaway here seems to be that Word gets tripped up by ghost text (text deleted or rather marked for deletion, but not fully purged from the doc) as far as List ToC are concerned.

Has anyone else encountered this?

Thank you

Excellent. Thanks!

D’oh—I realized I can make the settings by right-clicking the ruler bar.

Thanks. That worked.

Very helpful. Thanks.

Aha! Looks like a co-worker found the solution:

http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Word/microsoft.public.word.docmanagement/2010-02/msg02007.html

edit- Hmm, cannot find normal.dotm anywhere in the templates folder and a co-worker who did follow the advice in that link says that it didn’t work.

Anyone?

Hmm, tried “current position” and the page number appeared but removed the two text boxes to the left of it that were on the same horizontal level. The text box that was below it remained, however. So, still removing text boxes. Also, I didn’t see any “Insert at current document position” after right-clicking on the spot in the header after following the “Insert>Page Number>Bottom of Page>Plain Number 1” steps.

Hmm, that didn’t work for me in Draft view, and I haven’t set my mousecontrol settings to differ from default. It does work for me for instance with this webpage (ctrl + mousewheel results in larger or smaller view)

I had a similar problem in 2003. There if I used the “normal” view, now more accurately called “draft”, you can see both the page break and the hard return. You have to be sure to be viewing all the formatting marks to find this. I haven’t tried it yet in 2007, but the draft view seems to be acting the same in other areas.

As an alternative, just go and format the paragraph, and set the height to “exactly” 1 point high. It will essentially disappear.

I tried Draft view but the pages are miniscule, way too small to see, and switiching to One Page view resets the Document Views to Print Layout.

Yes, I know about that the Page Break Before option but don’t want to use it because most of my coworkers get confused by that setting, and several of them will be reviewing this.