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AskWoody LoungerFebruary 29, 2008 at 4:36 am in reply to: Need help adding backroung image as leterpad! (2007) #1099845Is your picture’s text wrapping or layout set for something other than in line with text? I think behind text might be best for your purpose. And is the relative horizontal position set to LEFT relative to the page and the relative vertical position TOP relative to the page?
You can then resize the picture by dragging the handles to the opposite sides. After pulling the picture, you may have to reset the relative positions. Of course, the picture may be distorted unless the picture’s aspect ratio is the same as the paper’s. When I tested this, I put the picture in the header of my doc. But with behind text chosen, it may not matter.
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AskWoody LoungerThe setting you want should be here:
Office button > Word options > Advanced > Display section
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AskWoody LoungerOn my home office computer (the only place I currently use Office 2007), it works just like the tool bars showing up in 2003. I’m not sure that I understand your file structure and pointers, so I can’t say it will work the same for you. But I’d guess that if your users can see on their Ad-Ins ribbon the macros and tool bar icons from the templates in your Addins folder, then, yes, it’ll work.
BTW, I suggested an add-on template because that’s where I keep my macros and too bars. But you could also put it in your version of Normal.dot().
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AskWoody LoungerDoes this happen in Widows Explorer too? If not and it happens just within Office, have you looked into using Microsoft Diagnostics (part of the Office Tools) to detect and repair Office problems?
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AskWoody LoungerOpen the template and change the Quick Access tool bar from there. The changes should show up in your documents. That is how I was able to add macros to my QA tool bar.
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AskWoody LoungerI replied to your question on the wrong thread and had to delete it. But that’s OK. My answer has changed. I was able to get the controls to fail as you described. I unprotected the document and checked the control properties but none restricted changes. I also noticed, though, that when I reprotected the document, all the controls worked gain. That made me I wonder whether “protected for forms” has anything to do with this behavior.
One thing your user could try is replacing the legacy check boxes with content control drop-down lists. (I know, as a user I prefer check boxes too. Not sure why MS didn’t include them.) That way your user wouldn’t have to protect the form to permit input, but, if protection is needed, could use Group (in the controls section) to protect the form. Another option is to use legacy tools for everything. I hope one of those ideas solves the problem. But…
One more thing, yours is the third problem I’ve seen in Word help groups about content controls not working as expected or changing into static text. Although I was unable to duplicate the behavior in files created on my own computer, they were the in the poster’s files. Several of us could only come up with clumsy workarounds. I don’t know whether these are program errors or a documentation errors. But they should be reported to MS. (One content control problem was addressed in the latest service pack.) The Word MS communities website has a page for application errors. That may be a good place to report these problems. Or maybe Hans or other loungers have other information.
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AskWoody LoungerWhen you try to move a text box (and apparently a picture, though I was not able to duplicate this) by cutting and pasting from one paragraph anchor position to another, Word unhelpfully adjusts the relative vertical position in a way that keeps the picture in its original place. Take a look at the vertical relative position, in the advanced layout dialog, before and after such a move. To correct to the new anchor position, change the vertical relative position value to 0.
The behavior is the same, but may seem different , if the anchor is to the margin or the page. Word handles cursor and arrow-key moves of frames and floating tables a little differently. Still, I find that the most reliable way to position any of these objects is through the advanced layout dialog.
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AskWoody LoungerAlso, from windows XP Explorer (the file dialog), you can send a file to a compressed (zipped) folder (right click on file name > send to > compressed).
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AskWoody LoungerSorry this is late. I was actually working on a proposal with lots of tables.
1. Because I was once confused about table styles and paragraph styles, I thought you might be too. But after taking a look at reveal formatting, I have to say that Word is also confused.
The table style for the first table in your file is table grid, and for the second, it’s table normal. (I found this out the old fashioned way, one “modify style at a time” until I found the two that didn’t say “Select all: not currently used”.) So you are right, Word assigns a table style to tables imported from Word 97, but without looking at the Word 97 tables, I can’t guess why it would choose table grid for some and table normal for others. I also don’t understand why the end of row markers in the second table would be identified as normal and not table normal.
2. Regarding the paragraph styles: If paragraph styles were applied to paragraphs the tables in Word 97, they should have been carried over into Word XP. But (some of this is from Stephanie Krieger’s Advanced Office Documents 2007 Edition), if there’s a formatting conflict between the styles of the same name and if if the imported styles are applied to only part of a paragraph, Word XP may generate unlinked styles–the ones with char or char char (in English language versions) after the style name. I notice that your document has several of these; on of them is list:indent bull. If you carefully get rid of the unlinked styles–changing its based-on value to “no style” and then deleting it is one method–your paragraph styles may correct themselves. Even if you have to fix them yourself, the fix is more likely to stick. Note that paragraph styles are applied to tables in addition to the underlying table style.
3. Apparently, there’s no way to not have a style applied to a table in Word XP (or 2007) , but you could just ignore the table style and apply custom paragraph styles to your table text. That’s what I have done for the past few years. After reading Krieger’s book, though, I am now using custom table styles to format the grid, shading, cell margins, and cell vertical alignment and custom paragraph styles to format the table text. In my last job, most of the 40+ tables could be formatted in 4 or 5 clicks.
4. I suspect the random styles may happen when a new, unlinked style is created.
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AskWoody LoungerDecember 24, 2007 at 5:54 pm in reply to: Placing a picture on same page as a point in text (2003) #1089817I have just skimmed this topic so I may have missed this but: you may get better results if the vertical alignment of the text box is anchored to the paragraph instead of the margin. This is true for text boxes, frames, and, my favorite holder of graphics, floating tables. The heading placement problem can be fixed or avoided by delaying the image placement a line or two–by setting a relative vertical alignment that is some below the start of the paragraph.
I agree with you that text boxes are not appropriate when tables of figures are needed. MS still recommends frames to meet this need, but I don’t have a single client that uses them. Tables are another option that I am beginning to see more of in this use. True you need to set the table or cell margins to zero and eliminate leading if you want a snug fit. But some of that can be accomplished through table grid styles (I’d use regular paragraph styles inside the table). The graphic should be pasted into the table “in line with text”. The caption can be in the same cell as the graphic or in a separate cell. One problem with all of these floating objects is that if anyone drags them, the anchor type may change from paragraph to page. Once you recognize the symptoms, its easy enough to fix through the menus.
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AskWoody LoungerAndrew: I thank you too for the tip on how to get to the continuous section break header when the section that does not span pages. All too simple! Years ago I enjoyed cleaning up documents for further processing –like final formatting or conversion to databases. But I was using WordPerfect back then. It is a cool way to learn the ins and outs of a word processor and other programs.
Paul:
Now that we’ve seen a sample of the doc, I can suggest this procedure:
-Use a macro to replace all next page section breaks with a hard page break.
-Use a macro to set all footers and headers to same as previous. That should leave only one footer and one header in the doc.
-Fix that footer as Andrew recommended. By the way in W2007 deleting the frame from within the modify frame dialog left the number field, so all I had to do was format it.
-Next add some structure to the doc. Do a wild card search for BREWSTER LADIES’ LIBRARY followed by anything else and a return (that is, ( BREWSTER LADIES’ LIBRARY)*^013 ) and replace it with itself (I mean leave the replace box blank) BUT set the style in the replace box to be Heading 1. I saw that sometimes the library name is on a line by itself, so first do a regular search, with match case on, for BREWSTER LADIES’ LIBRARY^p and replace it with replace it with BREWSTER LADIES’ LIBRARY-. Once there are headings you and the writer can generate a TOC and use outline view.(Deleted stuff about columns because I see you’ve already changed them to tables. I also want to add that I have macros like those I mentioned above, but I’m in a bit of a rush and can’t get them right now. Probably tomorrow. )
These suggestions are based on the doc being reasonably consistent–and from the looks of the sample pages it is. But since the doc must have been prepared over a period of time, there are bound to be differences. So please inspect the document after each step and if it’s OK save it under a new name so you can retreat to it if necessary after a further step.
If these steps work, you are a couple of hours away from a document that is ready for proofing instead of several days away. Yes there’s lots of further cleanup that should be done but that is less likely to affect page numbers and sections (our topic). Well, I did stray a little bit, didn’t I. Tsk tsk.
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AskWoody LoungerThe same as previous instruction has no effect if the footers are not the same. The section 2 footer has a return and a page number field in a frame. The section 3 footer has two slightly off center returns but no number field. You can solve your page numbering problem–at least until the next different footer–by copying the section 2 footer into the section 3’s or just by inserting the page number field into section 3.
I’m not sure that it could cause numbering problems, but there is an extra continuous section break on page 2. It could be deleted and replaced by a regular page break.Pam
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AskWoody LoungerI added the styles command to my quick access toolbar to give the functionality of W2003.
I now see that I could also dock the style inspector (click the middle button at the bottom of the styles pane), which shows both paragraph and text level formatting. That could work out nicely in the future when the styles galleries for my documents have been customized.
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AskWoody LoungerThe line number style is there in my W2007. It may be easier to find if, under options (in the styles pane), you change the sort order of the styles pane to alphaetical.
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AskWoody Lounger(Edited by HansV to make URL clickable – see Help 19)
I also cannot explain why you are having this problem. But I can suggest that you try Pure Text , which adds “a new Windows hot-key (default is WINDOWS+V) that allows you to paste *text* to any application without formatting”. (http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext%5B/url%5D)
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