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OK, answering my own post. (Sorry I had to go look elsewhere but since this site isn’t Woody’s anymore, it doesn’t seem to get much traffic.)

Apparently MS changed philosopies between 2003 and 2007 as far as footer/slide #s go. Where in 2003 you could put in a “footer” or “slide #” box on the master and that would only be selectable/editable on the master, in 2007, that’s not true and anything you put in a footer is reachable on each slide itself.

The solution is pretty simple. To get the same functionality in 2007 that you had in 2003, don’t use what MS calls “footer” or “slide #.” Instead, just put a text box for that info on the main master slide (the slightly larger one at the very top). Those text boxes will flow down to all other master slide and will show up on the presentation slides without being editable/moveable there. Whew!

Only problem is that the selection to have the info NOT appear on the title slide is missing, so whatever is in the footer will appear on the title slide. Small price to pay, and glad I’m not losing my mind. Wish there had been something about this in the help files.

Can you post a sample document that demonstrates the problem and tell us which style you are looking for?

Failing that, if you do a Select All and change the styles to something else, is it then impossible to find any hits on the style you were previously searching for?

Andrew, I was hoping to get some clues as to how to approach this without dissecting the document (over 250 pages). It’s one I’ve recently converted (forcefully, unfortunately, due to corporate “upgrade” from Word 2003 to Word 2007) and I’m trying to clean it up.

But it sounds like y’all don’t have any more experience with this than I do, so I guess I’ll continue to troubleshoot on my own — when I have time. My preference is to always use styles, but Word 2007 isn’t making it easy for me to find that errant formatting and change it. And I sure don’t want to convert in areas I’m not looking at — talk about unintended consequences!!

There is no cursor! You have asked it to “Select all instances”. Whenever you make a Selection in Word, there is no cursor.

Instead what happens (for me) is that as you scroll through the document you will see selected any occurrences of the chosen style.

OK, my document is over 250 pages. I did actually undertake to scroll through it once and I didn’t see any occurrence selected. Thus my frustration. In my experience, when I’ve said to “Select all instances,” it goes to the location of the first one so I can deal with it appropriately. Even in instances where there IS only one occurrence, it jumps to a location in the document, but I don’t see anything.

Thanks Pam! I thought I’d read something about it somewhere but couldn’t find it again. (And yes, I remember that char char thing. Not sure I ever figured out what to do about it, though!)

Does the document have tracked revisions or hidden text? Are you in Normal View or Page Layout View (floating objects aren’t visible in Normal view)?

No tracked revisioins. No hidden text that I know of — at least nothing I did! Same problem in print, outline, and draft view; can’t see anything highlighted or even see a cursor. Very frustrating.

Is it going to a hidden paragraph marker? Does Showing Non Printing Characters help?

I always show all characters and as far as I can tell, none of those is selected. I can’t even see where the cursor is, but it definitely goes to a place in the document so I have to believe it’s finding something — it’s just not showing me what!

No, it does not create a table cell. If the picture is (partially) above a table, the “Layout in table cell” option (if ticked) will try to force the picture within the boundaries of a cell in that table, moving the picture if necessary. If the picture does not overlap with any table, the “Layout in table cell” option has no effect.
Word does indeed turn on this setting automatically when you move the picture yourself.

Thanks Hans. That helps some, anyway.

Tks – – – Sher

If a picture is in a table, but not inline with text, and if “Layout in table cell” is ticked (which it is by default), Word will try to keep the picture within the boundaries of a cell. If the check box is cleared, the picture may cross the cell boundaries.

In most situations, I’d recommend to make pictures inline with the text – you’re less likely to have problems with the position of the picture.

Well, inline doesn’t work for very many situations. I’m doing a newsletter so have to have flexibility.

I’m still not understanding about the “Layout in table cell,” though. Does it CREATE a table cell in which to put the graphic? If so, what benefit is that? I’ve unchecked it often, only to have it re-checked automatically when I move the graphic. It’s a mystery that is endlessly frustrating. I feel that if I could understand what it’s trying to do, I could manage placement better. Any other insight?

Thanks – – – Sher

Joe, bless you! This was a simple procedure and worked like a charm! I would never have found it, though, and was about to cave in and pay Microsoft for a support call. But this simple restore to default location was all that was necessary. This is great!

Nope, only Vista was involved. I copied Favorites from Vista Home Premium on my desktop to Vista Business on my laptop. That seems to have been a successful operation as Favorites on my laptop is working fine.

It’s the desktop (the originating Favorites folder) that’s now messed up.

There is a procedure (involving a bookmark.htm file) for moving favorites between OS. I didn’t do that.

Once again you save me, Hans. I appreciate your expertise and willingness to help!

A style separator! I’ve never heard of such a thing, but it works like a charm. Thank you! This will save me lots of agony, and time!

Well, all I can say is . MS strikes again. Do you think they actually USE their own software?!?!?!

Appreciate the info guys.

Thanks Legare. Now add a value of 6.1 in line 11 of Sheet 1. Then sort Sheet 1. You’ll see that the values in Sheet 2 don’t maintan the original values as they should.

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Yes, all I can find is that Tools | Track Changes, but that doesn’t create a slim bar down the side of the page to mark places in the document that have changed — at least not as far as I can tell. Am I just missing some option, or is this just not something Word does automatically?