Document Management

Links from Excel
I am having a nightmare trying to keep my links formatted! No matter what I do the whole 60 page document keeps on auto updating (even when I go to the links window and set everthing to manual) the links keep on updating and the formatting is changed! please help. -- MM ... 3 Jul 2008 01:15

Document not layed out properly when not viewing hidden characters
I have a document that uses different headings (both using the same heading style). If I look at the document with hidden characters turned on, I see the doc has 2 paragraphs. The first one has a heading as does the second one. However, if I turn off hidden character, paragraph 2 jumps up and becomes part of se... 2 Jul 2008 23:13

Embed an open XLSM file in MS Word
FYI.....Microsoft has determined this to be an issue and has been pushed up to product support for analysis. No hotfix or service pack timeline was given. The workaround they gave was to make sure Excel is closed before embedding the workbook into Word. -- Nick "Nick" wrote: We currently have... 2 Jul 2008 11:54

Default # of printed pages
I have a 2 page document that can only be edited through comments. The first page has the primary info and the 2nd page is there only as an overflow. Can I change the page range to default to page 1? If that makes any sense... ... 3 Jul 2008 01:15

Programming Language
Every once in a while, snippets of programming language are used to show how to accomplish certain tasks. For example, I saw at one of the MVP sites a piece to configure auto-text settings in the "Word Options" section. To make this work, do you copy the code into a Word macro and execute it or just where and ... 2 Jul 2008 23:13

How to "flip" pages in "Reading Layout".
At work, we use outlook professional, and documents are sent in "Reading Layout" format. Trouble is, I don't know how to flip the pages. Can you please help me? This is the message I get when I open a mult-page document in MS Word. Welcome to Reading Layout (Microsoft Office Word) This view has been designed... 2 Jul 2008 19:07

WISH : Save Word Doc(x) for Review Only
It would be great a very useful if Microsoft or somebody could come out with a hotfix or update or something so that you could save Word docs (and docxs etc) for Review Only. The idea being that is would be password protected and anybody else opening the document would only have access to the Review and Comment ... 3 Jul 2008 04:18

File conversion widow every time I open this doc?!?!?!
I had Office 2007 for a while, then reverted to 2003. I have several documents that I created in 2007 in compatibility mode. For a few of these, every time I open the document I get a message that says "File Conversion: select the encoding that makes your document readable." It has a few options and a previe... 10 Jul 2008 11:21

How do I set the Home, Insert, etc. tabs to always display?
When I click on the Home tab, or any other tab it displays the corresponding groups, e.g. Font, Paragraph, etc. But when I start typing in the document, the tab closes. How do I choose to have tab display all the time? I'm pretty sure the tabs stayed open until recently. I think I did something inadvertent... 2 Jul 2008 10:52

Word 2007 Spelling and Grammar Errors
I am currently teaching Word 2007 at a community college and have noticed that some of my better students are sending in documents with squiggly marks from spelling and grammar errors. When I question why they didn't tell Word to ignore the errors (names, places, etc) their response is they did. I have watche... 2 Jul 2008 23:13