r/MicrosoftWord

Hello,

I'm working on my dissertation and I'd need to paste a contingency table into my Word document, the problem is that it's really quite big and the formatting is all messed up when I try to copy and paste it from Excel to Word. Is there a way to remedy this issue or is the only way to paste in landscape?

I've attached screenshots for both the table in Excel and in Word. Thanks for any help.

I want to publish a book in two volumes. We are almost ready to print. But in volume 1, the text ends a little higher than in volume 2, which looks weird. I am like 99% sure it‘s because of this weird grey pilcrow below the footnotes that I cannot select/delete/whatever. It‘s only there on volume I and if it wasn‘t there it looks like both texts would end at the same place on the page. I hope I explained this clearly, English is not my mothertongue :D

Hello! How can I fix this? All of my ms offices are like this, they have limited time only. I tried to do basic troubleshooting/watching yt vids, still can't fix it. Thank for your reponse.

I’m trying to figure out why Microsoft Word displays paragraph marks differently on my desktop versus my laptop.

On my desktop, Word shows a light, unobtrusive "↵" symbol for paragraph ends (similar to the one in this post: [Link to the post]). However, on my laptop, it displays the thick, dark "¶" symbol for the exact same function. I strongly prefer the "↵" appearance and would like to know how to configure my laptop to match it.

To clarify, I am not referring to "manual line breaks" (Shift+Enter). In both cases, I am simply pressing "Enter" to create a new paragraph, but the visual representation of the mark is different.

I’ve already tried changing the display settings (File -> Options -> Advanced -> Show document content), but it dont't work. I couldn't find a way to change this. Does anyone know if this is a hidden setting, a font-related issue, or a version difference?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 🙏

I want to put a divider between each set of an author's thing. That doesn't matter.

What matters is this: How can I make the line at the bottom (Below Rule of Wolves) spread to the left-most part of the page like the line at the top (Below Series & Authors)?

I know it has to do with the bulletin, but I can't figure it out. I also make the dividers using three hyphens, incase that has something to do with it.

I realize there is probably a solution/explanation to this somewhere on the internet but I'm in the middle of exam season and I just don't have the time. But maybe, some of you might know what's the issue here.

The issue at hand:
A 3x3 table with nothing fancy - no connected or divided cells, no differentiating borders or anything.
I want to make the first and second column as narrow as sensible to minimise used up space. Automatic hyphenation is enabled.
If I attempt to do this, there are two possible outcomes.

1. it works perfectly fine. The word is automatically hyphenated and I can narrow the column as much as I want to - unfortunately, this isn't the case very often
2. the first column only narrows as far as the un-hyphenated word goes. If I go any further, the second column widens and the third column narrows. It seems like the automatic hyphenation doesn't work.

Regarding the screenrecording:

• the lines don't actually disappear, it just looks like that on video
• it snaps back because I undid it with ctr + z
• please don't mind everything being German

But it's not plausible that the automatic hyphenation doesn't work in general - if I type literally anywhere, it works perfectly fine. This is really the only exception.

I can't figure out what's the defining difference on wheter 1) or 2) happens. I can't figure out what's causing this.
And to be honest, it's just really annoying to manually have to type/delete hyphens every time I want to make the slightest change in the column width. Of course, it works and that's what I've been doing but I would love to have a proper fix.

Thanks in advance!

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edit / sidenote: originally wanted to crosspost this to r/word but as there are no embedded videos allowed over there, I basically made the same post with Screenshots. Sorry if both of these get swept into your feed

Everything working just fine but the navigation panel has decided to look like this today

I have a very odd issue with what looks like a blank line in the middle of a paragraph, but when I enable formatting marks it doesn't show a carriage return marker.

The paragraph spacing is set to zero for both before and after. I've even tried copying the paragraph to Notepad then pasting back into my document which didn't fix the issue.

I don't have this issue with the other paragraphs, and the entire document body text is set to the same formatting.

I'm trying to tweak a macro I use to extract all comments from a Word document and place them in a table in a second Word document, which is forcing me to learn VBA/about how Macros work on the fly. My original issue was that the extracted comments weren't preserving formatting. As far as I understood, the issue was range.Text, so I replaced that with range.FormattedText, which sort of works – at least, now any coloured text, text effects (bold, italics etc.) and bullet points get carried over. But the font, text size and paragraph indent of the last line/paragraph (or, if the comment is only one line, the whole comment text) is always overridden by the Normal Style of the new document. This is messing up bullet points/numbered lists by preserving all points except the last one if the comment ends with a list. Here is an example screencap of the original comments next to the extracted comments so you can see exactly what's happening to them.

I can't figure out what causes this so I'm stumped on how to fix it 🤔. Any guidance would be much appreciated, especially if anyone has time to explain the cause, because I want to keep learning! Here is the code as I've edited it so far:

  Public Sub ExtractCommentsToNewDoc()  
'The macro creates a new document
    'and extracts all comments from the active document
    'incl. metadata
    
    'Minor adjustments are made to the styles used
    'You may need to change the style settings and table layout to fit your needs
    '=========================

    Dim oDoc As Document
    Dim oNewDoc As Document
    Dim oTable As Table
    Dim nCount As Long
    Dim n As Long
    Dim Title As String
    
    Title = "Extract All Comments to New Document"
    Set oDoc = ActiveDocument
    nCount = ActiveDocument.Comments.Count
    
    If nCount = 0 Then
        MsgBox "The active document contains no comments.", vbOKOnly, Title
        GoTo ExitHere
    Else
        'Stop if user does not click Yes
        If MsgBox("Do  you want to extract all comments to a new document?", _
                vbYesNo + vbQuestion, Title) <> vbYes Then
            GoTo ExitHere
        End If
    End If
        
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    'Create a new document for the comments, base on Normal.dotm
    Set oNewDoc = Documents.Add
    'Set to landscape
    oNewDoc.PageSetup.Orientation = wdOrientLandscape
    'Insert a 2-column table for the comments
    With oNewDoc
        .Content = ""
        Set oTable = .Tables.Add _
            (Range:=Selection.Range, _
            NumRows:=nCount + 1, _
            NumColumns:=2)
    End With
            
    'Adjust the Normal style and Header style
    With oNewDoc.Styles(wdStyleNormal)
        .Font.Name = "EB Garamond"
        .Font.Size = 12
        .ParagraphFormat.LeftIndent = 0
        .ParagraphFormat.SpaceAfter = 6
    End With
    
    'Format the table appropriately
    With oTable
        .Range.Style = wdStyleNormal
        .AllowAutoFit = False
        .PreferredWidthType = wdPreferredWidthPercent
        .PreferredWidth = 100
        .Columns.PreferredWidthType = wdPreferredWidthPercent
        .Columns(1).PreferredWidth = 40
        .Columns(2).PreferredWidth = 60
        .Rows(1).HeadingFormat = True
    End With

    'Insert table headings
    With oTable.Rows(1)
        .Range.Font.Bold = True
        .Cells(1).Range.Text = "Manuscript text"
        .Cells(2).Range.Text = "Comment"
    End With
    
    'Get info from each comment from oDoc and insert in table
    For n = 1 To nCount
        With oTable.Rows(n + 1)
            'The text marked by the comment
            .Cells(1).Range.Text = oDoc.Comments(n).Scope
            'The comment itself
            .Cells(2).Range.FormattedText = oDoc.Comments(n).Range.FormattedText
        End With
    Next n
    
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
    Application.ScreenRefresh
        
    oNewDoc.Activate
    MsgBox nCount & " comments found. Finished creating comments document.", vbOKOnly, Title

ExitHere:
    Set oDoc = Nothing
    Set oNewDoc = Nothing
    Set oTable = Nothing

End Sub

^(Note:) ^(Original code was from Lene Fredborg of) ^(https://www.thedoctools.com)^(, who has since retired and taken down the page where I first got this macro from. I swear I kept a copy of the original but I can't find it right now, but I'm hopeful that won't be a problem. For reference, I've only changed the number of columns in the generated table and removed the lines that added a header to the generated document, neither of which have caused me any problems in testing.)

When saving as a PDF from Word or Print to PDF from word, I'm getting this distortion (see here on the PDF) that is not present on the Word file. Is this is a Word issue? or a PDF issue? What is happening??

I'm doing an excel course and I need to use this option called Customize Ribbon, but I cannot. Please help me. I've already signed out and signed in, done quick repair and online repair. Please help me