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        <title><![CDATA[Word 2003 changing all formatting]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When I try to make a change to the format of any part of a document, Word applies that format to the whole document!EXAMPLE:I have a document about done.  I decide to reformat the heading title to Arial Black 16, so, I hilight the title, select the Arial Black font and then select the size 16 fontsize.  When I click OK, THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT BECOMES ARIAL BLACK 16!!!  Ctrl-Z will undo everything but the title...BUT&gt;&gt;&gt;I have to notice that the rest has changed!!!Same thing with numbering, bullets, etc.How do I &quot;turn this off&quot;???]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[cneimeis]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:41:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How do I change default for numbered lists?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It seems that the default in Word 2010 is to continue numbering in non-contiguous lists. Is there a way to change this? Every time I link or merge docs into a book, I have dozens of lists to reset to start numbering at 1. There must be a default, but I can't find it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tech trog]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:16:57 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Annoying, moi?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It seems you are having problems with the auto-smiley-face-after-every-entry feature?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jerry Poon]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:35:20 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bypass to what ? and Word options]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I get this change if I remote to my main computer from a PC on a different floor, and the default printer becomes the printer on the PC I am remoting from. It works quite well usually, but then the company has TCPIP printing for Windows 7, since there is no Print server for Windows 7 available.AND: Word and all of its MS counterparts are forced on the Office I work at. IE 8 cripples access when other options are available. I just tried Abiword and Open Office on a variety of Documents used by the MS Word system; Abiword is fine with basic Word Processing documents, and Open Office is totally compatible with Word 2007 in all templates. The kicker is, that I am running Abiword and Open Office from a MobileApps Install that has more easy to use options than the general office setup.Final comment: I find it very interesting that ALL of the techs I know personally on two continents who support Windows at a high level ( some at a Desk top level) do not use Windows for their own personal choices. At the very least, the advanced techs will run Ubuntu with VMWare Workstation and only use the Windows clients when it comes to work on the laptop or desktop. The amount of functional and security concerns expressed by associates is intriguing. Most of the time, I use Windows software because I HAVE to... and also because if I don't have some degree of familiarity with the software I support then I am hamstrung. Also, I advise staff on home setups, and how to secure their systems. It's not the best, but since its what I am helping them with, I do it the best I can.Ah well, Maybe I can get a job doing something in Contracts and Intellectual property ? ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[boucaria@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:45:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Embedded page formats]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[After a client changes printers, one of the most frequent calls I get is:  &quot;I'm trying to print a document and the job keeps going to the bypass.  I didn't tell the printer to print it there.  Why does it do this?  Something is wrong with the printer!  It won't print right.&quot;  If you specify this in the Word Page Setup and then save the document with those settings, it will override any printer settings you are trying to use.  You have to go in to the document and change the settings in Page Setup.  It's a Word thing, NOT a printer thing.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[nrepoz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:42:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA['Druther drive a stick shift]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ever since the &quot;ribbon&quot; came out I certainly won't use word. I use OpenOffice or Abiword, they are MUCH simpler and do a much better job much more quickly for most tasks. Save the occasional ms Office use for when something won't format in one of those, and have someone ELSE that uses it every day for you, as the current versions certainly aren't intuitive and require months if not years of training to use!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[janitorman]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:00:26 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[turn your speakers off]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Do what I do, turn your speakers off. Computers were never designed to have sound, playthings like youtube aside, which has no place in productivity.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[janitorman]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:57:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Abiword]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Get rid of ms word and use a simpler program that you can find your way around in. AND IT'S FREE and installs on either Windows or Linux.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[janitorman]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:54:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Annoying PROBLEM, not an OPTION]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are some auto numbering features that are useful to have, and I appreciate how to turn these features off.  But there is one gripe I have which actually has NO workaround.  I use a numbering format of 01, 02, 03... etc because then it is easy to reference the elements.  So I set a numbering format as such.  The problem arises when I get to 10, 11, 12.  Word, in its infinite wisdom, decides it is appropriate to use 010, 011, 012....  Why on earth would anybody put a '0' in front of every number?  The only reason one would do this for single digits, is to keep the number of digits consistent for consistent indentation and reference numbers.  While I appreciate that Microsoft may not have considered this when coding the software, what really winds me up is that there is no workaround.  I cannot restart a new list from 10 onward in a new format of 10, 11, 12.  Since 10 follows 9, no matter what I do, if I try to put 10 after the ninth point in my list, Word autoformats it so that I get the annoying 010.  If I try to change this, the whole list changes so I get 1, 2, 3.... etc.  There is literally no way around this, I have tried all of the Auto correct options, etc.  So this is definitely an annoyance, and in my books a BUG.  The interesting thing is that in earlier versions of Word (pre-2007) I was able to use workarounds for this (i.e. I would start a new list from 10, and Word wouldn't force it to be the same style as the list from 1-9).  If anyone can tell me a workaround (though I highly doubt there is one), that would be great.  If Microsoft fixed this, that would be even better (but I doubt this even more).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[leej79]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:12:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Autodate]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Highlight the autodate and backspace to delete it.  Type in your date]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[srgilbert]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:34:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Ah ... the ribbon... :)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It seems like when you discuss anything with MS they always point to their career site, you cannot get them to sell you any service manual for their X-Box 360, and they seem closed to their products as well licensed vendors, repair facility, including software.Open source will accept anything, but my School will not allow open source for submitting documents, it has to be MS, Adobe, etc.. most employers buy the licensed stuff, and I have used Open Source.its unfortunate Microsoft will not look openly like Linux, Google, etc..]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mark.holman@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:06:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I use MS Office 2010 Professional]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It just depends on what you need for the document, I simply ignore it, and go on every person may respond differently, so you need to use this guide if someone wants to tweek the settings for their own daily computing needs.But for school we have an add on for report writing, and responses on line, installed a APA writing add on for reports, etc.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mark.holman@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:57:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Read the *&amp;%$#! Manual]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Read the *&amp;%$#! Manual]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sonnystarks]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:43:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Make one Manual available to, say 10, employees]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Each individual user does not need a manual.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sonnystarks]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:41:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Chose another WP?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What a great idea! I think I'll suggest that very insightful option to the executives of the company I work for, employing 4,000 persons (with little to no tech support for end users and tight deadlines) who just spent several million dollars &quot;upgrading&quot; to a dumbed down (the childish ribbon?) WP that is so &quot;simple&quot; it's &quot;complicated.&quot; There is no time to &quot;RTFM.&quot; &quot;It's intuitive!&quot; because Microsoft said so!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sonnystarks]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:31:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Good article]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-229264-3448778]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Though there are only a few of these 'annoyances' that I'd action. Needless to say, that's 'only a few' more than before I knew how.Cheers!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NexS]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 23:00:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This tells me absolutely nothing!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Okay, I'm not using a template. I just opened a letter that was created 5 years ago. Now, how do I turn off the autodate so the letter will reflect the date it was actually created?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sonnystarks]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 12:23:21 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: 10 annoying Word features (and how to turn them off)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Wonderful article. I wonder if it's been updated for Word 2010? I'm going from Word 2002 to Word 2010 which is proving to be a near-quantum leap (as is going from XP to Windows 7).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[nweinfeld]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:25:28 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: 10 annoying Word features (and how to turn them off)]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-229264-3383020]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Very good information; however I don't see the one annoyance which is bugging the #@&amp;$ out of me right now.  I am editting a document and Word keeps inserting a double line (whatever the correct term is for it).  I don't know what it is or how to get rid of it.-- Bernie Ethier 11/09/10]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bernie Ethier]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:42:58 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: 10 annoying Word features (and how to turn them off)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have just moved to word 2007 and am being driven mad because the format painter - which I use all the time - has started to misbehave.  It no longer works properly when format painting user-defined outlined numbering styles that I have been using for years . Worse than just not working properly, it spontaneously changes the indenting for the style and appies it throughout the document and then it won't undo.  The only soluiton I have found when it has happened is to correct a paragraph using the paragaph dialogue box and then updating the style to match the corrected selection.  Having done all this you are back to how the style was in the first place.  Not only do I not want to lose the format painter option but I use it so automatically that I forget the problem until everying jumps and then it's too late. I've tried turning off every autoformat or autocorrect option that coudl be related but no joy.  Has anyone got any ideas?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[michelle bolger]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 10:17:29 -0700</pubDate>
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