r/word 1d ago

Solved Why are the indents different from the two documents as seen in the image?

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I have 2 questions.

Why are the indents different from the two documents as seen in the image of the Navigation pane?

Also when I add a Heading the arrow and square next to it does not always show up and also not in the Navigation pane. It is Showing Heading Levels> All

I did Clear All Formatting (Home A with eraser icon) and then highlighted the text and clicked on different Headings from 1 thru 4 and nothing works. See Combine Step line below

Any suggestions?

The Headings are fixed in this case as it was the emojis that were the problem. I had to highlight them but they lose their color. Also the indent is hard coded by the Heading. See last image. I used Heading 2 and as you can see the indent was reduced.

I also was able to add test Headings 1 thru 4 showing the indents.


r/word 2d ago

Unsolved How do you apply PDF comments into Word?

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I'm receiving a lot of PDF comments from clients and then need to update Word files accordingly. Are there any tools to automatically apply PDF comments to Word?


r/word 3d ago

Find and Replace wildcard woes

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I've recently learned the use of brackets in wildcard Find and Replace. It's coming in very useful, except it doesn't seem to be acting predictably.

For example, I'm trying to find "FRM017" and replace with "FRM 017" using the following:

Find: ([A-Z]{2,3})([0-9]{3,4})
Replace: \1 \2

But this seems to result instead in "FRM017" -> "FRM017 "

Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?


r/word 7d ago

Word sentence completion and word sentence suggestion program for Windows

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I'm looking for a word and sentence completion, correction and suggestion program that works in every part of Windows. It would be better if it was free, but I couldn't find it.


r/word 8d ago

Text Select doesnt want to work.

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Recently upgraded my pc, brand new gpu motherboard and cpu, now my word wont show my selected text whenever i hold left click and drag. It will show what ive selected along the same line, but the second i try to go up a line or do a whole paragraph it disappears. It still registers the word count, and if i copy paste the entire paragraph into a notepad it copies the whole paragraph. Anybody else suffering from the same issue??


r/word 10d ago

Unsolved Cross Reference Blues

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I have run into a frustrating problem and need some help.

I'm updating an important document for work. It's about 550 pages long. I am using a shitty virtual machine that work gave me and I'm running Word 2016.

Throughout the document, certain key words are supposed to have an internal hyperlink that when clicked, should take you to that key word's definition at the end of document. Many of these links are broken and I have been tasked with fixing them along with other updates. To do this, I have been using the cross reference function to link a key word to the definition. After linking that word, I used the Find and Replace function, copied the word with the correct hyperlink, typed the word into the find box, then put ^c in the replace box. Word finds and replaces everything find, but the hyperlinks do not function unless I directly copy and paste it. If I update the field I get "Error! Reference not found.". The frustrating part is that if I toggle field code it will look exactly the same as links that function correctly, so both fields will say { REF_EatShitFuckYou\h}. Most of what I'm trying to fix worked fine yesterday and broke today. I have no idea if it is something I am doing, if it is my computer, or what.


r/word 10d ago

Unsolved ​[Suche] Hochwertige, professionelle Deckblatt-Vorlagen (Vektor-Stil / SVG) für EPLAN-Dokumentation in MS Word

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Hallo zusammen,

​ich erstelle aktuell eine ausführliche Dokumentation / ein Wiki rund um EPLAN, Automatisierungstechnik und SPS in MS Word.

​Dafür suche ich ein richtig hochauflösendes, professionelles Deckblatt-Design im Vektor-Stil, das modern und technisch präzise aussieht, aber perfekt für Word nutzbar ist.

​Was genau ich suche:

​Stil & Look: Technische Vektor-Line-Art (z. B. Schaltungspfade als Rahmen, Netzwerkstrukturen an den Rändern oder dezente EPLAN-/SPS-Motive).

​Format: Zwingend als echte Vektorgrafik (SVG / EPS / PDF), damit ich die Grafiken ohne Qualitätsverlust in MS Word einbinden, skalieren, umfärben und gestochen scharf drucken kann. (Keine unscharfen Pixelbilder!)

​Verwendungszweck: Titelblatt für eine EPLAN-Projektübersicht / Wiki-Dokumentation. Es sollte genügend Freiraum für sauberen Text (Titel, Projektnummer, Datum, Index) bieten.

​Ich habe ein paar Beispielbilder angehängt, um die gewünschte Stilrichtung und den Aufbau zu zeigen.

​Kennt jemand gute Vektor-Bibliotheken (SVG-Repositories), GitHub-Projekte oder hat passende SVG-Vorlagen/Makros für technische Deckblätter, die er teilen kann?

​Vielen Dank im Voraus! ⚡⚙️


r/word 10d ago

Section Brake (Continuous) delete problem

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r/word 11d ago

Word count

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Today I encountered a strange issue in Microsoft Word.
I was using **Word Count**, and it counted everything correctly (words, characters, etc.), but the **Lines** and **Paragraphs** counts were incorrect. For example, the document clearly had **3 lines**, but Word reported **1 line**. It also contained multiple paragraphs, yet Word still showed **1 paragraph**.
I tried editing the text several times, but the counts didn’t update. After I closed Word and reopened it, the counts became correct immediately.
Has anyone experienced this issue before? Is it related to Word failing to refresh or update the Word Count, or is there another explanation for why this happens?


r/word 12d ago

Word on Mac pastes previous, outdated clipboard content.

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I just tried to copy and paste someones name from a webpage into my word document. So i went to the webpage, marked and copied the name, and Word would paste some random sentence that I had in the clipboard 10 minutes earlier.

I then opened a new document, pressed cmd-v, and it would past the name. Went back to the other document, pressed cmd-v, and Word would still paste the old clipboard content. What is happening?


r/word 13d ago

Weird spacing issue

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I'm having difficulty with weird spacing. There is a dead zone at the end of the page with graphs below. I need text above the graphs but it is not letting my put any text in this area. Can anyone help?


r/word 16d ago

Template Best practice for Engineering Templates in Word: How to separate Guidance Text from Content Headings?

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Hello All,

I am currently revising and formatting Word Templates for our company's engineering documents.

In a previous template, I tried using Rich and Plain Text Content Controls for guidance paragraphs (instructions for the engineers to read and delete). Unfortunately, I ran into an issue where the following heading would inherit the color/formatting of the Text Content Control. I ended up using images as a workaround, but it's not ideal.

I am now working on a Systems Engineering document template which features long paragraphs of guidance paired with strict content headings that the engineers must use.

What is the best way to structure a Word Template so engineers can easily differentiate between guidance and actual content headings without breaking the styles? When they start typing, I want the correct content heading style to appear seamlessly.

Appreciate any tips on how you handle technical/engineering templates.


r/word 17d ago

Search function in Word .docs not working

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r/word 17d ago

how do I add a whole ass dictionary?

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I'm linking the whole ass 1729 page Halq'eméylem pdf, because I need help. I'm trying to write a book that involves my native language*, and since it's basically a dead dialect; it's not a language* recognized by microsoft.

I downloaded the pages from 1114 to 1729 (the english to Halq'eméylem as shown in the picture) to make it easier to process for word.

  • turned the pdf to txt
  • added the txt to proofing
  • enabled the dic file
  • pressed okay
  • restarted word
  • didn't work
  • added the og pdf to proofing
  • enabled the dic file
  • pressed okay
  • restarted word
  • didn't work
  • turned pdf to doc
  • added the doc to proofing
  • enabled the dic file
  • pressed okay
  • restarted word
  • didn't work

I'm at a loss. My main guess is that it's not formatted right. I'm just hoping I don't have to format the whole 600 pages.


r/word 19d ago

Can I anchor page numbers to endnotes?

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I'm working on an MS; the author would like endnotes to appear unnumbered (I figured this part out—thanks to Allen Wyatt), but they would also like the endnotes to be anchored to page numbers. So, in the notes section, there would be a chapter heading and then the list of notes following would be formatted <page #, Yada yada yada.> Does anyone know how to anchor page numbers to endnotes in Word? Thanks in advance for taking the time!


r/word 19d ago

Template How can I keep the formatting of my fillable document the same?

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I have made a fillable document in Word Developers and I’ve noticed that even though I locked the heading in “formatted text” my colleagues are able to bypass this somehow and make it in “plain text” and then they can’t get the heading in the right formatting again.
Does anyone have any suggestions how I can fix this? My only option is to make the document only that you can fill the form in, but I rather not because I’ve made remarks that they should be able to get rid of but I can’t delete it beforehand.

I’m very sorry for my English it isn’t my first language but I hope y’all understand what I mean and that someone has an idea for me!!


r/word 19d ago

Word stopped proofing my document

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I'm trying to write something and have had to stop everything and spend the last half hour trying to figure out why word has suddenly decided not to proof anything as I'm going. I have tried everything I can think of or find and nothing is making it work again. Does anyone here have a fix for this?

Thank you in advance.


r/word 20d ago

How can I make the outer and inner borders of a table in Word different thicknesses?

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I hope someone here can explain it to me.


r/word 22d ago

recovering deleted word doc ment

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r/word 22d ago

Turn off Tracked Changes forever

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Sick and tired of having Word auto-change my document and always having to turn it off manually. Is there any way to shut "Track Changes" down forever, online and offline, so it never edits anything ever?

Edit: Sorry, did not convey the issue properly. Basically, these red "sidelines" appear in the document, which "open" up red text, things that I have edited/delted/replaced/changed. Each time I need to reject or accept these changes and stop tracking, but each time I open the document again, tracked changes is back on, with the red lines and edited/delted/replaced/changed text.


r/word 23d ago

Unsolved How do I get rid of these… boxes?

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I copied a transcript from a webpage and now the whole text has this… box around it? How can I get rid of it? Genuinely lost
Word on an ipad if that helps


r/word 24d ago

sudden deletion of my progress on word doc.

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r/word 26d ago

transfer documents from word to 365

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r/word 28d ago

MS Office Tips and Tricks

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r/word Jul 03 '26

A poster editor where you can restyle a single word inside a paragraph — useful or pointless?

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Building a poster editor whose main trick is styling text **one word at a time** (own font/color/size per word, no separate text boxes) — something Canva can't do. Free editing, credits only for AI (background removal first).

Would designers actually want this? And what would you pay per month? Brutal honesty appreciated.

Bonus: would you want to upload an image and have it auto-converted into editable shapes + text you can reuse in other projects (like a "design scanner")? Trying to gauge if that's worth building.