1. Drag your mouse over the headers of the 2 columns around the hidden column.
2. Right click on the selected columns.
3. Choose Unhide from the menu.
4. The hidden columns will then be visable.

When you open any of the office applications on vista it asks you to confirm the terms and conditions.

1. Right click on an Office application icon.

2. Click run as Administrator.

3. Accept the terms and conditions.

You should not see the box come up again now.

When opening a Word document in Office 2003 certain elements such as checkboxes, drop down lists and textboxes do not work.

To fix this you need to adjust the security level of the document, make sure you trust the source before doing this.

Click Tools > Macros > Security.

Change the security level to low.

Save the document then reopen it.

…The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later.

A user received this error message when opening a word document from a website. The document opened on other accounts so was definitely to do with the users settings.

If you receive this error in a similar situation try the following

In Internet Explorer go to

Tools > Options > Advanced

Under security make sure that “Do not save encrypted pages to disk” is un checked.

Press OK and try and download the document again.

When you are creating a document in print view in Microsoft Word 2003 the top and the bottom of the page is not showing (ie the cursor is flashing on the top line of the page).

Solution:

1. Click tools
2. Click Options
3. Click the view tab (should be default)
4. Tick ‘white space between pages’
5. Click ok

To create a simple signature in outlook 2003 follow the steps below.

1. From your main outlook window (not within an email) go to tools and options
2. In the options menu click on the Mail Format tab
3. At the bottom of the mail format tab select Signatures
4. Click New
5. Add in a name for your signature and click next
6. Fill in the details you wish to appear at the bottom of every new email automatically
7. Click Finish and OK (several times!)

Press New to create a new email and marvel in your new autosignature glory!

A quick tip if you need to start autonumbering pages of a word document from the second page.

Go to insert > page numbers. This will pop up a box where you need to deselect a box that says “Show number of the first page”. This will cause the numbering to display from the second page onwards.

This is perfect if you wish the numbering to start with 2, which for most people is a tad useless! To get the numbering to start at 1, when inserting the page numbers click on Format. At the bottom of the format options you can select to start the numbering at a certain number. Enter 0 in this box and the numbering of your document will start at 0, which won’t be displayed in your document, then your first numbered page will be 1!

On certain documents in Microsoft Word 2003 the spell checker might not be enabled:

1. Open the document

2. Click Tools > Language > Set Language

3. Click on English (U.K)

4. Make sure ‘Do not check spelling or grammar’ is un checked.

5. Click Default…

6. Click OK

This is a solution to a problem that was occuring infrequently for about 6 months in my office before someone asked me to find a solution.

The problem generally happens when a user prints a document. The problem is that the text bunches up on top of each other producing a completely illegible bunch of stacked characters. An example of the problem is below.

Microsoft Word Overlapping text

This obviously causes some issues when it comes to reading a document! Fortunately this is not a permanent change to the document and the solution is fairly straightforward (when you know how!).

The first thing you need to do is open word without a document open.

Once you have word open go to tools > options > print. In this tab uncheck “Background Printing”. and click ok.

Close word.

Open the offending document and the text should now look and print like normal!

The same problem can be solved in Word 2007 by checking the same option.

Office Button -> Word Options -> Advanced -> Print -> Print in Background

If you find this useful please feel free to leave a comment!

Ben

We have a small script that inputs text in to a microsoft word template used for label printing. This text is inserted by a third party program using the bookmarks feature in word.

Recently I came across a problem where when the program started inserting the text in to the label it would continually insert the same piece of text over and over. This caused word to crash and of course the user could not print a label.

The fix was relatively simple and should work for any instance where text is being inserted in to a word document by a third party program.

To fix the issue go to Tools > Options > Edit.  Make sure that “Typing replaces selection” is enabled in this menu.

Please note that this setting is seperate from the standard overtype function using the insert key.

Hope that someone else out there has the same weird problem as me and finds this useful!

Ben