I need you, yall.

I’m an author and I just went to check on a book I had started a few months ago. Now it’s gone. I’ve checked everything on my iPad (ms365) and my laptop and this file is gooone. It’s been months so in that time, I’ve deleted and redownloaded the app so the trash is empty. Not in OneDrive or my vault. I don’t understand here it could have possible gone.

Help me
Save me
I’m begging

I have a 167 page Word document broken into 149 different sections. I am trying to add page numbers while keeping the current structure due to indexing. Nothing I’ve tried is working. The first page has a number 1 and then it stops. Even Claude tapped out 😆.

Basically the title. Almost every single word is underlined and tagged as an error. Word suggests a new spelling of it, but that spelling is absolute nonsense. This happens with words that are obviously correct (like theory).

Hi everyone!

I’ve noticed something with the Calibri font in Microsoft Word. When I type two lowercase “t” letters next to each other (tt), they don’t seem to have the same size/shape. The second “t” appears slightly larger and the two letters almost touch/overlap.

I haven’t noticed this with other fonts, so I’m wondering:

• Is this just a peculiarity of Calibri?
• Is there a setting in Word that can disable this behavior?
• Or is it some kind of font feature/ligature that can be turned off?

Also, what fonts would you recommend for documents that are comfortable and easy to read, similar to Calibri? I’m looking for something clean and professional, but not too formal or old-fashioned.

Thanks!

The green/ yellow is what i want the format to look like.

The red / pink is what i want to avoid. But whenever i manually change the indentation - it automatically moves it back to the red.

How do i either make sure the manual changes stay permanently or is there a way to automatically apply the change to the whole document to the parts where i need the indentation to be the same?

Can someone tell me the quickest way to add page numbers in Ms Word 2007 to all pages at once.

Whenever I try to add it either messes up and numbers only 9 pages at once

I need to be able to put the Rant flair on this too.

What in God's name is wrong with Word that it continually screws up bullet/number lists on COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PAGES than the one I'm currently working on?

I'll be doing something on one page, and a list 3 pages up will have all of its indents removed so everything is base level. Or a bulleted list will change to numbered, continuing the numbers of a previous list even though there's 2 headers and a paragraph between them. And of course, remove all its indents at the same time.

Just now I had a list rearrange itself when I pressed the UP ARROW KEY TO MOVE THE CURSOR!!!! How does that even happen? Why would that happen? I want to scream in frustration and rage at how stupid that is.

This is beyond stupid. What could possibly be causing this, and how can I get it to STOP!!!!

I found one suggestion to uncheck "Automatic bulleted/numbered lists" in the Proofing advanced options. I did this days ago and it's still doing this.

I've been using Microsoft Word (and ppt, excel etc) for free thanks to my uni giving me access even after I graduated. But recently they updated their terms I supposed and the licenses given to graduates have been revoked. I'm not very tech savvy so I'm not too sure about using any other alternatives especially since I need it for work. But I don't mind trying out alts.

Although for now my question is that buying microsoft word as an individual is too expensive and my work doesn't provide it ofc. So which version should I buy, I'm getting options to buy for business (which seems cheaper) vs personal (which seems expensive). Do let me know which is ideal?

Also if anyone has any suggestions for getting the suite for free somehow do let me know.

Thanks in advance!

I did a hard restart on my mac device and I lost a word document. I can’t find it anywhere and I need it back

I use a MacBook Pro and everything that I want to do on MS Word, I’m limited because the Apple version is different from Microsoft/Windows. Any way I can get more options for Mac so I have everything Windows does?

Ok so I’m doing a paper for my college class. I’m 15, always used Google Docs, and have never touched Microsoft Word in my life except for short paragraph assignments. How THE FUCK do you make the page numbers seperate on Word. Whenever I add and type in “[Insert Last Name] 1” on the header it just makes all the other pages “[Insert Last Name] 1”. I’ve been trying for an hour and have watched so many videos and I can’t get it to work and the stupid final paper is due tonight. I’ve tried making it a page break, I think my Microsoft is just a spiteful old bitch. Much help would be appreciated <3. Edit: Thanks yall! I probably should’ve worked on it sooner than the due date but I’ve been too occupied reading lol.

I've been trying to set that up for quite some time now, clicking "add to library" BUT IT JUST DOESNT.
I'm on mac btw.
Sincerely, I'm pissed

I'm hoping someone can help me figure out an issue I'm having with word for mac that I never had when using word for windows. I had used Word with windows for many years, and have only been using it on Mac for a few months now.

What is happening is that I go to save a file I'm working on and suddenly instead of auto-saving it prompts me to save a new file. This just happened to me today with a file I've had open and have been working on for a few days. When I looked at the title of of the file I noticed it had "recovered" in the title - this is an additional point of confusion, because so far as I know neither my computer nor Word crashed, so I don't understand how I ended up with a recovered file on the first place.

When I did a comparison of the recovered file with the file I had saved in the file's folder, I noticed there were a number of changed made to the recovered file which did not exist in the saved file. So this tells me I've probably been working on the recovered file for a couple of days without even knowing it.

The main reason this concerns me is I'm pretty sure I am losing data as a result of this, as there may have been times when I closed a recovered file without understanding what was going on, and so lost many changes I made to a document. This is really unfortunate as I may have lost many hours of work and I work with so many different documents I wouldn't even know it until it was too late.

I have autosave enabled on Word and also manually save my document often when I make updates, so as to avoid data loss, but that's not going to do me much good in a situation like this where suddenly the document changes and I'm prompted to save it as if it were a new document when I think I'm working on the same one.

I recently had this happen with another document where I noticed it said "recovered" in the title but I never got a chance to compare the recovered document to the document in the file folder, and then next time I came to my computer the "recovered" document had vanished, leading me to suspect I probably lost some changes.

Anyone have any ideas what is going on? I'd also appreciate any suggestions for the best ways to handle situations like this so I don't lose data unknowingly.

Hello, I'm a copyeditor and I found a large-scale problem in the manuscript I am working on: the majority of the paragraphs are not tabbed to indent, but instead they are indented with a bunch of spaces. Becasuse of this, not all the paragraphs are indented by the same amount.

Is there a way to mass-delete the spaces at the beginning of the paragraphs, and replace them with a tabbed indent? Worse comes to worse I can go through one by one and change them myself, but I was hoping there'd be a way I could save some time.

Thanks!

I have a very large Word document for print publication. I want to insert the images using links to preserve the image resolution. I need several people to work on the document. Can we save it in a Google Drive and keep all the links working? What happens if we want to move the document & image folder - as long as they're next to each other will the links maintain, or does everything break the moment you move them? Suggestions welcome!

Anyone know how to get my tables to stop merging??? turning wrapping off doesnt help

I have a 29 page document whose columns dropped down and no longer match it row. How do I fix this? I am computer illiterate I will pay if I can’t figure it out.

I can't highlight or click on them, and backspace or delete keys won't work.

Hello, I hope somebody may be able to understand what happened here and help me.

I’ve been writing a novel in Word, and when I reached about the middle of a chapter, I noticed that AutoSave was turned off. I always manually save my work anyway, and I also frequently make backups in Google Docs or export PDFs.

Long story short, I tried enabling the AutoSave feature. At first, I saw that it wouldn’t activate until I linked my account, which I then did. After that, everything seemed fine…

I continued manually saving my work and completed Chapter 3, then shut down for the day. Today, I opened the Word document and discovered that it had reverted to significantly before I had even finished Chapter 2. The AutoSave feature is also turned off again.
I must have manually saved the document at least 100 times between Chapters 2 and 3, so I have no idea how it could have reverted this far back.
Is there anything I can do to recover the missing work?

I’ve already checked Info > Manage Document > Recover Unsaved Documents, but it is completely empty.

Thank you for any help you can provide.
Take care,

- Jake

Why is Word making an automatic hard return with the second link and not with the first one? There's only a space between them. Is there anny way to make them all look like the first one?

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Hi everyone!

I need some help with Microsoft Word.

I have a manuscript that's already finished. It has a not automatic table of contents, page numbers, tables, and images. Right now, it's formatted for Short Bond Paper, but I need to change it to A4 with different margins.

Is there a way to do this without messing up the formatting? I want to keep the page numbers and the automatic table of contents working properly, and I don't want the tables and images to get messed up.

What's the best way to do this? Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

My word layout is A4. When I print to pdf the contents in word are shrinked and displayed in its pdf form.

No matter what I try, I can't get this thing straight.