Tag: common errors
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Troubleshooting Layout Designs
Last week we made changes to our source slides but what if those changes aren’t appearing on previously built slides? Maybe the changes worked on our slides where the content wasn’t yet inserted so why does the computer hate us? Microsoft sucks. Nothing works! Are we done whining yet or do you need a few…
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Designer Isn’t Working
Like many things, this can be a bit buggy. If you don’t have Office 365 or if you’re not connected to the web, then nothing will generate in Design Ideas. If you have mixed shapes on a slide, such as a photo and a line/rectangle/ink/chart/etc., Design Ideas won’t work. You can have the text and…
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Table Header Row Not Repeating
This week’s reader request for help involved a multi-page tale where the builder wanted the header row to repeat on each page. Easy enough. Click into the table then on the (table) Layout tab in the Table group click the Properties button. This prompts the Table Properties dialog box which opens on the Table tab.…
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Lines vs. Borders
I received the following form a friend the other day. A simple enough form. The lines aren’t even vertically nor horizontally but all we need to do is add our information. The lines are fixable. Until you type in the form that is. Yes, looks… terrible. Awful. I’m sure it’s acceptable but… it could look…
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Modifying the Normal Template
Some of the great unanswered questions of life, the universe, and everything else are: “Why is Word asking about something called Normal.dotm?” “What does it mean error to Normal.dotm? I didn’t do anything,” and “Why did Microsoft change the Normal.dot template of Word to Times New Roman 14 with extra spacing and multiple lines?” First,…
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Footnote Separator Errors
Sometimes when dealing with footnotes, the separator (that line above the footnote text) isn’t landing quite where you want it. Maybe it’s giving you too much space. You know that no amount of changing the margins is fixing this problem because it’s not related to the margins at all. This is an easy fix despite…
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