If such a disaster happened, first note that most probably the cause of it was not Windows or Office updates. Perhaps you use some Office addon or similar utility that interfered and changed your normal template. You should not also blame your PC manufacturer. In any case, first try to protect your normal template by […]
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I’m never tired of trying free Word Processors, hoping to find a real alternative to Microsoft Word. Atlantis Nova is inspired by Word and it even saves its documents only as doc(x) and rtf. However, the first impression one gets after installing it, is that it may be described as a poor man’s version of […]
I opened MS Word the other day to face this prompt that “The Visual Basic environment could not be initialized”! The same message popped up (twice) when I closed Word! A help button was more informative, saying about “insufficient memory” and “low disk space” — but I have 8GB RAM and 6TB in my hard […]
You can use this set of Word macros to copy selected text to a list file, delete all bookmarks or hyperlinks in your document, delete section breaks, convert double space to single space. A Word macro included in this set lets you cleanup your text, deleting all instances of more than one space, replacing any […]
This is a set of Word macros that will help you to work with tables in your documents. The first macro automatically loops through all tables and uses commas to convert them to csv text. The second macro applies borders to all tables in a document (with a line of 0.5pt). The third and fourth […]
You can download and import in Word this pair of macros that will let you add or remove blank lines / paragraphs. The first macro adds a blank line after each paragraph. The second macro finds and replaces all occurrences of two successive paragraph marks with a single paragraph mark, as well as successive line […]
You can use this set of Word macros to control images in a Word document. The first macro lets you change automatically all your images from in-line to floating. The second macro deletes all of them. The third macro deletes images and closes the text gap. The fourth macro removes all frames in the selected […]
Here is a set of Word macros that will let you manipulate numbers and bullets automatically. The first macro changes an auto-bulleted list to a list with hard bullets. This macro can be particularly useful when you need to copy a list from Word and paste it to some other text editor without loosing your […]
Repair My Word allows you to recover text from damaged or corrupt MS Word files (.doc) that will not open normally. The recovered text can then be saved as an error free Microsoft Word document. I have not tried it in Word 2016 or later, where perhaps is unable to help. Some common error messages which […]
Whenever I needed to use MS Office, I had to close some other program, which meant moving the mouse to the system tray, right-clicking on its icon and selecting the Exit option. I’m a keyboard type and I like speed, so that all of this mouse move, especially when required each and every day, is not […]