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Searching in Word

Dear Computer Lady, I need to go through a 6000 page CD for certain information. Is there a program or ability in Word for me to highlight and “go to” any portion of the document containing one of three names. Thank you in advance, Vicky

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Can’t read Word Files

Dear Computer Lady, I cannot open attachments in word form.  When I open the attachment all I get is a bunch of odd printing.  Can you tell me how to correct this? Thank you,    John in California

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Viewing Margins in Word

Dear Computer Lady, I have Office XP, and when in Word, the text of the document appears without the top margin in print layout view (although it appears in print preview). Thanks so much, Alison in York, ME

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Word 2007 Views

Word 2007 Document Views Dear Computer Lady, I really hope you can help me. Normally, when I open a Word document, it looks like a sheet of paper and when I type in the window, I can see the document just like it will look when I print it out. The other day, I opened […]

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Insert Picture in Word

Dear Computer Lady, Hi there! I am having trouble with Word. I cannot insert a picture in there at all. I know there is some kind of setting somewhere but I sure can’t find it. Can you please help me? Mary

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Transfer Word Custom Dictionary To New Computer

Dear Computer Lady, I am a medical transcriptionist who over the past 5 years has added medical words to my spell check on Windows XP. For example, when the computer highlights an incorrect spelling, I look the word up, type it in correctly and then add it to the dictionary. Is there any way that […]

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Word 2007 Files Not Compatible

Hi Computer Lady. I’ve been enjoying your newsletter for some time now and have a question. I have Word 2007 on my new Del laptop and Word 2003 on my Dell XPS 400 desktop. Documents from the laptop will not print when I copy them to my desktop computer. How can I make them compatible? […]

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Word Processing in Windows 7

Dear Computer Lady, I love your column. How to you feel about windows 7. I currently have windows XP. I have installed on that wordperfect 6.1 As as one of my word processing programs. I like it for it’s simplicity…. Will windows 7 accept this program. Thanks, Sandy in Fryeburg, Maine

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Word 2007 Files compatible

Dear Computer Lady, I recently installed Office 2007 on my computer, and now when I send a Word document attached to an email, no one is able to open it. What happened, and how can I save all my documents so that others can open them? Thanks, Nancy

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Word Document Shortcut

Dear Computer Lady. You have helped me so much with your information, but I have a question. I have a very long document in Word that I add to daily and would like to reverse the order so that I don’t have to scroll down so far each day. Can you tell me how to […]

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