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Email bullets turn into Adobe icons after pasting a PDF

Hello team, When pasting any document (PDF, Word file, Folder) from OpenText into Outlook or MS Word, the link gets converted into bullet points with the file type logo as the bullet. Is there a way to paste a document from OpenText without it being…

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Outlook
Outlook
A family of Microsoft email and calendar products.
4,502 questions
asked 2025-02-18T21:31:30.59+00:00
Abhay Pathak 0 Reputation points
1 answer

How to create a repeating table in a Word Form?

We have a Word form that we send out to customers for software installs, they need to fill in the table for EACH of their machines. It could be 1 or 10 machines and I dont want to create a Form with 10 tables, is there a way to have a "Add…

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
asked 2025-02-18T09:37:50.47+00:00
Mandy 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-02-18T19:21:37.58+00:00
John Korchok 5,661 Reputation points
3 answers

How to fix an OpenXml issue in Word interop (C#) concerning bullet lists

Here is a truncated OpenXml standalone package xml => it's a string returned by range.WordOpenXml that can be processed by the OpenXml SDK WordprocessingDocument.FromFlatOpcString. Below is a very simple bullet list (the xml has been truncated to…

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
C#
C#
An object-oriented and type-safe programming language that has its roots in the C family of languages and includes support for component-oriented programming.
11,306 questions
Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
4,274 questions
asked 2025-02-17T15:55:25.07+00:00
Gael 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-02-18T08:17:41.0833333+00:00
Jiale Xue - MSFT 48,886 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
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The recent function is not working for the template.

hello, I am facing issue with the recent file system in the word aopp and I am facing t this issue with some specific template that has been created, I have tried the office reinstallation and also I have tried the other possible troubleshooting that can…

Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365
Formerly Office 365, is a line of subscription services offered by Microsoft which adds to and includes the Microsoft Office product line.
5,768 questions
Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Microsoft System Center
Microsoft System Center
A suite of Microsoft systems management products that offer solutions for managing datacenter resources, private clouds, and client devices.
1,076 questions
Office Management
Office Management
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,283 questions
asked 2025-02-17T22:24:28.18+00:00
Christian Kalb 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-02-18T01:35:27.08+00:00
Emi Zhang-MSFT 27,871 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers

Request Navigation pane open with headings collapsed

Dear Microsoft, I am writing to express my frustration with the Navigation pane in Word. I cannot find a way to use the Navigation pane without all levels expanded, unless I manually click to close them. This is a major inconvenience, especially when…

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
asked 2023-03-16T15:27:55.02+00:00
David Fuentes 25 Reputation points
commented 2025-02-17T16:48:11.8233333+00:00
Alper Cevdet Sürmeli 20 Reputation points
2 answers

why cant he open word documen.

Hello Please i need your help on this issue. One of my customer is having with why cant he open word documen. When trying to open word docs in 365, it asks him to choose an app, and word is not on the list

Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365
Formerly Office 365, is a line of subscription services offered by Microsoft which adds to and includes the Microsoft Office product line.
5,768 questions
Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
4,274 questions
Office Management
Office Management
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,283 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
952 questions
Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365
Formerly Office 365, is a line of subscription services offered by Microsoft which adds to and includes the Microsoft Office product line.
5,768 questions
Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
4,274 questions
Office Management
Office Management
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,283 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
952 questions
asked 2025-02-14T10:43:04.1433333+00:00
John Peter 20 Reputation points
commented 2025-02-17T07:18:15.36+00:00
Jiajing Hua-MFST 14,805 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers

why cant he open word documen.

Hello Please i need your help on this issue. One of my customer is having with why cant he open word documen. When trying to open word docs in 365, it asks him to choose an app, and word is not on the list

Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365
Formerly Office 365, is a line of subscription services offered by Microsoft which adds to and includes the Microsoft Office product line.
5,768 questions
Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
4,274 questions
Office Management
Office Management
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,283 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
952 questions
Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365
Formerly Office 365, is a line of subscription services offered by Microsoft which adds to and includes the Microsoft Office product line.
5,768 questions
Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
4,274 questions
Office Management
Office Management
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,283 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
952 questions
asked 2025-02-14T10:43:04.1433333+00:00
John Peter 20 Reputation points
commented 2025-02-17T07:18:15.36+00:00
Jiajing Hua-MFST 14,805 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers

Multiple work profiles in Edge. Opening a SharePoint-online word/excel file in work Profile B and this the file open in Word/Excel with Profile A

We work with users that have multiple accounts, in one M365 tenant, each user has seperated these accounts with its own Profile in Edge, eg Profiles A, B, C, D, etc. This is because we have a shared environment for multiple companies (4 in total),…

Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge
A Microsoft cross-platform web browser that provides privacy, learning, and accessibility tools.
2,463 questions
Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Excel
Excel
A family of Microsoft spreadsheet software with tools for analyzing, charting, and communicating data.
2,175 questions
SharePoint
SharePoint
A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.
11,227 questions
asked 2024-02-07T12:33:02.2233333+00:00
Jimmy K 1 Reputation point
answered 2025-02-16T20:49:43.52+00:00
Jimmy K 1 Reputation point
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looking for office specialist certification from prior to 2009

I am trying to find proof that I have done the microsoft office specialist certification back in high school. I have tried logging into the portal for certiport but it just says an email has been sent without telling me what email it could have possibly…

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
A family of Microsoft presentation graphics products that offer tools for creating presentations and adding graphic effects like multimedia objects and special effects with text.
334 questions
Excel
Excel
A family of Microsoft spreadsheet software with tools for analyzing, charting, and communicating data.
2,175 questions
asked 2025-02-15T22:36:33.8333333+00:00
AJ Smith 0 Reputation points
1 answer

What causes the available background colors for tables to change between documents?

have two documents--Document A and Document B. Both documents were created using Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 and saved in the .dox format. Each document has a table in it. When I try to change the background color for a row in the table, the…

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
4,274 questions
asked 2025-02-13T14:44:09.7866667+00:00
fosgate3 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-02-14T09:18:29.6966667+00:00
Jiajing Hua-MFST 14,805 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Copilot says 'Unfortunately, I cant make changes to your document directly' in Word?

Trying to work with Word and Copilot and have asked several questions to add text to Footer etc and the answer is always the same ...'Unfortunately, I cant make changes to your document directly' Is there a setting somewhere I am missing?

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
952 questions
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Copilot refers collectively to Copilot experiences within Microsoft 365 applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
226 questions
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft terminology for a universal copilot interface.
586 questions
Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
952 questions
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Copilot refers collectively to Copilot experiences within Microsoft 365 applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
226 questions
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft terminology for a universal copilot interface.
586 questions
asked 2025-02-13T14:26:57.09+00:00
Peter Hawkes 20 Reputation points
accepted 2025-02-14T08:34:21.5766667+00:00
Peter Hawkes 20 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Copilot says 'Unfortunately, I cant make changes to your document directly' in Word?

Trying to work with Word and Copilot and have asked several questions to add text to Footer etc and the answer is always the same ...'Unfortunately, I cant make changes to your document directly' Is there a setting somewhere I am missing?

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
952 questions
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Copilot refers collectively to Copilot experiences within Microsoft 365 applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
226 questions
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft terminology for a universal copilot interface.
586 questions
Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
952 questions
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Copilot refers collectively to Copilot experiences within Microsoft 365 applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
226 questions
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft terminology for a universal copilot interface.
586 questions
asked 2025-02-13T14:26:57.09+00:00
Peter Hawkes 20 Reputation points
accepted 2025-02-14T08:34:21.5766667+00:00
Peter Hawkes 20 Reputation points
2 answers

How are Citations formated in Word?

Hi, I am the developer of Author and Reader (for macOS) using the Visual-Meta approach to metadata. [http://visual-meta.info] Visual-Meta is a simple way to add BibTeX citation information to a document which then cane be used when a user copies…

Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
952 questions
asked 2021-05-24T19:37:16.12+00:00
Frode Hegland 1 Reputation point
edited the question 2025-02-13T17:21:20.0633333+00:00
TP 103.5K Reputation points
2 answers

Microsoft word alignment issue while opening in 2 different regions.

Hi, I created a document (from India) and sent to counter partner who works in Denmark. While opening the document he could see alignment issue like image moved to next page & could see hidden line as dotted lines like this.... Why is it happening ?…

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
asked 2025-02-10T07:17:21.6866667+00:00
Jegan Narayanan 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-02-13T06:13:33.2233333+00:00
Emi Zhang-MSFT 27,871 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

Office 2021 Pro default setup

How to modify / create my one setup default for Word under the path : C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates ? Windows 11 lock this directory and even with administrator right it is impossible to write in it! It's evil thank you…

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
asked 2025-02-12T10:08:30.84+00:00
vincent vidal 0 Reputation points
edited an answer 2025-02-13T05:49:29.4866667+00:00
Jiajing Hua-MFST 14,805 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
4 answers

How to remove Copilot from Word

Hello, I would like to remove Copilot and Copilot's prompts from Word. I have adjusted the privacy settings, to prevent Copilot from having access to my documents. However, the annoying Copilot ribbon still provides a prompt and follows my efforts down…

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Office
Office
A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.
1,914 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
952 questions
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Copilot refers collectively to Copilot experiences within Microsoft 365 applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
226 questions
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft terminology for a universal copilot interface.
586 questions
Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Office
Office
A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.
1,914 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
952 questions
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Copilot refers collectively to Copilot experiences within Microsoft 365 applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
226 questions
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft terminology for a universal copilot interface.
586 questions
asked 2025-01-16T23:29:05.29+00:00
Nicole Piantedosi 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-02-13T03:52:45.9533333+00:00
Gloria Albuquerque-MSFT 0 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
4 answers

How to remove Copilot from Word

Hello, I would like to remove Copilot and Copilot's prompts from Word. I have adjusted the privacy settings, to prevent Copilot from having access to my documents. However, the annoying Copilot ribbon still provides a prompt and follows my efforts down…

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Office
Office
A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.
1,914 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
952 questions
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Copilot refers collectively to Copilot experiences within Microsoft 365 applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
226 questions
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft terminology for a universal copilot interface.
586 questions
Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Office
Office
A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.
1,914 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
952 questions
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Copilot refers collectively to Copilot experiences within Microsoft 365 applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
226 questions
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft terminology for a universal copilot interface.
586 questions
asked 2025-01-16T23:29:05.29+00:00
Nicole Piantedosi 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-02-13T03:52:45.9533333+00:00
Gloria Albuquerque-MSFT 0 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

How to extract value of MS Word form Content control box to excel

Hello y'all, I have a folder with about 200 word documents that contain data I am trying to get into excel. The word template used has many content control plain text boxes with unique names. My users have filled out these word forms and now I need to…

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Excel
Excel
A family of Microsoft spreadsheet software with tools for analyzing, charting, and communicating data.
2,175 questions
Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
4,274 questions
asked 2025-02-12T14:04:08.4966667+00:00
deepslp 0 Reputation points
edited the question 2025-02-13T01:58:32.42+00:00
Emi Zhang-MSFT 27,871 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers

Get spurious message "You can't add object etc" while creating word document

Message - Warning Flag - "You can't add object while creating word document"

Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365
Formerly Office 365, is a line of subscription services offered by Microsoft which adds to and includes the Microsoft Office product line.
5,768 questions
Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
asked 2025-02-06T23:08:41.1466667+00:00
AJH 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-02-12T09:25:09.06+00:00
Jiajing Hua-MFST 14,805 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
0 answers

Word Addin JS RichAPI /General exceptionerror when using getText() for fetching paragraphs

await Word.run(async (context) => { const document = context.document; const body = document.body; const paragraphs = body.paragraphs; paragraphs.load({ $all: true }); let listItems = []; let paragraphText = {}; …

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
JavaScript API
JavaScript API
An Office service that supports add-ins to interact with objects in Office client applications.
1,045 questions
Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
4,274 questions
asked 2025-02-12T04:45:53.65+00:00
Rathan K 0 Reputation points