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I have two questions I was hoping the community could help me with. I'm specially using CSL in Mendeley with the Microsoft Word plugin.
Do you know how to control the spacing/tab between the number of the citation and the author names? I want this to be a space, but in the style I have it is a tab. I an unable to find this option! Please see screenshot #1.
example of the space between citation number and citation text in the bibliograpy
Is there a way I can control formatting of the bibliography using a word style? For example, I want it to remove the hanging indent and match the font/size of the rest of my document. See Screenshot #2.
example of the difference in formatting between the bibliography list and the remainder of the text of the paper
Many thanks for taking the time to answer these questions!
You can address by removing the second-field-align="flush" from the bibliography line of the style and instead just setting a suffix=" " on <text variable="citation-number"/>. However that will mean (by definition of what a space does) that subsequent lines will not start flush with the text, but will begin at the beginning of the line (though it sounds like that may be what you want anyway?). If you just want the tab to be shorter you can fix that in Word.
No, Mendely and CSL do not allow you to automatically address the Word style you're using. I believe the bibliography will get inserted with its own Word style, though, so you can modify that once and have the changes stick.
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Is it possible to have Word (Office 365) automatically select a block of text when a user clicks into it?
For example we have instructions in a document that might be [insert updated fee here]
In general the whole block needs to be replaced with the new text.
These blocks are formatted in a specific way, so the method could be associated with a specific style, but as there are likely multiple instances of the style we would only want to update the one clicked on, not all instances.
I can't find a native method, so are we looking at a macro on each template that this occurs on?
You could insert your text blocks into Rich Text Content Controls as the placeholder texts for those content controls. No code required.
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I am writting some document with links to external websites, but some links are to large to simply be tossed in to the word file and i was thinking if there's a way to attach the hyperlink to any word/phrase in the document for example:
www.google.com/verylonglinkhereforexample
As if i would do in for a hyperlink tag:
check the site here, where clicking site, would take me to the desired link behind site word. Or is there any alternative at all to reduce links instead of tossing large links to the document?
This is an easy one.
Assuming you're using Office 2016/2019 (I'm not 100% sure about the others, but I'm sure it would be pretty similar), the easiest way to do this is:
First, highlight the text you want to go to the hyperlink.
Go to the insert tab
Press 'Link'
At the top of the dialog box, check that the text to display is the text you highlighted
At the bottom of the dialog box, enter the actual hyperlink
Press OK
Enjoy!
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I seem to have gotten Microsoft Word (from Office 2003) into a weird mode.
If I select some text with the mouse and "type over" it, the new text is inserted before the selected text instead of replacing it. Same thing happens if I use the Delete or Backspace key to eliminate it.
The following do work as expected:
1. backspace over the characters I want to delete, one character per keystroke
2. Same thing with the Delete key
3. control-X to "cut" the text.
Does anybody know how to return to "normal" behavior? And for that matter, how I managed to get into this mode?
You have activated the overwrite function!
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-on-or-off-overtype-mode-2fe125af-505f-4ce7-bbea-f0e64e381e75
The comment by MyDog led me to the right answer:
Tools menu ->Options, select the "Edit" pane and check "Typing Replaces Selection".
I have also found out what causes the problem -- at least the immediate cause. If I copy an image from another app (e.g., Irfanview or MS Paint) and paste it into the Word document, that turns off "typing replaces selection". I'm not sure why MS thought this would be a good idea, or if it's just a bug, but at least now I know what causes it, and that I have to turn typeover back on after pasting an image.
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Writing semi technical Functional Requirements 7 Business Requirements I often have to add in words that are Column Names or other data that is separated by underscores.
I'd like to stop Word from flagging words with underscores as spelling mistakes.
Have to use word so can't change to something else :)
Ideally not flagging Camel Cased words as spelling mistakes would be great but that I'm fairly sure isn't possible.
I'd like to not flag fild_name whilst continuing to flag fild?
Is this possible?
Mark the text as No proofing or grammar checked. Select the text then in Word 2010 this can be found under Review->Language->Set Proofing Language and click the Do Not Check Spelling or grammar box.
You could put this in a macro and then put that as a button on the toobar or quick access toolbar and save clicks.
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I have in Word ‘hello’ and when I paste it I get 018hello 019 so the apostrophes turn into these strange characters.
The type of web application should not matter as the behaviour is different depending on the workstation I use.
I checked with Notepad, Excel and Wordpad and this issue does not occur, only for Word.
It should be a Word/IE setting .
Do you know which one ?
Thanks
The quotation marks in word are not the "regular" quotation marks. Word automatically replaces quotations as you type them with fancy ones called "smart quotes". Since your browser does not understand smart quotes it replaces them.
This is known as the Word "smart quotes" feature. There should be a place to turn it off somewhere in the Word settings.
More information can be found at the Quotation mark glyphs Wikipedia article.