Problems Trying to Save as a Word Document.

The primary reason I purchased Pages was for it's proclaimed ability to open Word documents, edit them, and resave them as Word documents.
I've managed to open my Word document and edit it, but the only option I have is "Save Version" when trying to save it.
I used the help feature and here's a screen shot of the instructions and me trying to follow them:
As you can see the only option is "Save a Version".

Time spent looking through the Menus and Inspectors will be well rewarded.
iWork's are probably the most logical of any program, working from the overall document down to details, from left to right and believe it or not the titles on both the Menus and Inspectors mean what they say.
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Problem trying to wrap a Microsoft Word paragraph in XML tags?!? :/

Hello everyone. I really hope this is not a big problem and that some of your could help. I wrote a Macro in VBA like a year ago that was intented to put a tag before every single paragraph in a document. The logic validates that the paragraph have no other
tag before putting one. All of this is based in styles. Some font styles would end up with different tags. This is my code and it works:
Sub edictos()
' Edictos de El Nuevo Día
' 06/20/2005 by Carlos Stella Sistemas de Información
' Actualización 08/08/2012
'Ver 2.0 made by Samuel Otero -> 07/26/2013
Dim oPara As Paragraph
Dim oRng As Range
'Borramos headers y footers
Call ClearHeaderFooters
'Borramos column breaks
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = "^n"
.Replacement.Text = ""
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
'Lógica para poner los tags de Tera donde van
For Each oPara In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs
If oPara.Range.Style = "C10" Then
If InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(intro)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(main)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(capara)") = 0 Then
oPara.Range.InsertBefore "(intro) "
End If
End If
If oPara.Range.Style = "J10" Then
If InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(intro)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(main)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(capara)") = 0 Then
oPara.Range.InsertBefore "(intro) "
End If
End If
If oPara.Range.Style = "J12" Then
If InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(intro)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(main)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(capara)") = 0 Then
oPara.Range.InsertBefore "(intro) "
End If
End If
If oPara.Range.Style = "LE" Then
If InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(intro)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(main)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(capara)") = 0 Then
oPara.Range.InsertBefore "(main) "
End If
End If
If oPara.Range.Style = "XL" Then
If InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(intro)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(main)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(capara)") = 0 Then
oPara.Range.InsertBefore "(main) "
End If
End If
If oPara.Range.Style = "MF" Then
If InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(intro)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(main)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(capara)") = 0 Then
oPara.Range.InsertBefore "(main) "
End If
End If
If oPara.Range.Style = "HG" Then
If InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(intro)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(main)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(capara)") = 0 Then
oPara.Range.InsertBefore "(main) "
End If
End If
If oPara.Range.Style = "LW" Then
If InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(intro)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(main)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(capara)") = 0 Then
oPara.Range.InsertBefore "(main) "
End If
End If
If oPara.Range.Style = "J8" Then
If InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(intro)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(main)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(capara)") = 0 Then
oPara.Range.InsertBefore "(main) "
End If
End If
' Agarrando texto sin estilo >_>
If oPara.Range.Font.Size <= 6 Then
If InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(intro)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(main)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(capara)") = 0 Then
oPara.Range.InsertBefore "(main) "
End If
End If
If oPara.Range.Font.Size = 8 Then
If InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(intro)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(main)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(capara)") = 0 Then
oPara.Range.InsertBefore "(capara) "
oPara.Range.InsertParagraphBefore
oPara.Range.InsertBefore "(start) "
End If
End If
If oPara.Range.Font.Size = 10 Then
If InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(intro)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(main)") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "(capara)") = 0 Then
oPara.Range.InsertBefore "(intro) "
End If
End If
Next oPara
'Con esto borramos el primer espacio del documento (evitamos una línea demás en los edictos)
Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdLine, Count:=2
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=8
Selection.TypeBackspace
Selection.TypeBackspace
Selection.TypeBackspace
Selection.TypeBackspace
Selection.TypeBackspace
Selection.TypeBackspace
Selection.TypeBackspace
Selection.TypeBackspace
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'Crea el .txt para ser importado a Tera
ChangeFileOpenDirectory "C:\edictos\"
ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="C:\edictos\Edictos.txt", FileFormat:= _
wdFormatText, AddToRecentFiles:=True, _
WritePassword:="", EmbedTrueTypeFonts:=False, _
SaveNativePictureFormat:=False, SaveFormsData:=False, SaveAsAOCELetter:= _
False, Encoding:=1252, InsertLineBreaks:=False, AllowSubstitutions:=False, _
LineEnding:=wdCRLF
MsgBox "Proceso completado", 0, "Yay!"
ActiveDocument.Close
End Sub
As you see, it ends up saving a .txt document with the tags.
NOW... the issue is that the tags wont work anymore in the new system, and I need to wrap the paragraph in XML Tags. I tried to do something like for styles:
If oPara.Range.Style = "LW" Then
If InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "<intro>") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "<main>") = 0 And _
InStr(1, oPara.Range.Text, "<capara>") = 0 Then
oPara.Range.InsertAfter "</main> "
oPara.Range.InsertBefore "<main> "
End If
End If
But it just would add the two tags before the paragraphs!!! Is there anyway to wrap the paragraph in XML tags, following my logic? Somebody help please!! Thank you!! :/

Hi,
Sorry for my delay.
I am afraid that this is not the proper forum for this issue, and I found that you have posted it in dedicated forum.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/8dad5670-d90b-4ea8-abe2-bc785a2368ca/problem-trying-to-wrap-a-microsoft-word-paragraph-in-xml-tags-?forum=worddev#8dad5670-d90b-4ea8-abe2-bc785a2368ca
I would suggest you focus on that thread to get more dedicated support.
Thanks for your understanding.
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After installing Mavericks I can no longer save a new word document or pdf by typing the name of the destination folder in the Finder window. The save button greys out. Solutions anyone?

After installing Mavericks I can no longer save a new word document or pdf by typing the name of the destination folder in the Finder window. The save button greys out. Solutions anyone?

Please follow these directions to delete the Mail "sandbox" folders. In OS X 10.9 there are two sandboxes, while in 10.8 there is only one. If you're running a version older than 10.8, this comment isn't applicable.
Back up all data.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A Finder window should open with a folder named "com.apple.mail" selected. If it does, move the selected folder—not just its contents—to the Desktop. Leave the Finder window open for now.
Log out and log back in. Launch Mail and test. If the problem is resolved, you may have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window.
This action will delete any custom Mail stationery that you have created. If you want to preserve it, ask for instructions.
If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Repeat with this line:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.MailServiceAgent
Caution: If you change any of the contents of the sandbox, but leave the folder itself in place, Mail may crash or not launch at all. Deleting the whole sandbox will cause it to be rebuilt automatically.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

So I've been trying to open some Microsoft Word Documents and it says it can't be opened because PowerPC applications are no longer supported. What do I do about this?

So I've been trying to open some Microsoft Word Documents and it says it can't be opened because PowerPC applications are no longer supported. What do I do about this?

Workarounds:
1. Restore the OS X that you formerly used to run Word 2004;
2. Partition your hard drive or attach an external hard drive and install Snow Leopard (and Rosetta) so that you can "dual-boot" into Microsoft Word 2004;
3. Upgrade to Word 2011 or use an alternative program; or
4. The solution I use: Install Snow Leopard (and Rosetta) into Parallels 7 or 8:
[click on image to enlarge]
Full Snow Leopard installation instructions here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

When attempting to "save as" a word document and selecting micrsoft word as the "save as type", it no longer will save it in a word icon document, the icon is just a blank document symbol and thus cannot email this document as before.

when attempting to "save as" a word document and selecting micrsoft word as the "save as type", it no longer will save it in a word icon document, the icon is just a blank document symbol and thus cannot email this document

Here are my two cents.
The resources defining the file formats which Pages may import or export are stored in the file :
Macintosh HD:Applications:iWork '09:Pages.app:Contents:Info.plist
Assuming that you didn't installed the Developer tools, go to my iDisk (address below)
Download :
Pref Setter.app.zip
Unpack the archive.
Open the file "Info.plist" with Pref Setter.
Open the entry entitled : CFBundleDocumentsTypes
Open the items 9, 10, 11, 12
The normal contents is :
Double check the parameters available for items 9 & 10.
What you get may be linked to some oddity in these resources.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 1 octobre 2011 18:00:23
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0
My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community

I just accidentally 'Don't Save'd a Word document. CAn I get it back?

I just inadvertently "Don't Save"ed a Word document. It had not been Save-ed or Named at any point. CAn I get it back?

You are correct. Time Machine can't backup a file that is not saved. And in "bopdog"s question above, I agree that her chances of getting her Word file back are slim to none. Bopdog specified that s/he never saved the Word file at all. In my experience and testing, I have never seen a Microsoft Office program create an Auto-Recover file of an open, but unsaved file, except when a program crash has occurred. I have seen Excel create an Auto-Recover file of an open document that had never been saved, when Excel crashed. So your point is well taken, and is likely correct in bopdog's case.
However, Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 programs, do save files automatically. If you have not changed the preferences, Office will automatically save an open, previously-saved, file every 10 minutes to the file location of Microsoft Office Auto-Recover documents (by default: Users > usernamehomefolder > Library > Application Support > Microsoft > Office > Office 2011 AutoRecovery). And if you use Time Machine, it will back up the Auto-Recover files every hour.
There are numerous support and forum Q&As across the internet where posters have basically said "if you click 'Don't Save' you are doomed." And there are numerous Q&As that explain where to find MS Office Auto-Recover files, and others that suggest Time Machine as a way to recover files. My post was meant to point out the fact that the combination of Auto-Recover and Time Machine can often allow you to recover a file (with at least some of your otherwise lost work) when you accidentally click "Don't Save."
The reason for my enthusiasm in the post is that I had just recovered several hours of work using the method I described. Here's what happened in my specific case:
I was working on a Word document that had been saved previously.
I spent several hours over the course of a workday bouncing between the open Word document and multitasking with other programs and files.
In the evening I went back to work on the file for a while, then I got distracted.
I went to install some new software and when my Mac asked me to Restart, I blithely shut down all my programs.
When Word asked, I accidentally clicked "Don't Save" on the file that I had been working on off-and-on all day, without saving.
I shut down Word normally and restarted the computer.
I then re-opened the Word file (opened recent documents) and realized that hours and hours of work were gone!
I went to Auto-Recover and there was no Auto-Recover file for the Word document. That is the way Auto-Recover unfortunately works. If you say "Don't Save" it assumes you mean it, and it deletes the Auto-Recover file. You can't get it back.
However, Time Machine backed up the Auto-Recover file. It was still there in my last Time Machine backup. In my case I didn't lose one minute of my work, because the Word file had been sitting there open for hours, without me working on it, and Time Machine backed up the Auto-Recover file every hour.
So yes, you can recover a Word file that YOU did not (recently) save, even if you clicked "Don't Save," because Auto-Recover saves files automatically, and Time Machine backs up the Auto-Recover files. It may not work in every case, but it sure saved my butt a couple days ago. So forgive my enthusiasm, but I was pretty stoked to get a few hours of my life back, and wanted to share this with the Mac community.

Why can I no longer Save As a Word document?

I work in Pages, but whenever I need to send a document to someone I convert it to Word since most people seem to use MS Word. It's never been a problem, until today. I go to Save As... under the File menu and try to save a document titled "XYZ" as a Word document. But it is giving me this error: "The document “XYZ” could not be exported as “XYZ.doc." That's it. No explanantion, no reason why it can't do something it's always done. I also tried the export route. But, while I don't get an error, the supposedly exported Word document never appears where it should. Did some recent update cause this snafu? Any advice?
Thanks,
Whit

Here are my two cents.
The resources defining the file formats which Pages may import or export are stored in the file :
Macintosh HD:Applications:iWork '09:Pages.app:Contents:Info.plist
Assuming that you didn't installed the Developer tools, go to my iDisk (address below)
Download :
Pref Setter.app.zip
Unpack the archive.
Open the file "Info.plist" with Pref Setter.
Open the entry entitled : CFBundleDocumentsTypes
Open the items 9, 10, 11, 12
The normal contents is :
Double check the parameters available for items 9 & 10.
What you get may be linked to some oddity in these resources.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 1 octobre 2011 18:00:23
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0
My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community

Can no longer see my I-photo photos, when trying to insert photo into Word Document.

I had some computer problems and did upgrade to Snow Leopard from Leopard. Using older MacBook Pro.
Now, when I try to insert a picture into a Word Document, I cannot see my photos!
I am working in a word document, I choose "Insert Photo from my files" and when the window comes up so I can choose the photo to insert... when I select the "photos" choice under the Media section on the Left side of the box that comes up, the box to the right is BLANK, both on the top and bottom! None of my photos come up for selection.
This method to choose photos to insert into documents used to work before... now it is not. After selecting "photos" all my photos would appear in the right box, and I would move through my I-photo events to choose my saved photo and insert it. Yes, photos are showing and present in I-photo. They just won't appear for importing.
This is so frustrating, not to mention time comsuming trying to figure out what is going on and how to fix it.
Can anyone help? Please?

Oroilore-
I do not see a way to disable the Picture Frame icon. I looked at Settings-Picture Frame, but none of the options turns it off. The only way I can thinik of, would be if all of your photos had been deleted. If there were no photos, you couldn't have a slide show!
One thing to try is to reset (reboot) your iPad. Hold both the Home and Sleep buttons for several seconds until the Apple logo appears. Ignore the "Slide to power off" arrow. The iPad will restart after a couple of minutes. Resetting this way will not hurt anything, and sometimes clears up mysterious problems.
Fred

Trying to save a 951 page document in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 and it's giving me the error of "This docu

Trying to save a LARGE document and it's giving me an error saying the document could not be saved. there was a problem reading the document (14). HELPS

Tried that :/ I finally went through and extracted sections at a time to narrow down the area of the corrupted pages. It was within the first 15 pages. So I will piece it back together like that and will have to redo my bookmarks which will take forever, but at least I didn't lose all of it. I have the 9 version, so I'm going to request getting the latest one which is 11.

Adobe Reader X/10 - continued crash problems trying to save PDFs

Dear all,
I wonder if anyone can help me.... I have been having ongoing problems when trying to save PDF documents online while using the downloaded Adobe Reader 10 or X version. It always crashes/freezers when I press the 'save' button in the 'save as' dialogue box. I have to use end program and start all over again.
I use Windows XP (Professional, Service Pack 3) and both Mozilla Firefox 4.0.1 and IE 8 web browsers. I have followed the links suggested to prevent in future after the problem has been reported - I have unstalled and reinstalled Reader a few times now, as well as checked that I have been using the most up to date version of Reader 10 or X. Then reopened everything again thinking it's solved and then crash (ARGH!). Has anyone else had similar issues?
This is most frustrating to say the least, not withstanding the time delays affecting work outputs when the system crashes on the 'save as' dialogue box (after pressing save). I have lost faith in Adobe now ... I used to consider the free download of Reader a great asset, now it is a true annoyance and may or may not work entirely.
Any help or advice would be great, even alternative PDF software.
Many thanks in advance
Ruth

The response from 370H55V is correct in theory and in actual fact was very close to the solution, but the response was more cryptic than helpful. I first encountered this yesterday after upgrading users on a Terminal Server from Reader v8 to v9. My first instinct was to upgrade to v10, which I did, but the problem still existed, so I rolled back to v8 and the issue was resolved. Unfortunately however this was not a solution and it was a requirement that we upgraded to at least v9. The error was as described that in IE 8 when a PDF file was opened inside the browser(or embedded as some might say), and you press SAVE (or even sometimes print) within the adobe reader toolbar, IE would flicker and crash on the page and then recover the page, saying this page has been recovered, but no saving would happen. This would happen if protection was turned off in Adobe Reader, and if it was on (default), then pressing SAVE would just make IE freeze as previously reported.
So to understand what was happening, I ran FILEMON and REGMON by SYSINTERNALS. Regmon showed nothing of significance. Filemon showed a lot more. It was getting an access denied error on c:\windows\system32\shell32.dll. There was no reason for this however because the permissions on this file allow all users to read and execute. But then I remembered what shell32.dll does. It brings up the SAVE AS dialog box that allows you select the path of where to save the file – essentially this is calling the shell of explorer.exe.
So this is actually the cause of the crash. When Adobe Reader makes the call to the SAVE AS dialog box – CRASH!!!!! Why???
Well it’s quite simple. The default location that the SAVE AS dialog box starts in is MY Documents and this is where to start looking for the source of the error. To find out were “my documents” is for your session, open REGEDIT and go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
Look for the key: PERSONAL and in it is a REG_SZ containing the path to “my documents” for the current user. This is generally something like C:\documents and settings\<username>\My Documents on Windows XP/2003 and something like C:\Users\<username>\Documents on Win7/ 2008.
Now in our case the setting for this key was U:\ which was a mapped network drive to the path: \\server\username\mydocs. U:\ did exist and the user had full permission to it. So I changed the path on the personal key to C:\documents and settings\<username>\My Documents – the default setting. I went back to IE, opened a PDF document from a website, viewed the file and then pressed SAVE on the adobe toolbar. BINGO BABY!!!! Worked perfectly.
But again this was not a solution because in a network, you need your users to have their “my documents” in their own home drive, which is generally located on a remote share on a server. So I put the PERSONAL setting in the registry back to U:\ and crash back to square one. I then put the path of the U:\ in the key instead of just U: drive, so PERSONAL now had a REG_SZ value of \\server\username\mydocs. Went out to IE again, launched a PDF, pressed SAVE. BINGO BABY!! It worked. So clearly this was a UNC Path resolution issue or something similar, but why did it only happen from v9 of Adobe Reader and whose fault is it – Microsoft or Adobe. Well I suspect both. I suspect that Adobe maybe making a weak Shell call in their code which doesn’t resolve the path properly, and a possible bug in the MS Shell call may be adding to this issue.
Anyway, I did some further testing for some fun. I took permissions away from the user to their “My documents” folder and was also able to replicate the same crash. I set the PERSONAL registry key to a folder that didn’t exist and same crash. So basically if the SAVE AS shell call can’t resolve or access the path as set in the PERSONAL key the you will get this crash.
The way I solved it for the network users, was to set the registry key for PERSONAL to \\server\username\mydocs via Group Policy, also a logon script may also work. Additionally you could use Folder Redirection in Group Policy to set the path for MY Documents on a per user basis. This also was tested and work.
For non-network users check the PERSONAL key and get the path and then find that path and check permissions etc. Replace it with the default location or even point it to a path that you know exists and has full access.
As a final tip, also look at the registry Key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
And find the PERSONAL path. It will be something like %USERPROFILE%\my documents in XP/2003 and %USERPROFILE%\Documents in Win7/2008. This is the default location and if the PERSONAL KEY does not exist in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders then windows reverts back to the User Shell Folders key to get the path. It is a good idea to check that path in this area as well.
Hope this helps.

My Acrobat can't Save as other Word document?

All of a sudden my Acrobat Pro has stopped converting even small pdf’s to a Word document?
Have tried to reinstall Acrobat, but no cure?

Have you tried the repair and updates on the help menu? Can you convert it to anything else?

Can I preset the default save feature in Acrobat 10 to save a MS Word document as a "REDUCED SIZE PDF"?

I use MS Word for Mac 2011 to create documents and quotations. I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro 10.1.12 on a MAC. I want to save the MS Word file as a "REDUCED SIZE PDF" first, without having to first save it as a normal PDF, then re-save it as the reduced size. How would I do this?? Can this be preset as my default>

You cannot. Because this option both takes much longer and reduces the quality of files, it has to be chosen specifically.
In any case, when you save a PDF file from Word. this process does not involve Acrobat or Adobe software in any way.

How can i save and download word documents on my ipad without the pages app

Need to know how to save documents on my ipad so i can share the same version of documents between my computer and my ipad on the same network. I do not have the pages app. and Most of the documents are either pdfs of word docs. so need to be able to save them on ipad and retrieve them when i am on the move. Pls help?

You have to have an app on the iPad that is compatible with the particular file type that you want to save, edit or share. You can look at any of the word processing apps - Pages is one, Documents to Go, Quick Office Pro - but you have to have one like that in order to save and edit Word files.
With pdf files - iBooks will work to save them - but that's all. Other apps like GoodReader will let you annotate them.
You have to decide which app will serve your needs best and them download them in order to save, edit and share those file types.

Problem with embedded excel spreadsheet in Word document.

I am having trouble with a word document that has an embedded excel spreadsheet in it. If you double click on the spreadsheet to edit it, the following error message appears:
"The program used to create this object is Excel. That program is not installed on your computer. To edit this object, you must install a program that can open the object."
I know that Excel is installed on the PC. The PC is running Windows XP SP3 x86 and Office Professional Plus 2007. I have tried editing the spreadsheet on a PC running Windows 7
Pro x64 with the same version of office and it works just fine. I cannot find any differences in the setting between the two so I do not know why it works one place but not the other.
Any ideas?

If you double click on an Excel file in Windows Explorer, does Excel startup? If not, right click on such a File and used the Open with item to set Excel as the default program for opening such files.
If you need to do that, it may also overcome the issue with the embedded worksheet.
Hope this helps.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP,
dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org
Posted via the Community Bridge
"Flyguy009" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
I am having trouble with a word document that has an embedded excel spreadsheet in it. If you double click on the spreadsheet to edit it, the following error message appears:
"The program used to create this object is Excel. That program is not installed on your computer. To edit this object, you must install a program that can open the object."
I know that Excel is installed on the PC. The PC is running Windows XP SP3 x86 and Office Professional Plus 2007. I have tried editing the spreadsheet on a PC running Windows 7 Pro x64 with the same version of office and it works just fine.
I cannot find any differences in the setting between the two so I do not know why it works one place but not the other.
Any ideas?
Doug Robbins - Word MVP dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org

Save as a word document or rtf

Hello
I have a problem that is driving me crazy. I have a client that has a book in pdf form. He needs to do some editing but he doesn't have adobe acrobat, nor can he afford it. So I saved the pdf as a word document, the problem is, the paragraph formatting changes for the last paragraph on a page and consequently the last line in that paragraph is indented on the left by 2 or 3 character spacings. When checking the formatting in word, the last line seems to have been split off and forms a new paragraph. Any help fixing this would be appreciated.

The quality of PDF export is dictated by the quality of the PDF. This is the "build" or under-the-hood quality and not what you "see".
(Perception is not reality).
The export reflects the input - GIGO is operative.
You'll have to do clean up of the Word file(s).
Be well...

Problems Trying to Save as a Word Document.

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