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Teachmichigan
Member

07-22-2001

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 9:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
DH teaches a computer class and had a question tonight that neither he nor I can answer. A student works in Word every day in her office. She used to be able to open multiple files at one time. Now, whenever she opens a file, the previous file closes. I also use Word every day, but I have no clue why this is happening. I've searched tools, customize, options, the help index, etc. and can find nothing! I'm sure it's just an automatic setting somewhere, but I have no clue where. Any help would be greatly appreciated! :-)

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 8:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Teachmichigan: It is possible to program a macro which automatically closes the current document when a new document is opened. To test if this might be the case, have her hold the shift key while opening another document and see if that prevents the current document from closing. If so, have her look under 'Tools - Macros' to see if there are any that start with Auto listed there. Word has several Auto... macros which run according to the name such as 'AutoOpen' - performs the programmed actions when you open a file, 'AutoClose' runs when you close a file, 'AutoNew' runs whenever File - New is selected, etc.

If you find any of these that are not supposed to be there, you should be able to delete them from the macro menu.

The other area you might check is in 'Tools - Templates and Add-Ins' to see if there is possibly something there that is changing the behavior of Word.

Hope this helps.



Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 11:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I really don't want to start another thread and this one looks like a good place to put my question.

Is there a way to add images to a spreadsheet. I am working on some spread sheets where in the first cell I want to place an image, in following cells I want to add text. I use Windows XP, and I think the program is Microsoft Works.

Any help with this would be great or if you know of a different program I could use that would allow me to do this.

Teachmichigan
Member

07-22-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 8:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Dra. When I opened up my Word, I didn't see any "autoopen" or "autoclose" listed under Word Commands. Lots of otehr "autos" though. I forwarded your info to DH, so I'll let you know next week if it works or not! Thanks again.

Jagger -- I don't use Works, but in Excel (another MS spreadsheet) on the top taskbar, choose "insert." One of the possible choices is "picture" and then you can just browse your files to find the picture. You can right click once the picture is in and choose "Format pictures" and then the "properties" tab lets you choose if you want to resize it w/ cells or not. I don't think this actually inserts the picture into a specific cell, but you can resize and move the picture to "overlay" any cells. You can then type in any shows around (or even under) the picture. Hope this helps. :-)