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Mac OS and Mac OS X use different characters from Windows to indicate the end of each line in a plain text or Rich Text Format (RTF) file. Windows places both a line feed and a carriage return character at the end of each line, but Mac OS uses only a carriage return character, and Mac OS X sometimes uses carriage returns and sometimes uses line feeds (but usually not both). On computers, adding a carriage return means pressing the 'Enter' key to add a hard line break so your cursor returns to the left margin to start a new paragraph. Microsoft Word uses carriage.
Are you saying that you see double spacing as you press Enter? In that case, you will have to change the setting for Spacing Before or After (Paragraph dialog box). To change the defaults, do the following: In a new, blank document, click Format Styles and Formatting. Locate the Normal style, right-click and choose Modify from the context menu. In the dialog box, click Format, and then click Paragraph. Specify the desired Line Spacing and Spacing Before/After.
When you are done, click OK. Before clicking OK in the Modify Style dialog, select 'Add to template.' Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP Volunteer Moderator (MVP program information: https://mvp.microsoft.com/). It is actually easier to simply insert a line when one wants as one did in a typewriter; it is much harder to turn off the default in Word following the logic of some one who wrote the software for themselves, not for the public at large. Given that the democratic base came from typewriters, and DOS word processors, that did not make that decision for you, it would have been, how you say, more intuitive to make this feature the option, not the norm.
You make dogs jump through hoops. Programmers turn people into dogs. That is why, on the internet, noone knows if you are a dog.
And it is not 'Standard English Usage.' Look at a book.
Look at a newspaper. It is usage for writing on the screen where spacing after the carriage return- how you say, 'enter' is the norm. It is not the norm in English. Like U know what I mean?
Also, the Word rules change every version. I have better things to do with my life than constantly relearn Word.
Which I have yet to learn in the first place; I don't know whether to start with the version which I have and have paid for which is '97; or start and pay for 2003, or maybe 2007 or the latest, or wait for something better. (I have been using DOS since 1981. Still use it. I do need Word for several applications to do with Ebooks, but for everything else, i'ts back to the old trusty one that has never grown old and whose commands never changed from 2.1 to version 4. If they could do it, why can't Microsoft? And the proof is, most of the people who 'use'Word know very little about it. When I refer my questions to the man in the street they only the few hoops through which they jump, but they don't why and they don't know much.
Word is not a typewriter, it's a word processor. It formats text using styles. The default style is the normal style and is formatted to reflect an easy to read layout when using paragraphs. You can change that style to use any format you wish, or you can use an alternative style - such as the 'No Spacing' style. Or if you prefer the way Word 2003 laid out text, you can select the Word 2003 Style Set from 'Change Styles' on the Home tab of the ribbon and the normal style will be displayed as it would in Word 2003.
2010 style set - Normal style 2003 style set - Normal style What you should not be doing is using empty paragraphs to apply space between paragraphs. Not only is it bad practice, but it makes it especially difficult for others who might later have to work with your documents. Graham Mayor (Microsoft Word MVP) For more Word tips and downloads visit my web site https://www.gmayor.com/Wordpages.htm. It is actually easier to simply insert a line when one wants as one did in a typewriter; it is much harder to turn off the default in Word following the logic of some one who wrote the software for themselves, not for the public at large. Given that the democratic base came from typewriters, and DOS word processors, that did not make that decision for you, it would have been, how you say, more intuitive to make this feature the option, not the norm.
You make dogs jump through hoops. Programmers turn people into dogs. That is why, on the internet, noone knows if you are a dog. And it is not 'Standard English Usage.' Look at a book. Look at a newspaper. It is usage for writing on the screen where spacing after the carriage return- how you say, 'enter' is the norm.
It is not the norm in English. Like U know what I mean? Also, the Word rules change every version. I have better things to do with my life than constantly relearn Word. Which I have yet to learn in the first place; I don't know whether to start with the version which I have and have paid for which is '97; or start and pay for 2003, or maybe 2007 or the latest, or wait for something better.
(I have been using DOS since 1981. Still use it. I do need Word for several applications to do with Ebooks, but for everything else, i'ts back to the old trusty one that has never grown old and whose commands never changed from 2.1 to version 4. If they could do it, why can't Microsoft? And the proof is, most of the people who 'use'Word know very little about it. When I refer my questions to the man in the street they only the few hoops through which they jump, but they don't why and they don't know much. If you want to trade 'back when I was a boy,' I was the national ABA MultiMate users group chair in the '80s.
I remember DOS 1.1 and still have the manual! I used to write 800-line macros for Word Perfect 4.1.
Each time something new came out, when I got it I spent some time learning to use the new tool. I have stopped being on the 'bleeding edge' though and generally let other people try stuff first. It is standard in any text I've read to have space between paragraphs, more space than between lines.
On the typewriter a new paragraph often was marked by a first-line indent rather than by adding a space, just as underscoring was used in place of Italics. When there would be room on the page, an extra line might be added. That was pretty much the best a typewriter could do.
(Selectrics could do better, but most did not bother to learn to do it.) I remember 30-page legal briefs where changing the type ball to produce Italics was a novelty that scored brownie points. Probably nothing is as likely to set people here off more than someone complaining that Word is not acting properly like a typewriter.' Peter McWilliams wrote a small excellent book titled The Mac is not a Typewriter. That may have been with Word version 1.0 in mind. Word is not a typewriter. You probably could configure it to act like one, but why? Word is a very sophisticated computer program (and like most computer programs it is very dumb about some things).
If you are going to use it, yes you want to learn how. When you went from using a bicycle to driving a car, you took lessons, I would hope. You certainly spent some time learning the controls. A car is not a bicycle. The rules of the road are much the same, and both get you from one place to another.
Word is designed, primarily to put words on paper. So is a typewriter. The man on the street doesn't understand Word? The man on the street doesn't understand a microwave oven, either but probably knows enough to not put a metal pan into one. I would venture to say that no one, including its designers, understands Word. It is that big, that complex. The people who have responded to you here understand it much better than the average Joe because they have been actively using it and assisting others to use it for decades.
Many of us do not care a lot for Microsoft and its products, but we use them because they help us do our work. My work these days is as a criminal defense lawyer. I produce volumes of paper on behalf of clients and go to court for them. Most of us turn many of the automatic features off or adapt them to how we work. Word is being packaged as something for a person to install and use without any training.
Thus the 'Ribbon' interface. BTW, in your rant you say that you have Word 97 and speculate on using a different version. If you change to anything later than Word 2003, you will get to learn where the controls are again. If you regularly use Word for doing more than an occasional letter, you owe it to yourself to learn how it works or it will seem like it is fighting you. I would recommend starting with Shauna Kelly's series: Spend some time learning about Styles, at least an hour. The time you spend on the first series of articles and learning about Styles will be returned at least four-fold in the time you will save doing things in Word.
Please mark helpful or answered as appropriate to help other users. Charles Kenyon Attorney at Law Madison, Wisconsin wordfaqataddbalancedotcom http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm. I am sure many more users will end up asking this question. As always there are two sides.
If you are a professional writer then of course it is useful to just type until one wants to end the paragraph, then press Enter and the text is nicely formatted with a space already. However I submit that the majority of us use Word for writing memos and letters and in this case I do not want a space after each line when I am writing the address to for example.
Personally I think Microsoft should heed the majority and make this facility a 'turn on' if you need it. I have no problem hitting Enter twice when I want a new paragraph. Or if you do not want the option to have a space as Dough suggests, which is what normally people do, then: you can turn off the space by clicking on FormatStyles and formattingClick on the down arrow which appears when you hover over ‘formatting of selected text’ dialogue box, then click on modifythen on the down arrow at the bottom of the dialogue boxand choose paragraphthen at ‘spacing’ make sure it is set to zero before and after. The default is 6 after which gives you the space. PS: Before I get a telling off, it is bad practice to do what I have suggested. The paragraph mark is not just a mark, it contains all the formatting information re the paragraph that is the formatting properties of a paragraph are maintained in the paragraph mark.
One of the advantages to using Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft Outlook is the ability to use information from the Address Book in Microsoft Word documents. Exactly how to do it, though, isn't obvious.
The key is an AutoText entry called AddressLayout in English (see for the correct name in other languages). This article shows you how to change this entry and how to add an Insert Address button to the Word toolbar. See at the end of this article for alternative methods of putting addresses into Word documents.
Adding an Insert Address button Word 7.0 includes an Insert Address button on its Standard toolbar, but newer versions of Word don't add the button to the Toolbar or ribbon. If you're going to add address information to documents frequently, having a button available will make it easier. Here's how to add it to a toolbar:. In Word, choose View Toolbars Customize, then switch to the Commands tab.
Under Categories, choose Insert. Near the bottom of the Commands list, you'll find Address Book. Drag that command to any toolbar currently displayed in Word. The Insert Address button makes it easy to add an address to any document. Changing the Address Layout Word includes a default AddressLayout entry that you can't see or edit directly.
Test it by using the Insert Address button to insert an address from your Address Book. To add, remove or rearrange fields, create a new layout in a Word document, then save it as a new AutoText entry named AddressLayout. (If you have a non-English version of Word, see below.) The following table lists each field you can use, indicates whether it applies to addresses from the Personal Address Book (PAB) or Outlook Contacts (OAB) and lists the corresponding field name in the OAB and PAB. Fields marked with an asterisk (.) may work only in Word 2000. AddressLayout Field Contacts (OAB) or Personal Address Book (PAB) Field Name OAB PAB Name Fields Subject (by default, First Last Middle Suffix) (OAB) First Last or Last, First (PAB, depending on setting) X X First X X Last X X Job Title (OAB) Title (PAB) X X. Title (OAB) X? I too would like to insert a contact from Outlook 2010 to Word 2010.
I have tried to follow the discussion over here but I am not a programmer. I am not familiar with the getaddress function.
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I have found the following code on a website that seems to be what I am looking for: Dim strAddress, strCode, strFnamn, strEnamn, strTel, strMobil, strEpost, As String strFnamn = ' strEnamn = ' strTel = ' strMobil = ' strEpost = ' strCode = strFnamn & '$1' & strEnamn & '$2' & strTel & '$3' & strMobil & '$4' & strEpost strAddress = Application.GetAddress(AddressProperties:=strCode, DisplaySelectDialog:=1) MsgBox strAddress The above are the exact fields I need to put into a table in the word document. But where do I put it and how do I run it?
Hi, I have found code using getaddress to insert an Outlook contact into Word. I am using this to populate a quote template. This works fine. I am not a programmer so my question may be simple. Is there a way to insert just the first name 'PRGIVENNAME' from the getaddress results at another bookmark location to be used as a salutation?
'Set up the formatting codes in strCode strCode = ' ' & vbCr & ' & vbCr & ' 'Display the 'Select Name' dialog, which lets the user choose 'a name from their Outlook address book strName = Application.GetAddress(addressproperties:=strCodeUseAutoText:=False, DisplaySelectDialog:=1recentaddresseschoice:=True, UpdateRecentAddresses:=True) 'If user cancelled out of 'Select Name' dialog, quit If strName = ' Then Exit Sub 'Insert the name at the current insertion point Selection.Range.Text = strName. Hi, Your code is correct one. Something strange happens when I paste my code to this page. The result with the premailaddress-code is the legacyExchangeDN-code. In previous versions of Exchange, it ends with the username. With the Exchange 2012 it adds (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT) (which is equal to Exchange12Rocks - F=E; Y=X, D=C, and so on) and removes the username and add something else. In previous versions, I used the username in the same way as Environ('username'), but I cannot do it now with the new version of Exchange.