Today I encountered a strange issue in Microsoft Word.
I was using **Word Count**, and it counted everything correctly (words, characters, etc.), but the **Lines** and **Paragraphs** counts were incorrect. For example, the document clearly had **3 lines**, but Word reported **1 line**. It also contained multiple paragraphs, yet Word still showed **1 paragraph**.
I tried editing the text several times, but the counts didn’t update. After I closed Word and reopened it, the counts became correct immediately.
Has anyone experienced this issue before? Is it related to Word failing to refresh or update the Word Count, or is there another explanation for why this happens?

I just tried to copy and paste someones name from a webpage into my word document. So i went to the webpage, marked and copied the name, and Word would paste some random sentence that I had in the clipboard 10 minutes earlier.

I then opened a new document, pressed cmd-v, and it would past the name. Went back to the other document, pressed cmd-v, and Word would still paste the old clipboard content. What is happening?

I'm having difficulty with weird spacing. There is a dead zone at the end of the page with graphs below. I need text above the graphs but it is not letting my put any text in this area. Can anyone help?

Hello All,

I am currently revising and formatting Word Templates for our company's engineering documents.

In a previous template, I tried using Rich and Plain Text Content Controls for guidance paragraphs (instructions for the engineers to read and delete). Unfortunately, I ran into an issue where the following heading would inherit the color/formatting of the Text Content Control. I ended up using images as a workaround, but it's not ideal.

I am now working on a Systems Engineering document template which features long paragraphs of guidance paired with strict content headings that the engineers must use.

What is the best way to structure a Word Template so engineers can easily differentiate between guidance and actual content headings without breaking the styles? When they start typing, I want the correct content heading style to appear seamlessly.

Appreciate any tips on how you handle technical/engineering templates.

I'm linking the whole ass 1729 page Halq'eméylem pdf, because I need help. I'm trying to write a book that involves my native language*, and since it's basically a dead dialect; it's not a language* recognized by microsoft.

I downloaded the pages from 1114 to 1729 (the english to Halq'eméylem as shown in the picture) to make it easier to process for word.

• turned the pdf to txt
• added the txt to proofing
• enabled the dic file
• pressed okay
• restarted word
• didn't work
• added the og pdf to proofing
• enabled the dic file
• pressed okay
• restarted word
• didn't work
• turned pdf to doc
• added the doc to proofing
• enabled the dic file
• pressed okay
• restarted word
• didn't work

I'm at a loss. My main guess is that it's not formatted right. I'm just hoping I don't have to format the whole 600 pages.

I'm working on an MS; the author would like endnotes to appear unnumbered (I figured this part out—thanks to Allen Wyatt), but they would also like the endnotes to be anchored to page numbers. So, in the notes section, there would be a chapter heading and then the list of notes following would be formatted <page #, Yada yada yada.> Does anyone know how to anchor page numbers to endnotes in Word? Thanks in advance for taking the time!

I have made a fillable document in Word Developers and I’ve noticed that even though I locked the heading in “formatted text” my colleagues are able to bypass this somehow and make it in “plain text” and then they can’t get the heading in the right formatting again.
Does anyone have any suggestions how I can fix this? My only option is to make the document only that you can fill the form in, but I rather not because I’ve made remarks that they should be able to get rid of but I can’t delete it beforehand.

I’m very sorry for my English it isn’t my first language but I hope y’all understand what I mean and that someone has an idea for me!!

I'm trying to write something and have had to stop everything and spend the last half hour trying to figure out why word has suddenly decided not to proof anything as I'm going. I have tried everything I can think of or find and nothing is making it work again. Does anyone here have a fix for this?

Thank you in advance.

I hope someone here can explain it to me.

Sick and tired of having Word auto-change my document and always having to turn it off manually. Is there any way to shut "Track Changes" down forever, online and offline, so it never edits anything ever?

Edit: Sorry, did not convey the issue properly. Basically, these red "sidelines" appear in the document, which "open" up red text, things that I have edited/delted/replaced/changed. Each time I need to reject or accept these changes and stop tracking, but each time I open the document again, tracked changes is back on, with the red lines and edited/delted/replaced/changed text.

I copied a transcript from a webpage and now the whole text has this… box around it? How can I get rid of it? Genuinely lost
Word on an ipad if that helps

Hi guys...i have a report around 170 pages with lots of tables and images. I started it in wps office and later opened it in microsoft word for final edits but word feels a bit slow when scrolling through the document.
Is this just normal with large files or is there something I should check?

Building a poster editor whose main trick is styling text **one word at a time** (own font/color/size per word, no separate text boxes) — something Canva can't do. Free editing, credits only for AI (background removal first).

Would designers actually want this? And what would you pay per month? Brutal honesty appreciated.

Bonus: would you want to upload an image and have it auto-converted into editable shapes + text you can reuse in other projects (like a "design scanner")? Trying to gauge if that's worth building.

Hi there,

Im supposed to create new Word templates which work with a 3rd party application. The application itself has an integration into Word and can provide specific information due to their own selection of custom fields.

The problem is: Those fields are empty before the user connects to the other application and therefore users think they need to fill the space itself. Instead I want there to be a cover text like "automatic field - dont worry" and once the user starts the import into the other application the fields fill themselves.

Unfortunately I only find instructions for Wors related functions and placeholders and Im not so deep into Word functions :/

EDIT: I got a reply on r/MicrosoftWord that solved the issue. If you are here facing the same, this was the fix:

problem: table is set to ‘resize to fit contents’. 
fix:
select whole table -> right click -> "table properties" -> "options" (bottom right of the new form that has opened up) -> unselect "resize fit to contents"

(link to the post on r/MicrosoftWord )

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I realize there is probably a solution/explanation to this somewhere on the internet but I'm in the middle of exam season and I just don't have the time. But maybe, some of you might know what's the issue here.

The issue at hand:
A 3x3 table with nothing fancy - no connected or divided cells, no differentiating borders or anything.
It looks pretty much like this:

By "word", I mean literally one or two words, while "long text" is several lines.

I want to make the first and second column as narrow as sensible to minimise used up space. Automatic hyphenation is enabled.

This is what I want:

If I attempt to do this, there are two possible outcomes.

1. it works perfectly fine. The word is automatically hyphenated and I can narrow the column as much as I want to - unfortunately, this isn't the case very often
2. the first column only narrows as far as the un-hyphenated word goes. If I go any further, the second column widens and the third column narrows. It seems like the automatic hyphenation doesn't work. I have also taken a screenrecording (via imgur), maybe you wanna take a look. (please don't mind everything being German)

But it's not plausible that the automatic hyphenation doesn't work in general - if I type literally anywhere, it works perfectly fine. This is really the only exception.
I can't figure out what's the defining difference on wheter 1) or 2) happens. I can't figure out what's causing this.
And to be honest, it's just really annoying to manually have to type/delete hyphens every time I want to make the slightest change in the column width. Of course, it works and that's what I've been doing but I would love to have a proper fix.

Thanks in advance!

sidenote: I also posted this in r/MicrosoftWord & originally wanted to crosspost here, but that's not possible because of the embedded video.

Hi all – I was wondering if there are any reliable plug-ins or tools for Word that offer a more extensive spellcheck, also recognizing for instance misspelled words that are still valid words in a dictionary, or typical errors you get when editing sentences and leaving two similar verbs, stuff like that. I don't want to use any kind of AI though. I've been writing and editing for 20+ years, but never kept up with any possible extra tools for Word, but I occasionally miss some minor errors, and hope to find an extra safety net this way. Thanks!

So I have three images aligned to top from left to right with 3 legends. The images and legends are with the option up and down and floating, I want them to keep that way. The anchors of the legends are all set to the first paragraph and I can't wrap around. But no matter what they appear in the wrong order in the table of figures despite them being in the correct order. I tried ordering in first plane, second plane, last plane. Everything just doesn't work.

Is there any way to set a tab that create a line of dot dot dot that have same amount of length. The red square will have same length for every sentence