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Old 02-20-2017, 09:38 AM
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Hello everybody. This is my first post. I joined because I've finally decided to take action and figure out the extremely annoying issues that I face with Word 2016, which I never faced with any other version of Word.

I've actually re-installed Word 2003 again, just so I have a "baseline" of what was easy in the past (and now find problematic in 2016)

Do any of you have insights into the following "issues" I seem to find in Word 2016 (that I never did in any of the previous versions)?

1) In W-2016 the undo button only does one character at a time. How to do "bulk" un-does like every other Word version? In every other version of word, if you decide to undo a bunch of stuff, word does "bulk" un-does. Meaning you can un-do a lot of stuff, in a short amount of time.

But in Word 2016, I can only "undo" character by character, making it extremely SLOW to go through.

Is there any way to revert back to the (what I consider to be "normal") bulk way of doing un-does in W-2016?

2) Resizing of images in W-2016 is extremely hard for some reason. This is a weird one, and a bit hard to explain, but it happens to me every time, and I do a lot of documents with images, so I have to try to figure this out!

In every other version of Word, it is very easy to re-size images. I just "drag" the corners, to make the image larger or smaller.

However in Word 2016, whenever I "catch" the corner of the image to resize it, it does one of 2 (very annoying!) things:

1 - It jumps in size. So the second I take hold of the corner of the image with my cursor to resize it, it immediately "jumps" to a much larger size....(or)...

2- It immediately flips to the reverse image. This one I really don't get! But it happens every time! I try to resize an image - I "grab" the corner with my cursor and start to make it larger, and it immediately "flips" to the reverse image. Why oh why??

Both of these make the simple act of resizing images (which takes seconds in Word 2003) to take me minutes and minutes in Word 2016!

(If needed, I can upload a video/screencapture of this).

I do encounter other "issues" with Word 2016, but these 2 are the ones I face daily, and that really waste me the most time

Do any of you Word experts have any ideas how to help fix either one?

Thanks in advance



(PS: I am using a Surface Book laptop, Windows 10 operating system)
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Old 02-20-2017, 10:35 PM
thetraininglady thetraininglady is offline Word 2016 vs Word 2003 (issues I can't figure out) Windows 7 64bit Word 2016 vs Word 2003 (issues I can't figure out) Office 2010 32bit
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Hi,

1) To undo multiple items at once click the small drop down arrow located to the right hand side of the Undo button located in the Quick Access Toolbar (Top left side of the Word window). A drop down menu will appear showing you all your recent actions. Use the mouse to highlight the number of actions to wish to undo at once then click with the left mouse button to select.

2) This one is a weird one and not by default in Word 2016. Word 2016 still allows you to easily resize an image using the resize handles located at each corner of the image. If you are finding the picture is jumping or flipping, there is a technical issue happening here. Have you tried using a different mouse? Your alternative to resize an image is select the image, go to the Picture Tools > Format tab on the Ribbon. On the far right side of the Ribbon you will see the Crop, Height and Width options. Adjust the Height or Width of the image using the buttons providing or just type the measurement into the field boxes and press Enter and your image will resize.

Hope this helps.
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Old 02-21-2017, 01:07 PM
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Belinda, thank you for taking the time to respond.

I definitely know which drop down menu you are talking about - I used it all the time in previous versions of word.

However in Word 2016, I cannot find that drop down menu ANYWHERE.

In fact, I will upload 2 screenshots.

The first one is of w-2003, which you can see that drop down menu you speak of.

The 2nd one is of w-2016, which I cannot find that drop down menu anywhere...

Can you tell me what I'm missing or where I need to look in 2016 version?
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Old 02-21-2017, 03:26 PM
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Can you go into the File tab and go to Account. Can you post a screenshot of that window so I can see which version & build of MS Office you have?
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Old 02-22-2017, 10:40 AM
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Yes, here are 2 screenshots!
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Old 02-22-2017, 11:23 PM
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Are you on Mac or PC?
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Old 02-23-2017, 06:23 AM
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