Have you tried repairing the Office installation (via Word Options|Resources|Diagnose, or via Windows Control Panel> Programs> Programs & Features> Microsoft Office (version)> Change> Repair)?

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Hi Paul,

I don't have access rights to do that.

I'll try to do it at home on my i-Pad just to see that I didn't imagine that I had it working the way I wanted it to.

Because another guy has to enter a small amount of data to finish this report off - in the work-around to get my data into the word I have had to insert a chart for him to use. It is only 3 dollar amounts and roughly looks like this:

Financial:

Cost A: $xxxx
Cost B: $xxxx over here is the bar chart
Cost C: $xxxx

It would be nice if all he had to do was enter the 3 amounts where the xxxxs are but, he has to enter it where you see them and then move his cursor into the body of the chart, right-hand click to get the menu with 'edit data' and again input the the amounts in the table that appears.

Perhaps you can suggest a more efficient way (he says he doesn't mind as he has had to do it this way for the last 2.5 years).

BTW I did spend ages looking for a solution to my original post but couldn't find one nor find a post in here that covered my question.

Regards,
Jon.

That suggests you're in a corporate environment, in which case you should consult your IT department.

Another possibility is that the document has acquired some of corruption. Corrupt documents can often be 'repaired' by inserting a new, empty, paragraph at the very end, copying everything except that new paragraph to a new document based on the same template (headers & footers may need to be copied separately), closing the old document and saving the new one over it.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]