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Why is Microsoft Word back to using those horrible robotic voices in read-aloud?

Why is the read aloud realistic voice feature so horrible? It works often, but then for NO REASON WHATSOEVER it reverts back to 2010 robotic voices. This is awful and why I hate Microsoft. This particular issue has been in Q&A for 3 years now but…

Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
asked 2025-03-08T23:43:12.5733333+00:00
Joseph Logan 0 Reputation points
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Microsoft Office programs will not load

When attempting to open Microsoft Office programs I receive a message that says "Updating Microsoft 365 and Office, pleas wait a moment..." After a moment, the window closes and a new one says "The application was unable to start correctly…

Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
asked 2025-03-08T23:35:46.34+00:00
cara hosmer 0 Reputation points
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what happened to microsoft word and onenote read aloud?

I was using Read Aloud on Microsoft Word and I think it was Microsoft Sonia Online's voice but when I came to use Read Aloud today the voices were the defaults of George, Susan and Hazel has something happened to Read Aloud? I had looked in options on…

Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
asked 2025-03-08T23:18:17.29+00:00
lucy 0 Reputation points
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How do I recover a damaged Word document?

I have tried following all the steps that I could find online, but it doesn't really seem to work. I also noticed that I am having problems logging into my OneDrive, but I don't know if it's related. Thanks!

Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
asked 2025-03-08T23:17:01.0366667+00:00
Guillermo LO 0 Reputation points
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The voices on Microsoft Word read aloud have changed. How do I get the old ones back?

The voices on Read aloud have changed suddenly from realistic British voices to robotic American ones. When I try to activate the function, a message pops up telling me to sign in to my Microsoft account. But I already am!! How do I get the old voices…

Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
asked 2025-03-08T10:46:24.48+00:00
Denarii Peters 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-03-08T18:32:45.89+00:00
GLEN GLEN 0 Reputation points
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My documents are saying "Word found unreadable content". Can these documents be recovered?!!!!!!!!!!

My word documents are saved on Icloud Drive and have been for 2 years. I am not experiencing an issue with my word documents stating "Word found unreadable content" and I am unable to open the file. This is extremely upsetting as I very much…

Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
asked 2025-03-08T17:35:58.37+00:00
Casha 0 Reputation points
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How can I get rid of these blue text boxes?

I accepted all track edits expecting to get a clear word document, but instead I have something with text boxes throughout the document and they are impossible to work with. How can I remove them without clearing all my formatting?

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
asked 2023-07-11T01:57:02.06+00:00
Forrest Solis 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-03-08T15:51:02.1166667+00:00
Jenn Brown 0 Reputation points
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How do I fix Run Time Error 53 on a Mac, I have tried using the information from this forum and I can't locate where this error is actually occurring.

Every time I open a word document I get a run time error 53. I have fixed it before by going to the library-users-group containers-microsoft and that fixed it but now I get the error and it states the full path /Library/Application…

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Office
Office
A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.
1,917 questions
asked 2025-01-22T20:23:59.4633333+00:00
Daylene 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-03-08T14:57:48.86+00:00
Daylene 0 Reputation points
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how to add account to laptop

hey guys, just wondering. i have an asus expertbook laptop with my school account connected, i just wanted to figure out how to add an account so i can have a personal account, and none of the guides on youtube are helping me so i just wanted to know how…

Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
asked 2025-03-08T08:57:18.8766667+00:00
Romeo Barbara 0 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Copilot says 'Unfortunately, I cant make changes to your document directly' in Word?

Trying to work with Word and Copilot and have asked several questions to add text to Footer etc and the answer is always the same ...'Unfortunately, I cant make changes to your document directly' Is there a setting somewhere I am missing?

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Copilot refers collectively to Copilot experiences within Microsoft 365 applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
229 questions
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft terminology for a universal copilot interface.
650 questions
Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Copilot refers collectively to Copilot experiences within Microsoft 365 applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
229 questions
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft terminology for a universal copilot interface.
650 questions
asked 2025-02-13T14:26:57.09+00:00
Peter Hawkes 25 Reputation points
commented 2025-03-07T22:07:38.42+00:00
Tom D 0 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Copilot says 'Unfortunately, I cant make changes to your document directly' in Word?

Trying to work with Word and Copilot and have asked several questions to add text to Footer etc and the answer is always the same ...'Unfortunately, I cant make changes to your document directly' Is there a setting somewhere I am missing?

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Copilot refers collectively to Copilot experiences within Microsoft 365 applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
229 questions
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft terminology for a universal copilot interface.
650 questions
Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Development
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Copilot refers collectively to Copilot experiences within Microsoft 365 applications.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
229 questions
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft terminology for a universal copilot interface.
650 questions
asked 2025-02-13T14:26:57.09+00:00
Peter Hawkes 25 Reputation points
commented 2025-03-07T22:07:38.42+00:00
Tom D 0 Reputation points
2 answers

Word - Dictate/Transcribe Question

The Transcribe feature of Word is awesome. I have a client that records their board meetings (around 12 participants) and they are 9 hours long. They need to be able to transcribe the audio to written text. The Transcribe function of Word works great but…

Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
asked 2025-03-06T20:28:49.3+00:00
Dennis Imhoff 0 Reputation points
edited an answer 2025-03-07T04:59:31.04+00:00
Charles Kenyon 2,986 Reputation points
1 answer

office Word blue background color in read mode

Hello, I like to read the chapter of an online story i am following in read mode of word with the page inversed. So white letters and a black background, cuts down on the hurting eyes. the problem is tough that for some chapters the complete background…

Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
asked 2021-01-29T22:23:41.003+00:00
richard de leeuw 6 Reputation points
commented 2025-03-06T21:31:54.46+00:00
John Korchok 5,851 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

The "Dictate" function in my Word disappeared

The "Dictate" function in my Word disappeared. I have Office Professional Plus 2021. Initially, everything was working perfectly fine, but after transferring my old files via USB (as I was working with Word 2007 on my old computer), the…

Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
asked 2025-03-04T14:31:46.31+00:00
djam 20 Reputation points
accepted 2025-03-05T12:06:45.51+00:00
djam 20 Reputation points
2 answers

Word 365 Multilevel problem

How do I correct a multilevel list. When using the "Start at Number" to reset the numbering to "1", the indent for that style changes.

Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
asked 2025-03-02T17:05:58.2933333+00:00
Mel Orecklin 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-03-05T08:12:36.9733333+00:00
Emi Zhang-MSFT 28,436 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer

Word will not allow me to save documents it is giving the Error Tag: 657rx Error Code: 2148073520.

Word is allowing me to edit documents and print changes, but when I attempt to save my work or reopen Word to access the changed document I receive this error code: Correlation Id: 50d61a54-73cf-409c-8410-1b1a92f47f4f Timestamp:…

Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
asked 2025-03-04T17:24:50.56+00:00
Leigh Anne Summey 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-05T03:14:08.3266667+00:00
Jiajing Hua-MFST 15,780 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Word print problem

The document has page numbers set. When printing "odd numbered pages", what are the even numbered pages? Other files can be printed normally. What is the reason for this? thank you.

Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
asked 2025-02-28T15:40:05.46+00:00
Kuro Kenji 20 Reputation points
accepted 2025-03-04T23:09:46.5833333+00:00
Kuro Kenji 20 Reputation points
1 answer

Mendeley word PLUGIN for the software doesn't support the Office 365 click-to-run version of Word

Hi! I want to install the Mendeley cite plugin for my Word 365, but the software doesn't support the Office 365 click-to-run version of Word. It works for other versions of word, but not 365. How can I get around this and NOT use a click-to-run version…

Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365
Formerly Office 365, is a line of subscription services offered by Microsoft which adds to and includes the Microsoft Office product line.
5,766 questions
Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
asked 2024-08-31T12:42:56.64+00:00
Yvonne Sanders 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-03-04T18:42:18.58+00:00
KODEI BOMAIBO 0 Reputation points
3 answers

Microsoft Word slows down when selecting multiple shapes

When selecting multiple shape objects in Microsoft Word, the program starts to slow down. Even with just 5-6 objects selected - the more objects I try to select, the slower it works. The issue did not exist in previous versions of MS Office. The…

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
960 questions
Office
Office
A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.
1,917 questions
asked 2024-02-07T14:24:03.2566667+00:00
Łukasz Czapla 10 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-02T02:51:20.93+00:00
Agus Dwiono 5 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

I cannot cut & paste in word. How do I fix that?

I cannot copy and paste in word. How do I fix that?

Word Management
Word Management
Word: A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
968 questions
asked 2025-02-27T20:10:45.69+00:00
Jim Fitzpatrick 20 Reputation points
commented 2025-03-01T21:31:12.6733333+00:00
Jim Fitzpatrick 20 Reputation points