How do I sort text in a document, I just want to alpha small sets of info in docs that I write Thanks

To reverse (or mirror) text in a document, you must first enter the text in a text box. After reversing the text, you can remove the appearance of using a text box by removing the outline.

1. Insert a text box in your document by clicking Insert > Text Box, and then type and format your text. For more details, see Add, copy, or delete a text box.
   
2. Right-click the box and click Format Shape.
3. In the Format Shape pane, click Effects.
4. Under 3-D Rotation, in the X Rotation box, enter 180.

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Font type and size are usually set in the document processing application.
If it's a word .doc,you set the size in Word.
Anything you can paste to Wordpad,highlight the text and set the font size in the toolbar.

For infomration on Office 2007 .DOCX file format, refer to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100444731033.aspx

I use Office 2003, and have installed and currently employ the "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for 2007 Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint File Formats" mentioned in article. This is, for the most part, seamless when reading in Office 2007 .DOCX or .PPTX files, for examples, in Office 2003.

Otherwise, in Office 2007, you can change and set your Word Options so that you can save files in a specific format, including a previous Office version to ensure compatibility.
See http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/11/25/how-to-change-default-file-saving-format-from-docx-to-doc-in-word-2007/

Hope this makes sense... Good Luck!
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If you have Microsoft word on you computer, you may do any one of these steps that you are most comfortable with. First, you may click the document twice to rename it eg "name.doc" insure that you put .doc at the end or you may right click the file and choose open with and select Microsoft word and then go to save as and save it as a word document. Or you can open the file in word-pad and copy the text and paste it in a word document and save it. Rich text format is a Microsoft word-pad document while .doc is a MS word document or now they have .docx.

hope this help you have a great day!

There is never ant option for .txt docs. It is only for a word doc and what you save it as is your problem. So, dont worry about it. After .txt you will ask for normal txt or rtf. The list is very long. So, the short cut is to open a new doc and save it as whatever you want.

Most of the time a scanner by default, will scan a document in a tif or other image file format. That means that the scanned image is actually very similar to a photograph. In order to edit the text, you first have to convert the image using something that's called OCR software. OCR is a process that the software uses to look at a scanned document image and determine what characters are on the page. It's not always very accurate but that depends on the quality of the scan and on the OCR software being used. You must have received some sort of scanning software with the scanner. Hopefully it containes some sort of OCR software. Some scanners will save you this extra image manipulation by having a setting that allows you to scan directly to a word document. Usually in that configuration, the OCR software automatically knows to convert the scanned document image in order to automate the process. But either way, you first have to install the manufacturer's software. Hope this helps. Please remember to rate my answer. Thanks.

This is an interesting problem. Since you've already tried copy/paste to a new document, I'll assume you don't care about the file so much as the text in it.

First, make a copy of the file and let's experiment with that.

You said you cannot copy the text, but I'm not sure if that is because you cannot "select" the entire text of the document or because the copy function is simply not working on that file. If you're able to open the document at all, try using keyboard commands to perform the copy/paste. Open the doc and leave the cursor at the beginning of the text. Then attempt to select all the text by pressing Ctrl-A. If that works, then press Ctrl-C. Leave the document open and press Ctrl-N to open a new doc page. Then press Ctrl-V and see if the text pastes in. One important thing to know would be if the text pastes but exhibits the same 'symptom'. If so, attempt an EDIT, PASTE SPECIAL and try pasting "unformatted text". Unfortunately, that method will also remove your formatting.

Here's another approach that may allow you to retain most MS Word formatting items. Click START, RUN and type "wordpad" .. Then hit ENTER. This launches MS Wordpad which should be able to open most .doc files. Use the FILE, OPEN menu items to locate and attempt to open the document in question. If from here you are able to select all the text (Ctrl-A) and copy it (Ctrl-C) and paste it (Ctrl-V) into a new doc file, then we will move on to another possible option.

Another approach would be to download one of the many different .doc repair utilities that exist. There are a number of free ones as well.. repairmyword.com advertises a number of free utilities you may have luck with.

Hopefully one of these will help fix the matter... if not, let us know!

Good luck!

I would first make sure that you have latest driver update. MS Word is very particular about how it reads things back in. I would try saving the scan as a text file or PDF instead and then open them in Word. Hope this helps!
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Using Word with VB6, I show how you set the page size to A5:

Sub AutomateWord()
' Declare the variable.
Dim objWD As Word.Application
' Set the variable (runs new instance of Word.)
Set objWD = CreateObject("Word.Application")
' Add a new document.
objWD.Documents.Add
' Add some text.
objWD.Selection.TypeText "This is some text."
'Set Page Size
objWD.ActiveDocument.PageSetup.PaperSize = wdPaperA5
' Save the document.
objWD.ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="mydoc.doc"
' Quit Word.
objWD.Quit
' Clear the variable from memory.
Set objWD = Nothing
End Sub

Hope this helps!