Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / April 2008

HELP: I upgraded to the new office 2008 for mac with the hope that the mac version will now be more compatible with PC versions -- but my client had to spend an hour downloading some patches to even open the thing. When I checked the online help, it appeared that the default ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I have looked everywhere for an answer, hopefully someone here knows.

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
I haven't updated my Office for Mac in forever. My version is 10.1.4. I want to update it, but to get the newer updates, I have to load the previous update. So far, the farthest back I have been able to find is ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
I'm just starting to switch from PC to mac. In general fine, except a string of problems relating to hyperlinks. I use hyperlinks extensively in Word, Excel, emails. In generall I mean hyperlinks that are (say) name of website ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I am new to using Office with a mac, and I have a lame question. I am using Word 2008.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
Help! When I send (in Mail, not Entourage) an attached word document (.doc not .docx) it arrives to SOME computers (both PC and Mac) as gibberish. If I change to my desktop computer (Leopard / Office 2004), open ...

I have just started using Windows mail on my laptop and wanted to set up
certain accounts so that when I send from them to certain email addresses I
send as 'Plain Text'.  
There used to be a tick box on the old OE Add Contact window, but it's

Hi bought my computer second hang and want to change all the names to
my name instead of having the previous owner's name on everything. How
do I do that?

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I had all my word/excel documents in the Test Drive and just installed Office 2004 but all my documents still read as the test drive which is now expired. When i try and open them individually it doesn't work ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Hello,

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
Processor: Power PC
When trying to open Virtual PC 6.1,
The message Virtual PC does not support the CPU in this MAC.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
This is the middle package - do I have unlimited installs with this? And, does anyone know that if I give my Mac away, can APpplecare be transferred? Thanks - Neil

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
In draft view, I'd like the text to wrap to the window size rather than the document's margins. Is this feature part of Word for Mac? It's easily done in the PC version.
Thanks,

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I want to lay out some pages in the style of the English publishers Dorling Kindersley. I want the text to wrap around and weave amongst photographs (I'm the arty type). If you go to amazon.com, search Dorling ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
In Word 2004 I could save "versions" of a single document, but that feature is missing from Word 2008. (In fact, when I go to save those older documents in the new format, it erases all the older versions of the ...