Mac Forum / Applications / Word / April 2005

We are using Ms Word for OS 9 on an OS X platform so as to avoid, as
far as possible, virus contamination of our work, and thus we save in
5.1 format. Recently however, the date assigned to saved files have
been literally haywire - often listed as anywhere between 1937 and

I recently encountered the Webservices Toolkit for Office (VBA in
general?). Is this Toolkit and the usage of Webservices in Office or
Word 2004 for Mac available as well? Is there a possibility to open
Microsoft Word XML in the Mac Version?

i have been working on a word document, where i have added a field {REF
Name} (this field refer to a bookmark in the document) into Text Box. and i
have placed the Text Box in the headerAndFooter of the document. the issue
is to get the updated field in the whole document.

I am unable to set paper source (eg. UpperBin, LowerBin, etc) in a macro to
control where a document prints. Help suggests using the command
PageSetup.FirstPageTray and PageSetup.OtherPagesTray followed by the
appropriate bin. I've set these up and they are just being ignored ...

I am trying to print on black paper with white lettering, however it is
coming out blank.  Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
Thanks in Advance

I use the most current version of Office for Mac.
I want to create a page format. Possible.
But I cannot find out where I can define the
papersize. It is the same as the page format.

I hope this is an easy one. I have a template called bluetemplate.dot.
In Applescript, to create a blank new Word document based on the Normal
template, I use:
set myDocument to make new document

All of a sudden my word documents get printed out as the "mirror image". In
other words readable if you hold the document up to a mirror. It only
happens with a page setup of "Letter"  (which is what I use all the time)
I can get it to print normally by using any other Paper Size. ...

I have a growing collection of macros that I wish to make available when I
launch Word.
I can make a separate ".dot" file in Word's Startup folder for each one
Or

I get files which are created on Word for Windows with WMF&EMF. If I try to
open the doc on Mac Word X, the graphics are distorted, lines break etc. The
same file if i open on Windows Word it is fine. I have G5 Macs and I am
compled to work on Mac.

I am having trouble using the header row repeat funciton in a table
which I created by merging with an excel data source,  I am selecting
the header row and choosing, header row repeat, but it still doesn't
work...any ideas?

Word 2001
OS 9.2.2
Hi
I experience "Find/Replace/Special/ marks and characters in the pop up menu

Can anyone tell me whether or not:
1.  e-mail merge is a supported feature on Office 2004 for academics
(teachers and students)?
2.  e-mail merge is a supported feature on Office 2004 Peofessional?

I just received a document where the first page had a black background
and white lettering and the second page had the normal white/no
background and black lettering.  It's a form that I need to fill out.
What's weird is that this happens when I open it in word X or word

Running Word 98 under OS 9.2.2 on a beige G3 with 352 MB Built-in memory.
When I use Table-Formula to insert a calculation, then highlight the result
and click Table-Formula,  sometimes the window contains my formula,
allowing me to edit it, etc.  When that happens and I check the ...