Mac Forum / Applications / Word / October 2005

I use a Powerbook G4, supporting OS X, but am trying to resolve a
problem with a legacy mac.
Under Mac OS 8.1 (Powermac 7300), and using Office 97 and Word 6.1,
when  adding either i) PageNo, ii) Date, iii) Time to the header or

I save a file on Word for Mac that has footnotes in it, in ordinary
numerals.
I then load it on my PC using WordViewer and it converts all the
footnotes to Roman numerals (e.g. 25 -> 'xxv').  I can't get them back.

i have the problem, that in our apple-pc-room with microsoft office
2004 i can not change the settig for the auto-store-file from word....
when i want to select a folder on the server, word want´s to have a
local disc to save on.... but i dont want to allow this to the

I am using Windows XP2000 (Office 2000). After a power failure, it
takes several minutes for the Word to open a fold/file.
I appreciate your help!
Charles

I have built a number of forms (containing text fields, check boxes an
drop downs) in various versions of Word for the PC. The forms ar
password protected. They have all worked perfectly in every version o
Word for the Mac, until very recently. The problems seem to occur whe

With certain older documents, Word is crashing everytime I try to open one of
them The only commonality I can see is that they use unusual fonts.
This was not a problem before the last Service Pack (Sept 05)
Ideas?

In insert>page numbers, how can I changed the default?  It is stuck on
ŒPosition-bottom page, allignment-right¹.

I have made a template containing macros on my PC . Now this template shall
be used on Mac as well and I'm not at all familiar to Mac. My problem is that
I'm running a Document_New macro that is supposed to display a User form
which it does on the PC but not on the Mac. Anyone ...

In Office 98 for Mac there were templates for resumes, etc. and other
useful items.
The newer version of Office 2004 does not seem to have these. Where have
the multitude of templates gone, or do they all have to be downloaded

I've seen the numerous postings on the problem with Word 2001/2004, etc
What about in Word X?  I lost the Print and Page Set-Up commands a fe
days ago and have the feeling that various other commands are no longe
visible.  There aren't really any Preferences that I can trash, as fa

This should be really easy ... but I can't do it!
I want to assign a hotkey so I can, via AppleScript, open a new
document from an existing template (like the File > Project Gallery >
My Templates > choose-and-click)

Help! my test drive just expired and i now cannot access any document i
created with it. Also, it is somehow affecting other documents, even
those saved in RTF. Ideas, suggestions?

I downloaded a simple template with macros (basically just margin set-ups) in
.dot,
added some text and saved it in Word .doc. Sent as email attachment from my
XP and 2003 Word to a computer with Windows 98 and Word 2000. The macros

When I have the show/hide button activated in order to see paragraph
marks and other formatting characters, I sometimes encounter a small,
solid, black box next to some of the paragraph marks.  Does anyone know
what these are?  What is their purpose?

I need your help... Would you please tell me how I can setup a sound
when users saving their docs so it notifies the users that the document
has been saved.
thanks