Mac Forum / Applications / Word / November 2005

A friend of mine (without Internet access) is getting
serious disk error on file "Word Work File D_5"
on a Powerbook G4, 10.4.x, and Word 2004. The closes I found to this
issue in this group's archives is

Word 2004, Version 11.2
I¹m building custom toolbars with custom icons. In View\Toolbars\Customize
Toolbars/Menus, one can right-click on a Command and change the icon
properties by pasting an image.

I have MS Wd 2001 on my 2000 I-Mac w/OS 9.2. When I print to my Lexmark
laser printer it leaves off some of the apostrophes or quotation marks
in the document I am printing. I've tried select-all--copy and pasting
it in a new document. It sometimes works. But when I open another

Has anyone else seen this problem with Mighty Mouse in Word 2004? I
will be scrolling down a fairly long document, using the scroll ball.
Suddenly, the scrolling will stop, and using the scroll ball won't move
me through the document at all. However, if I click anywhere in the

I have a custom letterhead template (based on the Boutique style) that is
customised with my own fonts, point size, spacing, etc. However, the problem
arises when I attempt a numbered list. The first entry is fine but, after
that, when auto-list kicks in, it defaults to TNR but, ...

I friend of mine designed stationary for me in InDesign.
How do I get it into word?

Every now and then, a peculiar black outlined box with white center shows
up. It is like an empty cell with a heavy border. It stays fixed on the
screen even if I move the underlying worksheet around underneath it. I do
not have a clue yet as what my actions are that bring that ...

I'm facing a strange issue which occurs with both Word X and Word 2004.
When I print a specific document, Word prints the first page, then
stops, then prints the other 9 pages: this is a problem as I need to
print on two-sides and with this issue I get the first page with just

Anyone have any software out there that effectively removes metadata
from mac office applications?  i.e., when using mac word, there's data
that saved under the "Properties" including date created, modified,
editing time, printed, etc.

I pasted some text into a Word document, and it was labeled "comment
reference." How do I change this designation to something like "normal"?

I found the cause of some of my misalignment problems with two column
layout in Word 2004. It is bizarre!
I had a chapter heading single column, section break (continuous) then
the two column text.

For some strange reason my word documents now will only print US
formats, and not standard A4 as has been my default for a long time. I
have not changed settings...it just happened. Going in to change the
settings I am not allowed. I can see the A4 choice in grey, but am not

I'm considering buying a MacMini and wonder if my Word98 program is likely
to work without major glitches in Classic mode. Do I have to install
the program from CD or can I copy all the files over from my present computer
(which runs OS 9.1)?

I don't know how I managed it, but suddenly, when I hit Shift+' in
Word, instead of getting ", I wind up with something vaguely akin to
<<--that is, instead of the English language quotation mark, I get the
romance language quotation mark. This doesn't happen in any other

In a previous version of Word (2002) there was a way to disable the
auto-compression of images in Word. It seems this function does not
exist anymore in the more recent versions of Word. How can I disable
image compression in Word?