Mac Forum / Applications / Word / February 2006

is it possible to replace a letter, say the word boy to the word girl
in my whole document by not highlighting every single boy in order to
change to girl?
is there any short cut which can just replace the word for the whole

Aim: To reduce double spaces after a comma and quote [,"] to a single
space. In a long written document woord 2004 for mac.
Problems: 1. Find and replace not identifying comma and quote
specifically. Also finding instances of full stop and quote.

I've been having this problem for the past few weeks whenever I open
word on my ibook. What happens is that it allows me to open a new
document-- word processing, etc., but once it is open, I try to type
and no characters show up. I discovered this using word processing, but

Is there a way in Word 2004 to do a universal Find and Replace for a
single character, say a colon (:) or even a single word, and then
delete the entire paragraph in which they appear? I've looked at using
Wildcards, but I can't figure it out.

Recently, when my wife fired up Word2004 to work on her resume, the
application reported (one by one, of course.....oy!) that essentially every
font on her system was corrupt. No other application has reported any
problems with her fonts. I tried the Microsoft AutoUpdate application ...

the red zigzag lines are all over what i typed. it wasnt like this
yesterday.
normally it only happens if the word is spelled wrongly. pls advice.
it says the words are not found in the dictionary... but what i typed

Irrespective of what typeface I use, I'm getting irregular spacing
between characters. Anyone got any ideas how i might fix this?
Thanks

I want to create template and after adding values to bookmark i want to
create word doc..but as this is a web application i dont want to save
resultant doc file on server..so is there any way by which i can create
stream of doc contents and if want download them...

Any ideas about why when I am trying to save a Word document the
program tries to connect to the printer ? Which by the way is off. This
problem as just started recently. I can't think of anything I have done
lately like updating the system which might be the cause.

I can't print a selection of addresses from Entourage although the
program gives me the option to print it as a telephone list, address
list, etc. I use Office 2004, version 11.2.1 for Mac. The message I get
is Unknown error -30876. DCM.

I'm perplexed by this one. I have the "kinda" new 2.1 ghz motorola iMac
20" with office 2004. Next time an Intel, right!  My last Mac was a G4
Dually with 4 internal drives. Why tell about the oldie, I did transfer
some info and apps from the oldie, but not office 2004, fresh ...

While some people find Word's autocorrect feature a godsend, I find it
terribly annoying.  I have, therefore, disabled it under
Tools:Autocorrect.  So far, so good--until I begin typing in a table.
When I type text in a table the first letter of every first word in

For John McGhie:
I saw your very informed postings in this Google group and thought you
might know something about my problem. I have a Word form which uses a
series of tables with form fields in the cells. The various tables are

Friends -
[MS Word 2004 on G4 Powerbook, 1GB RAM]
Recently, opening and saving files has become a tortuous process. When I
choose 'Open' from the File menu, for example, I might wait 15 to 60

I have WORD MAC 2004 (from OFFICE MAC 2004 on a Mac Mini.  Just got it
last Dec.)
I have a friend who has WORD 98 on an iMac.  I can open her files fine
although I do not have all her fonts.