Mac Forum / Applications / Word / February 2006

Recently, I'm having big problems with merge documents.  I have a Mac,
but since it's in the shop, I've been using a Windows XP computer at
work--running Office 2000.
Documents that I set up as the main document (a large Excel document is

I am trying to prepare a small grant proposal, which has much text, and
3 graphics with associated text boxes as figure legends. I started this
proposal by having 4 separate documents (Specific aims, Significance,
Preliminary Results, and Research Plan and Methods), which I have ...

Is there a way to get rid of the path for work menu items in Word 2004
so that just the item names are listed?  In other words, can I make it
so that I never see the path?

Word 2004 for Mac OS X. Running a PowerBook 800 with 1 GB RAM and
always have the latest updates to OS and Office.
When I'm Page Layout view, the window frequently displays improperly. 2
separate problems which are independent of each other, although they

I've recently seen a weird change to the name of Word files saved as pdf
files.
If I save a MS Word doc to pdf (select Print and then Save as pdf), the
resulting pdf file name is fine. It is the original name with the pdf

When consulting the help of Office Word for Mac I am directed to Tools
and then Language. But when looking at the Tools menu the Language
option does not appear. I have the latest update of Office for Mac
installed in my computer.

for some reason last night my keyboard changed in some way so that all
of the regular ways to get a question mark, exclamation point, etc are
new keys and combinations.  Shift + the question mark key gives me
this: Ç.  all of the Shift combinations are now different, and all

I'm seeking advice on how to allow multiple editors to access the same
document at the same time.  Is this possible?  I am creating content
for a document that is in constant revision by two parties.  I am
setting up a shared server to share files, but don't know how the nitty

Would anyone know how to map the first five function keys to a specific
function in Word 2004.  I have a technically-challenged user who is
upgrading from Word 98 to 2004.  Some one had set this up for him to
switch between fonts and copy cut and paste.

I'm trying to figure out how to get tabbing from field-to-field to work in
userForms I'm creating with VBA in Word 2004 on the Mac. Right now, the only
way to change focus is to click the mouse in another textbox, even tho the
tab key properly generates an Exit event.

I added the style icon on my toolbar but it came in as grey instead of normal
color.  I am unable to click the icon and, therefore, cannot edit or select
any styles that are within that document template.  The styles do exist
because when I use the drop list that identifies ...

A month or so ago I formatted a letter with headings and subheadings,
and the Document Map view of it was presented quite nicely--just the
heads and subheads.
Today when I formatted a similar type of letter and looked at it with

I have a printing problem with Mac Office 2004 and Mac OS X 10.4.  When I
print in colors with the HP LaserJet 4600, the colors don't print correctly
(it's using bad colors).  In other applications, the printer prints fine.
Also, if I print my Word document to a PDF file and then I ...

I’m running Office 1.1.6 with 10.4.4 and Equation Editor always quits on me.  
First I repaired permissions—nothing, then trashed the application and it’s
prefs, still nothing.  Finally I did an uninstall and reinstall of Office,
still the same.  The Equation Editor icon will ...

I recently moved all my documents, including MUD to a different hard
drive.
Word and all my other applications are still on the computer HD.  In
Word preferences I specified the new external drive for all file