Mac Forum / Applications / Word / February 2006

is there a section for osx downloads?

I open a word document sent via email from a friend. If I use the
sliding bar on the righthand side of the screen or the page down button
to move the document down, the text in the middle of the document
begins to repeat over and over and over regardless of where the cursor

Hi Anybody.  I have a weird problem on which I would welcome any
suggestions.  There is a black dotted boundary box which appears in
Page Layout view only.  It has printers crop marks at the corners and
turns up on all new documents.  I have been through all the prefs and

Using Word 2004 v 11.2
Want to modify Normal template to do 2 things:
Change left and right margins
and consequently to change tabs in Normal style.

Is there a secret to making Word communicate with Filemaker. I have
version 8 Pro and Mac Word 11.2. When selecting a data source in mail
merge wizard, I can browse to the file location of the db and not be
able to select it. What am I missing?

What is a good address/contacts software program that will allow me to
export specified fields of a list of contacts into an Excel spreadsheet
or for use with MS Word mail merge. I have a iBook G4 Mac OS X v.10.4
and just ordered MS Office Suite 2004 for macs (Word, Ecel, ...

My Word X freezes on me when I choose almost any menu option and i get
the colored spinning wheel of death. Can anyone help?

On the menu bar in Word (Word X for Mac OS X), the View drop-down menu
has disappeared.  Do you know how to get it back?
Thanks.

I have recently moved from word 2000 to 2003.
I used to save files as ansi format to be able to import them into a
DOS based database.
Now I am at a loss for what to do.

I ahve recently moved from word 200 to 2003 and cannot save word docs
in ansi format.
I need to be able to do this to import the information into a dos based
database.

My colleague has endless trouble with Word 98. Whenever she tries t
save a file, she keeps getting the message: "You are working without
word file and memory is nearly full". She's running the software on a
iMac running OS9. Word also quits frequently, especially when printing

This problem exists on Panther running Office 2004, 11.2.
The user receives messages in Entourage with Word attachments and many of
them won't open, as they have apparently become corrupt through the mail
process.

In one document only of approx 100 000 words, the word count only shows
the total. All other documents [some quite large] show the number of
words on any given page. I need this feature. How do I get it working,
please? [Have tried copying the whole document onto a new blank doc,

I am using Word 11.2 on a Mac PowerBook G4 OSX 10.4.4.
The problem I'm having is with being unable to delete rules I make in a
document. These are the rules that are created by typing in three
hyphens --- and then doing Return. It makes a rule run across the the

I am writing a document that has a number of figures. When figures are
pretty large I often want them to appear as the only content on the
page after I have referred to them (e.g. text on page 1 and figure on
page 2). However, I don't want to insert a page break beacuse I want to