Mac Forum / Applications / Word / April 2006

I've just upgraded to Word 2004 (OS X 10.4.5) from Word 98 (OS 9) and
have already started noticing annoyances. Here's the first (more to come).
I have a macro assigned to a keystroke (control-S) to show and hide
tracked changes. (I edit with tracking displayed, then review with

This one has occurred since Word 98 and is no different in Word 2004.
You need a special function, so a toolbar appears at the top of the
screen. MS Word resizes the window down to accommodate this toolbar. You
close the toolbar and the document window remains short. So you have ...

Installed Mac OS X 10.4.6 update and opened a previous Word 2004
document, made a small correction, hit CMD+S (to save it), and got a
dialog box (with save as, location, and format). Clicked on Save
button, got another dialog box stating that there already exists a file

In Word 98 I used option-down arrow and option-up arrow to move to the
next or previous paragraph. Now, in Word 2004, if a paragraph has a
bullet, the cursor moves to the left of the bullet, and every single
bullet in the document is selected (in grey). So I have to press the

When I open a Word document with sound files in them (the speaker
icons) and I double click one, a message comes up that says, "Word
cannot locate the server application for SoundRec objects." So I
right-clicked on one of them and clicked Wave Sound Object>Convert...

I'm having a problem with a Word doc that includes some Excel charts.
The Word doc is a total of 10 pages of combined text and 11 graphs.
The graphs all were created in Excel and then cut and pasted into the
Word doc.  The 10 page Word doc ends up with a file size of 85.7MB.  I

Scenario A:
1. open Textedit
2. start typing
3. select Greek Extended keyboard encoding

You know the status bar at the botttom of the Word screen? It has a
button for turning Track Changes on and off. When I have a document open
at normal A4 size (210 mm wide), this button is missing. I have to widen
the window to see it. This obscures other things on the screen ...

All of a sudden, all my Word documents print in red ink. I can't find a
tool to change this. I know it's a Word problem because other programs
(Appleworks) print in black and white. The problem is limited to Word.
I'm a writer and I can't send out manuscripts printed in red ink. Can

I am using Word 98 and it defenitaly has issues with converting files to
HTML, or copying and pasting files from websites into Word docs. In Word
98 I can copy a webpage into Word and all the formatting is lost.  I do
not have this problem with Word XP.  Will I if I bought Word ...

I'm having trouble with my Word X on my powerbook G4.  If I pull up a
recent or old file and most of the time all formatting has been lost
and it's plain text with a pages and pages of nonsense
example......

In the readme :-
  €  Addresses an issue for Microsoft Word 2004 in which Word would
display a "Word cannot complete the operation because too many files
are open" alert message when autosaving a document to a network-based

I have cross-references inserted.  As my document changes, those
cross-references end up wrong.
I'd like to update all the cross-references.  I go select all, then
context menu - there's no 'update field' command.  I can't use F9

All pictures and balloons suddenly disappear while reviewing and
re-editing tracked changes in a document I received back via mail. I
sent out a 5 page document with about 15 illustrations to a customer
for review. They sent it back with their comments. When opening all is

I distribute large documents to other users for proof reading and
comments. These documents are fully formatted with styles for future
typesetting. On some computers the text does not appear formatted,
although the style name, font and size all appear correctly in the