Mac Forum / Applications / Word / May 2006

In the course of the last few days, I moved my "Microsoft User Data"
directory to an external drive (was turning FileVault on, sorry I did it,
but that's another story), then copied it back to the internal drive AFTER a
reboot; as I had Office Notifications turned on, it rebuilt the ...

I'm using XP Pro SP 2, Word 2002 SP 3.  
I'm using the "Data Form" function from the Database Toolbar, something I've
used everyday for 4 years.  There was a quick power outage in the office and
now when I have the dialogue box open and click on "Last Record", the records

When I open certain word documents on a warning box appears that says
'word cannot fire event'. It doesn't seem to effect the file in
question. How do I get rid of this?

I'm trying to solve the following.
I have a data source that contains two tables - table one has an id1
and some other fields and id1 is the primary key, table2 has as its
primary key id2 but also contains id1 from table1 for linking.

Good day,
I'm having a problem with one seat of Microsoft Word v.X (10.1.6). It's on a
Power Mac G5 1.6 GHz processor with 1.25 GB of RAM installed. The hard drive
is 80 GB in size and is about 45 percent full.

in Word v.X the positioning option "in line with text" is not available
for text boxes. The workaround I found is to type my text, cut it and
paste special as word object...

Hi
I've just upgraded to a MacBook Pro.  It came with a trial version of the
new Office suite which I've decided not to buy.  The problem is that now the
default application for opening .doc files is the new version and I have to

i have just set a survey for my students using a protected form.
the students have areas they need to write sentences.
i highlighted each 'greyed' area, went into tools, set language, and off
ticked do not spell check, expecting that to run spell check in the text

A document properties page insists upon printing each time I print a
document in Word 2001. I have repeatedly unchecked  the  "Include with
document: document properties" command in the Printing Preferences
dialogue box, but it still reappears. This seems to happen most

I have created a document and a list in Word. I have done Tools/Lettrs &
Mail/Email/Use current/browse and selected the correct document.  I have then
selected list ok and have the <first Name> in the email.  I then get it to
generate the document ok and have my 20 or so letters ...

I have searched high and low in WORD for MAC 2004 to find the symbols
for male and female.  Are they not available or am I missing them?
They are in the symbol fonts on WORD 2003 for my PC at home.  Can you
help?  THANKS!

I am back again, stumped.  I am continuing now my project w/o using the
Master document feature and have divided the document in chapters, each with
its own filename.  The graphics are deposited in a separate file for each
chapter.  This worked fine with the first chapter, the file ...

Hi! Been away from forum for a long time. Dealing with death of my dad
and helping my mother to carry on without him, and other business of life.
This for the MVP's
What is your thoughts as to the possibility of Office Mac continuing

I've recently upgraded to OS 10.4.6 & I'm having a few problems with
certain applications - one of which is Word.
I can use Word OK, but when I try to quit I get an error message: "This
is not a valid file name. Try one or more of the following: * Check the

Is anyone familiar with the Show Readability Statistics option in Word?
   When it's enabled, after a spell/grammar check, it pops up a window
of statistics for the supposed readability of the passage or document,
based on certain formulas: