Mac Forum / Applications / Word / May 2006

I have a document that is printing the parts that it should, but is
also printing something (lighter, in the background) that has no
business being there. I have tried everything including starting from
scratch but somehow this garbage still appears. NOT a pretty picture!

I have the latest version of Microsoft Word for the Mac (11.2 060202).
Mac OS X 10.4.6, German.
Microsoft Word often crashes with problems with the hyphenation
functionality. This problem seems to be well known. Is there a fix from

I have a Word document link in my Outlook email. When I click it it opens in
Internet Explorer. The doc file is saved at Sharepoint Document library (the
file is
named http://xxx.filename.doc. How can make it open in MS Word and be able

I have a protected Word document that has "fill-in-able" fields.
When I fill it in I'd like the spell checker to check those fields I've
filled in.  I don't need the spell checker to check the rest of the
document, ONLY those fields that are fill-in-able.

I am new to Equation Editor and having trouble with a particular fence.
Unfortunately I cannot cut and paste the example so I will try to explain my
problem using the keyboard.
There is a fence that looks like this: [ ] . When I choose this fence, the

The Font Times PR Phonetic is supplied with Windows XP (standard), not with
Word for Mac. (Office for Mac X) Does anyone know how to add this font to
Word for Mac X?

Recently installed the upgrade to Word 2004. Boy I wish I hadn't!
Now, every time I start Word, it goes through its "font optimization"
routine and stops with an alert "The font xxx is corrupt and should be
removed." I have to hit OK to get it to proceed. This happens for about

OS 10.4.6
Word 2004
Ibook G4
Hi

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 having trouble both setting tabs and seeing them.
to set them I am highlighted text and then dragging a tab style (left
margin) to the ruler. Then I start typing, but my text stays put where my
page margin is set.

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'm creating documents in WORD 2004 and working with clients who are on
Windows. When I send the client a document with endnotes and cross
references in arabic, they see only roman endnotes and roman cross
references. Once I get the document back from them, I have the roman

I'm using Word on the Mac Version vX and 2004 on both OS 10.3 and 10.4.
I can't seem to figure out how to turn the fraction substitution off.
When someone types 1/2 I want it to stay as the characters they typed
and not change to some wierd character.

Hello, I'd like to know how to create shortcuts in order to get, in
Word 2004 MAC edition a direct link from "r" to "revolution" for
example. The only way to create those insertions seems to be to write
at least four or five letters of the word and than to chose in a list.

Has anyone else seen this problem? I highlighted a table in a journal
article in Preview, copied it and pasted it into a Word document. The
result was a solid black box. If I take this same article (a pdf file,
btw) and do the identical thing in Acrobat, it pastes in fine. If I go