Mac Forum / Applications / Word / June 2006

Hello all,
I turn once again to you for problem-solving. I've happily found my way to
using Outline view (my last query to this list) and have moved on to this
problem.

Followed the steps in Help to bring in from Excel. When Excel data
appeared in my Word document the gridlines were greyed out and did not
show when I printed the Word document.
How can I get them to show when printing the Word document ?

I'm using office 2004 with a word document and an excel spreadsheet as the
source for the merge.  I have had no problem merging filled in fields from
the spreadsheet into the word document.
What I need to work is the "If ..  Then  .. Else" feature.  When I drag and

Morning.
What the hell is this? In the printer dialogue window I can not change
the numbers in the fields for print pages from ... to ... Restarting
Word did not eliminate this missbehaviour.

I want to create a Word document that can be e-mailed or downloaded
from a web site.  I want this document to include an audio clip that
can be played by either Mac or PC users.
I can add an MP3 to the document using INSERT>MOVIE but I get a

I need help converting (save as etc.) my MSWord 2003 doc for use with
MAC 5. Is there a plug-in or converter I can download and use? My
version of Office does not have a converter built in, and Microsoft
pointed me here for assistance.

I recently upgraded to Word 2003.  Whenever I save a document that I am
working on it gives me a "read-only" message.  This happens all the time when
I save a document multiple times while working.  It is driving me crazy! Is
there some way to fix this?  This just started within ...

I just figured out how to get a shortcut to paste text only.  It's
really easy.
1) Click the record button at the bottom of the screen (REC)
2) Give your new macro a name, like PasteTextOnly, and a shortcut (I

How can I convert a postscript document to Word?  I need to be able to
open the document and edit it .... something I cannot do in Preview (
OSX 10.4.6)

I used to use Filemaker 5 with Word 2001. I am switching to Mac OS X
and Filemaker 5 does not work there. So I bought Filemaker 8. However,
then Word 2001 could not use Filemaker 8 data. So I bought Word 2004
Educational Version, with the hope that it would be able to merge data

I've created a 2-page document in Word (v. 11.2.0 for Mac), placing two
different graphic files as the header and footer on both page 1 and 2.
These images are saved as hi-res RGB .jpegs, and measure a standard
page size of 8.5x11 for each, since elements in the design span the

When working with a template file (.dot) originated on a PC and opened with
Word 2004 (11.2.3) on a Mac a user cannot save it as a normal word document.
When doing a "Save As", changing its' name, and selecting "Word Document" as
the format (the file extension changes from ".dot" to ...

I created a letter template which I saved as a Word document and then, in
the Finder, I checked "Stationery pad", so opening the file creates a new
document and leaves the template untouched. II want to insert the date into
my template. If, when inserting the date into the template, ...

Where could i find another value pack for office x to install?

On word I get an error that it can¹t save over a document over the network
because of an error, I have to save the doc to the desktop and then it will
allow me to save as back over the top of the document on the network,, does
anyone have the same issues..