Mac Forum / Applications / Word / July 2006

I have been having some major issues with a template form that I have
been trying to add spellcheck to. This thread is a summary of compiled
correspondence so far with John McGhie
Nancy Ristow

I am try to create a few forms with Word and I have followed the
directions in the help menu, but cannot get the results I need. I want
to create a simple form that when I open it, the cursor will be at the
first blank field and I and then tab to next blank field. Am I asking

This afternoon Word (for Mac) started quitting every time I tried to
open it, whether I clicked okay or cancel on project gallery, or tried
to open a file from a folder or my desktop.  It just won't stay open
longer than a second.  I have a Mac 10.2.8, and Word for Mac 10.1.4.

Hi, all,
Within any Word 2004 document, my keyboard has suddenly lost all
function.  It works in other microsoft office applications, and in all
other applications on my G4 Powerbook (Tiger 10.4.7).  Even within

Sometimes when I paste a paragraph from an  older word document, an
unwanted page break appears in the new document after the pasted text. I
try to get rid of it by the methods described in the help (go to normal
mode and delete the end of page marker), but the marker cannot be

Can anyone tell me how to insert a symbol for crescendo, as in musical
notation?
I've tried the opus fonts but can't find the symbol there - plenty of
clefs and notes but no dynamics markers. Likewise with other music

Since I upgraded to Office 2004 for Mac, I no longer see red squiggles
underlining misspelled words. I believe the preferences are set
correctly and Spelling under the Toolbar doesn't help.
Any thoughts?.

This is my first request for help so please be gentle!
I am using Word 2004 v11.2 on a 2005 pre-Intel G5 iMac (OSX v10.4.7). I
am an experienced Word user. We use Word primarily for building
participant worksbooks for our workshops. These contain tables, text,

When only in Instant Messenger a plus + sign is between words and   %2C+
appears rendemly in the sentence. How+are+you+again%2C+today.
This started few days ago, prior to that normal.  
gnewman85@deletethishotmail.com  

This really is the last straw.
Can anyone tell me how 150 records (a day's work) can just vanish? No
crashes. No shut down. No quitting. Just the last 150 odd records have
disappeared.

I'm running the latest version of Word (11.2) on my PowerPC G5 Mac (OS
10.4.7).
I have a Word database that has 1500 mailing addresses (Records). I am
trying to create mailing labels (Avery 5160 3x10 ones would be fine)

Whenever I apply a formatting change to a highlighted body of text,
Word typically changes the entire document, which then needs to be
undone. Can someone please tell me how to turn off this global
formatting change?

Somehow or another my formatting toolbar has disappeared. I am able to
use these functions through the "formatting palette" (through the
"view" menu) but it's really annoying because it covers up text, etc.
Anyone know how to get that back? I can't find it in the help topics.

Not specific to Mac, a general Word problem.
Today I spotted a problem with a document I had created some time ago
against a project-wide template (*.dot and also read-only) I also
created at the same time. I noticed that some styles had changed i.e. a

I have a xml file which gets converted to WordML format by xslt. When I
try to open that xml file in word, I get an option by MS Word "XML data
views" with the options of opening the xml file in data format or in
xslt converted format.