Mac Forum / Applications / Word / July 2006

i am working on some files created on word (v 2001 mac). [and not using
equation editor]
some files use the symbol font is it possible to convert them to the pc
character map

the mechanics behind the draggable anchor icon and relative positioning
of objects in Word X still elude me.
http://www.celvina.de/tmp/anchor.jpg
The drawing should be directly above the red text. With "top and bottom"

I am using MS Word from Microsoft 10 and whenever I type new text it is
dimmed.  What do I need to change in preferences to stop this from
taking place?
Thanks,

I'm running OSX 10.4.3 and word 2004, just this week I 've found I can't open
any documents, Word will launch ok from the dock and a new black document is
created.
If I try to save the document I get the spinning wheel, If I try to open an

And another problem (while I'm at it...) for Office x on OS 10.4
I have a very large document which I'm trying to put into the right
layout for publication at the moment. I need to create a new format for
the page setup, because the publisher has very specific (unusual)

I'm using Booklightning to make booklets, which I've done before. This time
I have the pages all done in 5-1/2 x 8-1/2,  and saved as pdf. It separates
into odd and even pages perfectly. Then when I print them out the right hand
pages have the left margins too narrow, and the right ...

I am trying to email merge from Word to Entourage and I want to attach the
same file to all the emails. Is it possible to do this automatically or do I
have to merge to the outbox then attach to each email?
Thanks

          I typed Simplified Chinese and English characters in same
Office 2003 word documents . However , the font widths of two set of
characters are not equal , it makes the formating of my documents be
difficult. Are there any options can set to make their width be equal?

So since moving to my MacBook Pro, I've had a really damaging bug in
Word that appears randomly and with great destruction. I will be
working on a large file, try to save it, and I get the spinning wheel
of death. Worse, while it is waiting in Word, it is shutting down other

     Recenlty (since the last 2-3 weeks) users of our application have
started noticing text being reversed in RTF documents every other time the
RTF template is launched.
e.g. pre-filled date bookmark fields will be displayed correctly in the

Please help...
I've been having trouble displaying the Reviewing Toolbar.  No amount
of toggling/untoggling, restarting Word, restarting my computer, or
even reinstalling Office has helped so far.  I'm struggling with

Please help
I have a very simple web page I use as a bookmark of my most used pages.
I am trying to edit a Hyperlink and it is just not working.
I copy the link I want (it starts HTTPS I hope this is not the problem) and

This may be more of a database app, but I'm thinking it may be as
simple as the concept of doing mailing lables with a data source of an
Excel spreadsheet, which I've done and works great.  I need to create a
letter and based on different criteria, insert certain paragraphs.  I

I have a Zip disc with a book I wrote on it. It was put together by
someone I hired 10 years ago. He used a Macintosh program - BookMaker
or something like that. I want to revise the book and republish it, but
I can't open the Mac document with Word (Windows XP Home OS). Does

I'm working with Microsoft Office X for Mac, (Mac OS X 10.4) and I
don't have any language proofing tools other than English. I also can't
use my installation CDs at the moment, they're somewhere packed away at
the other side of the ocean... But I need the files for German