Mac Forum / Applications / Word / September 2006

I have written some helper VBA macros which execute at Word's launch
time. I have been using the AutoExec module to auto-launch/invoke them.
Now that Office Apps will no longer support VBA, I have been thinking
of gradually moving on to AppleScript. Unfortunately, I could not

I wanted to know if I can download a Spanish dictionary that works with
my Word X for Mac since I do most of my writing in Spanish and in I
cannot use the spelling or grammar tool because there is no Spanish
dictionary in Word. Thank you.

PowerPoint and Excel will run but Word and Entourage begin to start up
and then quit.  The Remove Office tool also quits.  Any ideas as to
what to do in this circumstance?  I'd appreciate any clues as to what
might be the problem.  I have the Office: mac 2004 Student and Teacher

I have the earliest version of Office X for Mac Service Release 1.
As I'm using a small 12" Powerbook I need the working Word Window to be
maximised and located a little higher up the screen on opening any file
including new files. I'd also like to set the zoom percentage.

I thought maybe here I could get an answer to a particular thing that I
read yesterday. According to a report on macobserver.com Virtual Basic
scripting support will be discontinued in the next version of Office
for Mac (http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/08/07.17.shtml).

I have word 2000 Sp3, OS Win XP Home, allways use  fonts in program. some doc
are OK some are
not. changing font only changes shape of box or square. tryed opening in
wordpad same thing square in place of text.

I have some find & replace macros in Word 2003 for PC that do not seem to
work in Word 2004 for Mac. The part of the macro that's not working is a loop
that goes through the document looking for 2 or more spaces and replaces with
one space. Another does the same for 2 or more ...

I am missing submenus in all Office 2000 applications for my Windows XP
OS computer.  I am further missing submenus in the Start-> Programs  as
well.  How can I fix this?
Thanks,

I have long used the Symbol palette ("Insert>Symbol") in Word 5.1 to
identify characters which show up as boxes in documents in order to and
find/replace them. (When I highlight a single character in a document
and click "Insert>Symbol" the Symbol palette opens with the character's

Using SAVE as PDF on a long file, 5 separate sequential pdfs were created, always at a section
break. What is going on and how can I prevent this?
Thanks

I love autocorrect but I wish there was a way to turn off the blue
underlining that autocorrect automatically positions under every item
it autocorrects.  I'd remove any single autocorrect entry in
autocorrect if I didn't want it corrected.  It seems so unnecessary to

I have a client that frequently emails me word doc.'s with corrupt fonts.
This time I cannot find the font ( I am a designer I have more than 5000 of
them). Once I called and had a Word tech support person talk me though a
special reboot of the computer. I thought she would send ...

I searched. Found a two-year-old thread acknowledging that inserting
PDFs into a Word document is not good if one requires good on-screen
and printed results.
I'm using Office X in Mac OSX.3.9. I do print ads (in InDesign CS2) for

I recently bought Office 2004 (Student/Teacher Edition) for my Intel
MacBook (OSX 10.4.7) however I'm having problems with basic formatting
in Word.
For example, highlighting a word and then selecting bold makes the

How can I preview all labels at once, in various pages?
It only shows me page by page (page 1, then again page 1, then again page 1)
I am merging labels from a List in Excel
Thanks!