Mac Forum / Applications / Word / October 2006

If the document is hidden behind the toolbar that's you have to do is
to pull the Microsoft Word preferences
1. Go to hard drive/users/home/library/preferences and look for
com.microsoft.word.plist and drag it to the trash , then look for the

I'm new to Word and Word for Mac. I notice when I create a document using a
template...then go to save the document, I also get a dialog box that asks
"Do you also want to save changes to the document template?" How can I turn
that off... It's too easy to hit YES and then my ...

hi everyone, I have word for mac 2004 and am working with a large
document, which has many bulleted sections. I just highlight the
sentences and click on the bullet point icon to create a bullet list. I
keep on working and everything looks fine, I save and close the

I received a 117KB Word document which was probably created
using a Windows version of Word but when I open it there
is no text or anything.
How do I correct this? Does it perhaps mean that I don't have

Is it possible to launch Word on a Mac, without it automatically
opening a blank document?

I want to put text at about a 30 degree angle on a flyer.
I created text (Papyrus-font) in a text box but the rotation button in the
Formatting Palette is always gray - thus useless.
What do I need to do different?

I switched to Mac recently and have been really happy...except that on
my PC when I was creating a report I could just find a picture I wanted
on the internet (i.e. through Google images) and cut and paste it into
the document.  That document could be emailed out, posted on a ...

List members,
  The standard commands for converting footnotes to endnotes seem not
to work since I updated to Version 11.3 of Word. Would appreciate any
thoughts; thanks in advance. I may just have to recreate the whole

Is there are a way of re-ordering the sections of a long document (the
manuscript of a book)?
I'm avoiding writing each chapter as a separate document and either
integrating them in a master document (because you MVP guys advise that

I thought at one time there was an plugin that played .pps on a mac if
you don't have PowerPoint.
Does anyone know if that is still available and send a link please?
I can't find it.

Someone sent me a document through email - I downloaded it - it was
named workstuff.doc  - This was normal but then I clicked on it,
holding down on the control key and got the More Info box.  Under the
section that said More Info - it said the title of the doc and the

I have an old iMac (G-3) running OS 10.2 and classic.  I purchased Word
98 Special Edition for iMac and it runs out of Classic.  I recently
bought a new ibook running OS 10.4 on the Intell chip set.  Of course
the old Word doesn't run so I purchased Word 2004 upgrade.  The

I have a template which I use often. I can insert today's date. However
is it possible to insert another date (e.g. tomorrow's) which will
update automatically whenever I open the document eg. If I open the
template today, the date up the top of the page will read tomorrow's

Since a recent udpate that Office prompted me to do, none of my Macros
work - they have all disappeared. And no new ones I record seem to work
either.
The Macro I am absolutely desperate to recreate is one that does a

I have a template which I use often. I can insert today's date. However
is it possible to insert another date (e.g. tomorrow's) which will
update automatically whenever I open the document eg. If I open the
template today, the date up the top of the page will read tomorrow's