Mac Forum / Applications / Word / October 2006

Okay, I'm new to the Mac and new to Office for the Mac. And, fairly new to
Word. What is NORMAL? The NORMAL template (template, right?) Seems to get
saved, or rather re-saved, every time I close Word.

My Word weirdness continues! I've just noticed that Print Preview
doesn't necessarily break pages the same as Page Layout view. On the
very first page of my document, an extra line appears on the page 1
that is on page 2 in Page Layout view. To further add to the weirdness,

I think I've posted on here before about this problem, a year or two
ago, which has started appearing again on my iMac: I create a document,
and line breaks and pagination are fine. I re-open the document a few
hours or days later, and the line and page breaks are different, when

So, I brought my dissertation into Word for Windows on Virtual PC
because I wanted to use the far superior PDFMaker in Windows to create
my final PDF (with TOC Bookmarks, which the Mac version doesn't do).
But even with having the same fonts in Virtual PC as in Windows, the

I want an IF function formula to return a calculation rather than a
text string in Word. Is this possible? If so, what's the format. For
example, IF a1 > 0, a2*e2, "".

I have to exchange documents with Word users on Windows XP. I am having a
problem where a graphic (company logo) appears as a black box on the Mac
using OS X Word. It appears fine on my Windows XP machine. It seems that my
Word preferences are set correctly. When I import the ...

Is it possible to import the preferences as well as the keyboard and
toolbar modifications from Office X to Office 2004?

HELP,
I just purchased my Mac Book about two weeks ago and I have been using
Office 04. The automatic spell check doesn't work.  I get no red
squiggly lines, but it will auto correct.  I have went to prefrences

How do I tell Word to display a number in a particular cell (the result
of a calculation) to two decimal places?

Every now and then when I click "Save As" in Word I don't see all m
directories/files.  Kind of a pain if its one of the directories I nee
to save my file under.  Does anyone know a solution to this?
Thanks in advanc

WIndows XP - Word 2000 - I set a custom size paper of 8.88 x 11.75, typed 7
letters of text, hit enter a few times, drew 1 oval with the oval drawing
tool, copied it, and pasted it 10 times for a total of 11 ovals . I thien
drew 2 lines on one of the ovals.   It shows exactly as ...

Whenever I click on a document to open it in Word 2004, I get an error
message thay says:
      There is not enough memory or disk space to run the converter
"Word 97-2004 import"

There is a handy page here
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/ExcludeWordFromDic.htm
that describes how to do this for various Windows Word versions, but the
file format and naming details are rather unclear for the newest versions of

I have word and excel for mac 2004 and I am new to mac, after having
used ms applications.  When I am trying to do form letters and I choose
a excel file as the data source, the option of only using the print
area is not available.  I only lets me choose the entire worksheet even

Help! I am trying to set up a data merge document in word. However,
though I click tools and data merge, the data merge manager does not
appear! I cannot get it back on screen and therefore cannot merge
documents. anyone know what has happened?