Mac Forum / Applications / Word / October 2006

Whenever I right-click I get a crash in word and any other office
application.
If I go into another users' account I can right click no problems, but
in my main account doing so causes the app to crash.

A year ago I upgraded my computer to both Tiger and MS Office 2004.  I
have a lot of Word documents that are from previous versions of Word
many of which are no longer opening.  The symbol on the file listing
has the typical W before the document name and the "info" says it's a

I represent our monthly newsprint arts/community paper as a member in a
new group of community organizations. After 2 meetings, I have the
strong feeling that I'll be using Word (instead of InDesign) to produce
ads, flyers, and other short documents for that group - because that's

The Office installed on my computer is in my national language - a bit
clumsy, but that's the way my employer wants it - so some of the terms in the
following are my own translation as I do not always remember the original
english terms. Therefore there might be errors, but I ...

Folks:
MacOS 10.4.7
Office 2004 fully updated
How do I get rid of the CY and CE fonts in my Word font menu?

I have been trying to index a document this weekend, but when I generate the
index entries that I've entered in precisely the same way are listed uder
separate headings.  So I end up with something like this
Platonic

I would like to set up a purchase order template. As I can purchase
only from 13 companies, I would like to set up drop down menu with the
company name, but then as soon as i choose it I would like to get also
the name of contact person, address, fax and telephone number and so

Anyone know of of a Word/Mac template or wizard for creating a pleading
paper, as in a court filing with numbered lines???

What's happening is that a class will come in and use MS Word ona lab
of Mac Mini's OS X 10.4.7 and all goes well.  When they close, they
tell the program that they do not want to save the document and then
close out.  When they log in and run Word the next time though, it asks

Does anyone know how to turn off Japanese on my Word menus? My son was
taking Japanese and added Japanese to his Word Menus and now we have
some menus in English and some in Japanese. The worst is dialog boxes
and windows are in Japanese and I cannot seem to turn them off. HELP!!!

Does anyone use or recommend a dictionary program to import into Word
2004 (for Mac)?  I wonder if there are better, more inclusive
diciontaries than the one that Word comes with, and if they could be
imported in and used.  Thanks!

My new Macbook Pro won't open a MS "New Word 6.0" document. Does anyone
know why?? I installed the Mac version of MS Office Aug 8 and Word
documents worked OK until now. thanks. JDM

This has been appearing in several posts recently.  We've had this
problem on our intel iMac and MacBook Pro computers.  Have done fairly
extensive screening tests.  This is what we have found so far.
1) OS X 10.4.6 + Office 2004 11.2.3 + Adobe OpenType fonts on PPC macs

Looking for information on easy to use address book software for home
and home office.
My wife and I have been using Filemaker Pro for this but mainly because
I had used Filemaker Pro for other work projects. That is no longer the

Hi, I've recently moved to Word for Mac from Lotus WordPro for Windows
(yeah, from 1996, been working great). I need to rotate text in a text box
for my letterhead, which is along the left side of my stationery page. I
can't seem to rotate either the text in a text box or the text ...