Mac Forum / Applications / Word / December 2006

If a misspelling in Word includes a comma or period (such as
"them.Recently"), when a space is added after the period the red line
remains under the first word (in this case "them"). Any suggestions
about how to correct this? Thanks very much.

In my document I have an image as my footer. Is there anyway to have
editable text that runs over this image??
PLEASE HELP!
many thanks!

I've set up autocorrects in Word that, for example, superscript the 2 in cm2
and ft2.  These work as formatted text, and the 2 is a true superscript.
Then I added autocorrects to Excel to print something similar, but since
Excel can't have formatted autocorrects, I used the small ...

In Word 2004, using Palatino, I am attempting to make 2-line drop caps
with the initial cap and the rest of the word in italics. I have done
this successfully for fiften years in Word 3.2, 4.0, 5.1, 6.0, and 98.
But is Word 2004, when I change the text to italics, a wide space opens

I have an hp deskjet 990cxi (comes with duplex unit as standard),
Office 2004 and OS 10.3.9  All updates installed (except for the very
recent office update which was pulled by MS), and HP driver 2.7.1
I have a doc which I want to print 2 sided that has a couple of

For about a month I have been using Office 2004 and three days ago Word
started freezing unexpectedly.  Sometimes I have to shut down the
computer (macbook pro about a six week old). No applications were
installed right before freezing started and I do downlownload some

Whilst I suspect the default response is "Its Microsoft what else do
you expect" I'm hoping someone has a workaround for this.
Over the weekend we upgraded the office of a client from Office X
running under OS X Server 10.4.8 (with 10.4.8 on all clients) to Office

When I copy text from an online document and paste it into a Word
document the font appears as Curlz, which is very difficult to read. Of
course I can select the text in the Word document and change the font
but that's an extra step that shouldn't be necessary. What's the

I have several zillion overstrike characters that generate accented
characters, left over in many many documents from the Old Days.
Word:Mac 2004 (version 11.2) thoughtfully updates these to EQ fields,
for example "{ EQ \o(c,^) }".

Is there any way to delete unused styles in a template in Word 2004 such as
Heading 1 and Heading 2 and other inbuilt styles which have the delete
button greyed out?
Thanks for any help

How do I stop the Normal template in Word (10.1.6 running on Mac OSX 10.2.8)
from creating a blank new document when I open Word w/o double clicking an
existing file?
Thanks!

I have now seen this problem at different clients:
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/CantSaveToServer.html
All with Mac OS X server 10.4.8 and Office 2004 (11.3),
and its easy to recall.

As of yesterday I notice that when I attach a word document and send it
via Webmail, the name of the document has slightly changed. For
example, the original document was named Madrid.doc. But when I sent
it, I looked in my sent box and opened up the attachment and it says

When I want to print a document from my finder, I ctrl-click to open up
the menu and then click on print. The only thing that happens is MS
Word opens to a blank page but the document I want printed does not
print. I have to open the document in word and then print. Is there a

I want to use dates as page numbers in Mac Word 2004.  I am trying to
build a "book" with one page for each day of the year and I need each
consecutive page to show its distinct consecutive date.
i.e., The first page in the document would be "Jan 1, 2007".  Page two