Mac Forum / Applications / Word / January 2007

Below is a note I sent to the microsoft.public.mac.office newsgroup arising
from my late discovery that VBA will not be available for Word 2008.
Hopefully Matt Newburg will be around to help us with AppleScript in Word
2008 (will you Matt?).

I'm working on a document that has a custom page size of 6.75 x 9.5 inches. When I make a pdf of the
file, it appears on a "standard" page size with the text at the top of the page, that is, there are
extra wide margins to the sides and bottom.
How do I get the pdf to play right ...

I use a bibliography refrences program called Endnote and it launches
automatically when I launch Word.  I have tried to stop this by looking
in the Startup folders, but there is not mention of it there.  I
suspect it might be in the registry.  Does anyone know how I might

Here's what happened. Despite some difficulties in Word 2004 finagling
a fairly complex page layout, including several photos, the thing came
out real nice. I saved the document, only a one page affair.
The next day was "cleanup" time. I opened a utility called Onyx which

Using Panther on PPc.
Imported a photo to a new Word document and wanted to move it from
where it arrived. Can't find how to do it, tried the Help menu but it
didn't help.

Whenever I right-click in a document, Word quits and I get the error
dialog saying that the application Word has unexpectedly quit. When I
click to see the error report I see the following:
Exception:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)

Thought everyone might be interested.
Noticed in running the installer that it wrote new versions of Office,
Word, PowerPoint, Entourage and a bunch of supporting files then the
little components that run by so fast you can't read the names.

My Microsoft Word program has all of a sudden reverted to an earlier
version and I can't find the right version.  The "about Word" gives the
same information as my laptop, which still has the more recent version.
They both say "Microsoft Word X for Mac".  But my desktop no longer

Word 2004
iBook G4
150 ram
Hi,

I've seen the answer to this here before. Someone please help...
When I change the formatting on a paragraph (to bold, center, etc...) the
change is applied to the entire document - until I hit Undo, which returns
the unselected paragraphs to their previous (and desired) formatting.

I am really new to Word and I need to convert Mac PDFs into Word.
Acrobat Pro 7
Word 12 (or 2004/X)
Is there a 3rd party piece of software that may do this well?

I am in Word 2004, version 11.3, system 10.4.8. I had a crash in Word when
trying to save a document to my external hard drive because I inadvertently
right clicked instead of left. Still learning to use this mighty mouse. When
I went to relaunch word I started getting all sort of ...

Every time I close Word 2004, I get the message:
Changes have been made that affect the global template, "Normal". Do you
want to save those changes? (Don't Save), (Cancel), (Save)
This message comes up whether or not I create a new doc. Always. But, I

I am running the latest update of Word 2004 on 10.4.8.
Evytime I highlight and copy a phrase in a document, brackets
appear around the highlighted portion. There is no way to
delete the brackets without deleteting the whole phrase. If

I am a graphic designer and this is an on going problem I have when
making electronic letterheads for clients. Generally I put the logo in
a header and explain to clients that is only faded on screen but will
print ok or they can make a PDF of the document to email to their