Mac Forum / Applications / Word / March 2007

I am running word 2004 for mac and I am trying to print out a document with
a background picture but when I go into the print preview the background
disappears and its just a white background. What am I to do?
       Howie Levine

At one point, my ability to hit tab and shift-tab to indent a bulleted/
numbered list just stopped working on me.  I'm unable to find a
solution in Word's help or on Google.  Does anyone know who to
reactivate this feature?  It's driving me nuts that I have to hit the

I want to set up a Word document that can be sent as an email - saving it as
HTML looks the best option, I can then copy and paste into a new email.
It looks okay when I test it, but will I have problems with firewalls if I
add graphics?

I am using word 2004 for Mac and running Tiger, I cannot seem to print a
document with a background. I look at my document, everything normal,
background intact, I then hit print and I see a preview and the background
is just plain white. How do I print with a background?

I am using word 2004 for Mac and running Tiger, I cannot seem to print a
document with a background. When I look at my document, everything normal,
background intact, I then hit print and I see a preview and the background
is just plain white. How do I print with a background?

I have a iMac running Office 2004, the comptuer is connected to a
company domain, when I try to use the "Flag" button to flag to edit at
a later date, I get the message "The server may not exist or it is not
operational at this time. Check the server name or IP address and try

I'm trying to make labels in Word using my Excel spreadsheet, but
every time I get to the "Get Data"\"Open Data Source" & select my file
-- a basic .xls file -- I get a "Convert File" window.  None of the
choices (the usual text only, MS-DOS text, RTF, HTML, or unicode text

I have both a PowerPC-based Mac and an Intel based Mac.  Both have
Office 2004.  On the Intel based Mac, I have been unable to designate
in the envelope section of Word the placement of a delivery point
barcode.  the check off box is unavailable.  I have updated as

The auto complete function in Word is two days off.  When I begin to type a
date, it offers to autocomplete with a date two days old (Mar 5 instead of
Mar 7).  However, dates are showing correctly in other Office programs.  How
do I get Word to enter the correct date?

Could anyone help me out with some advice on whether this is possible.
We are graphic designers and keep getting client who want their
letterheads available as Word Docs that they can type in to and email.
Our current solution is as follows...

I cannot save or re-save files housed on our microsoft exchange server
(2003).  I am using OSX (version 10.4.8) and when I open a document
from our server and make changes, I get the following message:  "The
disk is fill. Free some space on this drive, or save the document on

I never put my page numbers at the bottom of a page.  So when I go to
"Insert page numbers" and it comes up automatically with bottom-of-
page as the default choice, I have to then change it to top of page.
Is there a way to set the default so the first option that comes up is

  I am a new switcher to the Mac platform and am trying to migrate my
PC stuff to the Mac. Can anyone here please point me to a resource on
how i can migrate my Office 2003 settings to my Mac? In particular I
would like to migrate my custom dictionary and autocorrect entries to

Cannot copy/past from IE6 to Word 2003. PC freeze and force to close word
file.  Tried to copy/past from FireFox to Word, and no problem at all.  I
prefer to use IE as default browser. Please give me advise.

I have turned off everything I could find related to autoupdating styles
(incl. Normal), AutoCorrect, and still I'm having to use "undo" (the Apple-z
keystroke) after every formatting change I make.  It's driving me crazy.
What am I missing?  Thanks, qb