Mac Forum / Applications / Word / April 2007

I've created a template lesson plan form in MS Word--it contains various
form fields, check boxes, etc.
My problem is that if I've typed into a text field, in order to delete or
edit my typing, I can only backspace and delete ONE LETTER AT A TIME!

Hello again,
Another recent discovery. I have a one page document which has several
photos at the top with text below. It has been saved as a Word 2004
document ("title ....doc").

Word X no longer recognizes most of my addresses in my address book.
when I go to the window and type in a name, most of the time it does
not recognize it. I then have to open the address book from the tools
menu and insert the name.  I am running Mac OS 10.3.9 and this is a

I cannot seem to get my printer to print the entire footer.  The
bottom half of the text is missing.
Is this a printer issue or a word issue?

I have no problem wrapping text around graphics when I enter text into
Word.  What I cannot figure out however is when i use text boxes and
try to wrap text it doesn't work.  Can this be done in Word?

Hiya.  I am newly returned to the Apple fold after too many years as a
Windows user.  I am learning my way through MacWord but have come up
against a few problems.   I am having the absolute devil of a time
keeping customized toolbars for my MacWord from just disappearing.  I

JE McGimpsey wrote, in a thread entitled "Confusion on Templates" a day
or so ago, about using an 'Automator Action' to delete the template
Normal at Word startup.
I have been looking at Automator actions for Word but cannot, at

In Word for Windows, Word always recognizes the language in which the text
is written. (I mostly write in Dutch or English, but sometimes also in other
languages, such as German, French or Italian.) But when using another
language, I have to change the language setting manually.

I've done something, can't remember what. In the past when I've taken
a screen shot and dragged it into a blank Word 2004 page, it has
appeared normally, ready to print.
Lately, though, dragging leads to a quarter inch or so of the right

Since the new office 2007 uses open xml formating they have sent
updates to 2003 users and a compatibility pack, has anyone seen this
for users of Mac office?

This may be slightly off-topic, but is there anyway I can preserve
italics when copying text from a webpage to Word 2004? I'm currently
just selecting text from the web page, copying, then pasting the text
into a Word document.  However, all italics get lost and it's driving

Hi, I'm merging a document created with Word X on my other Mac running
WIndows 2004. The merge seems to run fine using a tab-delimited text
file generated from an iData source file. Whenever I merge the form
letter with the data source, I receive the following error message:

Microsoft are deafening us with silence over whether Word 2008 will
[finally] do right-to-left text entry as needed for example by Arabic and
Hebrew languages.
Does anyone here know the answer?

I'd like to be able to select several lines of text and place a
vertical line in the left margin to highlight them as one often
does with a colored pen when editing.
I'm translating a document which has this highlighting in the

Hello;
Here's the scenario. I create an image in Photoshop at 360 ppi. When I
place it into MSWord, it resamples to 300 ppi.I provide the MSWord doc
to a client to use on her WinOS machine. When she inputs the text and