Mac Forum / Applications / Word / May 2007

We recently purchased Word 2007 for two different computers (with both copies
being valid!).  Word 2003 is running on a third.  The OS is XP, SP2 on all
three machines.  At first the Word 2007 Compatability Mode seemed to work
well in opening, working with, and saving Word 2003 ( ...

Found this in the PPt group, thought it would be addressed more
appropriately here:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brilliant Pebble" <fake@nospam.net>

I'd like to insert a macrobutton field into a word document using only
AppleScript... no VBA.  Is it possible?
Thanks
-doug

I am working on MS Word 2004 on my Swedish friend's Mac. As I don't
speak Swedish, I am having a lot of trouble navigating around the
program. I would like to know if it is possible to change the language
of the overall MS Word program to English from Swedish. I may be

Hi, hope someone can help me. I am using windows XP home as my OS with Word
2002. For some reasons now since I upgraded to word 2002 I cannot save .doc
word documents onto my D drive which is my CD Rom drive. It is a CD RW drive.
The computer tells me "the paramater is ...

Hi, hope someone can help me. I am using windows XP home as my OS with Word
2002. For some reasons now since I upgraded to word 2002 I cannot save .doc
word documents onto my D drive which is my CD Rom drive. It is a CD RW drive.
The computer tells me "the paramater is ...

Hi can some help me please!
I am writing my PhD thesis- I orignally made my figures in Microsoft
powerpoint and pasted them as a picture into Word which automatically
scales them.  Everything was great until I bought a new mac book,

I wrote a macro in Word 2000 template and add it to the menu bar for users.
It works find if I set the security setting to "Low". But I don't want to
set the Security to "Low", then I got message "Macro cannot be found or Macro
has been disabled because of your security setting" ...

I'm trying to do some writing for a class project. I can't figure out how to
center only one line of text. Like for titles. This is in a screenplay
format.  So, speakers should be centered. But, when I highlight the name and
hit Cmd E, Word centers all text. Why would it do that? ...

Hi, I'm trying to write a short story. Whenever I type the name Robert and
hit enter, the name Robert Gibson shows up instead. I do have a Robert
Gibson in Entourage as a friend. But, why they heck does Word fill in his
name? And, how do I stop it?

I'm considering purchasing a Macbook to be my primary College PC but
I'm concerned with how compatible Mac Office 2004 is with the new MS
Office 2007.   What should I be concerned about.......

I'm just familiarizing myself with Word for Mac and can't figure out
how to do miniscule sizing changes to a text box or other graphic box.
On a PC, I would click on the box, hold Control down and then could
use the arrow keys to move boxes tiny amounts and line things up

Hi, I would like to purchase Word 2004 separate from the Microsoft
Office package, since I have no need of the other programs and  cannot
pay the high fee for all of them. However, your website doesn't offer
an easy way to make this purchase (which it really should). How can I

Folks,
I'm unable to open .docx files sent to me by students even after I've
downloaded the new Beta patch, the XML converter, which purports to
save .docx files in a .rtf format.

Are there any plans to make Latvian language proofing tools available
for Word for Mac users?
Katie