Mac Forum / Applications / Word / May 2007

Gang,
I'm having a strange problem with a Word doc (I'm using v 11.3.5....but
I had the same problem in 11.3.0 before I updated).
When I first open the doc, everything seems to work fine.  After a

I can't find any help information in the software for changing the
cursor.  I need something besides the thin bar (I often use a laptop
in bright areas, and can't see it in a page of text).  How do I do
that?

I have some mac Word files sitting on a Win2000 server. I can open
them in Mac Word 2004 on an OS X machine and when I try to Save, I get
the Save As menu. I can overwrite the file and save them but am
immediately prompted to Save As again, I eventually have to cancel the

Whenever I use Save As in Word, there seems to be no way to save to a
subfolder.  I can save to documents, or the desktop etc, but there is
no arrow with subfolders within those locations, even though such
subfolders do exist.  Any ideas?

am a new mac user; have tried eight times now to number four sentences in a
word document.  Have used the drop down list and the format pallet several
times each.  In all instances word quits and offers to send a report to apple.
Anyone else experience this problem?  Have numbered ...

Word 2004
OS X
Entourage  v.11.3.2
I would like to have the option of seeing all my posts with their replies at

Using word for Mac 2004 on a MacBook Pro that is completely updated.
Today, for reasons I have not yet been able to figure out, when I try to
save, Word says it is contacting printer, I get the Beach Ball and it
stops responding until I force quit. Happens with save, with save as ...

I have Microsoft Office 2004 for MAC. I am trying to design some
business cards. 1. How come I don't have the option of designing them
from scratch and not use a template? 2. Now that I used the template
to design one card, how do I get the other cards to match? For example

In my 32 page document, the watermark shows up on on pages 12 - 32
even after I disconnected it.  The first 11 - 12 pages are fine, I was
able to disconnect the mark.  I have tried cutting and pasting these
pages into a new word doc but the watermark follows me everywhere.

I keep removeing the Adobe PDF tool bar from Word using cusomize tool
bars. But then continure to return upon the next start of word. What
am I doing wrong?
Rachael Jellicoe

I'm having some problems with Keyboard Viewer in word; whenever I
change my input language, the keyboard viewer only shows English.  I
can still type in the language, but the keys don't show up on the
keyboard viewer.  I've tried a couple of different languages and get

After upgrading my Mac to OS X 10.4.9, Microsoft Word 2004 will not
print any docs. I can print from other programs without a problem. I
get the following error message: "WORD cannot print due to a problem
with the current printer. Make sure you have a printer selected in the

Looking for some help.
Lately when I press a delete key or apple key plus something, the document I
am working in disappears.  To get it back I have to click on any other word
document open and then go to the Window menu and select the missing file and

I'm either in over my head or I'm triying to accomplish the
impossible. I want to merge partial fields from an Excel list into
Word table cells. The standard direction of the record placement seems
to be horizontally (within row cells and across columns.) I want the

Hello to all
Is it possible to alter the Mac Office shortcuts (like F4=$ in excel)
so that they are identical to the ones of the MS Office Version? If
yes, how do you do it?