Mac Forum / Applications / Word / August 2007

I am looking for prompts kind of like what you get when you work in excel.
When you leave an excel field you get a windows prompt. I know that widows
has the same view code tab on there sheets, but do not know how to make it
work as there is no cell references. This is a text ...

Hi All..
I need some help with my mail merge.
I am using Word 2002. I have no problem creating the mail merge but I need
to save the result as individual files using a column in the data source

I am having problems with printing. When I click on the print
shortcut, or go to File then Print, Word doesn't allow me to specify
the number of pages, copies, etc. It just goes straight to printing,
which makes it a hassle if I'm trying to print ten copies of a

I have a style that's set to "Keep with Next" on the Line and Page Breaks tab
of the Paragraph dialog box. But it isn't working and text in that style is
often separated from the next paragraph, which is a different style. By
separated, I mean that the next paragraph goes on the ...

Help! All of a sudden I'm getting an error response when I try to open
Word. The only thing I've downloaded since yesterday (the last time I
used the App) was Acrobat 8. What's going on?
Here's what it says:

Mac OSX 10.4.10  Office Word 11.3.5.
I use the document properties as inserted fields in many of the documents I
write.  For some perplexing reason the 'title' property field refuses to
hold the data I enter.  Well that is not quite true.  If I enter something

How do I insert date and time so that it is visible when a page is
printed?  I am creating multiple revisions of my thesis and need to
keep track.

When working on a document the cursor takes the "wristwatch" form, a
much harder shape to work with that the typical pointer. Why does this
happen, and how can I correct it? Thanks!

Somehow I created Word templates when I wanted a vanilla document. Whenever
I create a new document as a modification of this, I get another template
even though I select Word Document from the Options menu in the save window.
Microsoft Help is useless. Ot os even difficult to find ...

I am working with John McGhie's CreateATemplate manual.  Problem is the
border options spacing keep changing and cannot lock to the settings
recommended by John.
I also cannot figure out page 14 on the page format settings using the

I create a page 1 and page 2 template for my stationery.  It consists
of a Header and a footer and a watermark.
When I open it as a template I can edit the header and footer.  I
would like this not to edittable.

OS 10.4.10  
Ibook G4
1.5 GB Ram
Word 2004

If you insert those in a word document how do you put a X in the box to show
a to do is completed?

The national China Daily runs a Gay emancipation story on the FRONT page for
1,500,000,000 people to read :-)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-08/11/content_6022349.htm

In a MS Work 2003 document if I select a paragraph and modify
formatting (bold, italics, etc) then it is automatically applied to
every other similar paragraph in the document.  I think this is
applying the format to tha style but not sure.