Mac Forum / Applications / Word / October 2007

My correspondent has a PC with a 2002 version of MS Office. She is
unable to open MS Word files I email from my Mac OS 10.4.10 and MS
Office X, with MS Word 10.1.7. I have no problem opening her Word
files. As a test, I did a Reply on one of her emails with a Word

If I open the Word Help window, I cannot thereafter move or close it.
It remains on top of my current document. The only way I can get rid
of it is to quit word and start over or close any open documents and
then use command W to finally close the help window. If there is a

I'm having dictionary and spell checking problems.
I have just gone Mac and bought Office:Mac 2004.
There seems to be nothing in my dictionaries. I've tried to change
dictionaries to the various Aus, UK, US English but I get no

My correspondent has a PC with a 2002 version of MS Office. She is
unable to open MS Word files I email from my Mac OS 10.4.10 and MS
Office X, with MS Word 10.1.7. I have no problem opening her Word
files. As a test, I did a Reply on one of her emails with a Word

I would like to know how to create a template that controls all the
files that are pasted into it.
I work on a journal that has between 6 - 8 articles in each issue. I
first make a Word file that contains the foreword and index, and, when

I've been testing this for the last few days...
When printing a document with 'Track Changes' turned on AND if there
are enough individual changes on one page to cause the separate side-
balloons to merge into one, if I try to print out this document I end

I have the Disk Full Error on a large report I have open currently.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q289545
After trawling through the MS help pages I have discovered that the
problem is known and the recommended work arounds are such helpful

I've installed office 2004 mac (standard edition w/ sp2) - first I
removed the office trial version on my computer.
The installation was successful [or so I thought] - now, when I select
a new blank document it opens w/ a picture of something that I had

Question:  is there any way to change the size or color or intensity of
the marks which indicate a comment has been attached at that point in
the document?
I'm using Word2004, and in Normal View (I hate balloons) all you can see

Yesterday I accidentally clicked on the toolbar X and deleted my
custumized toolbar.
I spent about 15 minutes today making one again (it didn't save my
original one) and then all of a sudden, THAT one disappeared and

When using Word, on a Mac, to fax (first asking to print,then
scrolling down to "fax pdf," then faxing straight from the computer
over a phone line, how does one know if the fax has actually gone out?
Is there a record of faxes sent this way, somewhere in any of theh

Has anyone seen a problem with the Track Changes feature of Word
whereby it spontaneously turns itself on in parts of a document even
though this feature was not enabled? Another user also tells me they
have had a problem where Track Changes reappears in documents

I typed a letter to a principal of an elementary school and was
informed there were question marks everywhere in doc.  It was sent as
an attachment.  This has happened may times before as recipients will
reply to an email and ask what's up with all of the question marks.

This error is causing a lot of problems.
This first showed up in our PDFs on the MAC.  The problem is that these pdfs
and the .doc files they were made from were done on a PC.
I have seen this on the net and most of the time this is a problem in PPT

When I try to print from Word, I get the message "The printer has not yet
responded but the program may be able to proceed without printer information
Do you want to continue to wait for the printer?" If I select yes it hangs,
No gives me a print screen without the default ...