Mac Forum / Applications / Word / January 2008

Is there anyway to install an english canada spell checker?

Hi, For some unknown reason Word 2008 will not display, or acknowledge that the Calibri & Cambria font exists, it's in my Font Book, and it's active but it will not display the font in documents, forcing the font to substitute. Any suggestions? Thanks Craig

can you digitally sign a word document, making it "read only", as you can in MS Word 2007

How do I upgrade the Unicode in Windows XP?  I want to use a unicode that was
included AFTER the Unicode 2.whatever was included in Windows XP.  How can I
make that work in Word and Excel?
The code I want to use begins with 1040_ .  I know that I am supposed to

I have a new imac with office 2004 and have been told PC users should have no difficulty opening Word docs I send as attachements, but so far none have been successful. When the doc gets to the PC it appeears as a .dat file.  I'm using the mac Mail email program.   Is this a settings

I left-click on the .doc file and click on "Open with"... i search
WINWORD.EXE in the programs, and i select it as default... but nothing
changes... when i double click on a file nothing happens... I tried to make
the "microsoft office diagnostic" but it says that's all ok...

Hi, I'm on MS Office 2004 for Mac and I'm on Word trying to align a picture
in a CD Label template.
This template was made for Word (from www.PolylineCorp.com) but it may have
been meant for Word in Windows. I'm not sure on that.  It comes very close to

Although the mail sounds in Entourage are still working in 2004, sounds do not work in 2008. In preferences, no options available for other than default set, which evidently has no sounds since none is heard when clicking on speaker icon.  Help, please.

I am facing the following situation , when after having complete my job, print , close  the document , I quit Word.  Instead of closing the application the "Microsoft Error Reporting" shows up with the message that "... Word encountered a problem..." ?
Very strange I was trying

I help out a professional editor who exchanges files with PC Office
2007 users/students, including a few "unaware of save-as" novices. The
translation almost always becomes the editor's responsibility.
As an editor, will there be any problems with converting docx files to

I've tried all the stuff I've read in help files and online to turn off
autoformatting, but it hasn't solved this  problem. (Using Word 2004, v.
11.3.8)
I have a recipe:

I am editing a Word file created in a windows environment (osx extension) on my Mac.  If I try to print or save as a pdf Word crashes.  I have traced the problem to pages containing Autoshapes.  As this is not my document I prefer not to remove all of these objects.  Has anyone seen

I'm looking for a simple line drawing (black lines on a white background) of
the United States that is downloadable, free, and is editable using the
drawing toolbar in Microsoft Word. I want to be able to select individual
states and fill them with colors of my choice.

Hi, Forum users!   This dilemma drives me crazy.  I most often only want to print the first page ONLY of a Word document. I want to be able to configure a single button or key command to let me do this, as opposed to going into "file > print" and setting that option.  Is there

I never could figure this out in Office 2004 and had hoped that the upgrade to Office 2008 would do the trick.....but it doesn't.  Can anyone tell me how to delete entire documents in Word?  I've used the Help function, but it gets really technical (like, what's a macro?) really quickly.