Mac Forum / Applications / Word / January 2008

Is there a way to auto-arrange documents side-by-side?  Arrange All from the Window menu lays the docs top over bottom, but I want side-by-side. Thanks for your help.

What are Microsoft Shift Asserts? Since installing Office 2008 I get
these each time I quit - to a variety of servers usually
sqm.microsoft.com but I have seen others via Little Snitch.
Couldn't see references to these when I had a quick search on Google.

New to the whole template thing, I tried to create a template with my
preferred styles, headings, index, font, font size,... Works just
fine... if
I start a brand new document.

Hello. I'm having an issue getting the dictionary right. This may be how it is supposed to work; if so let me know. I have three main questions at the end. I have the custom dictionary set as English (UK) in preferences, however words like 'organisation' as marked as incorrect. Also

I'm getting this error message when I try to open Word documents, when certain email messages try to load, and I'll probably get it for other functions as well. I have over 20 gigs of free hard drive space, and 2gb of RAM. Any ideas?

I have been trying a conversion of a large document from doc format to
docx in word 2008. The document is around 590 pages and about 18MB in
size and each time I try to save it I get a file error message shown
below.

I'm running OS 10.4.11 on a G5 DP 2.0 Mac.
I installed Office 2008 (home & student ed) this morning, and wanted to
try it out. When the Installer prompted me to remove older versions of
Office, I did NOT accept that. The installer has the boxes to select

I just received notice that my purchase of Office2008 has just been
shipped. I opted for the free shipping so it will get here by slow boat
from ...., any day now.
Wish me luck.

Word 2004 had a feature that allowed text of different size to be increased/decreased as a group- but the ratio of the different text sizes remained similar... that was a great feature! Is there a formatting palette in Word 2008 that includes this feature? In Word 2008, it seems that

I am taking a Word 2003 doc - opening it in Mac Office 2008 and then trying to save that file.   I am getting:   The save failed due to out of memory or disk space.  The file is about 200 pages long, has lots of embedded visio drawings, and is 12MB in size.   My system has 4 Gig or

When I launch Word it automatically comes up with a blank document.  How do I change this template to automatically come up with our headed logo instead of a blank sheet?

Powerpoint, Excel, and Entourage all seem to launch on my iMac G5 running 10.5.1.  Word is stuck in a continuing cycle of launching, crashing, and then error sending.  I had previously been running Office X and deleted it as part of the installation process. Below is what I see on

In Word 2004 the running word count disappears once you pass 100,000 words. So if you're a novelist this is pretty annoying. I can't believe that, after four years of work and going Intel native, the same thing happens in Word 2008. Is there really no fix for this annoying omission

Hope someone can help.  I was emailed a word document from a PC
running Microsoft Vista.  I then used this document to type in extra
notes.  After about 60 pages the document would just close after I got
to page 19.  Since then every time I start a new word document the

OS 10.4.11
Ibook G4
1.5 GB Ram
Entourage 11.3.2