Mac Forum / Applications / Word / January 2008

I sent Mac Word file to non Mac user. He can not open the file - gets message to save to disk....what do I need to do on my end so everyone can open the Mac Word docs i send?

I am currently running Tiger on a 2 GHZ Intel Duo iMac desktop machine new
in March 2006, and using the mac office 2004 11.3.8.
I opened a Word document created on my then-PC and transferred to the mac.
That 1998 document showed editorial changes in strikethrough, italics, and

This mat be "old hat" to some of you, but I can't find -- anywhere in
the help files for Word (Mac Office 2001) -- a solution for this.
I'm trying to take two separate Mac Word 2001 docs (that have all the
copy in text BOXES) and combine them into a single two-page document.

My version of Word 2004 for Mac (an upgrade from Word 98 Macintosh Edition)
is not updating, either through AutoUpdate or freestanding downloads (I am
running it on an G4 iBook under 10.4.11). I have run the Remove Office
programme, reinstalled the software and the updates still ...

I cannot see Language in the Tools menu.  Can anyone help?

im running xp professional and office2003  student and teacher edition, when
i recently went to spell check a doc - with lots of errors - spell checker
didnt pick up any of them, it occasionally says that the dictionary is in
welsh and sometime i get a message about proplus msi - ...

When I want to copy the entire thing from the web (I highlighted text including photos and graphics) then using copy and pasting it in WORD, only the texts are pasted but the photos and graphics are not. What setting should I change? Thank you!

When I 'save as' in Word, the list of 'recent places' isn't updating. How can I delete some of the places & add new ones?

OS 10.4.9
Ibook G4
1.5 GB Ram
I know this isn't exactly a word topic, but I believe it was here that

Hi, I'm having a trouble with MS Word for Mac: 2004. Every time I go to open a Read-only document, when I click "read-only" it only opens a blank document instead of the actual file. I know that the files are not corrupt because they will open on other computers. I am running Leopard

I have just noticed that I am unable to start Word 2004 from scratch
i.e. open word and then select a template. When I do so the application
crashes each time. Excel and Powerpoint are fine as is opening an
existing file and then creating a new file via File|New. It only

All of a sudden it is as if my keyboard has been turned off when attempting
to create a new document in Word. I have a fully licensed version and have
been using Word for quite some time before this problem occurred.
It's strange because I can use WordArt - yet when I try and type ...

From time to time, on opening a file or starting a new document, I'll
get a normal looking window with a small window embedded in the upper
left corner. The embedded window has scroll bars, but can't be re-
sized.

Word 2004 doesn't allow me to Add words to the custom dictionary. I opened custom dictionary, removed a word, and saved it to custom dictionary.txt. It is saved as Western Mac (Roman). The language preference under tools is English US (although some of my documents may be in English

According to Word Help, I should be able to superimpose two
characters, say O and -, by typing \o(O,-), but it doesn't happen. Can
someone help?