Mac Forum / Applications / Word / January 2008

I just recently upgraded to Office 2008 from Office 2004. When using Word prior to the upgrade I had selected the option of a blue background with white text. I found that this helped with reading ease and noticed that all text, paragraph markings, and cursors changed to white. Now

Hello all Running Leopard 10.5.1 on 2.2Ghz Macbook.
Recently installed a purchased Office 2008 Home / Student Edition. For some reason, all word documents, whether authored on other machines & word versions or new documents created by me, are printing blank. The correct number

I am running Word 20008 on Leopard.

The document is two columns, with sections running continuously. There is a way to make the section breaks clear by starting a new page. Is there a way to draw a line across both columns, in the middle of a page, so the section breaks are more

Probably an anal question, but I have no idea how to get the formatting palette features (font size, font, bold, italic, etc). on the top of my screen. I don't like them in that formatting palette window. I was able to do it with Office 2004, but I cannot figure it out on Office 2008.

FYI:  I just discovered that when I open a previously-created Word file for the first time in Word 2008, the "public.content" attribute is somehow removed.  When I search in Spotlight and filter for "content kind" = "document," these files no longer appear in the results, due to the

My problem is when I insert pictures into the body of an email...
the pictures are too large and I have not found a way to edit them.
Who knows how to do that?
I can select the picture but it doesn't have "handles" to pull to size it and I have not found a command on the toolbar

How do I create an automatic link to a web site when I email letters using Word to create the original document?

Does anyone know how I can change the default footnote font size? Perhaps I am doing this incorrectly, but I've tried changing the Normal.dotm template, and this had no effect.

I have a document that is auto line numbered and I have converted the numbers to text.  I can copy the converted text into another word document without any problems, but the minute that I copy it into a text box I have all the numbers removed and replaced with a combination of bullets

some folks with pc's are having trouble opening the 08 documents - do we need to convert it to old word somehow before sending as attachments?

Can anyone tell me what happened to the horizontal line which in 2004 used to separate the footnote section from the main body of text? Will this line (re)appear when the document is printed?

my mac defaults to textedit. how can i make it default to use word all the time?

thanks

I just upgraded my office 2004 to 08  and it upgraded fine Now tho when I open a new blank  doc it has this text on it  Owd    oedi    iw if I click on the word logo in the dock it opens this as well,   how can I clear this to open a new blank doc please ? is there a template somwhere that

One last effort before I go back to my previous version of office. I am having trouble printing docs with some of the new SmartArt graphics. My last post was when I had trouble printing after receiving a document to edit from a colleague.

I have now run into the same issues with

We have obviously been seeing the desire for the Office 2004 templates on
Mactopia, so we have now posted them on Mactopia. You can get them at:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/templates.mspx.
Thanks!