Mac Forum / Applications / Word / January 2008

I am working with Microsoft Office 2004 on an iMac. I opened a new
document in Word and started typing. As I am using documentation
(academic writing) I inserted endnotes by using the Insert Footnote
command (changed to endnotes because I previously had problems on my

In Word 2008, when using the calendar template, are the dates in the boxes supposed to auto-update when you type in the month and the year above, because it's not doing it for me and is driving me crazy trying to figure out how to make it.

Thanks

Just installed Office 2008 and all the programs will open just fine except for Word.  The start screen with the product key comes up then I get an error message (below).  I tried re-installing but it didn't help, what do I do?
Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0 Error Signature:

I've installed Office 2008 standard edition a few days back and I noticed
there were no Word templates at all, not even a folder with some defaults.
The CD was useless as well since there are no templates there either (or I'm
missing something when looking). To my surprise there's ...

In Word 2008, if I go to the scripts menu and click on one of the
sample automator workflows, nothing happens. Except from then on
everything in the scrips menu is greyed out and can't be chosen again.
If I quit Word the options in the scripts menu appear again but

Whenever I enable ligatures in a document to take advantage of an opentype font featuring them, the kerning for that font seems to disappear from the document, and everything printed from it.

This happens even when ligatures are enabled in a font which doesn't support them; the

Hello, I have a Windows True Type font (Palatino Linotype, purchased
directly from Linotype) that I use in Word. It is the same as the one
that comes with Word, but I bought it to be able to use it in other
programs. I just installed Leopard and now this font is not working

In Office 2008, when I have a document open in Word and then click elsewhere, say on the desktop, to do something else, when I want to get back into the Word doc, I can only activate it by clicking ON THE TITLE BAR. Clicking elsewhere in the doc, as usual in other programs and indeed

If I am in Word and try to open a file my computer goes into a loop and when it returns minutes later what I get is the screen to choose a saved file that seems to go on forever laterally and since the program is unresponsive I can't open stored files! The way I get around it is by

I want to edit an email that has numerous soft paragraph marks  (left
pointing arrow   Keyboard action: shift return)
What do I insert in the find field?

Does anyone else have this problem? In Word 2004, in the Table menu, there was an Insert command to add Rows or Columns to a Table. I no longer see this Insert command in Word 2008. Thanks.

Can you help?

I am having problems trying to print any existing docs (created from WORD
2003, 2007 and WinXP) into MAC WORD 2008. I am able see the text during edit
mode. However, when I use Print Preview, it is showing me as blank. The same
effect when I print the document directly.

Help!  For some reason, the colors (text and table backgrounds) in Word 2003 document are coming out much different when sent to the printer from a PC (versus a Mac).  I am not sure where to turn!  Just a little background:  we added a new Xerox Phaser 6180 color laser printer to

Is it possible to apply a XML schema to a Word document using Word 2008 for Mac?  In the way it can be done using the Tools>Templates and Addins option in Word for Windows? If not does anyone have any ideas on what Mac apps I can use to add a schema to a .doc or .docx file? Thank