Mac Forum / Applications / Word / January 2008

am new to a mac so i don't know if the trouble i am having is because of the difference between word for mac or because the function is changed in word 2008.  to move a text box in the old word programs, i clicked and dragged.  the text came with the shape and the shape stayed where

I am creating a catalog using Word's mail merge. Source document is a tab delimited file (using Mac's Text Edit). The Source document includes a header at the top. It seems that when merging, Word doesn't recognize the carriage return between the header and the first record. Since

Hi.  I recently moved to France and purchased a copy of Office 2008 in France as I will not be returning to the US anytime soon.  I do not however read French very well, therefore, I would like to change all the menus to English from French.  How do you do this?  The rest of the languages

Hi, I upgraded from Office 2004 to 2008 and after doing so the title of the formatting palette in Word 2008 appears in Japanese rather than English.  As far as I can tell this is the only title/palette/window where this happens. I live in Tokyo and speak and write in Japanese using

How can I prevent pictures and text boxes from moving in a table cell during
printing?  The
pictures are placed in layout view where they should be, preview is cheched,
everything looks good, but

I can no longer create new or change existing word document. It's as though my keyboard does not work. I can use WordArt, but no other functions within Word itself. I running a G4 using OX 10.4.11. I have repaired all permissions, no change. I deleted Office and reinstalled using

Spaces is virtually unusable with Office 2008. Docxs snap back instead of staying in assigned Spaces. Notebook views are a particular problem.   A serious disappointment...

I just got Office 2008 Academic Version but it doesn't seem to have resume templates. Where can I get them?

Will I be able to use Office Mac 2004 on Windows hard drive?

Hey everyone, I was hoping someone could help me with a Word macro.
Basically, I want to select an area of text, and convert every
character that is NOT Heading 3 style to a different style.  I get the
feeling this is not very complicated but I don't really know where to

...and neither am I!  I installed Office 2008 for Mac last Friday. None of my clients can open documents created in Word 2008 with the .docx suffix. Re-saving the documents to 2004/2007 (eg the .doc suffix) makes absolutely no difference. I am having to send out PDFs while I fix this.

The document elements bar is very erratic. Sometimes it appears in draft view, sometimes it doesn't. It always appears in print layout view, but sometimes in print layout view it's accompanied by all the stuff underneath (the big fat bar underneath). I want to be able to get rid of

I'd like to automatically convert auto list numbers and auto list
bullets to hard type. I.e., 1,2,3 in auto list numbers become actually
typed 1,2,3 and the auto generated bullets become a hard typed bullet.
I found in this list how to use the VB

This warning message pops up each time I open a word doc with a normal amount of graphics. I had been working on this document without any trouble in Word 04, but since I've installed 08, I am not able to see any visuals. I'm working on a new MacBook with barely anything on the disk,

Does Word have full mail merge (e.g., take address data from an Excel spreadsheet when printing address labels) in the Home & Student edition or is this available only in the more expensive editions?