Mac Forum / Applications / Word / March 2008

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
New to the Mac world. Just installed Office:Mac home and student edition. the templates from the project gallery are not in english. The default language for this suite is english. Did I do something wrong at ...

I've got a Word document with some pie charts in it. The charts have
been done using Word's charting mini-application (not Excel). On my Mac
OS 9 computer they work fine, but once I try to modify them under Mac
OS X the last few letters on the labels all get chopped off - no matter

Since Word 2008 does not support recording macros in the way that has
be possible in previous versions (and is still possible in most
mainstream word processors), what do you do if you want to automate a
process and are not familiar with AppleScript?

Hello, I'm using Word 2008 on a MBP Santa Rosa 2,4 2 GB RAM.
I'm preparing a book based on my thesis which is very long (1000
pages). I'd like to do a fresh start (erase all index entries, styles)
and I've heard that Copy and Special Paste to Plain Text is the cure.

Running OS 10.4.8, Office 2004; all updated on a G4 powerbook....
When I try and open the visual basic editor, I get the error: "Could
not open macro storage"
I have found some suggestions on how to fix the problem in older

I've noticed that if I shut down the computer by pressing Control-
option-command keys and the eject key while on the internet AND Word
2004 is open, Word stops the shutdown process. I have to force quit it
in order to complete the shutdown process. If I manually quit word

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
When I create/add to a table of contents, the text is 'highlighted' in gray. I have fiddled with all the settings and cannot figure out how to make it white! Please help

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Photos placed in TABLES do not print in Word. Also, the photos do not show up in Preview or when printed to a PDF.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I have noticed that in Word for Mac, the built-in Cover Pages for Word documents are all in US Letter.

So far I'm happy with Word for Mac 08, but one thing that bothers me is the extra menu line that appears in print layout view with buttons for doc elements, quick tables, charts, graphics, word art. I don't use these features, and would like as much writing space as possible on the

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I'm repeatedly getting the following dialog box:

This is a variation on a question I asked before.
In almost every program I use the Home and End key takes youto the start
of the first page or the end of the last page.
In Word you have to use a modifier key. Is it possible to assign the

After I write more than one or two lines in World 2008, the cursor jumps up
or down to the line above or below. However, when I insert text, the point
of inserting remains the same (the current line). This is extremely
confusing. Has anyone else had this problem?  I can post a ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
I recently installed the latest Office 2004 update 11.4.1. The first time I tried to start Word and load a recent, small document I received the following error message:

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I accidentally created a template which is a sentence that appears every time I open a new document in word. How do I get rid of this template?