Mac Forum / Applications / Word / March 2008

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC
In the middle of a word processing document there have appeared, at several places, a horizontal row of black dots, in boldface, across the page. I can't figure out what I did to bring this about, or how to ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Office Mac 2008

Hi at all!
Having upgraded to Office 2008 (and Word 2008 in particular), I have to say that I'm truly disappointed.
The overall performance is catastrophic, it takes up to 40 seconds to launch and when scrolling through large documents, it just doesn't fell as fluent as the ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
When I try to open a file using Open... from the File menu, I get an infinitely wide blank window that locks up Word. Last night I upgraded from Word 2004 to Word 2008 and was disappointed to see that I still ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I have a long Word file. When I try to print it out it is shrunk to about 1/2 of the page. I have tried things like checking "Fit to page" and unchecking "downsize only" but nothing works. Sometimes the first ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC
Hi:

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC
When "Show Paragraphs" is enabled, a small black dot appears in the left margin of some of my paragraphs. These paragraphs have a style assigned to them, which I think accounts for the dot. But not all styled ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
I cannot find the header and footer toolbar under the View menu as mentioned under Help. Is it available somewhere else? I am using Word 2004 for Mac.

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC
When printing a Word (2004 )document, my HP Laserjet 1200 prints the page with spaces within words and inconsistent spacing throughout the document. The document appears fine on screen and the same document ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
In Word 2004, there was a simple way to draw flow charts: just arrange the words on the page, then draw transparent rectangles around those words to create boxes, then draw arrows between the boxes. It wasn't a ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
I have a word document that I inserted several section breaks into, but I can't figure out how to delete them. Any suggestions? Thanks.

does anyone know how I delete the audio in a notebook document?
TIA
-thomas

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
Processor: Power PC
What program do we use to zip or compress a file? I have to send a zipped file to my teacher and have never used this on my Mac before. People use WinZip on a PC.

I was working with the audio notes feature of the notebook layout view in
Word and I accidently clicked "undock toolbar" or whatever it is on the
audio toolbar and now I can't re-dock it. How do you do this? Thanks, John

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I have the paragraph markers displayed in the Word document but it is not showing the anchors for graphics. I need to move the anchor so I can delete the paragraph without deleting the graphic but I can't see ...