Mac Forum / Applications / Word / March 2008

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
We recently purchased Microsoft Word for Mac 2008 and have yet to install it. I use a laptop as my primary computer. I need to install Word on my laptop, but I would also like to install it on my desktop, which ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
When I open word, a receipe that i downloaded comes up and I am not able to get rid of it. I can not find the receipe anywhere in my computer, so I can delete nor can I open a new document. Each time I try to ...

I have Office 2008 now, but I had the same problem with 04 before I
updated: Whenever I start a new blank document, it defaults to
Notebook Layout View when I almost always want to use Print Layout
View. This isn't a deal breaker necessarily, but It can be annoying.

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Hi,
I accidentally clicked to touched or --- a butterfly flew by--and suddenly a Word Notebook (which I love, by the way) document became filled with tons of what I call markup---standard proofreading stuff, not html.

Hi: i have received several attachments written in Hebrew in Word. I have Office 2008. When I open the attachments I see the text in "symbols". How can I read it properly?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
The tab and delete buttons will properly set the left indent in NOTEBOOK LAYOUT view so that the bullets and numbering are promoted or demoted using those buttons, but it will NOT do this in PRINT LAYOUT view. ...

I am an author using a 24" iMac. I have two or three Word documents
open at the same time: novel on the right, cast on the left, chapter
list in the middle. In Word (Office Mac 2004) this was no problem.
Where ever each window was when it was saved last, that is where it

Someone has sent me a doc containing a Table containing text. I want to
get rid of the table, and retain the text. There has tobe a simple way,
but it's eluding me!

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
Previously, in MS Word 2004 I was able to highlight an address, then, in the Tools menu, I could choose Envelopes and an envelope-like template would appear with the address in the correct place. This afternoon, ...

Word is glacially slow when scrolling document pages that contain embedded
images. I had hoped this would be rectified in Office 2008, but it still
remains poor on my MacBook Pro. There used to be a way to select a view
("normal" I believe) that would only show the text and allow ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I just upgraded to Office 2008, and unfortunately found out that a program that I use to write research papers (EndNote) isn't ready for Word 2008 yet. Thus, I need to be using Word 2004. Is it possible to keep ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
If I go to select File/Open Recent in Word 2008 I get a spinning beachball for ages. Eventually the list of recent files does come up, but it takes forever. After this has happened, Word seems generally slower ...

In Word 2003 for Windows it is possible to show the structure of the
document on the left side. I don't know the correct Name in English. In
geman it  is called "Dokumentenstrucktur" an it shows the Headlines of the
document. On Word2004 I can't find this function.There is ...

For instance, you type a letter and then you decide to come back and
change one word - mac changes the input language. Or you press enter
and start from the next line - it changes again the language. It is
weird.

Word 2008, and the rest of Office 2008 is reviewed in the April edition
of Macworld. A mixed review at best. Not very enthusiastic, but gives a
certain amountof credit where it's due.