Mac Forum / Applications / Word / March 2008

I am experiencing 2 font related problems.  When I go to preferences
and select show font in actual style, nothing happens, The list is just
plain type.
Also Wen I go to change fonts such as Times new Roman I get American

Using Word 2008, and trying to open word files sent to me as attachments. They open in a tiny window with only a small portion of the page visible. When i try to expand the window by using the resizing corner tool, it doesn't respond.

How can i get the whole page visible?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Anyone understand why some fonts don't show up on the font menus? I have a font (Berkeley) that I use often, but it is nowhere to be found on either the font menu in the menu bar or the font menu that pops down ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC
I am trying to merge data from a Filemaker Pro file into a document. However, when I try to Get Data, the file is not active; therefore, I cannot open the file and merge the data. I am using Filemaker Pro 7.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Unable to get grammar settings to be saved, go into Preferences, then Spelling/Grammar, and then choose Settings under Grammar. Choose any of them (e.g. double space between sentences or Capitalization), close ...

Hi,

I started to write a letter in Word and after typing the string "0165XSF", which is a reference number in my text) and hitting "enter", I get the message "This command is not available in this version of Microsoft Word."

I was not aware, that I was applying some command,

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
I've customised the standard toolbar to include the track changes commands that I want quick access to, include turn on/off track changes. When I turn on Track Changes the Markup toolbar automatically appears. I ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
I am trying to make a photo in a newsletter in publishing layout view become a 'placeholder' for future photos. However, the 'Help' says after double clicking the photo to then click on LAYOUT. Can someone please ...

I had an artist-designed letterhead on Word 2007 or 2003 (a recent
version of Word).  Word 2008 stretches the page out to legal size.  I
can return it to letter size but Word 2008 refuses to move the footer
to that size.  Instead, when I print I get a message that says "a

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Word 2008, unlike 2004, does something very odd with numbers, specifically numbers that I've typed as times.

Word 2007 for Windows has an option to publish to a blog so that Word can be used as the main text writer. How is this done in Word 2008?
Barrie

As a student who writes a lot of equations, this is a very annoying issue for me. I don't know if there is something I need to do to fix it, but I am confused.
When I insert an equation via equation editor, it looks fine. However, if I save my document and re-open it, all my ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I'm a former user of an earlier Word version. In the older version, v.X, I was able to double click a word to highlight it. That doesn't seem to work in 2008. Am I missing something?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Since upgrading my Word to 2008 none of my clients can open the word documents I send because they have older versions of Word. One client attempted to download a converter to see if that would work but it did not. Anybody ...

Hello, I was hoping that someone out there might be able to help me.  I was
recently given an old computer by a friend of mine that uses Word 2000.  When
I recently tried to install it, I was unable to as my friend doesn't have
this 25 character CD key that I would need in order ...