Mac Forum / Applications / Word / March 2008

Is there a way to get the Font menu to be organized by font families?
Currently the Font menu is a mess. Looks like this (partial list):
Arial Rounded MT Bold
B Frutiger Bold

I am having another problem with Word 2004.
If I want to align some text such as a title or heading in the center
or flush right, I use Cmd-E or Cmd-R. However, when I do this, it
changes the justification for the whole document (including

An example of what happens:
- I have a document with a lot of text
- I want to put a sentence in bold, and thus mark it
- I press command+B (or the button B on the formatting palette)

I am brand new to MAC's and love them except I am having a very hard time in MS office for Mac. Specifically with the tool bars. How do I put them on the screen all the time but not take up all the area with toolbars. I spend more time trying to find button like Merge Cells than ...

I am running the same version of word 2004 on two macs running the same operating system (10.4.11), and on one images show up just fine, and on the other, images insert without a hitch, but don't show up in any "view" other than print preview. They print fine, but I also cannot ...

I'm translating a document (French to English) that was created in Word
Windows (dunno what version).
It's a large document, but not excessive. 8,000 words, but lots of text
boxes and so on. I changed the Language to English US.

I worked on this nice essay for a week, I went to school to print it on a Mac with an older version of Word (I think 2003/4) and before I could say stop, the guy in charge of the printer clicked the "Recover Text from Any File" when the convert file pop-up window came up and ...

In old versions of Word (on PC) I used to manually mark Table of Contents entries and choose the level. This was possible in a couple of keystrokes. Is it possible to do this using Word 2008?

I have another concern. I have OS X
TIGER, not Leopard, so I have version 10.4.11. Will the service pack in Mid-March address OS X Tiger platform as well as Leopard?
Thanks, Joseph

version used: Office 2008 for Mac Student and Home edition

Is it possible to use the programs without registering it?

I finished installing and have tried registering it several times but my Product ID (all 3 of them) seem to be invalid.

When I click on the office application,

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I am using templates I previously created in Word X on an older computer and with System 10.4+ which have worked flawlessly for years. I have just started to notice that when I utilize the Formatting pallet and go back in to type something in a formatted text block, the font ...

In Word for Mac 2008 one of the new features is a tool bar that contains Document Elements, Quick Tables, etc. These seem to me to be templates.
My question is this - Can I create my own Cover Page, header, footer, etc. and have it saved in this Document Element tool bar as one of ...

Columns option is missing from the dropdown list under Format on the Word menu bar. I have tried: 1. following drag and drop directions in Help, 2. trying to Customize the Menu bar under Tools, and 3. resetting the Format Menu going the same route. Any other suggestions? It was ...