Mac Forum / Applications / Word / April 2008

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
I bought my mac in England and it has never left, yet I cannot change the default language, used in spell-checking, to UK English. I have gone into the Language menu, made the change, set it as the new defaut, ...

I upgraded to Office Mac 2008 and everything seemed to transfer over well except my Stedman's Plus Spellchecker.  I noticed that in Office 2008 that the proofing tools are named with extension ".proofingtool."  Where is the backwards compatibility with Office 2004?  I tried adding

I am unable to print just selected pages in Word 2008. I can choose the radio button next to "From" and put in my selected pages. But then the preview show a blank page and that's exactly what prints - a blank page. All other printing features seem to work fine.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I believe when i first got Word 2008 fro my mac i wrote some stupid sentence on a word doc. and now and forever the doc pops up on every new doc. i start up. What can i do to get rid of this annoying doc.

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
I often need to take a table in Word and move it into an Excel spreadsheet. Every time I try and do it it just ends up being a long list of cells in one column in Excel... Doesnt matter if I use Get External Data ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC
How can I add a font that is not currently on the "Insert Fonts" menu?

Does anyone know whether this is a built in function? I am mostly
interested to know what's in ToText()
cleanup.bas | ToText():
thanks

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC
I need to match a pre-existing font. So I'm using the Word font dropdown. Only thing the text on my page is not changing as I'm scrolling down the font list. It seems I have to click return, look at the font, ...

I am using a Mac with OSX 10.4.11 with Office 2004. For some reason whenever
I try and print 1/2 in a Word document, or even sometimes do random pages get
corrupted when printing in Mac OSX. For example I'll print the document
below, and the first page will print out very large ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Hello Everyone,

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
The "fix" for Word 2008 that was supposed to prevent it from suddenly not responding has not worked. It still does this about once an hour on my iMac and MacBook, requiring me to force quit and restart the ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
I have recently just installed the new Word 2008 and I cant find the text box. Please could you help me out.

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
I cannot stop Word 2004 from capitalising the first word in a "sentence" (actually in a table, I really don't want capital letters all over the place). I have unchecked everything in autocorrect and it still does ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Hi, having a problem using the latest version of office 2004 and Leopard 10.5.2.

How is it possible to convert a table of contents to just regular formatted
text but yet keep the "...", page number, tabs, etc.  Basically, how can the
Field coding be removed without changing the physical appearance of the text.
Thanks,