Mac Forum / Applications / Word / April 2008

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC
First off, I'm new(ish) to Macs, not entirely willingly. I've managed OK so far but have now come up against a problem that is frustrating me.

I would like to create a document in which the level 3 headers (TOC
level 3) are based on a character style rather than a paragraph style.
In many books, the level 3 headings are just bold face words at the
beginning of a paragraph rather than on a separate line. When I try to

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I can't seem to insert a linked chart from excel into word. All I keep getting is excel is busy. and the ever spinning wheel. can anyone help! have run latest updates.

I would like to have a footer with a path:filename that updates if I
save as another filename or to a different directory.
I know of 1.5 ways to add the information to the footer:
    I can add the path:filename to a footer by using

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
When I open a Word document, rather than occupying a full page, there appears to be a "page within a page", in which the actual document contents are contained within a 1.5" square in the top left-hand corner ...

So I use the full width when creating documents in Word 2008 with the
Wrap to Window option activated.  Recently I've noticed that Word adds a
space at the end of a line when none was there.  If I type this
The boy ran down the hill.

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC
I have an old calendar wizard and was wondering if there was a new one?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC
I have encountered numerous problems over the years with mailmerge files, but these two have me stumped.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I'm having a problem with my older documents' fonts not translating well in either Mac or Windows. Not to sound stilted, but really all I need is font, bold, italics and underline. Now when I open the fonts, I ...

Ever since I installed Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), some of the symbol/notation used in Equation Editor/MathType will not show properly on Word (X or 2004), such as the 'hat' and the 'tilde'.

Can you advise how to fix the problem?

Another problem is when a word document contains many

Version: Older version
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I like using outlines -- purely to plan, not to manage the structure of my articles.

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger)
Processor: PPC
I'm trying to do some simple diagrams (line drawings), perhaps a dozen. Some

Hello. I'm really annoyed right now. I have a document (saved as .docx) with many equations written with Equation Editor. Every time I reopened it, the equations were blurry, but this could be fixed by double-clicking and closing each equation.
However, now the equations have ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Whatever type of image file format i try to insert in a Word 2008 document, i get this message: "This application cannot open this file. This file is an unsupported graphic format or may be damaged. Try opening ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah)
Hello, I'm using the microsoft office mac 2004 student edition. I'm looking for the microsoft equation and can't find it. Do I need to downlowd it or what do I need to do?
Thank you