Mac Forum / Applications / Word / May 2008

Hi,
I've searched everywhere and can't find the Greek proofing tools for either
version of Office for Mac. I reside in the United States, and need to be able
to spell-check in Greek. Any idea where I might find these tools?

OS 10.4.11  
Ibook G4
1.5 GB Ram
Word 2004

How do you open .MDI Files on the mac???  Do I need Office 2008? If so what steps do I need to take. I am trying to figure out what an .MDI is at all actually.  Is it the MS version of a .PDF?  Why not stick with the open source standard??

Word for Windows has a setting "don't paste formatting from other
applications", which is extremely useful. This setting is missing from
Word for Mac.
It is exacerbated by the fact that even pasting what you think is

Version: v.X
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Help! All of a sudden, the Word files I'm attaching to emails are corrupt. People I'm emailing tell me they can't open my files, or when they do, they are corrupt and contain gibberish. It's not happening with every email or file ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
It is not possible to resize your document window if you happen to have the endnote panel open. You have to close the endnote panel to resize the window, then open it again. Tedious. This happens only in draft ...

When I insert my footnotes using the Turabian style, they display at the
bottom of the page like this:
1 (Smith 1997)
2 (Strunk 2008)

windows XP
word 2003
I have word 2003 and in a document with 1 page, i had save this file and all
is OK. The next day i had open this file to continuing the text. In second

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC
I am always using "Paste Special" - "Unformatted Text" to paste text into Word so that it retains the font that I am using. I can't find a way to create a keyboard shortcut for this. Any clues??

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC
I am looking for an applescript that would import entries from a bibliography (doc or text file) into Citation Manager. Is there such a thing, or another way to import entries? Thanks.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Sometimes I can insert page numbers with no problem, then for no apparent reason if I say I want to start at, say, no. 4, the system inserts no. 5 and nothing I do has any effect.

I am creating a book manuscript using Word templates which have
several predefined styles.
In the 'Styles' tab of the formatting toolbox I correctly have all the
default styles, plus the custom defined oens from the templates and

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
How can I fix a Word text document automatically in the middle of my (big iMac) screen each time I open such a document?

If we try to send a message to two distribution lists, we get -- "An
unexpected error has occurred "- on a Microsoft Office Word dialogue box.  
We've not found any  the email addresses that are wrong.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I'm a copyeditor and practically live in Word each day. For quite a while, I've used v.X, and have just recently upgraded to 2008.