Mac Forum / Applications / Word / July 2008

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
I edit manuscripts for a living on Word and use a lot of comment balloons. Frequently, I need to revise the text in the balloons, changing a word, adding a phrase, correcting a typo, etc. But each time I try to ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
I have a template with three master pages (front, left and right), pretty normal usage. I drag three columnar guide rules out onto the front master page (I'll have four 2" columns on the pages, and will rely on ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Why is Word 2008 so slow? It often takes 4 or 5 seconds to respond to a simple command when I'm working on a small- to moderate-sized document. Can I do something to speed it up? Or do I need to use Word 2004?

I ask this because recently I have being post sent to Word, excel , and
PowerPoint newsgroups. for everything from Clothe, knock off watches.
and just a a few minutes ago a link to X-Rated material.
I have been dutifully been forwarding the items to the proper abuse

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
I accidentally saved my normal template in landscape. I want it to be in portrait. How do I change it?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
I've customized my toolbars and would like to add a new separator between some of the groups of commands. Is it possible to do that?

Hello, im in a pickle...
I have to mail merge a data caption form which includes dates (cant say more
data protection act etc). in the excel spreadsheet the dates are formatted in
english (dd/mm/yyyy) but when i merge to a new document Word changes the

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
I am having problems trying to insert a text box above a table. I want to add a title to my table but in a seperate text box above the table, as soon as I draw the text box and release the cursor, it ...

When I launch Word application the font optimization has a problem with a
large number of my installed fonts and it takes almost 30 minutes to fully
start up. I have to keep selecting OK on each font it has a problem with.
Is there a way to turn off font optimization? Or any other ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Insert ---> Symbol.
Where did it go? I was using macros to insert em dashes, and something bugged out. Now I don't even have the option to insert symbols, it just disappeared. How do I restore it?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
The spacing of lines of text in different columns of my table changes arbitrarily from box to box despite the original table being produced at the same time. I have tried highlighting the whole document and ...

Is there any way to change the default color of the basic lines and
shapes from the default blue to basic black???
Thanks
Ron

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
How do I control the spacing between lines of text?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC
I have maybe a hundred or so documents with Track Changes active that I need to do this process to:

I have set Word 2008 to save files in DOC (rather than DOCX) format by
default.
When I open a DOC file, and modify it, and then attempt to save it
(using Save, not Save As), Word does not save the changes to the