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  1. J

    Microsoft Word crashes since upgrading to Sequoia

    Since upgrading to Sequoia on launch day, Microsoft Word crashes on opening an existing file or creating a new one. Other MS Office apps work. I've been searching online a plenty since last week and found suggestions such as uninstalling and reinstalling, which I've tried following the...
  2. D

    After a Sequoia update, has anyone else had to manually set Word and Excel as the default apps for opening .docx and .xlsx files?

    As per the subject line; neither Word nor Excel were recognised as standard apps for these file types and I had to do it manually (and against the advice that it wasn't known that these apps would open these files). I have had to do this on more than one machine, both with Intel (i7) and Mac...
  3. emraha06

    How many seconds do you wait for the first launch of Word app on your MBP

    I use m2 max device and after clean restart when I want to open word for the first time and click word icon, it takes 10 seconds from beginning of the icon jumping to first document selection menu. Is this 10 seconds of waiting with jumping icon normal? Could you please share yours with...
  4. emraha06

    M3 Pro Max owners MS Word freeze

    Do you suffer from lag and freeze while working with office word?
  5. Buadhai

    MS Word - Thai Text Formatted Poorly on M1 iMac but OK on M3 MBA

    My wife is a Thai attorney who frequently has to prepare court documents in a particular format. Until recently she used LibreOffice to create reasonable facsimiles of the court forms on her own. However, this proved to be tedious and time consuming so she purchased a package of court document...
  6. elads

    Office for MAC

    Don't ask why but I'm using Office on my mini MAC. Apart from the fact that it is full of bugs there is a really annoying issue with hyperlinks embedded in office file I was hoping someone could help me overcome. I am using hyperlinks of mp4 files etc in my word and excel files. Those mp4 files...
  7. developer_black_code

    iPhone Vocabulary Widget (Quick Learn 8+ language ) [App]

    Vocabulary - Quick learn words Are you ready to embark on a journey of linguistic empowerment? Look no further than Vocabulary - Quick Learn Words the ultimate mobile app designed to supercharge your word power effortlessly. Learn Languages...
  8. P

    Resolved Cannot view Table of Contents sidebar in PDF exported from Pages

    I’ve had loads of problems with Word creating PDFs. Basically, whatever I have done, it fails during the PDF creation process under macOS. I have to re-open the document under Windows and create the PDF like that. Aside from being a nuisance, I’ve had problems with some special characters/emoji...
  9. N

    Forever Verification On Word

    I dont use MS Word very often, but it updates so often, that the verification time drives me crazy. Is there anyway to bypass verification?
  10. M

    Air 15 inch M2 -- Crazy energy consumption Microsoft Word

    I'm having this issue where word is draining my new Macbook Air 15's battery like crazy. I'm attaching a screenshot of the activity monitor here but I'm not sure how to exactly read it? I just know that my battery drained from 86% to 72% in less than an hour. I'm just using word and don't have...
  11. S

    Apple Pages: Adjust line spacing for one line?

    Hello, I inserted a "♭" symbol in a line and it thereby increased the line spacing of that line. It's much larger than the other lines now. When I go into the Format -> Spacing menu and reduce the Spacing, all lines get decreased. It seems like it is not necessarily the line spacing that...
  12. B

    Looking for an app (or Word feature) to create fill in forms

    Hi everyone, I’ve been tasked at work to create a word template or look for an app that allows users to fill in information on the form and auto populate. I’m hoping that makes sense. I do know that Word has some auto populate features and other form functions, but I’m specifically looking for...
  13. P

    Resolved Microsoft Word - problems with PDFs

    I have been dealing with a substantial Word document. Over 400 pages, hundreds of tables about 300 modest sized images. Using up-to-date Office 365. I can do everything within Word that I need. Extensive use of styles has helped a lot. Trouble is, I don't want to hand out a Word .docx file - I...
  14. R

    Using a PC keyboard with a Mac

    I much prefer a PC keyboard with a Mac and, in System Preferences, I have remapped it so that, when I press the Control key, it acts as the Mac Command key. When I use a Word document, I can now press Control F to find a word and Control P to print. But when I press Control S the Word document...
  15. BlueberryMac

    Word 2021 v16.59 won't print anymore after installing latest Monterey update (March 2022)—any ideas how to fix it?

    Since installing the latest Monterey update a week or so ago, my Word app will no longer bring up the PRINT dialog when I press COMMAND-P or select Print... from Word’s File menu. Any ideas how I might fix this? Not being able to print makes Word pretty useless to me.
  16. B

    The heaviest benchmark that no MacBook can handle - Word, someone with a MBP 16" that could help?

    Hi! I am trying to guide some colleagues in choosing their next laptop and a lot of them want to use Macs this time. I off love this development but we have problems choosing between a MB Air and MBP 16" for some. This is the problem; they are using Word a lot for working with, for example...
  17. I

    Paste a table from Onenote to Word without losing format

    Hi everyone. I really need help....
  18. Z

    a hyperlink on an .ai file

    Is is possible to place a hyperlink (www.amazon.com), on the text "Sales" ?
  19. M

    Word for Mac changing spancing, header and text line

    Hello. Does anyone know how to make default settings in MS Word for Mac? I did it for the text so I belive there is also an option to make other things default. I made a screenshot on which part I would like to go default. Thanks.
  20. S

    MS Word says I'm in Germany

    I have no idea how to fix this. My document opened in Microsoft Word and in the bottom status bar was 'German (Germany)'. I tried doing a spell check but was presented only German correction options. I selected English (US) but then when I returned to spell check the doc it went back to German...