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Some of my tips for MacOffice. I use MacOffice 2004 almost exclusively for cross-platform development, though I have MacOffice 98, 2001 and v.X installed on my machine, along with WinXL03 on Virtual PC, for testing.

Office

• Office v.X versions and updates
• General Troubleshooting
• Office 2004 specific troubleshooting
• Resetting your Office Product Identification Number (PID)
• Eliminating the Adobe PDF toolbars (permanently)

XL

• General troubleshooting
• XL 2004 specific troubleshooting
• XL 2004 bugs
• My Formatting Palette flies off the screen...
• Combatting the creation of automatic hyperlinks
• Using an Event Handler to disable automatic hyperlinks
• Entering Edit Mode with F2
• Macro keyboard shortcut bug workaround
• Send Mail from MacXL
• Get a value from a closed workbook
• Clear the Mac clipboard from Excel
• Lock the Standard and Formatting toolbars in place
• Path and Filename in headers and footers - for all workbooks
• Insert/Delete buttons don't work on toolbars
• Crash in XL04 on Exit due to PDF toolbar

Word

• General troubleshooting
• Word 2004 specific troubleshooting
• My Formatting Palette flies off the screen...
• How to uncorrupt Word documents
• Use Global templates to add functionality to MacWord
• Fix the "Disk Full" bug
• Set the Arrange All menu command to tile windows vertically
• Lock your toobars to prevent them from becoming undocked
• Red Xs instead of pictures
• Why you should never use Fast Saves
• Typing a letter with a macron ( ¯ ) in MacWord98-v.X.
• Start Word with no default document.
• Remove paragraph marks from the ends of lines
• Remove spacing between paragraphs of the same style (Word 2004 only)
• Attach an existing macro to a toolbar button or keyboard shortcut
• Manipulating the Work Menu

MacTopia Links

• Downloads
• Support
• Templates
• Newsgroups

Other MacOffice Sites

• MVPS.org MacWord FAQ
• The Entourage Help Page
• Jim Gordon's Macintosh MVP Site
• Clive Huggan's "Bend Word to Your Will" - a magnum opus.
• Actual Technologies - ODBC Driver for MS SQL Server
• OpenLinks - ODBC Drivers

This page last updated Monday, 30 May 2005

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