Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel When I try to type or edit text in a text box in a template document (a newsletter template) the typing, editing, deleting, backspacing or what ever, is absolutely impossibly slow. Am I doing something wrong or do I have something set up wrong. If it remains this way I will not be able to work in this program.
Typing text is impossibly slow in text boxes when in publishing layout
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Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Power PC I am creating a Form for an end user. I understand how to protect the whole document so they don't accidentally type in those fields...but what I don't understand is how to make certain fields editable for the End User input. In other words, I want the text 'YOUR NAME' in one field (protected), then a blank space for them to type in their name (unprotected). Thoughts? - 2. Complex copy and paste from Excel loses formatting/resolution
Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I am trying to create a Word document with three charts on the page along with additional text. Each of the charts needs statistical significance symbols - basically, small text boxes hovered over each chart. These charts come from Excel. If I copy and paste the chart ONLY from Excel, everything is fine, the chart looks great and I can make changes to the chart formatting if I want. However, if I group this chart with the symbols and copy/paste, I end up pasting in a picture with poor, poor resolution. Similarly, if I just copy and paste the symbols all at once from Excel to Word, I also lose resolution and the printed result looks terrible. Is there any way to paste a grouped graph without losing the ability to edit it later, while retaining good printing quality? Thanks! - 3. Footnote numbers in document sections
Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I have had to separate my document (which contains odd/even headers)in sections to accommodate three pages in the middle that have a horizontal orientation. I want the footnote numbers in the section following these pages to start at 26, since this section is really a continuation of the first one. If I enter 26 as the starting number, it changes the first section to start at 26, when it is really 1. Any suggestions on how to begin the footnotes of section 3 at 26 without changing any other footnote numbers? Nancy - 4. Missing TOOL menu
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Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I have a small class network of 15 or so MacBooks that use a workgroup network login on a Mac Server 10.5. We use class logins (i.e. all 15 children log in as the same username so they can access the same home folder etc). I don't want to have individual logins for each child or computer as this is time consuming and too complicated for our uses. However whenever a user opens word it throws up the "normal.dotm is already in use" error and a further database error box telling me to use the database utility to fix it which does nothing (no database found). I have tried redirecting all the folders (user templates, startup etc) to the local hard drive in preferences/file locations. Word just seems to switch to some other folder every time without prompting. Is there any way I can have multiple logins using word at the same time or is Office 2008 just rubbish on the Mac and can't handle this sort of thing? Word 2007 seems to have no problem with a similar setup on a Microsoft Server 2003 network with active directory logins. Any help greatly appreciated as this is driving me crazy. Cheers
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Typing text is impossibly slow in text boxes when in publishing layout
by Christine_Chapman » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:25:02 GMT
Re: Typing text is impossibly slow in text boxes when in publishing layout
by John McGhie » Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:15:13 GMT
Apart from using Publishing Layout View, I suspect you are not doing anything wrong. Publishing Layout View requires very powerful hardware, and even then it tends to crash a lot. If I were you, I would try to work in Print Layout View, it will be a lot quicker. And make sure that both OS X and Office 2008 are completely updated: they will be extremely slow if they are missing updates. You need at least a dual-core CPU and at least 4 GB of RAM to have a bearable experience in Publishing Layout View. But at some point it always clags up and drags like treacle in winter: which is why I never use it :-) Cheers On 26/04/10 1:25 PM, in article XXXX@XXXXX.COM , " XXXX@XXXXX.COM " < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > -- The email below is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum matters unless I ask you to; or unless you intend to pay! John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer, McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410 | mailto: XXXX@XXXXX.COM
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