Re: Cannot activate "Track Changes" on Word 2004 for Mac

Hi Tony,

A good general concept when dealing with Word--it is almost guaranteed that someone can help you find a better way to complete any task that requires lots of repetitive actions, or where you find yourself doing the same several actions over and over.

Anther example is to delete ALL bookmarks at once in "Insert/Bookmark". Sometimes we receive Word (.doc) files having literally hundreds of them and to get rid of them we must do it manually on a one-by-one basis. I remember some documents requiring hours of work just to delete their bookmarks.
You can use a macro to delete all bookmarks at once. Search this group, you'll find some variations. Start a new thread if necessary, to deal with this question, please.
Also great would be the option to have one button to toggle-select different parts of text in the same document to correspond two different languages. We write almost 100% of the times in two languages inside the same document. It is really tedious to have to go to "Tools/Language" and then scroll to select the language and OK. You cannot even remove the languages that you never use, so the scrolling takes time to select the bottom languages in the too-long alphabetical list of languages that you never use.
You can record a macro to quickly switch to or apply a language. You can also assign a keyboard shortcut to quickly bring up Tools | Language, in Tools | Customize. Also, like many long lists/dialogs in Word and many other computer programs, that one is key-letter-navigable--type SP quickly to jump to Spanish, etc.

Start a new thread if necessary, to deal with the question of quick access to languages or creating a macro, please. Or search the group, it's been covered.

As an example, I know about Word searching for formatted styled text, but such implementation (read interface) is ugly, awkward and cumbersome. Really anti-intuitive. So much that many times people do it wrong. If you have ever tried such functionality with the old MacWrite Pro, you know what I mean. Hands down.
I have to say--I've pointed many people toward that dialog, and they seem to figure it out. But can you share a screenshot of the MacWrite Pro one? just cause I'd like to know what you are extolling.

Another example of Word being utterly anti-intuitive is placing "sort" inside the Tables menu.
Agreed. I'm not going to try to argue Word is intuitive, cause it isn't--I just don't think Find/Replace is the best example against it.

Another thing is the integration. All Office applications should have the same interface as much as possible (menus, etc). And of course SHARE the same resources and tools, like the built-in and custom dictionaries. Word 2004 has a different dictionary than PowerPoint 2004, for instance. That is ridiculous and really frustrating. The Find windows on both applications are different. The Spelling windows on both applications are different. Even “Option Command G” (no quotes) brings it in the latter, but not in the former. Really frustrating.
About that dictionary--really? I don't use PowerPoint a whole lot, but Word and PPT are definitely using my same custom dictionary here, and definitely share AutoCorrect. Do you mean the Tools | Dictionary, for external definitions--that is different, because Word's got improved at some point and PPT's didn't.

Daiya






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