Bullet points in Word for Mac

When I have a bullet point list in Word, after pressing enter the next bullet point won't show up until I start typing. Is there anyway to change it so the bullet appears as soon as I press enter?

You should probably be posting on Microsoft's Mac forums since its their software you're having issues with:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac

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I upgraded recently to Office for Mac 2011, and a problem which I'd had in Office 2008 re-appeared. I remember fixing this in Word 2008 for Mac, but can't remember how I did it.
Basically, what happens in Word for Mac 2011 is that every time I press the left or right arrow key in a document to scroll through the text, or to get to a specific word or point in the sentence which I want to edit, the pointer/cursor disappears. I'm talking about the vertical line which shows the location in the document.
You will appreciate that this is extremely frustrating, since I have no way of knowing where exactly I've reached. Only when I lift my finger off the left or right arrow key, does the line reappear and I know where I am. This is slowing me down to no end, and I'm finding editing documents very very tedious.
Please help!
Thanks so much.

I upgraded recently to Office for Mac 2011, and a problem which I'd had in Office 2008 re-appeared. I remember fixing this in Word 2008 for Mac, but can't remember how I did it.
Basically, what happens in Word for Mac 2011 is that every time I press the left or right arrow key in a document to scroll through the text, or to get to a specific word or point in the sentence which I want to edit, the pointer/cursor disappears. I'm talking about the vertical line which shows the location in the document.
You will appreciate that this is extremely frustrating, since I have no way of knowing where exactly I've reached. Only when I lift my finger off the left or right arrow key, does the line reappear and I know where I am. This is slowing me down to no end, and I'm finding editing documents very very tedious.
Please help!
Thanks so much.

Word for Mac 2011 Fonts not working since Yosemite

Since upgrading to Yosemite from Mavericks, Word for Mac 2011 has done something strange with the fonts, removing most of them and replacing the rest with Asian character fonts. Plain bullet points have also been replaced with rectangles.
I have tried updating Word, and Validating and Restoring Standard Fonts in Font Book.

Check this Microsoft Support page: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads?pid=Mactopia_Office2011&fid=22771669-EBB8 -4B49-89F7-0927F4B7AF8B#viewer, and under the section Office for Mac Updates, make sure you have all of the updates installed. If you do, you may want to post your question on the Microsoft Support Forum:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us
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I subscribed to PDF Export and tested it by converting a Word for Mac doc to a PDF and then opening same in Word. My font was Palatino regular. It opened alright, but
Calibri was substituted for Palatino. How can I change this.

I'm glad you've got the problem licked now, or at least understand the limitations on some of your downloaded PDF documents. I suspect those limitations will apply to all documents that are downloaded from the same database or source, and will consistently not apply to documents downloaded from specific other databases, because of differences in the way documents are scanned by different database services.
By way of clarification, let me just point out that what you are calling Acrobat, which used to be called *Acrobat Reader,* is now officially called *Adobe Reader.* Adobe changed the name to distinguish more clearly between Acrobat — an expensive commercial application for +creating, modifying and manipulating+ PDF files — and the freeware Adobe Reader, which only enables you to view them. You'll avoid needless confusion by calling the Reader by its proper name in the future. No big deal, though: lots of people make the same mistake here. (I've explained this distinction to my wife any number of times, and have finally learned not to bother doing it again: she simply doesn't care.)

Re too many layers in word for mac

Hi all,
I use word and have done for 15 years. I am very fond of what is is capable of. usually.
However when it comes to designing charts which have multiple images and text boxes and shapes and layers it is not great.
I have tried grouping and messed around in publishing mode to rearrange layers but the whirly cog of doom starts spinning and its tedious and unreliable.
Now i know the macbook has oodles of ram so its definitely just a word issue.
so either it isnt really designed for doing lots of layers or at least its isnt coping well.
So do i bite the bullet and buy photoshop? or is there some similar package that will create 16 boxes and let me edit text and then layer pictures in jpeg form and allow me to resize and move em all about without feeling like im about to crash the program?
I do weekly alot of work in word and am used to the fonts, insert menus etc . incidentally I tried Pages but it wasnt any better at handling lots of boxes and didnt seem to be pixel accurate when copying and pasting.
what do you guys/girls use out there in design world. Open to suggestions. im downloading a trial of photoshop essentials but im not sure it will do lots of boxes and allow text etc.
or do i painstakingly print to pdf and re insert. quite daunting as i intend making 50 or so of these charts for a project im organising and it will take forever.
Learning curve must be easier with the right tools?
Niall

Steve,
Please re-post your MS Word for Mac question in Microsoft's Office for Mac product forums. That is where the Word for Mac guru's hang out.

HT1338 Mail Merge for Microsoft Word for Mac 2011

I am trying to do a mail merge on my Macbook, using Microsoft Word for Mac 2011. I get as far as choosing the data source, however, a pop-up appears saying, "Word was unable to open data source." I cannot get past this point. Help!!

Seeing as how Word is a Microsoft product, you might have a better chance of an answer on the Microsoft forum.
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Format menu button missing from MS Word for Mac

Hi all,
This is driving me crazy! My Word for Mac 2004 works perfectly, usually love it, but for some reason, the format menu -which I use to customize my default bullet and numbering lists, paragraph spacing etc. -is missing from the top of the screen. I've got File, Insert, View, Edit, Font, Tools, Table, Window, Work, and Help, but no Format. Lately I've been getting by just using my formatting palette and formatting toolbar, but it's really not enough. Also, the toolbar button from the Insert button is also missing.
I feel like I'm going nuts! You know how you'll look everywhere for a pair of socks and then find it right in front of your nose? Please, someone embarrass me with an easy answer!

Since Office is not an Apple product, you'll probably want to use a forum dedicated to Microsoft's Mac products such as <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups> rather than an Apple forum.
Be sure to search the forum first in case someone has already had a similar question answered

Had issue with Powerpoint, so yesterday updated Word for Mac 2011 to v. 14.41 - now lots of functionality missing from Word as well as Powerpoint. Any suggestions welcome.

Hi - Word for Mac 2011 has been working fine. Yesterday suddenly couldn't edit into Powerpoint pptx from a PC (something I used to be be able to do). Got the latest update for Word for Mac 2011, so now running v. 14.4.1 on my iMac, which operates under OS X 10.8.5. Word is now playing up - and I seem to have lost functionality - bullets and numbered lists, 'find' function and more besides broken. I'm swamped with work that I need to do in Word and Powerpoint and welcome any ideas.

Try an Office alternative. It sounds like you have some data corruption. Is your data backed up?
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6941

How to handle weird characters in form fields (like bullet points from Word docs)

hi there
lots of my users copy and paste from MS Word documents into a
text area
my app takes that form.textarea data and inserts it in a
MYSQL db.
when we output that cell from the db, we often find there are
? [question marks] where there once were special characters in the
Word doc text.
it seems that bullet points in word docs are the worst
offenders.
each time i spot a new one i try to find out the chr() number
for it and make a substitiution before the text is stored in the
db, but its a bit hit and miss (relies on me spotting it) and its v
time consuming
ive tried using functions safetext and demoronize - but they
dont seem to do what i need
im sure im not the first person to run into this - any
suggestions anyone?
thanks very much indeed for any help you can give.
kind regards
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Thanks Paul and Azadi
Paul - when you say "change it to unicode" do you mean the
page or a setting in the db? forgive me if i'm being stupid but
this is all new territory to me. Thank you ever so much for your
help - does sound logical what you say :)
Azadi - thanks very much for this (I'm pressuming that
there's a charge for this udf) so i'll try to implement Paul's
solution and if I can't do that I'll buy the the udf - thanks very
much indeed for your help, really is much apprecaited.
kind regards
Nick

My Word for Mac 2011 repeatedly fails to display certain text boxes if I apply text changes. How can I view the invisible text?

I have Mac OS X 10.6.8. I recently had to download Office for Mac 2011, as my company mandated this over my objections. On the first 20-page Word file I received, the file looked fine until I applied track changes and made the first edit. At that point, 2 pages of text disappeared (the entire file was Calibri 11 size). The disappearing text was all in a couple of text boxes separate from the rest of the file. If I did a search, it would point to the white screen, but I could not view it except in Web layout, which is unsuitable for track changes. Unfortunately, all my supervisors say they can see the text that I cannot see.
I know that Word 2011 is notorious for not reading fonts, but this file is all in the same font/size. How can I see the hidden text before I lose my job?

Have you tried Word for Mac?
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Peter

Opening Word for Mac on a PC

I use Word for Mac 2008 on my iMac and MacBook because I need to send files to PC users, but many recipients can't open the files. I can't help wondering what 'compatability mode' is about if the files can't be opened by different computers without the users downloading additional software (which business users would be unlikely to welcome). I have also tried saving files in .docx and .dot formats, but the result is the same.
I realise that this might not be a problem for the present forum, but can anyone suggest a decent alternative informational source? I've tried Mactopia and can't find anything that really covers this, besides which answers, if any, are slow in coming.

Thanks for all the input and advice.
In answer to rkaufmann87, I meant .doc – careless of me.
Carolyn Samit asks if I click ‘Attach’ in Mac Mail. Well, Carolyn, this is going to amaze you. It certainly amazes me, because in all the years that I’ve used Mac Mail it has never occurred to me to click ‘Attach’. I drag my files into the body on an email. That could be my problem, so thanks for that. From now on I will ‘Attach, Attach, Attach’. Please imagine me banging my very thick head on my desk as I write this!
Steve M mentions using a previous version of Word. Good point. I never had any trouble with previous versions – even dragging 50,000 word files into the emails. As for ‘compatibility mode’ – the phrase automatically follows every Word file I create. I find it rather irritating and have tried to find ways to eliminate it, but it persists.

WORD for Mac gone forever?

Can someone explain in plain English why I no longer can use my favorite word processing program after installing Lion?   I know it has something to do with Rosetta which is Greek to me - what is it?   What are the politics behind it? Is it financial? Does it have to do with "turf war" between Apple and Microsoft?
Now I will have to learn how to use the Textedit program which on the surface looks rather anemic. All my files ending with .doc can no longer be read. However, I can still access them through Time Machine.
Are there any decent word processing programs that are compatible with Lion?   Any free ones?

As it happens mine is Word for Mac 2004.   Well, I followed your very helpful recommendation and uploaded LibreOffice which looks just like Word. This program also allowes you to convert all the Word 2004 files into a readable document with an .odt extension. If there was a way I would give you 1000 points for your help.
Max

I'm using Word for Mac. Though there are various instructions on the Internet for modifying the templates, none make sense to me. They instruct to do something I can't follow. I change a template but can't save it to the template folder.

What the ****.
OK, I try to change a template using Word for Mac version 14.3.4 2011 edition.
I make a change to the template but am unable to save the darned thing to the template folder; it asks for a file name like it's a new document. I want to change the blasted template but if I can't save it as a modified template, I've accomplished nothing.
Does anyone have a solution?
Thanks

Support for Microsoft Office for Mac

Hello. On my Macbook air late 2013 model I am having a problem where microsoft word for mac just stops working for soon reason and at the screen where the document should be is just gray and does not even display the document. Does anybody have a fix?

Hello. On my MacBook Air late 2013 model I am having a problem with Microsoft office word for Mac where the window for the document becomes all gray and I can not see anything that I have typed or any menus for it and also windows will sometimes dissapear and I am having truble getting them back. If anyone has anyideas of what is going on or could even help me thank you.

Glad that helped.
As time goes by (months or years), keep your eyes on how long Microsoft continues to support Office 2011 for Mac. Eventually you should consider Office 365 or Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.

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