May 11, 2010 Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 may be the best pick for business users, with major updates to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage. After a series of delays, Microsoft plans to release Office for Mac 2008 to brick-and-mortar and online stores on January 15, making this the first update in nearly four years.
Word 2008 for Mac comes with professionally designed templates that you can use to create brochures, calendars, forms, flyers, labels, and more. You can customize these Word templates to make them appear just the way you want. The easiest way to start a project from a template is with the Office Project Gallery, which you open by choosing File→Project Gallery or pressing Command+Shift+P. Here’s how to open and modify a template:
1Click the New tab at the top of the Project Gallery window, if it’s not already highlighted.
The New tab’s contents appear.
2Choose Word Documents from the Show menu near the lower-right corner of the Project Gallery window.
Choosing Word Documents limits your choices to Word templates so that you don’t have to search through a bunch of Excel or PowerPoint templates to find what you need.
3Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the Coordinated Formscategory.
Clicking the disclosure triangle reveals several subcategories.
4Click the subcategory of the type of document you want to create.
For example, if you want to create an invoice, click the Invoices subcategory.
5Click the template you want.
The other invoice templates you could have used appear on the right side of the window, and all the other template categories appear in the list on the left.
6Click the Open button.
The template you chose opens. When you open the template, switch to Print Layout view (choose View→Print Layout). None of the views, except Print Layout and Publishing Layout, display the graphic images on your page.
7To customize a Word template, replace the placeholder text with your information.
You can stop working on customizing your template in midstream and come back to it later, or when you’re finished, save it to reuse this version of the template over and over in the future.
8Choose File→Save to save your document as a template. Choose Word Template (.dotx) from the Format menu.
When you tell Word that you want to save a file as a Word Template, it changes the save folder to My Templates so that your template will automatically appear in the Project Gallery from now on.
9Name the template something meaningful and then click Save.
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From now on, you can open this template by selecting it in the My Templates category on the New tab of the Project Gallery.
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This document explains how to reset and back up Office 2008
Microsoft Word 2008 Mac Templates
- Ensure all Office applications are closed.
- Navigate to ~User/Library/Preferences folder and drag all the files to desktop that starts with com.microsoft.xxx.plist (xxx=name of Office app)
- Additionally delete/Move following files:
- Application/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/OfficePID.plist
- ~ User/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/Microsoft Office 2008 Settings.plist
The user will be prompted to re-enter the product key the next time Word is used. - If user is having problem with font then delete 'Office Font Cache (12)', located in the same folder as Microsoft Office 2008 Settings.plist.
- Office is now successfully reset.
- If all is well, trash the old file otherwise, quit all Office apps again, trash the new files and drag the original files back to where they belong.
Backups
How to enable automatic save in Microsoft Office 2008?
- Open Microsoft Word (or any other Office App).
- Hold Command and Comma key.
- System Preferences window would open.
- In System Preferences > Save > enable 'Always create a backup copy' and 'Save AutoRecover info every 2 Min'.
Microsoft 2008 Mac Templates Mac
Template Backups
Normal.dotmWhen newly blank document crashes, it is possible the problem persists in normal.dotm. Try renaming the existing normal.dotm to oldnormal.dotm and reopen word to recreate a new normal.dotm.
The location for normal.dotm are as follows:- Office 2008: ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/Normal.dotm
- Word 2004: ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Normal
- Word X, Word 2001, Word 98: /Applications/Microsoft Office ***/Templates/Normal (where *** stands for your version of Office)
If by chance the normal.dotm location is changed, the normal.dotm can be located by opening Microsoft Office Word>Preferences>File Locations> dialog to confirm its location.
If the old normal.dotm is corrupt and there are customizations in old Normal that you don't want to lose – such as macros, AutoText, custom toolbars, and styles – you can transfer them from OldNormal to your new Normal using Organizer.
Restore customization from old Normal to new Normal
- Open Word
- Use File>Open to navigate to the template location noted above.
- Change the Show drop-down list to Word Templates.
- Choose Normal or Normal.dotm and click Open.
- Title Bar at the top of the Word window must show 'Normal' otherwise, repeat from step 1.
- Click on Tools>Templates and Add-ins dialog, click the Organizer button.
- Just below the left window, Organizer should be showing Styles available In: Normal (global template) Otherwise you've got the wrong one open. Start again from step 1.
- The right window of the Organizer should be blank. There is a Close File button below the left-hand window, and a Close File button below the right-hand window. Click the button on the right.
- You should now be able to see your old Normal Template in the directory; if you cannot, search until you find it. Choose it, and Open it.
- At the top of the Organizer dialog, above both windows, there is a row of tabs, one for each kind of resource the Organizer can copy. Click the tab for the kind of item you want to bring back. Let’s assume you want to bring your styles back: Click the Styles tab.
- Organizer now shows you a list of the items available within each kind (if you clicked the Styles tab in the previous step, you see a list of the styles in each template). The left window lists the items in your new template, the right window lists the items in the old template. In the right-hand window, choose the item(s) you want to restore. You can select more than one.
- Click copy
- Repeat for each additional kind of resource you wish to copy.
- Click Close File under both windows.
- Hold down your Shift key and choose Save All from the File menu. Save All does not appear unless you hold down your shift key.
- Quit Word and restart it (to force it to update its preferences).
- All the settings should be transfered.
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| Owner: | Jeff W. | Group: | DoIT Help Desk |
| Created: | 2009-05-31 19:00 CDT | Updated: | 2019-08-21 13:20 CDT |
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