Category Archives: MS Office

May 02

Having Portrait and Landscape Pages in Microsoft Word For Macintosh

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Example Word Doc With Portrait and Landscape Pages

 

There are plenty of hints out there for Office 2007 and Office 2008 works very much the same way, but wanted to have something out there for people if they do a search for it so here goes.

1. Create a new document or go into your existing word document in Microsoft Office Word 2008.

2. Insert a ‘Section Break (Next Page)’ from the Insert Menu.

Insert > Section Break (Next Page)

3. Move your cursor into the page area after the section break you just inserted. Go to Page Setup (File > Page Setup)

Page Setup After The Insert Section Break

 

Make sure the ‘Settings’ pop-up is ‘Page Attributes’ which will keep the orientation setting locked to the specific break of the page. To get it back to portrait on the next page, go in after and insert another section break and change the orientation back to portrait.

Hope this helps. This is something I get a request for every year or two and forget, so this blog post is more of a reminder for me than anything else.

Jun 22

Changing your user name in Office 2008

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Since this doesn’t seem to be posted anywhere and wherever it is posted, it seems incorrect or overkill to reinstall Office 2008 entirely. In my case, there was a typo that was just an annoyance that needed to be corrected. I could see though if the Office Suite was installed for a previous user / employee and was not set to a generic name, it could be annoying as well.

Many sites tell you to go and remove the

/Users//Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Microsoft Office 2008 Settings.plist

Which is great, unless you do not have it.

There are many hacks out there to help with Windows and Office on Windows registration information correction, but nothing out there for OS X and Office 2008 which is a hassle. I didn’t want to reinstall everything just to fix my typo, so after some investigation I found

/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/OfficePID.plist

1. Copy/backup the OfficePID.plist file (in case you mess it up).

2. Quit out of all MS Office 2008 applications.

3. Open OfficePID.plist in Property List Editor (comes with XCode Development Tools)

4. Under the Property List Root/1000 is the entry for the user name. Fix it.

5. Save.

After that, open up Word and other Office 2008 applications and see the corrected name.