How to Show Formatting Marks in Microsoft Word 2016 and Prior. By Melanie Pinola 08 March 2016. Spaces are shown as a dot between words and punctuation, tabs are shown as arrows,. Change the 'after' default paragraph spacing in Word 2008 Authored by: mhedstrom on May 09, '08 09:47:41AM The Word 2008 default works well for writing single-spaced essays or letters, but, as others have noted, it does not work well at all for double-spaced. Using Microsoft Word 2008 (Mac) for Large Documents A University of Michigan Library Instructional Technology Workshop Need help? Visit the Faculty Exploratory or Knowledge Navigation Center on the 2nd floor of the Graduate Library. Click the File tab, and then click Options. Click Proofing. Under When correcting spelling and grammar in Word, click Settings. You will get the Grammar Settings dialog box. Select 1, 2 or Don't Check for Spaces required between sentences option from the drop down list as per your need.

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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is a version of the Microsoft Officeproductivity suite for Mac OS X. It supersedes Office 2004 for Mac (which did not have Intel native code) and is the Mac OS X equivalent of Office 2007. Office 2008 was developed by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit and released on January 15, 2008. Office 2008 was followed by Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 released on October 26, 2010, requiring a Mac with an Intel processor and Mac OS version 10.5 or better. Office 2008 is also the last version to feature Entourage, which was replaced by Outlook in Office 2011. Microsoft stopped supporting Office 2008 on April 9, 2013.

Release[edit]

Office 2008 was originally slated for release in the second half of 2007; however, it was delayed until January 2008, purportedly to allow time to fix lingering bugs.^[3] Office 2008 is the only version of Office for Mac supplied as a Universal Binary.

Unlike Office 2007 for Windows, Office 2008 was not offered as a public beta before its scheduled release date.^[4]

Features[edit]

Office 2008 for Mac includes the same core programs currently included with Office 2004 for Mac: Entourage, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

Mac-only features included are a publishing layout view, which offers functionality similar to Microsoft Publisher for Windows, a 'Ledger Sheet mode' in Excel to ease financial tasks, and a 'My Day' application offering a quick way to view the day's events.^[5]

Office 2008 supports the new Office Open XML format, and defaults to saving all files in this format. On February 21, 2008 Geoff Price revealed that the format conversion update for Office 2004 would be delayed until June 2008 in order to provide the first update to Office 2008.^[6]

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications is not supported in this version.^[7] As a result, such Excel add-ins dependent on VBA, such as Solver, have not been bundled in the current release.^[8] In June 2008, Microsoft announced that it is exploring the idea of bringing some of the functionality of Solver back to Excel.^[9] In late August 2008, Microsoft announced that a new Solver for Excel 2008 was available as a free download from Frontline Systems, original developers of the Excel Solver.^[10][11] However, Excel 2008 also lacks other functionality, such as Pivot Chart functionality, which has long been a feature in the Windows version. In May 2008, Microsoft announced that VBA will be making a return in the next version of Microsoft Office for Mac.^[12]AppleScript and the Open Scripting Architecture will still be supported.

Limitations[edit]

Office 2008 for Mac lacks feature parity with the Windows version. The lack of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support in Excel makes it impossible to use macros programmed in VBA. Microsoft's response is that adding VBA support in Xcode would have resulted in an additional two years added to the development cycle of Office 2008.^[13] Other unsupported features include: OMML equations generated in Word 2007 for Windows,^[14] Office 'Ribbon', Mini Toolbar, Live Preview, and an extensive list of features are unsupported such as equivalent SharePoint integration with the Windows version. Some features are missing on Excel 2008 for Mac, including: data filters (Data Bars, Top 10, Color-based, Icon-based), structured references, Excel tables, Table styles, a sort feature allowing more than three columns at once and more than one filter on a sort.

Benchmarks suggest that the original release of Office 2008 runs slower on Macs with PowerPC processors, and does not provide a significant speed bump for Macs with Intel processors.^[15]

A using a program to remove application support files in unwanted languages), and which do not affect Office's operations, but which cause the updaters' installers to believe that the application is not valid for update. A small modification to the installer has been found an effective work-around (see reference).^[18]

Another widespread problem reported after SP1 is that Office files will no longer open in Office applications when opened (double-clicked) from the Mac OS X Finder or launched from other applications such as an email attachment. The trigger for this problem is that Microsoft in SP1 unilaterally and without warning deprecated certain older Mac OS 'Type' codes such as 'WDBN' that some files may have, either because they are simply very old, or because some applications assign the older Type code when saving them to the disk. Users have seen the problem affect even relatively new Type codes, however, such as 'W6BN'. Microsoft is apparently looking into the problem, but it is unclear if they will reinstate the older Type codes, citing security concerns.^[19]

Another problem with cross-platform compatibility is that images inserted into any Office application by using either cut and paste or drag and drop result in a file that does not display the inserted graphic when viewed on a Windows machine. Instead, the Windows user is told 'QuickTime and a TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture'. A user presented one solution as far back as December 2004.^[20]

A further example of the lack of feature parity is the track changes function. Whereas users of Word 2003 or 2007 for Windows are able to choose freely between showing their changes in-line or as balloons in the right-hand margin,^[21][22] choosing the former option in Word 2004 or Word 2008 for Mac OS also turns off all comment balloons; comments in this case are visible only in the Reviewing Pane or as popup boxes (i.e. upon mouseover).^[23] This issue has not been resolved to date and is present in the latest version of Word for the Mac, namely Word 2011.^[24]

The toolbox found in Office 2008 also has problems when the OS X feature Spaces is used: switching from one Space to another will cause elements of the Toolbox to get trapped on one Space until the Toolbox is closed and reopened. The only remedy for this problem is to currently disable Spaces, or at least refrain from using it whilst working in Office 2008.^[25] Microsoft has acknowledged this problem and states that it is an architectural problem with the implementation of Spaces. Apple has been informed of the problem, according to Microsoft.^[26] The problem appears to be caused by the fact that the Toolbox is Carbon-based.^{[citation needed]} Using Microsoft Office with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard solves some of the problems.^[26]

In addition, there is no support for right to left and bidirectional languages (such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, etc.) in Office 2008,^[27][28] making it impossible to read or edit a right to left document in Word 2008 or PowerPoint 2008. Languages such as Thai are similarly not supported, although installing fonts can sometimes allow documents written in these languages to be displayed.

Moreover, Office 2008 proofing tools support only a limited number of languages (Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Swiss German).^[29] Proofing tools for other languages failed to find their way to the installation pack, and are not offered by Microsoft commercially in the form of separately sold language packs. At the same time, Office applications are not integrated with the proofing tools native to Mac OS X 10.6 Leopard.

Microsoft Visio is not available for OS X. This means that any embedded Visio diagrams in other Office documents (e.g. Word) cannot be edited in Office on the Mac. Embedded Visio diagrams appear as a low-quality bitmap both in the WYSIWYG editor and upon printing the document on the Mac.

Editions[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Microsoft Support Lifecycle - Office 2008'. Microsoft. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
2. ^'Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Specs'. CNET. January 15, 2008. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
3. ^'It's Coming: Mac BU Announces Intent to Deliver Office 2008 for Mac'. Microsoft. January 9, 2007. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007.
4. ^'Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac delayed until January 2008'. TUAW. August 2, 2007.
5. ^'Microsoft starts testing Office 2008 for Mac'. Cnet. April 2, 2007. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved September 19, 2007.
6. ^'MS Office Mac Discussion Board'. January 15, 2008.
7. ^'Saying goodbye to Visual Basic'. August 8, 2006.
8. ^'MS Office Mac Discussion Board'. January 15, 2008.
9. ^'Excel 2008 and Solver'. June 26, 2008.
10. ^'Solver For Excel 2008 Is Available'. August 29, 2008.
11. ^'Solver is Back for Microsoft Excel 2008 on Macintosh'. August 29, 2008.
12. ^'Microsoft Office Update, and Visual Basic for Applications to Return - Mac Rumors'. May 13, 2008.
13. ^'MS Mactopia Blog'. March 13, 2008.
14. ^Known issues in Word 2008 – Equations saved from Word 2007 for Windows do not appear in Word 2008 for Mac
15. ^'MS Mactopia Blog'. March 13, 2008.
16. ^'CambridgeSoft Website'.
17. ^New installer for 12.0.1 (The Entourage Help Blog)
18. ^MacFixit article: More Fixes for Problems InstallingArchived January 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
19. ^http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx?target=0b9aa757-50ab-443b-8b0e-3a50ece1d5451033&clr=99-4-0
20. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on June 26, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
21. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on July 2, 2009. Retrieved July 9, 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
22. ^'IT training – IT training – IT Services – Administrative and academic support divisions – Services and divisions – Staff and students – Home'. Ittraining.lse.ac.uk. May 7, 2010. Archived from the original on February 27, 2009. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
23. ^[1]^{[dead link]}
24. ^http://officeformac.com/ms/ProductForums/Word/11634/0
25. ^Bugs & Fixes: Office 2008 and Leopard’s Spaces don’t mix, Macworld, December 8, 2008
26. ^ ^abOffice 2008 for Mac and Mac OS X Spaces, Microsoft
27. ^Help and How-To for Microsoft for Mac Office Products Mactopia
28. ^Higgaion » It’s official: no RTL support in Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
29. ^Proofing tools that are available for each language

External links[edit]

• MacBU interview: Office 2008 Exchange Server support^{[permanent dead link]}

There's nothing wrong, as such, with the default setup in Word. A paragraph is a unit of formatting in Word (and in many other word processors). If you want gaps between your paragraphs (as most people would, most of the time), you're supposed to set up your paragraph style to have a space either before or after it. (It's debatable which is better.) What you should NOT do is press carriage return twice, leaving a dangling, empty, useless paragraph between your two paragraphs. This could cause complete havoc if and when you reformat your document at a later stage.
It's also in no way new to Office 2008 for Word to have spacing attached to its default paragraph style. This goes back.. oh, back to about when Word first introduced styles. (Though I seem to remember that over the years they've swapped between putting the blank space before and after the paragraph.)

I've read all these arguments way it is correct to have this gap between paragraphs, but it still doesn't make sense and I have never in my life read a book, magazine, or newspaper that has a gap between paragraphs, it is just indented on the next line.

Yet another reason for me not to bother installing 2008.

Word is doing the right thing with spaces after paragraphs. Pages also does this. It's called proper typography. People who put two carriage returns after paragraphs (as well as two spaces after periods) simply don't know what they're doing. In my mind, it's just about as amateurish as somebody who stores all their files on the desktop because they can't be bothered to learn good file management. My advice? Learn the tools of your trade.

Yes, true. However, sometimes you might want to begin a sentence on a new line without creating a new paragraph. This is OK too. :-) In Word 08 you can do this by holding the shift key when pressing enter.
This way the text is part of the same paragraph on a new line.

In HTML this would be like using and for new lines

As others have said, Word's doing it right. Adding an empty line is wrong, and there should be a space after paras. As someone who reads lots of Word docs in my job (university lecturer) I'm glad that before long students using the defaults will be submitting properly formatted texts!
You could, as has been said, use shift-return for a line break without starting a new paragraph or set up a new style, but honestly, don't - Word is right!
(If only they'd automatically get rid of two spaces after a full stop (period) then it would be perfect!)

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I thought in some previous Word version, they had a very convenient button in the toolbar to add/remove the space before paragraphs. A simple click would add 6 points before the paragraph, and clicking the button again would remove the extra space. This major convenience had been gone for several versions and I've had to make my own button to do this.

Thanks much for this! As far as some of the comments, it's all about perspective and needed usage. Some of us (many I suspect) use Word for all sorts of document creation aside from 'accepted, standard' word processing. It doesn't make us amateurish, it simply means we have different needs.
Thanks again for this solution!

Wrong or right, my opinion is this. In Word 2004, I could simply type a list of items in single space if I wanted. In Word 2008, if I want to do the same thing, I have to do a shift-return after each item to avoid the double spacing. I am not used to typing in this way and it's a hard habit to break. For those who are saying it's wrong, why wasn't the auto paragraph spacing the default in Word 04? A double return after each paragraph has NOT caused any problems for me ever since using Word in any version -- Mac OR Windows.

If nothing else, though, just try cutting and pasting text from Word if you haven't put too returns in - your paragraphs are (apparently) 'gone'. For plain text formatting you really need those two returns.

A better option would be for Word to recognise that two carriage returns directly after each other is a new paragraph (perhaps it already does - I haven't experimented in detail.)

Hi Guys, glad some have found this hint useful. I just want to clarify something, however. I am an English Language Arts teacher, I have worked 10 years in the newspaper industry using AP Style (production, layout, typesetting), and I am a graduate student that uses MLA in writing literary reviews/research. This is why I need the extra space after a carriage return removed. These jobs do not require extra space after a carriage return, in fact, they all require no space after a paragraph.

I was not commenting on the use of an extra carriage return vs. use of paragraph styles when extra space is needed. I was helping people that want no space after paragraphs. The fact that this argument was even brought up here is a mystery to me.

What do you do when you are already using double spacing? As a history student at University, my writing is done in double spacing. With the default extra space at the end of a paragraph that Word 2008 puts in by default there is quite a bit of space between one paragraph and another. Is this the proper way to do it with double spacing? It looks odd and there is quite a lot of space.

This is a brilliant hint, although you're best off simply updating the default template to load with the 'Don't add' box checked. That extra-space after paragraphs is unbearably annoying, followed closely by Calibri 11 as the default font. There's a reason we indent the first line of each paragraph. Adding any extra space between paragraphs is redundant and wrong (akin to putting quotation marks around a block quotation). Thanks for the hint. (Double spacing after periods is a hold-over from typewriters, but most styles [like MLA] don't actually consider it wrong.)

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The Word 2008 default works well for writing single-spaced essays or letters, but, as others have noted, it does not work well at all for double-spaced documents, which is the standard for academic writing. I am a historian writing a book in Word, and my editor at a major university press requires the manuscript in double space. The Word 2008 default in this instance is a major nuisance. Thanks for the fix!
(It's also no good for lots of other everyday uses, such as writing lists, taking notes, etc.)

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Thank you so much for this. The gap between lines when you hit return was maddening. The last straw was dropping marks on a document I handed in at college due to it.