I have been using a Mac for a few months after 100 years of using a PC. I installed MS Office 2008 for the Mac, and it works well enough. Except: when I open a Word document, more than half the time the Mail Merge Manager dropdown box, well, drops down. Nothing in the document has anything to do with mail merge, nor did it ever. I can, of course, close it, but it's annoying. Any ideas about how i can stop this? I've been into the DOT template (or whatever it's called in Mac) but can find nothing in there having to do with this issue. Thanks for your help.

Have you tried: Click the Microsoft Office Orb, then click Word Options. Click Resources. Click Diagnose See if that helps. MIKE http://www.skeptic.com/

Thanks Mike. I cannot find the Office Orb. I know what it is, but it's nowhere on any of the component of MS Office 2008 for the Mac (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). Do you know where I can find it? As I said, I'm new to Macs. Maybe the Orb isn't used on them. Thanks.

When you open Word, it's the fancy new icon they use, in the upper left corner. MIKE http://www.skeptic.com/

Thanks, but there's no such icon in any of the Office components. My guess is that it didn't come over to Mac from PCs. Is there any other place I can get to Options, Resources, Diagnose, etc.? Thanks again. Bob

Don't know about Mac's, if it's not in the upper left corner... Try doing a HELP in Word on Diagnostics and see if that leads you to it. . MIKE http://www.skeptic.com/