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Slightly off topic: Remove Office 98 from the Dock Microsoft Office for Mac

Slightly off topic: Remove Office 98 from the Dock

Posted: 14 Dec 2006 08:49 AM PST

Thanks for letting us know, Kristina!

Clive Huggan
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On 15/12/06 6:54 AM, in article phx.gbl,
"Kristina Conceicao" <com> wrote:
 

Office started to display Calendar items and other dates in German

Posted: 14 Dec 2006 07:58 AM PST

Hi,

I don't know the cause of the problem, but Microsoft is aware of it. You are
not the first to report it, but it is good that you mentioned it because the
more who notice this the higher the priority increases for the need to fix
it.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP


Quoting from "com" <com>, in article
googlegroups.com, on [DATE:
 

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Trying to use Outlook 2003 on a MacBook via Parallels

Posted: 14 Dec 2006 04:51 AM PST

Hi Nick:

1) Back up your Outlook .pst file and its associated resource files.
Carefully record the exact file path where you found them.

2) From the Administrator user in Windows, create a new user account for
yourself.

3) Place the Outlook files in the correct position in the local profile of
your normal Windows user (It's normally in c:\documents and settings\your
user name\local settings\microsoft\outlook...).

4) Start Parallels and Windows and log in with your user name.

When you open Outlook it should find and use the correct email accounts.
Outlook is fairly simplistic: the location of the file is what determines
whether Outlook considers it "yours" or not.

If you read the help in Outlook, there are instructions for moving your user
file. I would not bother with this: just put your files into the correct
default location and they'll work.

Cheers

On 14/12/06 11:51 PM, in article
googlegroups.com, "nickr"
<com> wrote:
 

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Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

Premature Test Drive

Posted: 13 Dec 2006 10:15 PM PST

On 12/14/06 7:55 AM, in article
googlegroups.com, "PhilD"
<co.uk> wrote:
 

Hopefully, the following will save your some problems by removing the Test
Drive incorrectly.

If you purchase Office, you must first remove the Office Test Drive from
your computer. Use "Remove Office". Remove Office is located in the Office
2004 folder --> Additional Tools --> Remove Office and on the CD-ROM.

To remove the Test Drive, on the Results screen, click the Microsoft Office
2004 (including Test Drive) check box to select the Test Drive, and then
click Continue. In the Choose which components to remove screen, click the
Remove the Microsoft Office 2004 Test Drive folder check box to remove the
Test Drive, and then click Continue.

Remove Office can rescue files that you created in Office programs ‹ such
as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint documents and
templates ‹ by moving them to a Rescued Items folder that it creates on
your desktop. However, if your Microsoft Office folders contain other types
of documents that you want to save, you should move them elsewhere before
starting Remove Office. If you forget to do this, you can find the files in
the Trash.

Note: Your Entourage data stored in your Microsoft User Data folder will not
be removed.


--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
The Entourage Blog lists the EHP as one of the top five Microsoft Entourage
resources.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>

10.1.9 update dilemma

Posted: 13 Dec 2006 11:58 AM PST


 

Thank you John, that is exactly what I was wishing someone was going to
suggest.

Watching and waiting.

Upgrade from Mac Office 2004 to Office X?

Posted: 13 Dec 2006 03:39 AM PST

Hi Jeff,

Office 2004 is *more recent* than Office v.X. Office v.X came out in 2001,
Office 2004 came out in 2004. This also explains why there is no upgrade
from 2004 to v.X; going that way would, strictly speaking, be a downgrade.
So if you are using Office 2004, you're running the latest version of Mac
Office, and there's no need to upgrade right now.


On 13/12/06 12:39, in article
googlegroups.com,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

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Mac Office vX

Posted: 12 Dec 2006 08:54 PM PST

Thanks y'all. I opened up Spelling and DIctionary. Clicking on the
button "DICTIONARY" there was only the custom, it was not checked. I
checked it and it works. Bennigan's doesn't flag as an error anymore.
Thanks for the quick response.
TK

Diane Ross wrote: 

Dec 12 SECURITY UPDATE to version 11.3.1 to patch vulnerabilities

Posted: 12 Dec 2006 03:05 PM PST

Yep.

Wait a few days... The patch was released early in error, and cancelled
when they discovered that some of the bits it included had not been fully
tested.

If you have already loaded it, leave it there, it is unlikely to do any
harm. The official release will straighten it out.

Cheers


On 14/12/06 4:27 AM, in article
news.prodigy.com, "aRKay"
<net> wrote:
 

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Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

Possible Bug in PowerPoint/Word

Posted: 12 Dec 2006 07:21 AM PST

In article <googlegroups.com>,
"Del" <com> wrote:
 

I selected the three paragraphs, clicked the "Numbering" icon in the
toolbar, clicked the "Bullets" icon and then closed word. The space
after the first letter of each paragraph was gone.

If this doesn't work for you, maybe there is something strange with the
"Bullets and Numbering" formatting in Word.

--
Tom Stiller

PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3
7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF

Similar problems in Word, Excel and Entourage on both I-Mac and MacBook Pro (Intel)

Posted: 11 Dec 2006 12:49 PM PST

You don't specify in either post, so the first suggestion is to make sure
that both Office and OS X are fully updated. Even if *both* are recent
purchases you can't assume that the latest of either were "in the box" -
11.3 for Office, 10.4.8 for OS X... and be sure to use Disk Utility - Repair
Disk Permissions after any updates. If you need to update the OS it's better
to use the Combo updater from the Apple web site. In fact, it might not be a
bad idea to reinstall using it even if you are at 10.4.8 already.

The generality of what you report could also be associated with an
incomplete removal of the Office Test Drive if you had that installed on the
systems before installing Office 2004.

As far as the "very different" issue of Mac vs PC Excel, there are any
number of variables that could come in to play here - especially if he is
using files created on the PC which have been customized. OTOH, it could
just be a matter of getting used to Command = Control, Option = Alt, as both
versions are far more similar than they are different. Not knowing exactly
what he's having difficulty with makes it hard to offer any suggestions, pro
or con.
--
HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

<com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com...
I can't quite put my finger on it, but it is not only right-click
commands. In Entourage at least, I've noticed that the more spelling
mistakes (or rather the more names, weird words, other-language words
etc.), the more often the programme closes down. In Word it's special
commands, but I'm not quite sure which. In Excel it may be when
commands that would be Windows-commands are executed, since my husband
still hasn't got used to the Mac-version of Excel, which he finds very
different from the PC-version.

Thanks for your interest in my problem.

//Néné

On Dec 12, 8:05 am, Daiya Mitchell <org.INVALID>
wrote: 

Word 2004 Data Merge with Nested If-THEN-ELSE and arithmetic/logic operations

Posted: 09 Dec 2006 10:54 PM PST

Hello,

I'm a bit surprised that you don't like mail merge better in 2004 than in
2001. Perhaps you haven't found all of the goodies yet.

From the View menu try Toolbars > Database

From the Tools menu try Data Merge Manager

You can use field codes to do arithmetic. Search for this help topic in
Word's help:
Total the numbers in a row or column

You can customize which tools are available to you on toolbars and menus.
From the View menu choose Customize Menus and Toolbars. When that dialog
box is open you can drag commands from the Commands tab of the dialog box to
any menu or toolbar. You can add and remove toolbar and menu items as you
please from any toolbar or menu while the Customize dialog box is open.

I hope you find some of these tips useful.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP



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googlegroups.com, on [DATE:
 

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Identity crisis

Posted: 08 Dec 2006 04:07 AM PST

On 12/8/06 4:07 AM, in article C19EBFA0.24855%rr.com, "HAL
KUSHNER" <rr.com> wrote:
 


Just to make sure....

When you say you are signing on as the main account user (Identity)., is
this in Entourage? There is no user for the other applications.

A User is a term used by the Mac OS. The terms Identity and User are often
confused. Entourage stores your data in an Identity, and the Mac OS creates
Users. The Users folder resides at the root level of the startup disk and
contains the home folders for all user accounts on the computer. Creating a
new User is often useful to troubleshoot problems in Entourage because you
can eliminate corruption and conflicts that might reside in your Home
folder.

Definition of account

Each identity can have (almost) any number of accounts. Each account is
associated with a distinct email address than can be used to send and/or
receive mail, but all mail is stored in the same database, all calendar
events are common to all the accounts, all notes & contacts are shared.

So....if you are using the same Identity with separate accounts, then the
problem is with your accounts. Delete them and recreate from scratch. Be
careful when you copy/paste info. Adding an extra space can cause problems.

If you are using separate Identities and creating new accounts does not fix
the problem, database corruption could be the cause.

Hope this helps.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
The Entourage Blog lists the EHP as one of the top five Microsoft Entourage
resources.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>

Macros virus on Macintosh - help save my files

Posted: 07 Dec 2006 01:28 PM PST

Hi Corentin:

On 12/12/06 4:40 AM, in article
1hq6iu1.1j85aos1lbmj0cN%mvps.org, "Corentin Cras-Méneur"
<mvps.org> wrote:
 

Yeah, that was careless phrasing. As far as I know, if you "open" the file
with Macros disabled (by saying "No" to the Macro Warning...) the file
loaded into memory does not contain the macro code.

If you then SAVE what you opened, the copy in memory overwrites the copy on
disk and the macro code is permanently removed.

If the bad code is in the Normal template, unfortunately it will run anyway,
because the Normal template is in a "Trusted" location from which the Macro
Warning is suppressed.

So your original advice is much safer than mine :-)

Alternatively, the user should re-name the Normal Template and THEN open the
files with the macro warning enabled. Since the suspect files are in a
non-trusted location, the macro warning will fire as normal.

Cheers


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Technical Writer.
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office X and os 10.4.8

Posted: 05 Dec 2006 02:41 AM PST

CyberTaz <typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet> wrote:

Hi.
 

BTW - if you got "hundreds of fonts", make sure they are all ok.
Crap fonts are one of the best methods to cause Mac OS X including
many applications to tumble. Font Book can verify them, in
serious cases, go for Font Doctor:

http://www.morrisonsoftdesign.com/index-7.html


P.S.
Very handy to work with many fonts inside Word:

http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/fontcard


Regards,
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Can't remove MS Office Test Drive

Posted: 04 Dec 2006 10:47 PM PST


John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote: 
[snip]

John,

Thanks for the explanation. As I said, the first thing I did was to run
the uninstall program for Office Test Drive, but it didn't see
anything. That is when I figured I could just delete the whole thing. I
should say that this was on a brand new computer that no one else had
touched, so I knew that Office hadn't been started. Also, IIRC, I
checked for preference files in ~/Library/Preferences and in
/Library/Preferences before I loaded my copy of Office 2004.

--
Dave Fritzinger
Honolulu, HI

default Times font in Word v X

Posted: 04 Dec 2006 12:21 AM PST

In article <C19B3BD3.227C1%com.au>,
Clive Huggan <com.au> wrote:
 

Thanks, I'm using 2004!

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the microsoft wav file

Posted: 02 Dec 2006 10:36 AM PST

Thank you!

"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote: