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Entourage (Office's) settings saved when purchasing Full Version? Microsoft Office for Mac

Entourage (Office's) settings saved when purchasing Full Version? Microsoft Office for Mac

Entourage (Office's) settings saved when purchasing Full Version?

Posted: 07 May 2007 09:11 PM PDT

Diane Ross wrote: 
Word 2004 did move the Normal Template to live in the Microsoft User
Data folder by default--as a safer place to keep customizations--but the
My Templates folder is still in Applications/Microsoft Office, and needs
to be saved specially as Diane says: 

Possible issue when migrating Office to a new system?

Posted: 05 May 2007 01:31 AM PDT

Hi Bill:

Sadly, Yes :-)

I used to be a radio announcer. By the time I finished that gig, I had a
freebee of everything the record companies had put out since YOU were young
( :-) ).

And it was all on vinyl. Sadly, the kinds of people you work with in the
broadcasting industry tend to "party hard" and they associate with a lot of
people who are not necessarily "model citizens".

Sadly, one of these low-lifes backed up a truck one night whilst I was
otherwise distracted in the pursuit of the honour of some nubile young lady
(remember those days??).

And after a few years of having to pretend I liked the most woeful rubbish
on air, my music taste was entirely ruined. I just haven't really bothered
with music since... Sad, isn't it...

So yeah, 20 or 30 CDs just about DOES describe my music collection these
days.

I had thought of advising the customer to rip a few DVDs just to warm the
thing up a bit, but I was not sure he had the software to do that :-)

Cheers

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Trouble opening Office 2004 documents

Posted: 04 May 2007 10:07 AM PDT

Are you sure you have applied all of the Apple and Microsoft updates to the
product?

Sorry: We'd love to help but you're just creating a guessing game if you do
not supply the version and level numbers of your software, both Word and the
Operating System.

Cheers

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Fact Balloons and Comments HELP!

Posted: 04 May 2007 10:05 AM PDT


One thing I forgot to mention: a great advantage is that you can easily hide
the comments when necessary by re-defining the style as hidden text, in that
document only. This takes only 15 seconds. However, if I want to run off a
PDF or hard copy for someone who doesn¹t need to see them I¹m more likely to
delete the comments altogether by a search-and-replace command (replacing
text in that style with nothing) -- because I usually have my printer set to
print hidden text. This is also quick to do. I immediately follow that with
a Command-z "Undo" command to restore them. If the document is important and
there are many comments, I do it on a Saved As copy.

Clive Huggan
============

On 5/5/07 9:18 AM, in article
C261FC7D.2998E%com.au, "Clive Huggan"
<com.au> wrote:
 

Find & Replace formating

Posted: 04 May 2007 08:37 AM PDT

.... You need the Match Case box to be checked. It isn't a matter of
_formatting_, it's a matter of case structure.

--
Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

"Daiya Mitchell" <org.INVALID> wrote in message
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Office 2004 fonts are corrupt...

Posted: 03 May 2007 12:00 PM PDT

On 5/3/07 12:00 PM, in article
googlegroups.com,
"dot.gov" <dot.gov> wrote:
 

Yes, but it would probably be easier to use "Remove Office" then install
Office from the CD.

The fonts in /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Fonts/ were put
there by the CD Installer to act as a source, backup and repair. They're not
used directly by Office. At the first launch of an Office application they
are copied to ~/Library/Fonts/, replacing any older versions put there by
earlier versions of Office. These are the fonts used by Office and other
applications

The general method of OS X is to look first in your user folder, here
~/Library/Fonts/ . If there happens to be a particular font there, it
overrides any version that may be in /Library/Fonts/ or
/System/Library/Fonts/ - it doesn't even look there for those. In most
cases, once it's done with the user Library, it then looks in
/Library/Fonts/ for any fonts not already found in ~/. Only these fonts from
/Library will appear in the fonts lists. On OS X, most well-behaved
applications installing fonts will do so in ~/Library, since OS X is a
multi-user environment. You or your administrator might choose /Library, but
it will simply get overruled by any user installation of the same fonts.
However, if a user should trash his own fonts, the /Library version will
then come into play. (And it may be that the admin won't let individual
users have permission to remove those.) Finally, if no version of a font
exists in either user or local location the default version in
/System/Library/Fonts will take over. And those can't (i.e. shouldn't - and
don't try) be removed. The system can access these versions as it wishes,
and won't be overruled by other versions of those fonts you might have in
the other Fonts folders which take precedence in other circumstances.

"Remove Office"

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/install/remove_office.html>

See these pages for more info.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/bad_font.html>

<http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Disable-Fonts.html>
--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>

Upgrade v.X to 2004

Posted: 03 May 2007 08:15 AM PDT

Thanks loads ... you've all been very helpful as usual.

G

Bar code on bulk mail labels

Posted: 02 May 2007 01:05 PM PDT

Well that is interesting news. I, too, am curious as to how Office 2008
will handle these bar codes. It would seem to be something that could and
ought to be done.

-Jim


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

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

Microsoft Office (Mac) Re-install after re-format with same product key

Posted: 02 May 2007 12:10 PM PDT

In article <googlegroups.com>,
com wrote:
 

There's no limit on how many times you can install Office - your CD key
doesn't get "used up". There's a license requirement that you use it on
only one machine at a time.

Registration means nothing - it's a marketing opportunity for MS.

And unlike WinOffice, MacOffice doesn't require Mother Microsoft's
Activation.

Office 2004 Partial Circular Arcs

Posted: 29 Apr 2007 02:34 PM PDT

On 30/4/07 8:13 AM, in article
googlegroups.com, "com"
<com> wrote:
 
For a discussion of some of the differences between Word on the Mac and PC,
you're welcome to refer to some notes on the way I use Word for the Mac,
titled "Bend Word to Your Will", which are available as a free download from
the Word MVPs' website
(http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html). Just Do a "Find"
command for "PC" and you'll see them. On page 151 there is an article "PCs
and Macs, main differences in Word interfaces" that includes a table of
commonly used keyboard shortcuts.

[Note: "Bend Word to your will" is designed to be used electronically and
most subjects are self-contained dictionary-style entries. If you decide to
read more widely than the item I've referred to, it's important to read the
front end of the document -- especially pages 3 and 5 -- so you can select
some Word settings that will allow you to use the document effectively.]

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from North America and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
================================================== ==========

cannot download updates for office mac 2004 student/teacher edition

Posted: 28 Apr 2007 10:37 AM PDT

Actually: Ping "download.microsoft.com". I think it will resolve to a
different server than the one I am seeing in Australia. I deduce this from
the fact that I am seeing an 8 millisecond ping time here, and that's not
enough time for the packets to get from one side of the Pacific to the
other, so I suspect they have some very interesting re-directing technology
happening in the middle...

Cheers

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"John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]" <name> wrote in message
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Outlook Web access from Mac

Posted: 27 Apr 2007 05:48 PM PDT

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

I use Firefox, but with no problems.

Product Key on reinstall

Posted: 27 Apr 2007 07:00 AM PDT


For anyone who has recently switched from Windows: it is very rare that you
need to re-install Office on the Mac; sometimes it only adds to your
problems. See other posts in this discussion group.

Clive Huggan
============

On 28/4/07 12:22 AM, in article phx.gbl,
"Bernard W Joseph" <net> wrote:
 

word keeps crashing

Posted: 27 Apr 2007 03:54 AM PDT

com wrote: 
I would also try re-applying the Combo Updater from Apple, before going
to the Word Troubleshooting pages. There have been a number of reports
recently when people ran software update, and problems resulted, but
downloading the 10.4.9 combo updater directly from Apple and applying
that fixed them. 

Office 2004 - Lost Serial Number

Posted: 25 Apr 2007 05:14 PM PDT

You can start here:
See here to find out how to get a new CD Key, assuming you have a
legitimate copy:

How to Replace Lost, Broken, or Missing Microsoft Software or Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=326246


John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac] wrote: 

I can't get my stuff to fill the screen

Posted: 25 Apr 2007 05:12 PM PDT

On 4/26/07 3:53 AM, in article
googlegroups.com, "PhilD"
<co.uk> wrote:
 


To get the Finder to remember the setting. Close window after you set as
desired then reopen.
--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>

"mark unread" in OWA running in Safari or Firefox?

Posted: 24 Apr 2007 11:56 PM PDT

In article <googlegroups.com>,
com wrote:
 

I don't see a way either. OWA is very limited with non-IE-for-Windows
browsers.

bill
--
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows)

PC - MAC compatibility

Posted: 24 Apr 2007 08:22 AM PDT

Hi Deena:

I am afraid you have had some very bad advise if someone told you to wipe
your Mac Book drive :-) Well, you will get plenty of sound advice in here
:-)

The shop should have told you that you need 2 GB of RAM to run Parallels --
preferrably 3GB. That's because parallels runs a guest operating system
alongside your Mac OS X operating system. Now, if you think about a house
guest, they don't eat any less food, sleep in a smaller bed, or fit in a
smaller bathroom just because they're guests :-) Operating systems are just
the same. Windows XP needs 512 MB of RAM to run properly, Windows Vista
needs 1 GB. Parallels adds another 100 MB on top of that (that can be
confusing: Parallels requires a minimum of 512 MB of RAM free before it will
agree to start, but it will settle 100 MB higher than whatever the Guest OS
is using.)

Mac OS 10.4 needs at least 1GB of RAM to run properly. If you add these
together: 1GB for OS X, 512 MB for Windows XP, and 100 MB for Parallels, you
need 1,600 MB of memory, before you run any other applications. They will
need more!

If you don't have that much RAM, the system attempts to substitute hard disk
space for RAM. As you have discovered, that makes the system
treacle-in-winter slow :-)

What the shop might not be quite so ready to tell you is that your Macbook
was supplied with all its memory slots full, so you will have to take some
out to put some in. If you want to take your Macbook from 1GB of memory to
2 GB of memory, you will have to discard BOTH the existing 512 MB sticks of
memory and snap in TWO 1 GB sticks. Fortunately, this is easy to do (you
will even find pictures showing you how on the Apple website) and you will
find a ready market on eBay for your discarded sticks of RAM :-).

Now, I use both Entourage and Outlook, depending on whether I am on a PC or
a Mac. You could, of course, use a Hosted Exchange Server. If you did,
your Outlook, Entourage and Blackberry would just connect to it. I used to
work for these people, who offer that service:
http://my.bigpond.com/emailandmessaging/premiummail/solomanagerplus/default.do
However, a moment's thought will show you that their charges are absurd!
And that's because an Exchange Server is such a beast to manage: Microsoft
has a lot of work to do there... There are several providers who offer
Hosted Exchange Servers all over the world. The benefit of that is that you
get to share anything that Outlook and Entourage can do with all of your
devices. At a substantial cost!

However, I believe the best alternative, as others have suggested, is to use
IMAP for your email server. This means that you do not have to synchronise
your mail ANYWHERE. All of your mail remains on the mail server: Entourage
and Outlook only have to display it to you. Entourage is one of the finest
IMAP clients on the planet: Outlook 2007 is not quite as good, but it's
improving :-)

I just log in to which ever computer I am using at the time and I can see my
mail account. Not synchronised copies of it: I see the real Inbox. I am in
Sydney, my inbox is somewhere in the Rocky Mountains of the USA. Who cares:
I can instantly see what's in it :-) The provider I use is www.fastmail.fm
There are a variety of services out there that offer the same thing: and
women are generally a bit more skilled at shopping than men (so they keep
telling me...) so hit the web and go shopping :-)

The first place to look would be the provider that supplies your email now.
They often offer IMAP service for a small extra fee. If they do, you will
only have to change a parameter in your setup: your email addresses will all
remain the same. ISPs hate offering IMAP, because it makes them responsible
for storing the email. But you did not get into business for yourself by
being a door mat: make them an offer they can't refuse and they will soon
see things your way...

The key parameters when buying a mail service are "reliability, reliability,
reliability". I work for myself also: I can't afford an email provider that
suffers fainting fits: the one I use has not inflicted an unscheduled outage
on me in the past five years.

Amongst the reliable providers, you then go shopping for "Storage" and
"Bandwidth". Bandwidth is rarely a large concern: email doesn't use much (I
never use anywhere near 1,000 MB a month ...). But storage can be. My
current provider offers 2GB as standard, and I had a clean-up last week so I
am actually using only 70 MB (which is very light for me: my Archive mail
store, where I put the old and boring junk is 400 MB).

Once you move your email to an IMAP provider, you will find that your
Blackberry will happily connect to IMAP server and show you your email just
like Entourage and Outlook. You can also configure the Blackberry server to
poll your IMAP server and alert you if anything comes in.

OK, that's email: What about your Calendar and your Contacts? These are
things you ARE likely to want to synchronise, so you can use them at times
when your connection is not available. My IMAP provider offers a Contacts
list: nowhere near as good as Outlook or Entourage, but handy to have.

You can publish your Outlook or Entourage calendars to a web server, from
which you can view them on anything. See
http://office.microsoft.com/client/helppreview.aspx?AssetID=HA101743551033&QueryID=s2 OBh9YUx0&respos=3&rt=2&ns=OUTLOOK&lcid=3081&pid=CH 100776881033

You can find other solutions here:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm#other

Notice the one thing I have not mentioned is "Synchronisation"? That's
because it is inherently complex and unreliable. PC <-> Mac <->
Blackberry?? That's not just "brave", that's thrill-seeking :-) I have
never known anyone who synchronises a hand-held device who has not blown
away ALL their contacts and appointments SEVERAL times. I simply won't do
it. My business data is too valuable. Your mileage may vary :-)

Hope this helps

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Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs
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