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11.3.5 Installer won't update Microsoft Office for Mac

11.3.5 Installer won't update Microsoft Office for Mac

11.3.5 Installer won't update

Posted: 04 Jul 2007 02:18 PM PDT

I think I've figured it out. And, I belong in the Word group -- where the
problems are. Thanks anyway.

"dc1999" wrote:
 

License issue

Posted: 03 Jul 2007 08:29 AM PDT

Yeah I thought so too.
Not too sure about the network setup.
But thanks for your comments!

Custom context menu (right-click) in Word 2007?

Posted: 02 Jul 2007 06:00 AM PDT

Gah. When I posted this I wasn't in the mac group. Sorry.

--
Big Dave UK x


"CyberTaz" wrote:
 

Open Office Suite

Posted: 01 Jul 2007 07:40 AM PDT

Quoting from "JE McGimpsey" <org>, in article
microsoft.com, on [DATE:
 

When I install OpenOffice after installing Microsoft Office, then Open
Office changes the file associations of Word, Excel and PowerPoint over to
OpenOffice. It does this without asking and I can't stop it from happening.
I would expect it to do so for OpenDoc format, but not for other product's
file formats. Worse, if I manually reset all the associations back to Word,
Excel and PowerPoint using Finder and "Change ALL" then the next time I use
OpenOffice it changes them back to OpenOffice again without asking and
without recourse. This is extremely bad behavior and is totally
unacceptable.
 

Arial, Times, just about every font. Make a presentation in PowerPoint and
see how it looks in OpenOffice. Same thing with Word. OpenOffice opens the
documents, OK but they look very different from how they were created.
 

Sun released the source code, true. But it is such a convoluted, tangled,
impenetrable mess that only one or two of the developers working on the code
are people who do not work for Sun Microssystems. That's hardly a
"community."

It takes a lot of money (or call it time, organization, commitment,
motivation, enthusiasm or whatever) to make large projects successful.
OpenOffice seems to have exceeded the upper limit as to the kinds of
projects that can be successful using an open source model. Relatively easy
projects such as web browsers and mail clients lend themselves to the open
source model. Hard to do stuff (meaning expensive to make) like office
applications, calendars, and Active-X languish and starve for resources.

Even large enterprises that use OpenOffice such as IBM and the government of
China, loaded with money and talent, are loathe to devote resources to
OpenOffice and other open source projects. The price vs quality equation
evaluates to price for these folks. If they pitch in, that tips the equation
back to commercial software. But it sure sounds good in the press when they
say they "support" open source by using free products.

-Jim
--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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

new mac book, installed office mac but not completely working

Posted: 30 Jun 2007 08:08 AM PDT

On 6/30/07 12:12 PM, in article
googlegroups.com, "rr.com"
<rr.com> wrote:
 

If you can use ³Remove Office² to get rid of the test drive, you should be
able to copy over your Microsoft preferences to the new computer. It will
contain your invisible CD Key.

--
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/>

Office 2004 not working after migrating all files from iBook to Mac Book Pro

Posted: 29 Jun 2007 05:29 PM PDT

Thank you for your reply. I will uninstall Office and reinstall it
when I get home. Yes, it's a very stupid way of doing things and you'd
think MSFT and Apple would have sorted it out by now.

On Jun 29, 11:48 pm, John McGhie <name> wrote: 

Use Office v. X on new MacBook Pro?

Posted: 29 Jun 2007 03:29 PM PDT

Hmmm... Well, we are all speculating here. Those who know when Office 2008
is coming out are not allowed to tell us. Those who tell us, don't know.

I agree with Bob that we have no clear indication of when Office 2008 will
come out, and some of us believe it is running late.

I also agree that Office 2004 runs better on later versions of OS X.
Although the difference is not great. Not enough to persuade me to buy it
when the new version is coming in less than a year.

To save upgrade worries going into the future, at some point you need to
upgrade to the Full version. I would do that at the time that you change to
Office 2008.

For the first time, Office X/2004 and Office 2008 will be almost totally
unrelated. Office 2008 is a very major change indeed. In auto terms, it's
as if they jacked up the hood and drove a new car underneath! There's not
much of the old code left. Although, of course, I don't "know" that, and I
didn't "say" that -- right? :-)

So while I think we can depend on it having a liberal supply of bugs (every
large and complex piece of software has, including OS X...) these will be
brand new made-for-leopard bugs. The old bugs we know and love will all be
replaced by new, upgraded bugs.

The same bugs will hit us whether we upgrade from Office 2001 or Office X or
Office 2004, or if we have never installed Office before. So it's false
logic to waste money on Office 2004 now hoping to get fewer bugs in Office
2008 when it arrives. You won't, you will get just the same bugs. And the
upgrade price is the same, regardless of which version you upgrade "from".
You either have a qualifying previous version, or you don't. Same price.

On the other hand, when we do get Office 2008, it will be wise to allow
Office 2008 to convert all the files we have into its new format. Office X
does not have some of the features of Office 2004. So its files are very
slightly simpler. And that means they will be slightly easier to convert,
and may thus produce slightly less trouble when you do convert them.

Let me hasten to add that you do not HAVE to convert files to use them in
Office 2008. (Well: Office 2008 can only work in the new format, so it
will convert them anyway, but it will save them back to the old format when
you quit, if you so insist.)

You can continue to use the old file formats: but that would be silly. The
main advantage of Office 2008 is that the new file format is very much more
reliable than the old one.

The only time you might choose not to convert is if you have some
non-Microsoft application that can read only the old formats: this is not
likely to be an issue except in large corporations.

Hope this helps


On 30/6/07 10:53 PM, in article
googlegroups.com,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:name

Entourage formatting

Posted: 28 Jun 2007 07:06 AM PDT

On 1/7/07 10:07 AM, in article C2AD2D66.4D25%name, "John McGhie"
<name> wrote:

<snip>
 
In Acrobat: Select with selection tool, copy; in Word, Edit menu => Paste
Special (or a keyboard shortcut for this most used of all my editing
actions). Not difficult if you have Acrobat (you don't, John? I shall speed
to you a licensed recent version by Australia Post as a token of my
esteem...).

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

previously functional Office 2004 now won't launch after Mac OS updates

Posted: 27 Jun 2007 01:02 PM PDT

On 7/2/07 1:00 PM, in article
googlegroups.com, "com"
<com> wrote:
 

An ³Archive & Install² isn¹t bad. If you select to "Preserve User and
Network Settings", it¹s pretty painless.

As Bob suggested, try the combo updater first.

--
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/>

New Macbook - reinstalled and now only a trial version of Office

Posted: 27 Jun 2007 10:27 AM PDT

Another possibility I'm reading into your quandary:

If the previous owner legitimately owned a license to the Office software on
the system he should have either a) removed Office from the Mac before
transferring ownership if he intended to continue using that copy of the
product, or b) handed over the disks along with the Mac & the key. As you
can see, the key does you no good if you have to reinstall the software -
the software is on the disks. You can install from any copy of the same
version using your key, but you'll still be left in the same boat if
something similar occurs in the future.

Contact the other party for the disks or invest in a copy of Office to call
your own:)

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

"Googler" <net> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 

Microsoft Office Product License

Posted: 26 Jun 2007 07:53 PM PDT

Might be *your* Macbook, but it *isn't* your software... It's licensed to
one & only one individual. Since what you (and your friend) have done is a
violation of the license agreement I wouldn't complain too loudly... Let
alone in public. If your sanity is truly at stake, follow John's advice &
purchase a legitimately licensed copy... It may also salvage your integrity
as well as your conscience;)

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



On 6/26/07 10:53 PM, in article
googlegroups.com,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Installation problem Office Mac

Posted: 24 Jun 2007 04:50 PM PDT

Either the CD is dirty, or your drive is dirty.

Put in a different CD. If that works OK, then you need to clean your Office
CD.

Wipe the non-printed side with window-cleaner and a soft cloth and try
again.


On 25/6/07 9:20 AM, in article
googlegroups.com, "edu"
<edu> wrote:
 

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:name