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Purchasing Office:Mac

Posted: 27 Sep 2007 11:06 AM PDT

Hi,

Apple stores normally sell third party applications, and you can be quite
sure that Microsoft Office is among them. As a student, you will not get a
discount on Microsoft Office; instead, you'll be able to buy the Student &
Teacher edition, which allows you to install Office on up to three different
machines, at a rather affordable price ($149). Note also that if you buy
Microsoft Office 2004 now, you will be able to upgrade to Office 2008 (when
it comes out in January 2008) for a minimal shipping and handling fee. Just
make sure you have some kind of proof of purchase.

Most Macs come pre-installed with a Test Drive of Microsoft Office; make
sure you remove that one with the Remove Office tool (Applications/Microsoft
Office 2004/Additional Tools/Remove Office) before installing the full
version. To answer your question, no, there is no Mac that ships with a
pre-installed full version of Microsoft Office.


On 27/09/2007 20:06, in article
googlegroups.com,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

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Office Crashes on Launch

Posted: 26 Sep 2007 02:28 PM PDT

Thanks for your help. I assume you are trying to be funny with your
"mind readers" remark.

Apple KB 30604 relates to a problem that occurs after an upgrade to
QuickTime 7.2 but I am still using QuickTime 7.1.5 so I didn't think
it would be the cause. But I installed the 10.4.10 combo updater
anyway. The problem still exists. No way am I going to risk trying the
"terminal" suggestion since one false move may screw everything up and
I don't think that's the problem anyway.

Please remember, Word, Excel and PowerPoint open and work fine if I
open them by double clicking an existing document. It is only when I
try to open them via the dock or the Applications folder that they
crash. Does this info from the crash report help at all:

Date/Time: 2007-09-27 10:18:06.318 -0500
OS Version: 10.4.10 (Build 8R2232)
Report Version: 4

Command: Microsoft Word
Path: /Applications/Microsoft Office X/Microsoft Word
Parent: WindowServer [77]
Rosetta: Yes

Version: 10.1.8 (10.1.8 (060901), © 1983-2001 Microsoft Corporation.
All rights reserved.)

PID: 337
Thread: Unknown

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000

Updating "Office" from "10.1.x" (office version not Mac OS version) to current "Office" version

Posted: 25 Sep 2007 06:36 PM PDT

If you have Office X (version 10), there is no free upgrade to Office 2004
(version 11). You can buy the Office 2004 Standard Edition Upgrade now and
then get the Office 2008 Upgrade when it's released in early 2008. More
information here:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/go/promotions/>

As for Office X, the latest update you can apply is Office X 10.1.7, which
is available here:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx#OfficeX>

On 9/25/07 8:36 PM, in article
googlegroups.com, "com"
<com> wrote:
 

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Office & Mac Resources: <http://home.earthlink.net/~mickey.stevens/>

[ANN] Office for Mac 2008 prices announced

Posted: 25 Sep 2007 04:29 PM PDT

In article <C3202061.10420%entourage.mvps.org>,
Diane <entourage.mvps.org> wrote:
 

Can you explain what that means? Entourage is the email and calendar
client. Is "Entourage2008" slashed down to being just a POP/IMAP tool
or something?

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crash when launching any office 2004 app on MacBook pro

Posted: 25 Sep 2007 07:39 AM PDT

Renaud,

Thanks very much for posting all the details of your fix and
especially the blog reference http://mactip.blogspot.com/2007/07/dependent-dylib-is-not-prebound.html
that you found. That permitted me to solve my "Excessive 2004 Word CPU
Problem" that I encountered in mid-July and posted about here, the
Word forum and an Apple forum. It is not the same as yours but a
similar fix worked.

I reran update_prebinding and noticed an error that I must have missed
before about a file not being prebound. Apparently such an error stops
the command at that point and does not proceed further. I found that
the /usr/X11R6/lib files listed in /var/db/dyld/update-prebinding-
paths.txt gave that error, so I made a copy of the file and with
emacs preceded all such lines with "#" to comment them out and then re-
ran update_prebinding. Word 2004 now does not use excessive CPU.

Thanks again,

Bob Fowles

Link to download Office 2007 converter (Beta version) is broken

Posted: 25 Sep 2007 06:40 AM PDT

Here's some advice from another user:
-----------------
If comcast is the ISP provider
they are having a problem with the DNS servers. The fix is to go to the
TCP/IP and enter 68.87.64.196 then on the next line type 68.87.66.196.
Click apply and go back to the ms.mac download page and get the update.
-----------------

On 9/25/07 8:40 AM, in article
googlegroups.com, "RobinMN"
<net> wrote:
 

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Office & Mac Resources: <http://home.earthlink.net/~mickey.stevens/>

Keyboard won't work in Word!

Posted: 24 Sep 2007 03:41 PM PDT

Yeah, you're right - I subconsciously associated the OS X nomenclature :-}

Thanks for the catch, Mickey!

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



On 9/25/07 6:04 PM, in article C31EF001.42BFB%org,
"Mickey Stevens" <org> wrote:
 

Access for mac?

Posted: 24 Sep 2007 10:13 AM PDT

Hi,

John is correct. Here's a more specific link about how to use Office 2004
as a fully Relational database:

http://www.agentjim.com/MVP/Excel/RelationalOffice.htm

If you have further questions about this please post them in this forum.

-Jim


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

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Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
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Does MS Office install preserve data in existing MUD folder?

Posted: 23 Sep 2007 09:44 AM PDT

Diane,

Actually 306043 is specifically for Intel machines. Mine is a 2001
Titanium 500Mhz G4 Powerbook. Even though that prescription is for
Intel, I had tried it and the prebinding after reading about it many
weeks ago. Re: the suggestion to delete all the files installed by
JavaSE6Release1.pkg, that may be for a Intel machine. My latest Java
pkg file in /Library is JavaForMacOSX10.4Release5.pkg.

Thanks for the suggestions.
Bob Fowles

Sync Services error while Syncing with Mac & Entourage 2004

Posted: 22 Sep 2007 10:49 PM PDT

Hi Henry -

The 11.3.5 update is a "catch-up" that brings everything prior up-to-date.
It must be applied before the other two otherwise you'll get an error
message telling you that the "version can't be found" (or similar wording).

And Yes, updates must always be applied in the appropriate sequence and the
update page on Mactopia will tell you at what level you must be in order to
apply any given update. [11.3.7 requires 11.3.6 which requires 11.3.5, but
11.3.5 can be applied to *any* version that precedes it.]

Start here & click the "All Downloads" link on the right side of the page:

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/

Keep in mind that Office apps also provide the Check for Updates feature
that can be set to automatically do so on a scheduled basis, as well as the
Downloads & Updates feature which directs you to the same destination for
all downloads currently available.

Also - the screwy way things work - not *all* apps in the suite will reflect
the latest applied update version number, so even after you apply the 11.3.7
update you'll find that the About... info for each app is:

Word = 11.3.5
E'rage = 11.3.6
Excel = 11.3.7
PPt = 11.3.5

So if you ever need clarification on what update level has been successfully
installed for the *suite* go into the MS Office 2004 folder where you'll
find a folder called Updater Logs. There you'll find a list of text files
created at the time the update by that name was applied.

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



On 9/23/07 7:30 AM, in article C31BC6A8.7099%net,
"Henry M. Seiden" <net> wrote:
 

FW: Sync Services error while Syncing with Mac & Entourage 2004

Posted: 22 Sep 2007 01:13 PM PDT

William,

I've certainly had my share of troubles with syncing and loss of data (sad
to say most with Entourage, although Addressbook & iCal too) so will read
with interest your blog posting.

Thanks,

Henry


On 9/23/07 12:40, in article OjCq5Bg$phx.gbl, "William
Smith" <comcast.net> wrote:
 

License Agreement

Posted: 22 Sep 2007 07:28 AM PDT

You either misunderstood or were misinformed: The Student/Teacher edition is
the only one that comes with 3 license keys. All other editions (Standard,
Professional) include only one key. Although each key permits installation
on 2 systems the software can only be in use on one of them at a time.

Theoretically, you can install the same package on as many systems as you
wish using the same key to do so, but it is A) a violation of the EULA and
B) if the systems are networked only one will be able to run the software at
any given time.

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



On 9/22/07 10:28 AM, in article
googlegroups.com,
"net" <net> wrote:
 

Office thinks system running OS X 10.4.10 is actually running pre 10.2.8

Posted: 21 Sep 2007 08:40 AM PDT

Should have also mentioned -

This isn't unheard of - what's happened in a nutshell is that the 10.4.10 is
being identified as 10.4.1 - you can find additional information about the
issue on the Apple site if you need it.

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



On 9/22/07 9:06 AM, in article C31A8B94.2B514%cast.net,
"CyberTaz" <cast.net> wrote:
 

Roaming Office Errors for Network Users

Posted: 19 Sep 2007 09:32 PM PDT

Just to add a datapoint to your investigation, I would suggest that the
issue is with the Temporary Files", not with the document file itself.

Word users require Rename and Remove permissions to the temporary directory
to be able to save their files. Word creates as many as 20 temporary files
per document, depending on how long they have it open and what they are
doing to it.

I have never done any Apple server network stuff, so I am way out of my
depth here: but I seem to remember that the system creates a temporary
folder in the root of the share. I can't remember whether there is one for
each user. But there's something in the mists of my memory about how the
users need to be in a group with RWX privileges to that folder, or you get
these problems.

Hope this helps

On 20/09/07 2:02 PM, in article
microsoft.com, "javaman"
<com> wrote:
 

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Auckland, New Zealand
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Unable to open Windows XP

Posted: 19 Sep 2007 08:55 PM PDT

The problem is that the VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) file is either corrupt or
missing.

PRAY that it is missing, and that you can restore it.

Because if it is corrupt, you're pretty much hosed. It's a large binary
file, and if it's bad, it's bad.

There is a way to "Mount" a VHD as a disk drive. Ask them in the VPC group
and they will be able to tell you how to go about it. I think later
versions of Windows will enable you to mount a VHD and get the data back
from it when the contained copy of Windows won't start. But if the reason
the contained copy of Windows won't start is because the VHD is corrupted,
that won't work either...

Cheers


On 20/09/07 1:25 PM, in article
googlegroups.com, "com"
<com> wrote:
 

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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/
Auckland, New Zealand
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:name

New Vista .docx files

Posted: 19 Sep 2007 06:19 AM PDT

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

It's not a Vista thing, it's an Office 2007 thing.

Changing location of Microsoft User Data folder

Posted: 19 Sep 2007 05:16 AM PDT

Command+Click the MUD folder, select a color (Red works fine) then tell them
not to mess with any red folders.

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



On 9/19/07 8:16 AM, in article C316D1C2.11A45%co.uk, "Craig
Roberts" <co.uk> wrote: