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Posted: 02 Mar 2008 07:19 AM PST

Hi JR:

If you look at the posting volumes, you would see they're up by between 2
and ten times. And nearly 90 per cent of the posts are coming from the
'officeformac.com' server.

So I would gently suggest that Microsoft has made a massive improvement
already: these groups are now around ten times more successful than they
ever have been in delivering help to users.

Yeah, there's a few issues. But as a grumpy old UseNet die-hard, you are
used to living in an imperfect world. If you could be bothered to point
Newswatcher at the originating Usenet server for these groups, you would get
a much more complete picture :-)

Grumpy Old Man!! You're worse than me :-)

Cheers


On 3/03/08 3:58 AM, in article
vsrv-sjc.supernews.net, "Jolly
Roger" <com> wrote:
 

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

Product key on Student Office

Posted: 01 Mar 2008 09:44 PM PST

Thanks to both John and Diane,

We have found the problem, it seems to be a conflict between my laptop and my daughter - same product ID in info window. (Therefore we must have deleted the app from the old computer). How do we know which product ID goes with which key and how do we delete and reinstall one of them? I see somewhere there is Remove Office, but I can't seem to find it on my computer. We are running Office:Mac Student/Teacher edition, There is no year listed anywhere.

[ANN] Critical update to Office 2008 AutoUpdate (MAU)

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 05:34 PM PST

On 2/29/08 11:43 PM, in article
googlegroups.com, "Kerry"
<com> wrote:
 

Yes, it's just the AutoUpdater that changed. The older version will not see
any of the new updates. The first updater for Office 2008 is due out March
11.

--
Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

Office 2004 compatibility with 2007

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 06:01 AM PST

I don't think that's the case at all.

The beta converters were released while the development of 2008 was ongoing.
Things change during development & MacBU has only a certain amount of
resources available. Excel was one of the later apps to evolve & there was
most likely a significant change that made the earlier converter cease to
work. Since other options were already available from a number of sources
I'm sure MacBU decided to devote their resources to getting the 2008 product
out as best they could rather than throwing manpower & money at a new
interim beta converter for Excel. If that's *at all* the case, IMHO, they
did the right thing.

Nobody is being "forced" to upgrade to 2008 - there are plenty of options
for you to choose from. Quite frankly, MS' intention to provide 2004 with
*foreward* compatibility is virtually unprecedented in the software
industry - especially where such a radical transition in both application
coding *and* file format has occurred... Often you can't even expect to
retain *backward* compatibility.

As far as I'm concerned MacBU should be commended for their efforts to
provide the update in 2004 rather than being accused of coersion - even if
there is a wait involved.

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

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First Office 2008 Update Released 2/29/08

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 06:00 AM PST

I guess because it does not show updates to itself :-) It is showing you
the "Updates installed to Microsoft Office" and since it is not considered
to be part of Microsoft Office, it does not show updates to itself!


On 2/03/08 2:28 PM, in article
houston.sbcglobal.net, "aRKay"
<net> wrote:
 

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McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50

Re-installing Office due to Hard drive failure?

Posted: 28 Feb 2008 11:21 PM PST

You need to get an Installation CD from somewhere. It doesn't matter where.

Your parents can email you the key and you can use it to install from any
disk.

Once you have the key, Microsoft Australia will sell you a replacement disk
for about 30 bucks.

Hope this helps


On 29/02/08 4:51 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

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

Compress feature for pictures in a word file

Posted: 28 Feb 2008 06:34 PM PST

On 1/03/08 3:54 AM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Basically, because this functionality is not important in the Mac market.

As soon as you begin to discuss printing and graphics, you get into the
space that the Macintosh "owns". The majority of the flashy graphics and
beautiful typography that you see, anywhere in the world, is done on a Mac.

Mac users in that space are professional, skilled, and demanding.

The crude tools offered in Windows for corporate cube-dwellers (who are
generally not very focussed on appearance or presentation) are not of value
on the Mac.

Mac users normally have advanced image and typography applications capable
of the meticulous and exacting workflows they use. On the Mac, users expect
to have each image at the size, shape and colour standard they will use
BEFORE they insert it into the output workflow.

Everything you put into software costs money: and on the Mac, this kind of
thing simply wouldn't be used. It's not good enough to do the job a Mac
user expects. Better to leave it out, and concentrate Microsoft's money on
things Mac users DO require, such as ligatures and Open Type fonts.

Those will be used, and will add value to Office on the Mac. Crude
image-editing won't.

Which is not going to stop me from asking for it, either :-) I am a
"Windows at Work, Mac at Home" user. And I work almost entirely to
electronic output. High-quality image editing is not a driver for me (I
can't draw a cheque...). So I will continue to pursue Microsoft about this.
But you can take it from me that this is about 500th on their list of
"things to do" on a Mac :-)

Cheers

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