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Tip on Adding Office 2008 Icon to the Dock Microsoft Office for Mac

Tip on Adding Office 2008 Icon to the Dock Microsoft Office for Mac

Tip on Adding Office 2008 Icon to the Dock

Posted: 17 Mar 2008 05:58 AM PDT

In article
<houston.sbcglobal.net>,
aRKay <net> wrote:
 

Yes, I know the enemy of good is better but I did not like the look of
the Microsoft Office 2008 folder icon on the dock so I change it by
leaching the icon from MS install disc. Seems to look better on the
dock than the standard folder icon. Let me know if you find a better
looking dock icon for Office 2008.

Selection colour

Posted: 17 Mar 2008 05:48 AM PDT

My finder preference is Blue and there is no shade option in OSX. Anyway
to make darken up the pale light blue Excel uses?


In article <#phx.gbl>,
Daiya Mitchell <org.INVALID> wrote:
 

Changing the font sizes in Word 08

Posted: 16 Mar 2008 10:31 PM PDT

edit: I'm a bonehead. thanks for the replies though.

Time Machine Saved MS Word

Posted: 16 Mar 2008 06:56 PM PDT

In article
<houston.sbcglobal.net>,
aRKay <net> wrote:
 


The Icon issue is FIXED. I used the OSX Disk Utility to repair
permissions and did a restart. The 2008 MS Word icon is now displayed
correct.

It lives!

Word Crashes on Close

Posted: 16 Mar 2008 02:20 PM PDT

Thank you both - removing the Normal Template Word file appears to have solved the problem.

Regards

WingShooter

12.0.1 Looks like a mess

Posted: 16 Mar 2008 09:26 AM PDT

In article <C4041E16.132F%com>, Matthew Gardiner
<com> wrote:
 

No problems here either.
 

Some people feel compelled to download and install every bit of
crapware they can find...move the locations of default
installations...and then complain when things don't work right.

Word document titles

Posted: 15 Mar 2008 03:40 PM PDT

I am using Safari to access a webmail account and downloading that way. When I read your post, I tried downloading the same Word document using Camino/Mozilla and it worked just fine, i.e., Camino didn't add the .dot to the end of the document. Thanks so much. I'll look forward to the fix.
 

office 2008 mac trial

Posted: 15 Mar 2008 11:11 AM PDT

There "will be" a trial version, but it's not there yet.

It will never be available on TechNet.

It is on MSDN Select, if you have a corporate licence.

Cheers


On 16/3/08 3:41 AM, in article
com, "Andrew"
<microsoft.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

12.0.1 update installer does not recognize the Leopard

Posted: 15 Mar 2008 10:33 AM PDT

Daiya - Shame on you for reading all those negative inferences into my
simple statement of fact;-)... But it does seem odd that the Sys Reqs for
2004 are posted on [two thirds of] the same page as those for 2008 when you
can't find another reference to the former version elsewhere on the site
(other than updater downloads).

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



On 3/16/08 10:06 AM, in article #phx.gbl,
"Daiya Mitchell" <org.INVALID> wrote:
 

update can't find software

Posted: 15 Mar 2008 05:01 AM PDT

Thanks for taking the time to confirm!

But from one English major to another:-) the message isn't really worded too
poorly - it refers to "the software required to install" not the software to
which the update applies.

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



On 3/15/08 4:31 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

[ANN] Office 12.0.1 Updater Now Available via AutoUpdte

Posted: 15 Mar 2008 03:13 AM PDT

In article <C401521D.35FA1%cast.net>,
CyberTaz <cast.net> wrote:
 

Thanks.. too bad it is not writing the file. If that is the only
problem with 2008, we can live with it

How to use 2004 as default?

Posted: 14 Mar 2008 08:08 PM PDT

No, sorry, you can't do this.

I say it is a bug: Office 2008 silently declares itself to be the default
application for all of the file types any time one of the O2008 applications
runs.

We have asked Microsoft if there is a work-around, but I suspect we may be
told "This is by design" :-)

Cheers


On 15/3/08 1:01 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"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

2008: importing 2004 rules + database daemon

Posted: 14 Mar 2008 05:11 PM PDT

On 3/14/08 7:02 PM, in article 140320082202008243%com,
"Loren" <com> wrote:
 

Under Entourage in the Menu bar select "Turn off Office Reminders". Quitting
the Microsoft Database daemon also turns them off.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/glossary/daemon.html#quit_daemon>

--
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/>

What about Publisher and Frontpage??

Posted: 13 Mar 2008 08:03 PM PDT

Because they're not good enough :-)

I'm a *current* PC user as well as a Mac user.

Publisher can't get anywhere near Adobe CS3 in terms of functionality and
refinement.

FrontPage can't keep up with DreamWeaver on the Mac. Expression Web would
be competitive with DreamWeaver, depending on what you want to do. But not
FrontPage.

Cheers


On 14/3/08 12:33 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"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

MBP 3GB v. 2GB

Posted: 13 Mar 2008 01:30 PM PDT

Yeah, sorry, that one's too deep.

If I were to take a guess, I would say it came down trying to read an HTML
email from the database. But it's purely a guess...

Sorry.


On 14/3/08 7:49 AM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"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

Spanish update for Office 2008 still not showing up...

Posted: 13 Mar 2008 11:28 AM PDT

Just Microsoft Office -- I hope :-)

They would only post and then "pull" an update if it caused some fairly
catastrophic problem. But as far as I am aware, the death and injury should
be confined to Microsoft Office.

Cheers


On 16/3/08 4:55 AM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"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

charity licence?

Posted: 13 Mar 2008 10:25 AM PDT

Matt Centurión [MSFT] wrote: 

Thanks for catching that, Matt. Guess someone from MS PSS and I lied to
a firefighter at Macworld.

<snipped useful information> 

Tried that, got some crazy XML Exception text in Safari 3 and Firefox
2. But Search is currently broken, guess it will get fixed at somepoint.

Daiya 

Install Office 2008 and 2004 at the same time?

Posted: 13 Mar 2008 06:30 AM PDT

Loren wrote: 
Not quite following you, Loren--what part of their website? This is
what I see:
http://endnote.com/support/en_wpchart_mac.asp

They specifically say that you can unformat citations in your docs with
Word 2004 and then use the Format Paper method with Word 2008. I'm not
sure whether you mean something different?

The EndNote plug-in is certainly not compatible with Word 2008, at all,
at present--but the EndNote plug-in/toolbar/CWYW is a convenience. It is
not absolutely required to make use of EndNote's bibliographic
management features, it is just easier. Even without the plug-in, you
can continue to use EndNote with Word 2008, but it requires some
adjustments to your workflow. So it may depend on what you mean by
compatible. :-)

Installing Office without disk drive

Posted: 13 Mar 2008 06:15 AM PDT

On 3/13/08 6:15 AM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Restart holding down mouse to eject a stuck CD.

A Google search on eject stuck cd will give you tons of options:

<http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&q=eject+stuck+cd>
--
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/>

Is Word in Office:Mac2008 the same as PC version?

Posted: 12 Mar 2008 10:53 PM PDT

If you learn to use it "Well", yes :-)

Word PC is a larger and more complex version of Word:Mac :-)

Cheers


On 13/3/08 3:23 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"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

AutoUpdate did not capture recent update

Posted: 12 Mar 2008 06:48 PM PDT

On 3/12/08 6:48 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Read and follow the directions here:

Color me confused over updates (The Entourage Help Blog)
<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2008/03/entourage_still_states_1200.html>
--
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/>

[ANN] Answers to problems installing and general confusion

Posted: 12 Mar 2008 05:59 PM PDT

On 3/12/08 7:57 PM, in article
C3FDE622.5613%fullerton.edu, "Norman R. Nager, Ph.D."
<fullerton.edu> wrote:
 

Mine showed 12.0.0, but I was hearing sounds so I assumed I was updated.
Working with the developer and from the logs I sent in, he had me do the
"Remove Office" and re-install. Now I am at 12.0.1. I suggest doing this
also as per the steps shown. 

Yes. We are trying to get the full info available. 

Good question. I just checked and my updated MAU was still updated. 

I didn't and did not even have to enter the CD Key. 

Not yet. It's not been set for autoupload yet. 

A re-do wasn't that bad and you might have to do it when the next release
comes out to fix the underlying problems that caused the problem this go
round.

--
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/>

Word Doc

Posted: 12 Mar 2008 02:50 PM PDT

You can't solve this problem.

If they can "read" it, they can "re-type" it (or copy-paste it...).

So there's nothing you can do to prevent them from changing it. If you save
from Word PC, you can attach a digital signature. But if you do, they will
not be able to read it on the Mac.

I think you will simply have to trust them :-)

What *I* do is print three copies of my resume and take it to the interview
with me.

Head-hunters ALWAYS fiddle around with the resume, no matter how many times
you tell them not to. And usually screw up the formatting when they do.
Which is the kiss of death if you are applying for roles that require expert
Word use, such as a technical writer role :-)

Take your own copies to the interview, and hand it to the interviewers :-)

Cheers


On 13/3/08 7:20 AM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"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

Problem accessing Shared folder under .Mac family pack account

Posted: 12 Mar 2008 02:36 PM PDT

Hello,

I will ask over there as well, but I did not have this problem with Office 2004, nor with any other program, only Office 2008, so I believe it could be an issue with 2008.

Thanks,

Don

Office reinstalled itself

Posted: 12 Mar 2008 01:23 PM PDT

Excellent info. Big thanks,
Bob

On 3/13/08 6:04 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,