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Microsoft Office Repeatedly Crashes and Will Not Re-open Microsoft Office for Mac

Microsoft Office Repeatedly Crashes and Will Not Re-open Microsoft Office for Mac

Microsoft Office Repeatedly Crashes and Will Not Re-open

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 06:21 PM PST

OK, we now have a confusing thread. We have Entourage 2008 and 2004
crashing.

Let's start with the easy question: 

There is no trial for Office 2008.

Did you just install the Safari beta?
 
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/crashes.html#crash30>
 
Could be fonts. See this page:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/crashes.html>


Some general troubleshooting steps you can try. Check between steps to see
if the problem was fixed.

1. Restart your computer (this often fixes many problems)
2. download and apply the latest Apple combo updater.

3. Drag your Office folder to the trash and delete
4. Insert your DVD and reinstall
5. Restart
6. download and run updaters (restarting between each updater)

Office 2008 requires either 1 or 2 updaters (there were two releases on
DVD). Early DVDs require 12.1.0 SP1 and 12.1.5. Later DVDs require 12.1.5.

Office 2004 requires the following:

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.0 Update released June 24, 2008 (This is
a combo updater. This update includes all the improvements that were
released in previous Office 2004 updates.) 59mb

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.1 Update released: Tuesday, August 12,
2008 15mb. Requires 11.5.0 be installed.

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.2 Update released: October 14, 2008 13mb.
Requires 11.5.1 be installed....contains a critical security update for
Excel.

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.3 Update released December 9, 2008, 15.1
mb. Requires 11.5.2 be installed... contains updated time zone information.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

Batch convert all .doc TO .docX, .xls TO .xlsX, etc

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 02:50 PM PST

Hi Fellas!

Thanks for responding.

I downloaded the Open XML Converter v1.0.2 and messed around with it.

I did notice it does batch conversions, but when I tried to drag a .xls onto the program to be converted into .xlsx it rejected the file ('unrecognized file').

Both of you can't be wrong which means I'm being a bad software user and missing something obvious. I just don't know what that is...haha...

Ideas? Maybe I just plain got the wrong software?

Cheers!
Michael

Word2007 .docx conversion

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 07:43 AM PST

Or from where all MS udates for Mac can be found:

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

Which just happens to be a page on the same Mactopia site from which you
appear to be posting your messages to this Forum ;-)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
MVP Office:Mac

"com" wrote:
 

Commerce FAIL

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 07:39 PM PST

Yeah, and full suite downloads - such as Adobe - take more than 4 hours to
d/l plus you pay full retail. Here's a thought: How about your local brick &
mortar vendors? Any store that sells Macs carries Office & many that don't
carry Macs (or computers at all) still carry the software... Or you can
order on-line & pay the premium for overnight delivery.

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 3/2/09 10:39 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Office 2004, New Computer, No CD

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 02:45 PM PST

1- Talk to the vendor who sold you the Mac. If they failed to inform you
they may be willing to offer a discount or something compensatory.

2- If you still have the Product Key for your Office 2004 you can use *any*
Office 2004 CD to install with.

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



On 3/2/09 5:45 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Opening files on school computer

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 01:34 AM PST

On 02/03/09 11:51, in article C5D1244A.4ADC8%cast.net,
"CyberTaz" <cast.net> wrote:
 

Let me add a third suggestion: it could also be that the computers cannot
read the new Office Open XML format. In that case, simply save the files as
Word/Excel/PowerPoint 97-2004 files (File>Save As), which you should then be
able to open on most computers.

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP - Macintosh

*** Please always reply to the newsgroup. ***

Full Entourage with Office Student / Home Edition

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 08:56 PM PST

On 3/1/09 8:56 PM, "com"
<com> wrote:
 

Install Standalone version of Entourage from Exchange Email Provider with
the Home & Student Version

<http://tinyurl.com/6fx99e>
--
Diane

Mail Merge & Filemaker

Posted: 01 Mar 2009 04:21 PM PST

FileMaker versions *prior* to 7 have no problem being used by Office 2004 -
those versions were in play before 2004 was introduced. FM then came out
with v.7 which broke the mechanism & they have never done anything to fix
it. Apparently that incompatibility continues with the FMP 8 format & FM
doesn't care whether their databases can be used by Office 2004 & earlier.

From the MS point of view they aren't about to overhaul a prior version of
their software in order to accommodate an incompatibility caused by another
developer - no software company would. Nor [editorially speaking] should
they be expected to.

Again, the direct answer to your question is FM formats earlier than the
..fp7 are compatible with Office 2004.

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



On 3/2/09 5:34 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Office upgrade -- 2004-2008

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 04:04 PM PST

Thanks Bob for the info!

Microsoft OneNote

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 08:42 AM PST

You're most welcome - I hope you find something that works for you.

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



On 2/23/09 2:00 PM, in article
com, "Castroch"
<microsoft.com> wrote:
 

PowerPoint sound files not playing back from CD Office mac 2008

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 10:20 PM PST

herov wrote: 

Hi,

First, make sure your PowerPoint is up to date using Help > Check for
Updates. There was a bug along the way that affects this problem and
it's been fixed.

Next, use File > Save As and change the type to PowerPoint Package. This
creates a folder that contains a copy of your presentation and copies of
all the media files with proper links.

Burn the entire Package Folder undisturbed to the CD and everything
should work.

-Jim

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

First Letter of Newline is Capitalized

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 11:36 AM PST

In article <phx.gbl>,
CyberTaz <gtz1@comcastdotnet> wrote: 

Thanks.
 

Mac Offfice 2008 sent a private password protected file to Microso

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 05:01 PM PST

EricLancer wrote: 


Hi,

Here is a description what is collected by the report:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/ceip/en-en/privacypolicy.mspx

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/