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Microsoft Word - Turn OFF ALL Styles


Turn OFF ALL Styles

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 12:54 PM PST

The threads on this are old.  Has anyone found a way to turn them all OFF once and for all?  Most of my office work is doing complicated layouts that print precisely where I have calculated them to land.  Like making large labels for things that need each line a certain font/size/layout.  When I set my tabs, font, etc for a 2 line section, I need it to retain all of that when I hit the enter key, not change it to some other style.  It takes me 3-4 times longer to do them because of all the stupid auto formatting office does.  I've wasted the last 2+ hours now trying to figure out how to turn it off.  I've never once used styles.  I don't create documents that I would even want styles in.  I HAVE A BRAIN.  I resent office doing what it does.  If I had to create a style for every format layout, I would literally soon have hundreds, if not a thousand, styles that I would have to manage and remember to delete all the time.

I need it to always remember every single aspect of formatting that I did from one carriage return to the next, not change it back to what it was sometime before the moment I hit the enter key.

Please tell me someone has figured out a registry hack or has an add-on that lets us normal people with brains turn off yet another idiot feature.

Thanks.

Atypical bibliography / works cited formatting

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 12:50 PM PST

All,

I'm trying to do something a little different with the built-in bibliography / works cited functionality in Word 2010. Instead of having the work cited follow a paragraph in quotes as is typical, I need it to follow in-line with the text as follows:

lorem ipsum...et al, in accordance with reference 3.

Reference 3 would then be delineated in the Bibliography or Works Cited section, which would need to be retitled References, and would also need to be numbered, so reference 3 would be the third reference.

Is it possible to set this up so I can automatically refer to sources repeatedly throughout the document, or is there a better way to do this? It'd be nice if it were automatic so I could renumber my references, if necessary.

transfering photoshop photos to Office Word.

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 12:36 PM PST

For a long time I wanted to use Photoshop creations in Word documents . but have never been to find a way to do it any where on the web that I could find
Therefore, I decided to devise my own solution.  It may not be the best method or the only, but at least it works.at least on PC ,not tried on Macs

So to help other people achieve that objective thought I would write it up on here

Open a Word document; open the Photoshop photo you want to add to text.
Select the largest layer in the photo you want to
Click ctrl+ A
This puts dotted line around layer.
Click ctrl +C to copy.

Move to Word document, click ctrl V this pastes that layer only on to page.
Double click on layer, and if you have Photoshop, it should open it a new image page.  leaving word with a hatched photo
Click on show as side by side , (the two squares in top bar)
Select all your layers on first photo,(the one you want to add), and drag across.  To the other image.


This will transfer from one image to other, leaving you with two identical images except the one if viewed on office will have a background layer.
Back on word the image will have changed for a hatched picture to the new one
  Close Photoshop and there it is, hopefully on your word document.

To edit at any time double click on the Word photo and it will open Photoshop ready for you to edit.

dont know if this helps anybody who has the same problem

Do I need internet explorer to install Microsoft Office Word?

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 12:22 PM PST

I currently do not have Internet Explorer or Microsoft Word on my PC (Windows 8)  I use Goggle Chrome and Open Office. I have disc created by Microsoft Word in 2009 that I would like to view. I have tried downloading Microsoft View but when I insert the disc and click on the subject name, I get the message that" Internet Explorer has stopped working.  I tried downloading Internet Explorer and making itmy default but i still get the same message. I am willing to pay for the Micorsoft Office Word if it would read the disc. Does nay one have any suggestions.  Keep in mind that I am 79 and  in no way a computer whizz so if you can speak computeridiot language, I would appreciate it.

office 365

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 12:09 PM PST

hi i had office 365 home premium on trial i started to write some stuff  and it as since expired an now i cant get my stuff back its there but cant copy an paste it so cant use it what do i do please help????

lost coedits

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 11:57 AM PST

I am very unhappy.
my guest coauthor edited hundreds of typos in my document but they are gone   all that work wasted
The first time we tried it it worked but the second time nothing


Word 2013 Table margin issues

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 11:53 AM PST

I have a document with mirrored margins, with the inside at .75" and the outside at .5".
Page 132, starts a single cell table containing text that flows across two pages.

On the first page, the part of the table on that page stays within the margins.
On the second page, the second part of the table will not stay in the margin. 

If I try adjusting the size, it re-sizes the whole table, throwing it out of alignment on the first page.
As you can see, the 2nd page is hanging off to the left.
I've tried every adjustment in the table properties and can't find the solution.
Thanks for any help!
Bob J.


Changing "Normal" WORD doc in Windows 7 Home edition

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 11:32 AM PST

This is the second time I am asking the question "How do I change the Fonts and other properties in the NORMAL doc in Windows 7 Home Edition.  I am not a technical person.      It is so inconsiderate for MS to not make it easy for a user to customize their document format to suit their own preferences.  Please help.  My email address is *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

MOS Certification Access Code Denied

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 11:09 AM PST

I recently became certified in MOS Word 2010 (:D). I got the E-Mail stating my Access Code and ID. However, upon putting these codes into the system, it says they do not match what they have in their system. I copied and pasted both codes 3 times. I also reset the codes 3 times to my primary Outlook/Hotmail account. The email never came. It never came into Spam or Inbox. I also tried resetting it to my phone (using AT&T's Email to Text  feature), but it said the Email is not the right one for the Certification ID entered. What can I do? Thanks!

Grimalkin

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 09:36 AM PST

How can I separate the formatting of a lead-in heading (APA level 3 onward) from the text?  The heading looks fine but when I try to create a TOC, the entire paragraph is included in the heading:

 

2.4.1 Individual level factors.  According to Bhana & Petersen (2009) risk and protective factors at the individual level are physical and psychological, which "may be a product of genetic and and/or socio-environmental factors" (p. 58).

 

The heading should just be '2.4.1 Individual level factors.' 14

ms word 2003 error message

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 09:17 AM PST

i have created hundreds of documents over the years in word 2003. all of a sudden, something called open office.org 3.2 appeared on my computer. ever since then, i now get the message "there was a problem sending the command to the program" whenever i try to open one of my word documents.

Multilevel List Linked Styles

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 08:12 AM PST

All,

I followed Shauna Kelly's excellent tutorial on making multilevel lists and linking the lists to preformatted heading styles, though after I reread her article, I realized I didn't apply a heading style to every single level available since I wasn't planning on using all of them (I went down to 3 originally, then down to 6 later in the document). When I go back to make changes to my multilevel list numbering, the styles associated with the levels I did format don't appear to be there anymore. The numbering appears to work correctly, but only down to a certain level (usually 5 deep or so), when it reverts to the default numbering scheme. Was the original failure to connect heading styles to numbering the issue, or is it something else?

If this is unclear, please let me know and I'll explain more clearly.

Problem with VBA to verify number of open documents

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 07:49 AM PST

I'm having a problem with code I'd thought would be dead simple. I'm just trying to confirm that a given number of non-template documents are open. I've tried 3 methods (below) but some docs are unpredictably counted twice or not at all. I'm certain there are no phantom instances of Word. What am I doing wrong?

 

My first attempt was this:

 

Function NDX() As Long

Dim d As Document

For Each d In Documents

    If d.Type <> wdTypeTemplate Then NDX = NDX + 1

Next

End Function

 

Stepping through the code revealed that docs were sometimes counted in the loop twice. I couldn't explain why, but to defeat this oddity I tried adding each doc's name to a throwaway string, which the loop would check before adding to the count:

 

Function NDX() As Long

Dim d As Document, blob As String

For Each d In Documents

    If d.Type <> wdTypeTemplate And InStr(blob, d.Name) = 0 Then

       NDX = NDX + 1

       blob = blob & d.Name

    End If

Next

End Function

 

This solved the overcount, but it would still sometimes skip counting an open document.

 

Then I tried this, taking the total document count and subtracting any open templates. It still overcounted unpredictably:

 

Function NDX() As Long

Dim d As Document

NDX = Documents.Count

For Each d In Documents

    If d.Type = wdTypeTemplate Then NDX = NDX - 1

Next

End Function

 

Finally I tried looping through all active Windows task names and counting only the Word docs:

 

Function NDX() As Long

Dim t As Task, blob As String, x As Long

For Each t In Tasks

    If InStr(blob, t.Name) = 0 Then

        If InStr(t.Name, ".doc ") > 0 Or InStr(t.Name, ".docx ") > 0 Then

            If InStr(t.Name, " - Microsoft Word") > 0 Then

                If InStr(blob, t.Name) = 0 Then

                    NDX = NDX + 1

                    blob = blob & " " & t.Name

                End If

            End If

        End If

    End If

Next

End Function

 

This actually works, but I get the distinct feeling it's a colossal waste of code. Any ideas? TIA.

Does the separator continuation line depend on having a separator line?

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 05:39 AM PST

It seems impossible to combine having no separator line with having a separator continuation line. That is, on pages where no footnote is continued from the previous page, no separator line is needed; and on pages where a footnote is continued from the previous page, a separator line is desirable. And yet as soon as a separator line is specified, a separator continuation line springs into existence.

Can others confirm this anomaly? If so, could there be a way of pretending there's a separator line -- i.e., having one that doesn't print?


how to merge word files into one

Posted: 10 Nov 2013 04:52 AM PST

Hello,

how can I merge a lot of word files into one, so that all pages remain as formated, so that every file starts with new page. 

I tried with http://www.gmayor.com/Boiler.htm  but it seems there is a some format language problem, because my word is not in english.

thanks in advance,

mgmk

Microsoft Word and Onenote

Posted: 09 Nov 2013 08:40 PM PST

Before going on vacation I could print Word documents or anything else straight to my printer. Now, when I try to print it goes to onenote and I not able to print. Searched for the printer I have but it only show Onenote as the default printer. How do I fix this problem?

Word 2010, unable to change page size

Posted: 09 Nov 2013 05:10 PM PST

I was typing in Word 2010 and apparently hit some keystroke that set my page size to a width of 19 inches and pushed the vertical ruler off the left hand side of the window.  It doesn't matter what view I'm in the page size stays the same.  I tried changing the page back to letter and manually set page size to other, selecting 8.5x11, portrait.  This didn't change anything.  I checked the options and it's set correctly.  I deleted normal.dotm.  I deleted the registry keys for margin.  Nothing will change the page size. Any help I can get would be greatly appreciated.  At present, this prevents me from printing anything I work on.

Thanks in advance

Office 2003 Help and Compare Default Questions - Microsoft Office forums

Office 2003 Help and Compare Default Questions - Microsoft Office forums


Office 2003 Help and Compare Default Questions

Posted: 13 Oct 2005 12:56 PM PDT

Hi Bob -

OK, got my default help search off the net. Never would have tracked that one down by myself.

The Excel question is about getting 2 (or more) sheets out of the same workbook side by side. Just fooled around some more and found New Window is now not grayed out. Failed to mention that before. Now it's there, and side by side works. What happened? Who knows?

Summary - I'm OK now. Thank you very much.

My transition to Office 2003 has not gone well. I often long for the "good old days" of Office 2000

Thx again
Dave


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in message news:phx.gbl...
Hi Dave,

You can use the Help Task Pane (Ctrl+F1 then use the drop down
arrow at the top to select 'Help' and choose the 'Online Content
Settings' to turn off the default to search online help.

When you do a search in Help you can choose the 'Search' dropdown
in the results to set the areas that the app looks for in Help.

For Excel, have you opened two workbooks?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010404861033.aspx

=======
<<"Dave" <com> wrote in message news:%phx.gbl...
Had to reinstall Office 2003. Couple of questions, hopefully related

1) In Word, when I click on Help, how do it get it to use installed help rather than going on the web?
2) Same question in Excel
3) In Excel, the Compare Side by Side is grayed out. How can I make this active?

Thx much

Dave>>
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Let us know if this helped you,

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*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

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How do I completely uninstall Office 2003 incl. User Settings?

Posted: 13 Oct 2005 10:40 AM PDT

See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832765 "'Warning: You are
viewing this page with an unsupported Web browser' warning
message appears when you visit the Office Update Web site".

bhall wrote: 

Reinstallation of Office XP

Posted: 13 Oct 2005 06:46 AM PDT

I thought that Ihad carried it out correctly, but obviously I had not. Having
carried it out again, I have now reinstalled Office and updates without a
hitch. Many thanks for your assistance.

Very appreciated. I can now atleast temporarily slow down the pace of grey
hairs appearing.

Steve


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
 

Outlook 2003 Crashes receiving and sending email

Posted: 13 Oct 2005 04:26 AM PDT

ok
I ran scanpst.exe against the original .pst file I was using, and it
repaired some errors
I then deleted and created a totally new profile with a new name
the only thing i wasnt sure if I did correctly was configure the new
profile to use current .pst
what i did was import contacts, mail etc from current .pst into the new .pst
I wasnt sure if this was correct?
Unfortunately the problem remains... a few emails arrived ok, but when i
tried to forward a basic plain text email to one of my contacts it crashed
again!!
Could this be because i did not configure profile correctly?

thanks
kieren

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
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admin install point

Posted: 12 Oct 2005 01:17 PM PDT

Anything for GPO installs? It seems all I can do is patch the current admin
install, but it seems that does an uninstall and then a reinstall or am I
wrong on my assumptions.

Aaron

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
 

Office SP2 installed - Then Outlook crashes - problem

Posted: 12 Oct 2005 06:13 AM PDT

Thanks Tom. Problem was corrupt archive.pst. I guess SP2 install was
unrelated.

"Tom Felts" wrote:
 

Will older versions of MS office work on my new XP laptop?

Posted: 11 Oct 2005 07:40 PM PDT

Office 97 products will work just fine. I don't know about Office 95
ones.

HTH,
TC

"Installation source for MS Office not available"

Posted: 11 Oct 2005 12:22 PM PDT

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:22:26 +0100, Alex Coleman <com>
wrote:
 


Open Admin tools/Services

Make sure the "Office Source Engine" service is running.

If this service is not running then Office updates and many times the
Office Setup (if you already have Office installed) will not run.

Auto Update Issue

Posted: 11 Oct 2005 10:56 AM PDT

I have disabled the automatic download and install feature.

The four files are the ~35-45M files for the four most recent office
updates for Office SP2. They are on my system as BIT####.tmp
files...just sitting there with no other action to install them.
Changing the extension did not allow any installations, either.

Any ideas what went wrong with the download process?

Henry

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:20:42 -0700, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)"
<75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote:
 

fax facilities with broadband modem and OfficeXP

Posted: 10 Oct 2005 01:34 PM PDT

Try http://www.vonage.com or Google for "VOIP providers".

Archie wrote:

MST, MSI, Deploying via GPO - how to silent install

Posted: 10 Oct 2005 12:10 PM PDT

set it to do by computer, and actually my problem was in that I didnt do an
advanced assign so as to be able to assign the mst, got it figured out

thanks for your help



"neo [mvp outlook]" <mvps.org> wrote in message
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which MST to apply transform to?

Posted: 10 Oct 2005 09:53 AM PDT

Thanks!


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Activation and installation mix-up

Posted: 10 Oct 2005 08:12 AM PDT


You are welcome sharke. I am glad everything works fine for you.

Best regards,


sharke wrote: 

Office activation fails can't find needed file, any suggestions?

Posted: 09 Oct 2005 02:39 PM PDT

And please be so kind as to provide the instructions for "de-activating"
Office remotely, 'k?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, hello asked:

| It is an unwritten Microsoft policy to check that its "customers" are
| still using its products. This can checked by deactivating the
| products (remotely) and asking to reactivate online. This way they
| can ensure people continue supporting uncle Bill and his quest to
| remain the richest man on this planet.
|
| If you can't acivate then the only way is to reinstall everything all
| over again including OS so that the machine gets its spring clean
| once in a while.
|
| Hope this helps you and you will continue using M$ products without
| which you can't survive!!.
|
| Hello.
|
| bdt wrote:
||
|| Friday Word popped up a message that said Office xp pro had changed
|| significantly and needed reactivation. I hadn't changed anything to
|| my knowledge but--okay.
||
|| I popped in the original office xp pro cd the wizard was
|| asking for. It went forward briefly and then said it was unable to
|| find the file mainsp3op.msp. I'd guess it's looking for the files
|| for office sp3 i installed several weeks ago. unfortunately I don't
|| have them (don't know where to get them) and the wizard won't
|| proceed without it. I can't repair, reinstall or uninstall office
|| without that file either. I'm stuck with a wortless install of
|| office. I can't even recover the disk space.
||
|| I tried recovering from a recent norton ghost image I'd made but
|| that didn't help.
|| the next time I tried an office product it asked for reactivation
|| and I was back in the same place. any suggestions?


Office 2000 upgrade -- can't find qualifying product

Posted: 09 Oct 2005 02:00 PM PDT

Geoff,

I read all the documentation, including the Knowledge Base article I copied
into this thread. It clearly states that there is a fix and that technical
support has that fix. Nowhere does it say I'd have to pay for the fix. I
own a legally purchased copy of all the software involved, but because of a
hard drive failure I had to reinstall the software. Microsoft has failed to
support its own software, and has failed to live up to the promises of their
own Knowledge Base.

I came here for information, and find myself surrounded by dense
(intentionally or unintentionally) Microsoft cheerleaders who would rather
berate a user than offer help. Their only reply to any question seems to be
to pay Microsoft and shut up. Well, I'm choosing to shut up now.

It was childish of me to respond in kind to Millie's nasty response to my
original post. I apologize for falling to her level. This conversation has
gone from useless to incredibly annoying, so I think I'll bow out now.

"Geoffw" wrote:
 

error CAB file not found

Posted: 09 Oct 2005 10:56 AM PDT

that is the error im getting a little whie after the set up starts:

It can't find that CAB file and roll back the instalation.
 

Any ideas?

Thanks


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
 

What happened to my Word, PowerPoint, Excel and ? programs

Posted: 08 Oct 2005 04:49 PM PDT

I finally did find the Office XP 2003 Standard versions of Outlook, Word,
Access, Excel. I have not tried each at this time. Outlook is a better
version and I hope that the other applications are, as well. The problem I
encountered was due to the downloaded files being spread around in the
....Programs directory, while before I was able to see them at a glance. Also,
I did not see them when I went to Control and look at the programs that came
up in the Uninstall window. Other programs were there, but I sure did not see
any of these Office 2003 programs.

I have been messing around trying to get them back together in one place. I
used Powepoint to view a presentation someone sent me as an attachment to an
Outlook message. That worked, although now my Desktop Shortcut that I made is
not opening the PowerPoint program. I guess I did not have the correct file
when I made the Shortcut.

How many more problems I will have with the files for the programs remains
to be seen. Do you know if I am allowed to delete the Office 2003 and then
reinstall the update? I wonder if Microsoft's downloading program will
accept my downloading two and if this will give me a cleaner download
experience? Do you feel this is a useful option for me now?

Thank you for your reply. Yes, I see I am in two threads, so I will stick
with this one. I didn't realize they were connected. sorry.


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
 

Installed successfully but can't start.

Posted: 07 Oct 2005 08:48 AM PDT

Thanks Peter. I do not see "online concierge" on MSDN subscriptions site any
more. By the way, what does A.B. mean?

"Peter Foldes" wrote:
 

How to unistall Office XP without the CD

Posted: 06 Oct 2005 10:54 AM PDT


"bob smythe" <com> wrote in message
news:phx.gbl... 

A dirty way to do it is to delete all the office and word excel etc folders
then go through the registry and delete any reference to microsoft office,
Word, Excel etc. then run a reg cleaner. I have done that. Just keep using
find and deleting the reg keys making sure it is only office keys you are
deleting

Ron


upgrading office xp and 2000 to 2003

Posted: 05 Oct 2005 03:05 PM PDT


Can you show me how to automate this? I need help uninstalling office xp or
2000.
"com" wrote:
 

How to Install office WITHOUT the Image Writer

Posted: 05 Oct 2005 06:44 AM PDT

Thanks - but we were trying to do this for imaging so that we wouldn't have
to do it at every user's PC. However, I did find a generic PC and was able to
let them let me start an install. It works the same way as if I were going to
try and reinstall it. Problem solved!!!!

"Mary Sauer" wrote:
 

how can i reload ms office if my backup is scratched

Posted: 04 Oct 2005 08:11 AM PDT

If you wanted a suggestion specific to Office 2000, then you
should have included in your original question the fact that you
have Office 2000.

If you read my original reply, you will see that I tell you which
Office versions are available from the link I provided.

If you read the linked article, you will see that only the last
part talks about OEM software (programs that came with the
computer). The basic tech support charge is $35, not $235.
Microsoft will waive the tech support charge if you only order a
replacement CD from them, but they WILL charge you for the
replacement CD (usually something between $10 and $30). Not that
any of this matters, because Microsoft no longer offers
replacement CDs for Office 2000.


corbin clay wrote:
 

Windows installer files .MSP

Posted: 04 Oct 2005 01:58 AM PDT

Hallo Susan and thanks for answering me. I cant find a solution to my
problem on the link you give, so heres the history of how the problem
occured:
I downloaded the trial version of Office 2003 from MS
When the period was over I decided to purchase and tried to download.
For some reason it wouldnt download so i cancelled it.
Followed the MS instructions about uninstalling 2003
Then I started getting major probs starting programmes (ExcelXP/WordXP)
Decided to purchase Office 2003 CD and installed, everything now OK
again
Tried to go online to update the grogramme and thats where I get
stopped.
MS cant get into my PC to find out which updates I need.
It tells me I dont have the MSP file.
Thats where I am today. I have installed SP1 which hasnt helped.

How do I restore the file associations for Office?

Posted: 03 Oct 2005 04:46 PM PDT

2003 Professional.

"Timothy L" wrote:
 

Pasting text without attributes

Posted: 03 Oct 2005 10:57 AM PDT

Works a treat!

Thanks Steve.

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Interesting update (12.1.7) Microsoft Office for Mac

Interesting update (12.1.7) Microsoft Office for Mac


Interesting update (12.1.7)

Posted: 15 Apr 2009 12:40 PM PDT

On 4/15/09 7:22 PM, "com"
<com> wrote:
 

I agree it would be nice, but that option is not available. Be sure to send
feedback to Microsoft requesting this option.

Send feedback to Microsoft.

When working in Office, you can use the ³Send Feedback² option under the
Help menu in all of the Office applications or visit

<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/suggestions.mspx>

--
Diane

Office 2008 updates too problematic

Posted: 15 Apr 2009 10:47 AM PDT

All good points, Diane, especially about the combo updates. Yes, I have sent feedback to MS. Thanks for what you and the others assisting in these forums are doing to help.

- Kevin

Product Key Not Valid at Installation

Posted: 15 Apr 2009 09:17 AM PDT

com wrote:
 

You said you purchased this through an employee purchase program. Were
you actually provided an official Microsoft Office disk or were you
given a burned copy?

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Office 12.1.7 Won't Install

Posted: 14 Apr 2009 09:19 PM PDT

Actually you don't need to do a full re-install. Here's a quicker way of fixing the 'A version of the software required to install this update was not found on this volume.' error:

First of all, get the update from the Mactopia site at <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx> - you'll need to root around for the actual update as the featured 'latest' update is for Office 2004.

2: Open the DMG file and drag the installer file on to the Desktop.

3: Go to the Desktop, right-click the installer file and choose [Show Package Contents].

4: Navigate down to Update/Contents/Resources/ and open the file package_updatable in your favourite text editor. You may be prompted if you want to make the file editable, say Yes.

5: Find the line 'found_valid_version=False'

6: Change 'False' to 'True'

7: Delete all the text below that line as far as the line 'if not found_valid_version:' BUT DO NOT DELETE THAT LINE.

8: Save the file.

9: Rerun the installer.

HTH.

Microsoft Autoupdate.app

Posted: 14 Apr 2009 05:07 PM PDT

On 4/15/09 5:48 AM, "com" <com> wrote:
 

I think you will need to do the reinstall:

Follow these steps to reinstall:

* Launch the Microsoft Autoupdater (MAU).To launch MAU, you can open any
Office application and select "Check for Updates" under Help in the Menu
bar. Once MAU is launched, select "Keep in Dock"
* Quit all Microsoft applications (Easy way: log out/in with Shift key down
to disable any startup items.) Be sure all applications are quit before
running updater. IMPORTANT
* Drag the Microsoft Office 2008 folder to the Trash.
* Empty Trash.
* Reinstall Office 2008 from your original installation disk.
* Restart
* Update to 12.1.0 (if you have a newer DVD you might only need the 12.17)
* Restart (restarting before you launch any app is important!)
* Update to 12.1.7
* Restart

Verify after running the 12.1.0 updater that the MAU is at 2.2.0.

/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0

--
Diane

Can't install Office 2008 12.1.7 Update because a version of software can'tbe found

Posted: 14 Apr 2009 03:57 PM PDT

On 4/15/09 12:46 AM, "com" <com>
wrote:
 

Is this the beta for EWS? This update does not apply to the beta.

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Entourage 2008: Unable to establish a secure connection...

Posted: 14 Apr 2009 03:25 PM PDT

SOLUTION:

IN ENTOURAGE 2008:

#1 Tools > Accounts

#2 Right Click your email address and click "Open Account"

#3 in the "Account Settings" tab, click on where it says "Click here for advance receiving options"

#4 Un-tick the box for "This POP server requires a secure connection (SSL). Close Entourage 2008 and reopen and the message should now be gone.

This is the only way to remove the message according to a Microsoft rep.

older updates for 2004

Posted: 14 Apr 2009 02:39 PM PDT

On 4/14/09 2:39 PM, "com" <com>
wrote:
 

I have the updaters listed here with links:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/downloads/mactopia_dl.html#office2004>

<http://tinyurl.com/cpvjux>

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Office "assistants"

Posted: 14 Apr 2009 12:43 PM PDT

In article <#phx.gbl>,
Jim Gordon MVP <com> wrote:
 


Thanks for the reply, Jim. I'm very sad to see them go, but perhaps the
free courses and movie tutorials will help assuage my grief. ;)

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Good grief! Which are ESSENTIAL updates?

Posted: 14 Apr 2009 12:03 PM PDT

And that is precisely what I did to update (once I resolved the updater issues themselves): installed 12.1.0 then 12.1.7, which the MAU suggested as the next update.

- Kevin

Unable to install 12.1.7

Posted: 14 Apr 2009 10:51 AM PDT

com wrote:
 

When this has happened before, one of the suggestions was to drag the
updater out of the disk image and to run it from your Desktop. Does this
work?

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Office 2008 12.1.7 Updater

Posted: 14 Apr 2009 10:48 AM PDT

AFAIK the 12.1.7 update addresses a Security issue with Excel. However, it's
a combo updater so it also includes everything from 12.0.1 through 12.1.5 -
that's why it's so huge. And yes, it *is* incompatible with the EWS Beta.

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


On 4/14/09 1:48 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Good Grief! 2008 Update Process Too Painful

Posted: 14 Apr 2009 09:51 AM PDT

On 4/15/09 9:55 AM, "com"
<com> wrote:
 

You got that error because you didn't read the directions to quit all
applications before updating.

I provided links that answered all your questions.

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Microsoft Live Workspace Add-In

Posted: 13 Apr 2009 10:39 AM PDT

Jim Gordon MVP <com> wrote:
 

Well let's say they need to be re-written using different approaches for
Office 2008...


Corentin (using the EndNote and Antidote add-ins in Word 2008)


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Office 2008 for Mac ~ Obtaining Registration Information

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 12:39 PM PDT

Thank you for replying!


"Diane Ross" wrote:
 

System password displayed in plain text on splash screen

Posted: 11 Apr 2009 06:36 AM PDT

Hi again, Bill,

What I did was to edit these files using textedit. They are plain text files. The string shows up in both - I think you are right, I must have just instinctively typed my password in the company field. The string used in the splash screen comes from the second file you mentioned. I just edited those files, and all is well.

jv

upgrade from mac office 2004 to mac office 2008

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 07:04 PM PDT

Did you click the link in my last post? That plus a little googling will
provide all the pricing information you need. It isn't our place to quote
pricing - that's the job of the stores which sell the product.

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



On 4/12/09 6:30 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

differences between vba on Word 2003-2007 (Win) and Word 2004(Mac)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 11:53 PM PDT

Hi Peter:

Well, I am afraid you may have to get used to a very high level of
frustration :-)

Every version of Word has "some" differences in its VBA. That's why it's
called "Visual Basic for Application" ‹ the runtime sits WITHIN the
application and behaves as if it were part of the target application. This
is different from compiled languages such as VB, where the functionality is
determined by the compiler and the target OS, not the target application.

So any extra features of a target application will appear in VBA, and those
that are missing will error.

The only way to know for sure is to buy yourself a copy of Word 2004 and a
Mac and test it.

I offered to do that for you :-)

Cheers


On 11/04/09 4:41 PM, in article
com, "Peter"
<microsoft.com> wrote:
 

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

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:name

Your network settings have been changed by another application.

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 11:11 AM PDT

Not a waste of space at all - part of knowing what *isn't* at fault is
knowing what *is* at fault & vice-versa [if that makes any sense] :-)

Glad you got it resolved & thanks for sharing the findings.

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



On 4/14/09 12:33 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

AutoUpdate tries to update already installed 12.1.5

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 11:07 AM PDT

On 4/9/09 6:59 PM, "com"
<com> wrote:
 

For now that's all she wrote...
 

Yes. Recently I had a problem when I did a reinstall on a new drive where
the MAU failed to update fully. I had to remove all the packages and
download and install all the updaters to get everything correct. If you do
try this, be sure you log out/in with Shift key down to install each
updater. Restart between each update.

The Office 2008 updaters have not been a smooth ride for anyone.
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Resizing shape basic problem

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 08:30 AM PDT

Yes, I realized this was the general group - after I hit the send button - sorry.

Brand new - not an upgrade.

Only happening in files that were produced originally in Office 2007 (I think)

I opened a new PPT, and dragged all the slides into that one and it worked fine, however...

When I tried to apply a pre-existing .pot - 2008 got the spinning pizza wheel of death. I posted this issue to the correct group - Powerpoint help.

Thanks - Murray
 

updating office 2008

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 08:50 AM PDT

On 4/7/09 3:14 PM, "com"
<com> wrote:
 

If you continue to have problems, let us know. Be sure to read over the
check list.

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Number of Licenses - Office for Mac 2008 Home and Student Version

Posted: 06 Apr 2009 10:54 AM PDT

I just bought a copy two weeks ago and got three licenses


On 06/04/09 2:54 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Microsoft Office 2007 Access equivalent in Mac Office 08

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 07:16 AM PDT

CrossOver isn't working entirely. It will not open Access 2007. I have a free trial for Microsoft Office 2007. So that's one less thing to have to purchase.

12.1.5 update - unable to update it

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 06:38 PM PDT

On 4/5/09 10:12 AM, "com" <com>
wrote:
 

You are talking to your peers here. Send feedback to Microsoft.

When working in Office, you can use the ³Send Feedback² option under the
Help menu in all of the Office applications or visit

<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/suggestions.mspx>

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