Unable to print on network between Win Vista and WinXP Posted: 04 Nov 2007 08:09 AM PST Ha Oh dear- I thought these were Windows groups & I'm in the wrong place then! This shows that I have problems working with computers. Anyway thanks for this hint and I will go & search a more appropriate group to post to. Best wishes to you and "mac" -- RPD "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: |
Office X compatible with Leopard? Posted: 03 Nov 2007 04:09 PM PDT On 11/3/07 9:08 PM, in article C35293E2.144DA%entourage.mvps.org, "Diane" <entourage.mvps.org> wrote: For more details visit Microsoft's Super Suite Deal. <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/go/promotions/supersuitedeal/> That should be Sweet not Suite. Duh!!! I claim old age and senility. -- 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/> |
2 Imacs and Microsoft Office Posted: 03 Nov 2007 06:14 AM PDT taussigm wrote*: This is due to a locked file by the Office Daemon. To resolve that, copy all your files by using your target iMac in the " Target Mode "... Best Regards, Dominique. |
Re-Installing Office 2004 Without Original CD Posted: 02 Nov 2007 04:36 PM PDT On Nov 2, 4:18 pm, JE McGimpsey <org> wrote: Thanks. |
Problem with OS X 10.5 and Office 2004 Posted: 01 Nov 2007 05:56 PM PDT In article <googlegroups.com>, Meku <com> wrote: Does this happen in a new user account? -- Note: Please send all responses to the relevant news group. If you must contact me through e-mail, let me know when you send email to this address so that your email doesn't get eaten by my SPAM filter. JR |
News: Mac BU sweetens Office 2008 upgrade deal (Updated) Posted: 01 Nov 2007 02:29 PM PDT Hi Andre: Not any more, according to my rumours. They are apparently intending to do an upgrade release of VBA in Office PC. I understand that the death of VBA is one of those about which reports have been "greatly exaggerated". I would expect a migration to VBA.NET at some point in the future, but not the abandonment of VBA. I can't think of any "open standard" language that would simultaneously be compatible with AppleScript and with the Microsoft Office object model. The architectures are completely different. I know there were some anti-VBA zealots in Microsoft on the PC side that "wanted" to get rid of VBA. But the Fortune 500 companies all picked up the phone to Bill Gates in unison and said "no". And some of them were not especially polite. It won't happen. Not in Steve Ballmer's lifetime :-) I also believe that if the Mac business community can make enough noise (and maybe resist buying Office 2008) that VBA will re-appear in a future version of Mac Office. The bottom line is that an Office suite without automation is simply not useful in modern business. And no corporation can afford to develop and maintain two versions of the automation code. Read my lips: this is not going to happen :-) Corporate automation is not simple stuff that can be "recorded" from a few keystrokes or assembled from Automator Actions. Some of these things are major development projects that may occupy three or four developers for a year or more. So: Unless Macs start to out-sell PCs in corporate business, the automation will be written in VBA, and until Mac Office learns to speak VBA again, it simply isn't "Office". It's just not "useful" in business. That's why you are "hearing" a stunned silence from the Mac community. Sure, the Mac Macs and the home users are rabbiting on at great length. But they are easily impressed by the reality distortion field large software companies can create. The rest of us are looking at this thing with dawning horror, and wondering how on earth we are going to get our work done in an Office 2008 world. Abandoning our Macs is not going to happen :-) VBA.NET is a possibility, if we get the promised "automatic upgrade" from VBA. There are other possibilities that I am sure Microsoft would rather we did not speculate about :-) Cheers On 5/11/07 9:22 AM, in article phx.gbl, "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <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 |
Word/Newsletter question Posted: 01 Nov 2007 01:33 PM PDT On 11/4/07 6:14 PM, in article vsrv-sjc.supernews.net, "Jolly Roger" <com> wrote: No. a Talk list is via a subscription and email. You can receive individual messages or a digest. There is usually a list mom that moderates the list. Good talk lists rarely need moderation and rules are there to make the list friendly to all. Besides the Entourage talk list, there are two general Mac lists that I recommend. Mac-L (moderated list....includes both OS 9 and X.) and OSX talk (moderated list. just for OS X.). Both good places to learn and ask about any Mac problems. Both require plain text only email and that messages be snipped for clarity. <http://www.listmoms.net/lists/> <http://osxlist.com/> How to subscribe to the Microsoft Entourage talk list: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/subtalk.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/> |
Upgrading to OS X Leopard Posted: 01 Nov 2007 09:21 AM PDT You know something? This group is here to help people who don't know what to do. So it would follow that heaping scorn on the people who come here for help, just because they do not know something, would be a tad self-defeating, no? Then again, if you couldn't even work THAT out for yourself, I guess I shouldn't be scornful to you, now should I? So I won't say it. But can you guess what I'm thinking? On 2/11/07 2:36 AM, in article 011120071006455469%techline.com, "Mr. Strat" <techline.com> wrote: In article <googlegroups.com>, <com> wrote: What does the word "erase" mean to you? DOH! -- 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 |
Trouble upgrading from Office X to Office 2004 Posted: 01 Nov 2007 06:51 AM PDT On Nov 1, 10:39 am, JE McGimpsey <org> wrote: Thanks for the tip. While the link was for an Intel mac & I've got a G4 PPC, I followed the directions anyway. I reapplyed the 10.4.10 combo update, prebinding, and the Quicktime 7.2 update. I even went thru the daily, weekly, & monthly maintenance routines. None of this worked. I finally solved the problem by updating office on the OS 10.3.9 startup disk. Then, using Tiger's Migration Assistant, I brought Office 2004 to the 10.4.10 disk where its working perfectly. |
Office 2001 settings migration Posted: 31 Oct 2007 11:08 AM PDT Hi Lucas: If you are familiar with the product, it takes a little over 60 seconds to re-create the settings most users have. A new user may take up to five minutes: although most of the settings are in exactly the same places as they were in Office 2001. As a network administrator, you can build an installed image of the software and move that out to the users, with many of the settings pre-configured (as described in the Office 2004 Resource Kit on the Microsoft website). I suspect your faculty has a severe case of "Fear of Change". It wouldn't be the first company I have met in that condition :-) Cheers On 1/11/07 3:38 AM, in article com, "Lucas" <microsoft.com> wrote: Good morning Is there a way to migrate the settings from Office 2001, to Office 2004? One our faculty is adamant that recreating the Office settings in 2004 will take an exorbitant amount of time, and it would be much easier to migrate the settings. I have searched for a migrations method, or settings location on the Net and have not been able to locate anything to help. thanks much take care Lucas Friedrichsen, ITC OSU Computer Helpdesk Oregon State University edu 541-737-3474 http://tss.oregonstate.edu/ We Listen, We Care, We Respond. -- 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 |
upgrading to leopard: office not working Posted: 31 Oct 2007 02:33 AM PDT Michael, I did a clean install of Office 2004 (then updated it 11.3.5 -thru- 11.3.8) and it's working perfectly. I'd suggest that that's your "nuclear" option if all else fails. Paul |
Office:Mac 2004 Posted: 30 Oct 2007 11:13 AM PDT As Daiya says, do not delete it - It's supposed to be there. Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 10/30/07 2:13 PM, in article googlegroups.com, "net" <net> wrote: I did a complete clean install on my Mac first to Tiger, then an upgrade to Leopard. I then installed all my applications. Everything seems to work; however, in my Applications Folder, Microsoft Office 2004, Office Folder I have an English Dictionary and an English Dictionary 2. How did that happen? Can I delete the "2" safely? |
Office 2008 extension Posted: 30 Oct 2007 06:01 AM PDT And to further add to John¹s comments, the extension never mattered to any office program on the Mac or PC. The extension is ONLY a means for the operating system to associate a file with a program. ANY Office program (I don¹t know about 2008) could open any file it knew how to process buy using the application¹s File-Open menu command. The extension did not matter at all. You could name an Excel file with a .ppt (or .doc or .xyz) extension, and as long as you used File-Open, it would open and be fine. -- Bob Greenblatt [MVP], Macintosh bobgreenblattATmsnDOTcom |
Streets and Trips 2008 with GPS Posted: 29 Oct 2007 10:52 AM PDT Well, I don't use Streets and Trips, but I do use a GPS receiver. It can take up to three minutes for a GPS receiver to "acquire" enough satellites to begin computing a position. It depends on how long the receiver has been turned off: if it is more than 12 hours, it loses its predictive satellite map, and has to search for and register all the satellites individually. If the receiver has been turned off for only an hour or so, it can acquire almost instantly if the satellites are all in the positions it expected them to be in :-) The acquisition period will be fastest if the receiver is stationary, with a clear view of the sky and no car roofs or tall buildings in the way, until it has acquired. Driving down a congested city street surrounded by tall buildings, it may "never" acquire. I would take your laptop and GPS receiver out to the middle of a park and sit still there for five minutes. If it hasn't acquired by then, I suggest it's bad, take it back to the shop and swap it out with a new receiver to prove it. Hope this helps On 30/10/07 3:22 AM, in article com, "W" <microsoft.com> wrote: I couldnt find a specific group from that long list. Anyway, most, but not all of the time, all I get when using the GPS tracking feature is that it is "receiving data" but it stays stuck in that mode with 0 sats. This happens even when driving down major highways in large cities with the laptop on the front seat near the window, or even when clipped to the front window. People tell me they can connect in seconds. When connected to the laptop, the gps receiver glows blue, so it is getting power. What is the problem? How can I tell if the receiver itself is defective? thanks -- 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/ Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:name |