Slightly off topic: Remove Office 98 from the Dock Posted: 14 Dec 2006 08:49 AM PST Thanks for letting us know, Kristina! Clive Huggan ============= On 15/12/06 6:54 AM, in article phx.gbl, "Kristina Conceicao" <com> wrote: |
Office started to display Calendar items and other dates in German Posted: 14 Dec 2006 07:58 AM PST Hi, I don't know the cause of the problem, but Microsoft is aware of it. You are not the first to report it, but it is good that you mentioned it because the more who notice this the higher the priority increases for the need to fix it. -Jim Gordon Mac MVP Quoting from "com" <com>, in article googlegroups.com, on [DATE: -- Jim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
Trying to use Outlook 2003 on a MacBook via Parallels Posted: 14 Dec 2006 04:51 AM PST Hi Nick: 1) Back up your Outlook .pst file and its associated resource files. Carefully record the exact file path where you found them. 2) From the Administrator user in Windows, create a new user account for yourself. 3) Place the Outlook files in the correct position in the local profile of your normal Windows user (It's normally in c:\documents and settings\your user name\local settings\microsoft\outlook...). 4) Start Parallels and Windows and log in with your user name. When you open Outlook it should find and use the correct email accounts. Outlook is fairly simplistic: the location of the file is what determines whether Outlook considers it "yours" or not. If you read the help in Outlook, there are instructions for moving your user file. I would not bother with this: just put your files into the correct default location and they'll work. Cheers On 14/12/06 11:51 PM, in article googlegroups.com, "nickr" <com> wrote: -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant Technical Writer. Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
Premature Test Drive Posted: 13 Dec 2006 10:15 PM PST On 12/14/06 7:55 AM, in article googlegroups.com, "PhilD" <co.uk> wrote: Hopefully, the following will save your some problems by removing the Test Drive incorrectly. If you purchase Office, you must first remove the Office Test Drive from your computer. Use "Remove Office". Remove Office is located in the Office 2004 folder --> Additional Tools --> Remove Office and on the CD-ROM. To remove the Test Drive, on the Results screen, click the Microsoft Office 2004 (including Test Drive) check box to select the Test Drive, and then click Continue. In the Choose which components to remove screen, click the Remove the Microsoft Office 2004 Test Drive folder check box to remove the Test Drive, and then click Continue. Remove Office can rescue files that you created in Office programs such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint documents and templates by moving them to a Rescued Items folder that it creates on your desktop. However, if your Microsoft Office folders contain other types of documents that you want to save, you should move them elsewhere before starting Remove Office. If you forget to do this, you can find the files in the Trash. Note: Your Entourage data stored in your Microsoft User Data folder will not be removed. -- Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> The Entourage Blog lists the EHP as one of the top five Microsoft Entourage resources. <http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/> |
10.1.9 update dilemma Posted: 13 Dec 2006 11:58 AM PST Thank you John, that is exactly what I was wishing someone was going to suggest. Watching and waiting. |
Upgrade from Mac Office 2004 to Office X? Posted: 13 Dec 2006 03:39 AM PST Hi Jeff, Office 2004 is *more recent* than Office v.X. Office v.X came out in 2001, Office 2004 came out in 2004. This also explains why there is no upgrade from 2004 to v.X; going that way would, strictly speaking, be a downgrade. So if you are using Office 2004, you're running the latest version of Mac Office, and there's no need to upgrade right now. On 13/12/06 12:39, in article googlegroups.com, "com" <com> wrote: -- Michel Bintener Microsoft MVP Office:Mac (Entourage & Word) ***Always reply to the newsgroup.*** |
Mac Office vX Posted: 12 Dec 2006 08:54 PM PST Thanks y'all. I opened up Spelling and DIctionary. Clicking on the button "DICTIONARY" there was only the custom, it was not checked. I checked it and it works. Bennigan's doesn't flag as an error anymore. Thanks for the quick response. TK Diane Ross wrote: |
Dec 12 SECURITY UPDATE to version 11.3.1 to patch vulnerabilities Posted: 12 Dec 2006 03:05 PM PST Yep. Wait a few days... The patch was released early in error, and cancelled when they discovered that some of the bits it included had not been fully tested. If you have already loaded it, leave it there, it is unlikely to do any harm. The official release will straighten it out. Cheers On 14/12/06 4:27 AM, in article news.prodigy.com, "aRKay" <net> wrote: -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant Technical Writer. Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
Possible Bug in PowerPoint/Word Posted: 12 Dec 2006 07:21 AM PST In article <googlegroups.com>, "Del" <com> wrote: I selected the three paragraphs, clicked the "Numbering" icon in the toolbar, clicked the "Bullets" icon and then closed word. The space after the first letter of each paragraph was gone. If this doesn't work for you, maybe there is something strange with the "Bullets and Numbering" formatting in Word. -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF |
Similar problems in Word, Excel and Entourage on both I-Mac and MacBook Pro (Intel) Posted: 11 Dec 2006 12:49 PM PST You don't specify in either post, so the first suggestion is to make sure that both Office and OS X are fully updated. Even if *both* are recent purchases you can't assume that the latest of either were "in the box" - 11.3 for Office, 10.4.8 for OS X... and be sure to use Disk Utility - Repair Disk Permissions after any updates. If you need to update the OS it's better to use the Combo updater from the Apple web site. In fact, it might not be a bad idea to reinstall using it even if you are at 10.4.8 already. The generality of what you report could also be associated with an incomplete removal of the Office Test Drive if you had that installed on the systems before installing Office 2004. As far as the "very different" issue of Mac vs PC Excel, there are any number of variables that could come in to play here - especially if he is using files created on the PC which have been customized. OTOH, it could just be a matter of getting used to Command = Control, Option = Alt, as both versions are far more similar than they are different. Not knowing exactly what he's having difficulty with makes it hard to offer any suggestions, pro or con. -- HTH |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac <com> wrote in message news:googlegroups.com... I can't quite put my finger on it, but it is not only right-click commands. In Entourage at least, I've noticed that the more spelling mistakes (or rather the more names, weird words, other-language words etc.), the more often the programme closes down. In Word it's special commands, but I'm not quite sure which. In Excel it may be when commands that would be Windows-commands are executed, since my husband still hasn't got used to the Mac-version of Excel, which he finds very different from the PC-version. Thanks for your interest in my problem. //Néné On Dec 12, 8:05 am, Daiya Mitchell <org.INVALID> wrote: |
Word 2004 Data Merge with Nested If-THEN-ELSE and arithmetic/logic operations Posted: 09 Dec 2006 10:54 PM PST Hello, I'm a bit surprised that you don't like mail merge better in 2004 than in 2001. Perhaps you haven't found all of the goodies yet. From the View menu try Toolbars > Database From the Tools menu try Data Merge Manager You can use field codes to do arithmetic. Search for this help topic in Word's help: Total the numbers in a row or column You can customize which tools are available to you on toolbars and menus. From the View menu choose Customize Menus and Toolbars. When that dialog box is open you can drag commands from the Commands tab of the dialog box to any menu or toolbar. You can add and remove toolbar and menu items as you please from any toolbar or menu while the Customize dialog box is open. I hope you find some of these tips useful. -Jim Gordon Mac MVP Quoting from "com" <com>, in article googlegroups.com, on [DATE: -- Jim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
Identity crisis Posted: 08 Dec 2006 04:07 AM PST On 12/8/06 4:07 AM, in article C19EBFA0.24855%rr.com, "HAL KUSHNER" <rr.com> wrote: Just to make sure.... When you say you are signing on as the main account user (Identity)., is this in Entourage? There is no user for the other applications. A User is a term used by the Mac OS. The terms Identity and User are often confused. Entourage stores your data in an Identity, and the Mac OS creates Users. The Users folder resides at the root level of the startup disk and contains the home folders for all user accounts on the computer. Creating a new User is often useful to troubleshoot problems in Entourage because you can eliminate corruption and conflicts that might reside in your Home folder. Definition of account Each identity can have (almost) any number of accounts. Each account is associated with a distinct email address than can be used to send and/or receive mail, but all mail is stored in the same database, all calendar events are common to all the accounts, all notes & contacts are shared. So....if you are using the same Identity with separate accounts, then the problem is with your accounts. Delete them and recreate from scratch. Be careful when you copy/paste info. Adding an extra space can cause problems. If you are using separate Identities and creating new accounts does not fix the problem, database corruption could be the cause. Hope this helps. -- Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> The Entourage Blog lists the EHP as one of the top five Microsoft Entourage resources. <http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/> |
Macros virus on Macintosh - help save my files Posted: 07 Dec 2006 01:28 PM PST Hi Corentin: On 12/12/06 4:40 AM, in article 1hq6iu1.1j85aos1lbmj0cN%mvps.org, "Corentin Cras-Méneur" <mvps.org> wrote: Yeah, that was careless phrasing. As far as I know, if you "open" the file with Macros disabled (by saying "No" to the Macro Warning...) the file loaded into memory does not contain the macro code. If you then SAVE what you opened, the copy in memory overwrites the copy on disk and the macro code is permanently removed. If the bad code is in the Normal template, unfortunately it will run anyway, because the Normal template is in a "Trusted" location from which the Macro Warning is suppressed. So your original advice is much safer than mine :-) Alternatively, the user should re-name the Normal Template and THEN open the files with the macro warning enabled. Since the suspect files are in a non-trusted location, the macro warning will fire as normal. Cheers -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant Technical Writer. Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
office X and os 10.4.8 Posted: 05 Dec 2006 02:41 AM PST CyberTaz <typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet> wrote: Hi. BTW - if you got "hundreds of fonts", make sure they are all ok. Crap fonts are one of the best methods to cause Mac OS X including many applications to tumble. Font Book can verify them, in serious cases, go for Font Doctor: http://www.morrisonsoftdesign.com/index-7.html P.S. Very handy to work with many fonts inside Word: http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/fontcard Regards, -- Beste Gruesse, Hannes Gnad de Freier Apple Systemberater http://www.apfelwerk.de/ * Anteil der Studis der Universität Princeton, die sich für einen Mac * * entschieden haben: 2003 - 15%, 2004 - 25%, 2005 - 38%, 2006 - 45% * |
Can't remove MS Office Test Drive Posted: 04 Dec 2006 10:47 PM PST John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote: [snip] John, Thanks for the explanation. As I said, the first thing I did was to run the uninstall program for Office Test Drive, but it didn't see anything. That is when I figured I could just delete the whole thing. I should say that this was on a brand new computer that no one else had touched, so I knew that Office hadn't been started. Also, IIRC, I checked for preference files in ~/Library/Preferences and in /Library/Preferences before I loaded my copy of Office 2004. -- Dave Fritzinger Honolulu, HI |
default Times font in Word v X Posted: 04 Dec 2006 12:21 AM PST In article <C19B3BD3.227C1%com.au>, Clive Huggan <com.au> wrote: Thanks, I'm using 2004! -- To reply by email, remove the word "space" |
the microsoft wav file Posted: 02 Dec 2006 10:36 AM PST Thank you! "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote: |