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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / July 2008Peeling apart MS Office components?
Just bought and installed MS Office 2008 Student and Home Edition. Don't want to use _any_ of the "Office" features; don't need to have one Office app communicate with another one, or anything like that. Can I peel out Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as separate, free-standing apps in my Applications folder (and maybe trash everything else in the Office folder)? [Obviously, I can just try this -- but at least one third-party manual warns that this will break all the apps. I'm wondering if anyone has done it without trouble.] > Just bought and installed MS Office 2008 Student and Home Edition. > Don't want to use _any_ of the "Office" features; don't need to have one [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > warns that this will break all the apps. I'm wondering if anyone has > done it without trouble.] Why bother? First of all, these already are separate free-standing apps, and none of them call support apps (like, say Equation Editor) unless you tell them to. Second, if you *must* have the apps in the top-level of the Applications folder, well, that's what aliases are for. And, finally, unless you managed to get some old mac with a 2Gb hard drive, the disk space taken up by the Office folder is inconsequential.  SignatureTeam EM to the rescue! http://www.team-em.com > Just bought and installed MS Office 2008 Student and Home Edition. > Don't want to use _any_ of the "Office" features; don't need to have one [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > apps in my Applications folder (and maybe trash everything else in the > Office folder)? I seriously doubt that. You may be able to delete the applications themselves, but you'll need to keep the Office folder around in some form, because each of the applications uses resources in that folder. What problem are you trying to solve, exactly? SignatureSend responses to the relevant news group rather than to me, as E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR > I seriously doubt that. You may be able to delete the applications > themselves, but you'll need to keep the Office folder around in some > form, because each of the applications uses resources in that folder. Even if the apps run, and that's easily tested, the updates may not install. SignatureMy latest ballroom dance performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W5Z5DGYIvM I kill Google Groups posts. See http://improve-usenet.org for details. |
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