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Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / February 2005Installing Office 2004
A few months ago, I installed Office 2004 for Mac on my computer. I previously had Office Test Drive on my computer, so now when I receive a Word attachment in an email, it automatically tries to open the Test Drive application instead of the correct Word application. I looked online, and saw that I was supposed to remove the Test Drive before installing, which I obviously didn't do. What can I do to fix this now? Also, I started using Entourage as my main email client, but when I click an online email link, it opens my old Mail server. Can I change the preferences to make Entourage my preferred program? I believe if you look in the Additional Tools folder in the Office 2004 folder, you should be able to run the Remove Office application and tell it to Remove the Test Drive only. However, if you do cmd-I on a word file icon, you should be able to change the Open With program to regular Office 2004 instead of the Test Drive, to eliminate the specific problem you mention. To set Entourage as default, you need to change the setting in the preferences for Mail (totally illogical, I hate that Apple did this). > A few months ago, I installed Office 2004 for Mac on my computer. I > previously had Office Test Drive on my computer, so now when I receive [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > click an online email link, it opens my old Mail server. Can I change > the preferences to make Entourage my preferred program?  SignatureDaiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: <http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/> What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ > To set Entourage as default, you need to change the setting in the > preferences for Mail (totally illogical, I hate that Apple did this). Actually it all writes in the internet config database. Apple just removed the interface to set up these options (and I hate that too BTW). You can still access and set the Net Info Database through third party applications. For that kind of things I use IC-Switch (freeware) from the exceellllleeennnt Philippe Martin: http://flip.macrobyte.net/software/ Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire >> To set Entourage as default, you need to change the setting in the >> preferences for Mail (totally illogical, I hate that Apple did this). > > Actually it all writes in the internet config database. Apple just > removed the interface to set up these options (and I hate that too BTW). See, that's the kinda behavior that just makes me furious at apple. 90% there, but just leaving you hanging for that last little 10%. DM > See, that's the kinda behavior that just makes me furious at apple. 90% > there, but just leaving you hanging for that last little 10%. It's worst than that. The interface *WAS* there. It was removed in 10.2 or 10.3 (I don't remember). Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire > > See, that's the kinda behavior that just makes me furious at apple. 90% > > there, but just leaving you hanging for that last little 10%. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Corentin Although I've not tried it, I've read that you can manually copy/install the Internet System Pref Pane from Jaguar and it will work fine in Panther. > Although I've not tried it, I've read that you can manually copy/install the > Internet System Pref Pane from Jaguar and it will work fine in Panther. Thanks for the tip :-) Hopefully there are also more complete (and free) options out there. I was already pretty unhappy with the very limited list of options we had in Jaguar.... Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire I suggest that you fully remove Office Test drive using the Remove Office utility. There is no reason to keep it on once you have the full version and leaving it on can cause the problems you described as well as others. Unfortunately, there is no Remove Test Drive Only option within the Remove Office Utility. You will need to choose Microsoft Office 2004 (including Test Drive) then reinstall Office 2004. SignatureEric Olson [MSFT] This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. OR if you wish to include a script sample in your post please add "Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm" >I believe if you look in the Additional Tools folder in the Office 2004 > folder, you should be able to run the Remove Office application and tell [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >> click an online email link, it opens my old Mail server. Can I change >> the preferences to make Entourage my preferred program? > Unfortunately, there is no Remove Test Drive Only option within the Remove > Office Utility. You will need to choose Microsoft Office 2004 (including > Test Drive) then reinstall Office 2004. I was wondering! Thanks for the correction. Before removing Office 2004, see here for what you might want to back up. http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/backupprefs.htm SignatureDaiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: <http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/> What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Very nice reference Daiya. Helpul and informative. Well done. SignatureEric Olson [MSFT] This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. OR if you wish to include a script sample in your post please add "Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm" " > I was wondering! Thanks for the correction. Before removing Office 2004, > see here for what you might want to back up. > > http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/backupprefs.htm Thanks. Much editing by Beth to get it to that point. > Very nice reference Daiya. Helpul and informative. Well done. |
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