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Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / June 2005new problem
Installation OF MS Office while dragging the icon of MS Office 2k4 to a hard drive i receive this error; The Finder canneot complete the operation becuse some data in ".DS_Store" could not be read or written. (Error code -36) and the option to close the dialog with "Ok" I have had this problem before and it is frustrating as my brother can install it on his computer without a hitch, ever. I have cleaned he cd with a little warm water an ideas? Thanks John McGhie suggested running the installer rather than doing drag-and-drop. See if it makes a difference? > Installation OF MS Office while dragging the icon of MS Office 2k4 to a > hard drive i receive this error; [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > an ideas? > Thanks  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/ running the installer also does jack squat, when it wants to be stubborn. after putzing with it off and all day it just "allowed itself" to install. typical MS crap Any good alternative office apps for the mac? Some recommend NeoOfficeJ, which is the OS X port of Open Office (I think). There are a lot of Word-alternatives out there--Mellel is frequently mentioned. Apple's iWork has Keynote and Pages, at least, if not spreadsheet. Google will probably turn up more, if no one else comes along. I forgot to mention it's good practice to repair permissions before and after installing, that might have been worth trying. > running the installer also does jack squat, when it wants to be > stubborn. after putzing with it off and all day it just "allowed > itself" to install. typical MS crap > > Any good alternative office apps for the mac? 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/ Just a few comments in addition to what Daiya has written: If you're really looking for a replacement for the complete Microsoft Office suite, then NeoOfficeJ is definitely what you'll want to have, since it includes a word processor, a spreadsheet module, a presentation program and also a drawing module, if I'm not mistaken. Also, NeoOffice, just like OpenOffice, is completely free, and that aspect is particularly convincing. Note that it is a 120MB download, though, so you'd better not be using a dial-up connection for this one. Another free open source product is AbiWord, which is a not-too-complex word processor. Mellel is frequently mentioned in relation to left-to-right text input and complex foot/endnote managing. Another word processor worth mentioning is Nisus Writer Express, which is really nice as it uses Mac OS X's text rendering engine, though it does not have the complexity of Microsoft Word (or its own Classic-only predecessor, Nisus Writer). Then there's Mariner Writer, but I don't know much about that application, except that it has a rather ugly interface. There's also Mariner Calc, a spreadsheet application, from the same developers. And last but not least, there's Apple's newcomer suite called iWork. It contains two applications, the word processor/DTP program Pages and the presentation module Keynote, both of which are more or less Word/PowerPoint-compatible. Note however that at this stage, iWork does NOT contain a spreadsheet application, though it is likely that Apple will include one in the next version. I might have forgotten to mention a few applications, but my list covers the majority of the modern "Office-like" programs available today. Hope this was helpful. Michel |
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