Office 2004 Read Write problem

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nativetexan1976@hotmail.com - 25 Jan 2006 03:55 GMT

I've read the archives ad nauseam and still can not solve this problem.
I am very interested in the MS Office for Mac and downloaded the trial
version before I paid for it to see if it is what I want. After the
download, I moved the Office icon to Applications. When I open
anything thereafter (Word, Excel, etc), I am greeted with "Microsoft
Office 2004 Test Drive must be run by an administrator and on a volume
with read/write permission. Make sure that you have administrator
priveleges and the test drive is installed on a read/write volume". I
am the only user on this computer with Admin rights.
When I click on File/Get Info for any of the applications, I see that I
have "Read & Write" permissions under "Ownership & Permission", however
it is greyed out. I have run the Disk Utility Repair Permissions, but
to no avail.
I just bought this Mac (Mac Mini, 1.42 on OSX 10.4.4) and am really not
very good with Macs, so please use baby steps in any advice you may
have to offer. Thank you,

Steve

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Corentin Cras-Méneur - 25 Jan 2006 21:31 GMT

> Make sure that you have administrator
> priveleges and the test drive is installed on a read/write volume". I
> am the only user on this computer with Admin rights.

Try using the installer to install Office instead of a simple drag and
drop.
I would have suspected that repairing permissions would have done the
trick, but obviously the problem is deeper than that. DO you only have
one account on this Mac ??

Corentin

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dr.holly.feelgood@gmail.com - 26 Jan 2006 18:52 GMT

Youll need to conatact Apple because your MAC is not recognizing you as
the administrator

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nativetexan1976@hotmail.com - 26 Jan 2006 22:28 GMT

Thanks for the responses - I figured it out. When I moved everything
to Applications, I was dragging and dropping the shortcut, not grabbing
each individual file and moving it. Works now. Thanks again,

Steve

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