Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / October 2004

I just 'upgraded' from a Windows computer to the Mac, and have
installed Office 2004.  I do a lot of writing in languages like
Russian, Chinese and Hungarian, and could really benefit from proofing
tools in these languages, but it seems that, unlike the Windows

Hi...
I tried to work on Word today for first time on newish Mac and
realized none of my Office applications work.
When I double click on Word I can see something happening as I get the

I recently upgraded to Office 2004 Standard Edition (11.1), and I am
having an issue getting certain images to display correctly in Word.
The latest version of Word for Office v.X (10.1.6) can accurately
render the document that Word 2004 cannot render.  The document

When I try to connect to our exchange server with entourage, all i get
is the following message:
Error -3176:
The server can't be found. Be sure the mail server information is

I've been unemployed for too long.
As a copywriter, all my computer experience was on a Mac, mostly using
the verbal text-only version of QuarkXpress. I own a G4 PowerBook.
Now I need to try for administrative jobs, which means knowing pc's.

anyone...?

I am looking at moving our 'project management' over to Office:Mac Project
Center...but have some concerns as to organizing and assigning large number
of tasks.
Does anyone know if it is possible to 'tree or outline' tasks..One large

I foolishly started the 2004 trail and then promptly ignored it.  I'm
now seriously thinking of purchasing Office 2004 and want to play with
the trial to see if it's functionality is worth me converting to it.
Is there anyway of extending the trial time?  Or is the only, and not

I'm running OS 10.3.5 and I can't get Word to launch. I've tried
reinstalling it and dumping the prefs. It starts to launch, then stops
at various points while loading Visual Basic, the font menus, etc. I
get the spinning BBOD that never goes away and the program never

Similar problem here, only perhaps even more of a puzzle. I've just
downloaded and installed the update. Upon starting Word, I'm asked to
enter my name and serial number, which I do, only to have it rejected.
I've very, very carefully re-entered, re-checked and re-tried the

I have come across a problem working in Office X in a Mac OS 10.3.5
environment. 
When a file is named longer than 27 characters, once the file is
opened the name gets truncated and renamed to contain alphanumeric

Does anybody know why I am having difficulty opening various Word,
Excel, and PowerPoint files? I keep getting the message that the
programs are unable to open the specific file because the file is
corrupt, in-use, or of a type not recognized by the program in

Running G4800MHz with 640MB RAM. MS Office vX is slow, especially in
Word. Are there any guides, tips, hints or work around to speed things
up? Especially during scrolling of pages is slowest.
Thanks

I recently finished helping a friend set up his new iMac G5. We'd
planned to install Office 2004 and I know I have to deinstall the Test
Drive first.
I ran the deinstaller and it did not report that it saw all the Office

I am using a G-4 tower running OS 10.2. Suddenly, in my version of
Word (10.1.1) in Office for Mac X, whenever I click on the format
palette button, the palette rushes to the bottom of the screen and
disappears. When I click the darkened button on the toolbar, the