Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / February 2005

Any thoughts on AirPort Express???  I¹m thinking of getting it to share the
laser in the house.  My wife uses a Dell and I use the Mac.  Is it tough to
set AirPort Express up to share a printer on a PC and Mac??
Thanks.

I am new with Mac. I buyed Office 2004 in Mexico and I need to use hebrew
for my work. I want to know if there is a posibility of making  Office 2004
capable of reading and writing in hebrew. If not, please tell me if there is
another way to do it. I really need this.

Whenever I try to type a capital delta symbol (from the symbol font via
the "insert symbol" command) word and excel insert a space, and do not
display the symbol (the delta does display when I put it in through
equation edititor). It also appears in entourage, but when I try to

Is Office 2001 compatible with OS10.3? If not, is there a way to
upgrade to the latest version without having to outright buy the new
Office package?
Joe

I currently have Microsoft Office on my Powerbook.  I originally had
Office:Mac 2001 and ran it in Classic Mode on my Powerbook which is now
up to Mac OS X ver. 10.3.7. When the upgrade for Office OS X came out,
I installed it on my Powerbook.

Anyone have any information on the following demo done onstage at Macworld
2005?
AppleScript in Microsoft Office
       -Presented live on stage by Paul Berkowitz, Allen Watson (both MS

I'm a grad student considering buying OFFICE 2004 student and teacher
edition. is there any big reason why i shouldn;t do this i.e. things i
will miss out on?
also, is there a big difference between the mac office and pf office.

I am attempting to install Office 2004 SP1 on a G5.  The installer reaches
the "Gathering information..." point, the spinning beachball appears, and I
need to force quit the installer program to continue.  I've tried under a
different user, with Anti Virus software removed, and ...

Has anyone else have trouble with macros in Office 2004? I record macros
(ie. Paste unformatted from clipboard), but, the paste still includes
formatting (ie. Times 9pt, etc.). I look at the macro script, and it reads
"paste and format." Also, the save new "normal" template doesn't ...

I am a new office user and have a lot of forms that were sent to me via
e-mail in which I need to fill out numerous sections, which I have, and
sign various pages also.  Is there a way to import my signature ?  I
can type it in but would rather scan my signature and use it for

I have had Office X installed on my desktop for several years with few
problems. I recently bought my wife an new iMac and myself a Powerbook
and I'm trying to install Office from the installation CD on both
machines. It is an Upgrade CD, as I've owned several earlier versions

Every time I launch Auto Update from the Applications folder on my Mac, OS
10.3.7, to check to see if there is anything new, I keep getting the same
SR1 update for Office 2004 when I've already installed it at least 3 or 4
times thinking maybe something isn't sticking somewhere. ...

Word, Excel and PowerPoint have suddenly stopped working. Entourage
seems to work as well as ever. When I try to open any existing document
or if I create a new one and save it, the application crashes. The crash
dump indicates the crash is in com.apple.HIToolbox while calling

I am awaiting delivery of an ibook and office 2004 and am trying to
familiarise myself with the mac way of doing things could you tell me a
little about drag and drop install of office.
Thanks

Everyone here runs Office X/Mac OS 10.3.6 and had (at least) the PowerPoint
file-opening problems (PowerPoint cannot read...,  etc.)
Anything new - besides the solution of going back down to 10.1.5.  It's been
a couple of weeks.