Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / April 2005

I'm working on a G4, of which I am not the owner, but on which I have
an admin account.  The OS has recently been updated to 10.3.9, and this
is the first time I've attempted to use the machine since then.  With
the exception of Entourage, none of the Office 2004 applications

I opened up Microsoft Word X recently and was playing around on the
console trying to get a program I was writing to work.  While I was
playing around I ran `lsof -i` and found some odd output:
Microsoft 362 user   25u  IPv4 0x0274c538      0t0  TCP *:3978 (LISTEN)

I just switched to Mac and love it, particularly my PowerBook.  I also have
a desktop PC, so I run MS Office on both.  I have to say, the menu and
toolbar system in Office 2004 Mac is big and clumsy compared to the one for
Office 2003 PC.  Not only are the toolbars twice as ...

I'm using Word as part of Office 2004 on my Mac G5, OS 10.3.9 (was
10.3.8 when this first happened a few days ago). The Word version is
v11.1 (under "About Word."
When I try open an existing Word file, created on my Mac, I get a box

Hope somebody can help -- here part of my Chat session with Apple
Support to explain the situation.
Last night, I downloaded the software update that came through on the
automatic alert -- I think it was the latest OS X upgrades. At that

I am running Virtual PC 7.0.1 -Win. XP Pro- on OSX 10.3.9. I cannot
make the shared internet DSL connection work from the mac into the VPC
machine.
I have tried out many Win. XP and Mac OSX settings -firewall, network,

All of a sudden my edit, view, insert, etc (only menu that opens is font)
are inoperative.  They highlight but do not open/list.  After about two
minutes I receive either a Type 2 or Type 3 error.  I am Mac OS 9.2 user.  I
have used Word, Excel, Powerpoint error free for more than ...

Can someone explain to me how to transfer my Entourage address book to
my IPod?  I know I have to convert them to V-Cards, but am a bit
lost...
Thanks!

I have an older G3, with Microsoft Office, running OS 9.2.  I'm going
to buy a new iMac.  What is the most painless and proper way to upgrade
from my Office 98 to the latest version of Microsoft Office on my new
iMac?  Do I have to install the old Office onto the new computer, or

Recently I was sent a word document by a colleague that contained
algebraic equations. Upon receiving the document I noticed that it had
black boxes where the equations would be instead of the equations. I
have Microsoft Office for Mac on my Powerbook.Fortunately I also have

Does anyone know if you can re-activate the  Microsoft Office 2004 test
drive that comes pre-installed on new iMac G5s?
I never used the test drive during the first 30 days and they now say
it has expired. Is there an easy way to reactivate it to avoid having

WORD 2004 continues to shut itself down when opening a document.  It
seems to happen primarily with documents created with WORD X, but even
after saving a document in 2004 version, it still will not open and
results in an error. The document starts to open, but before any text

3 STRATEGY CONSIDERATIONS:
In anticipation of Tiger delivery on Apr. 29, I've moved Office 2004 from
the OS 10.3.8 volume's Applications folder to a new OS-free, non-Apple Apps
volume.  I've moved the Microsoft User Data  folder from Users/~/Documents

I would like to redirect the file locations under word/preferences/file
locations to a location on the local computer instead of our network.
I can do this for a single user.  We have multiple user logging on to
the workstation and everytime a new user logs on the locations go back

I'm a student and have begun selling some books on amazon.
I wanted to develop my business process skills so see it as running a
small business.
I want to use office to store my 'inventory,' transactions, generate