Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / April 2005

I have version 4.2.1 on Microsoft Office. Can I use the upgrade version
of Office 2004 for Mac to upgrade this version?
Thanks. Any help would be appreciated.

I am wanting to purchase MS Office 2004, is there going to be a newer
version anytime soon or should I go ahead and buy? Does anyone know of any
good deals on the professional version of this software. I will also need
Windows XP.

I know this might seem like a stupid thing, but the notification sounds
from mac office have stopped after I upgraded to mac office 2004. The
sounds that sound when you save, open, etc a document. This happend to
all my office programs (Word, Excel and Powerpoint). Does anyone know

Ever since I installed Adobe Acrobat 7, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
won´t launch. All I get is an Error reporting window.
Does this have to do with the PDF templates?
I desperate need them to run.

I have a number of files created with old versions of Office for Mac.
(1.X, etc.).  I can't open them with Office X.  Any ideaas how to open
the files without going back to version 1.X on another computer.  Thanks

I have been tasked with porting existing code from windows to OS X.  I
have office automation (COM) code written in VC++.  I have found
postings that state Office 2004 on OS X can interact with AppleScript
and VBA, but I have not found anything regarding programmatic access

I'm a college student about to buy a new laptop.  I'm looking at
Microsoft Office and was wondering if the Student and Teacher edition
is EXACTLY the same as the standard edition.   For example, does Word
bundled with Student Edition the same as Word bundled with the standard

Word, Excel and Powerpoint won´t launch anymore after installing Adobe
Acrobat 7.
I checked on office/startup and the three folders are empty.
All I get is window telling me that app couldn´t launch.. Error

Is anyone else experiencing this problem:
--I create a speadsheet or drawing in Excel or PowerPoint.
--I select say the spreadsheet, and "copy".
--Then I go to Word and "Paste Special":"Picture" and the resulting

hope anyone can help me?!
I have recently installed office 2004 in English and I would like to
switch over to German.
Is that possible withouth having to buy a German version???

I asked this question on the Excel newsgroup a week ago, with no response:
In Excel 2004, a file I use on a daily basis doesn't show up under the
"Recent" tab in Project Gallery. I've tried narrowing down the choices to
Excel files only (default is All Office Documents) and played ...

I have the student/teacher version of Office 2004, and I installed the
"standard" package last night.  However, I need Equation Editor too, so
I ended up reinstalling Office with that option selected.  Now it's
complaining of not finding the proper fonts.

Can anyone help me with some OS X questions or point me in the direction of
who could?
Dave

This appears to be an issue that dates back a few years. I'm currently
using Office 2004. In any office application, if I try and insert an EPS
file that has a TIFF preview embedded in it, the Office application
crashes. This seems strange to me, because:

For the last 5 years at least, word:Mac has been missing a feature which
Word for Windows has had: the capability of embedding files (objects) into
documents (besides other Microsoft Office files).  I have been told that
this was due to a limitation in the MacOS.