Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / June 2005

In setting up a new Mac computer (mac mini), and am transferring
software and files from an older one.  I am trying to install Microsoft
Office: v. X for Mac.  In the installation process, the program is not
accepting my Product Key.  I've used this product key as recently as 3

I received errors in opening Word and Excel documents sent from two
different friends.
The message for Word is: Word cannot open this document.  The document might
be in use or might not be a valid Word document.

Hi all, my name is Wai Shum. I am using office v. X. I have a problem
changing fonts on my documents. Here's the situation. When I choose one
font, the font box on the tool bar shows another font type. Example, I
choose Times New Roman, but the box shows Arial. When I go to scroll

I have installed Microsoft Office 2004 - but did NOT uninstall Test Drive.
Will this create problems?

Hi group,
   Today i was trying to send a mail through Microsoft Word 2004, and on
"send to" menu were just 2 options: Microsoft Power Point and Mail.
   I´ve selected "mail" and it opened the default mail program of the

Since I upgraded to TIGER, Word 2004 does not scrolls correctly on my second
monitor. The text becomes repeated en disturbed... On my primary monitor,
everything works fine...
Everyting worked perfect on PATHER.

I want to use the DMY format in Office.
This should be achieved by setting System Preferences-International-Formats
to the required region.
Still the Office apps keep requesting input in MDY format.

Hi group,
I don´t konw if it´s a bug, or some wrong configuration, but while trying to
open an attachment on Entourage 2004, it just does not open.
So, to fix it, i´ve save the attachment on any folder, then open the

We use Exchange and Entourage for our email. Last week we were told to
clean out our mail folders as we were taking up too much space on the
Exchange server. I know that I can archive messages in the Folders on
My Computer section of Entourage. What I want to know is where are

Is it possible to create a custom export in Entourage of a few select
contacts (rather than the entire address book), which can then be
exported to Excel? And how do we go about doing this?
Thanks!

Last month my hard drive failed.  I have replaced it with another Maxtor but
since reinstalling my software I cannot get my Microsoft Keyboard to work
properly.  It is okay for typing but any of the special keys (scroll, cut,
paste, copy, open various apps) will not work.  I have no ...

Hi group,
   I´m a newsbye on Mac, so it should be a easy question for you guys.
   Here in company we do have a iBook G5 with Office 2004 installed, and
now it´s asking for activation, my Office license will expire in 2 days and

Anyone know if Office v.X for the Mac has any problems on Tiger. I'd rather
not update if I didn't have to.  Thanks.
Duane Johnson.

Error when starting Word 2004...
"You are working without a Word work file and memory is nearly full.
Save your work."

I have created an excel document under windows xp/office 2003, this
document contains ~20 worksheets, and some vba code behind.
Using this excel file on windows works fine.
On a macintosh, I cannot save the document ("Document not saved")