Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / October 2005

Please, help me! I just began to use Mac and Entourage and I don't know how
to get confirmation of sending and delivering for outgoing mail, like in
Microsoft Office for PC.
Thank you!

Having difficulty in applying Book-Level and Sheet-Level Names in
Workbooks.
When I define a name in the Define Name dialog box and I then select
the name in the Name Box, it will select the reference on the worksheet

So i went ahead and downloaded the office 2004 for mac. 186 mb which
took some time (56 kbps line). i got the file in a toast application
format .dmg.bin. my info window tells me that there is 186 mb on the
disk, but i cant open it. the message comes up:

Without signing up for Microsoft's Passport, how do I get the company to
change my email address on its mailing list?
At the bottom of the email messages I get from MS, it has a link to
subscription changes.

Does anyone know how to get all the key entourage information to sync
to .Mac so you can keep all this info up to date on several machines
via .Mac? (like you can with Apple's Address book and Mail). I think
you can hack some of it with e2sync, but it would be great to have all

I can¹t register Office 2004 for Mac online because it doesn¹t seem to
accept the Product ID that was provided when I installed the package. The
format the registration process seems to want is according to example
³12345-XXX-7654321-98765² and I assume the XXX¹s are expected to be

I use a shared folder for documents with my secretary but when I access
a document created by her and try to alter it the automatic spelling
and gramar checking does not kick in and if I use it in the tool bar it
says it is completed when there are obvious errors.  Is there a way to

We were cleaning out our computer related storage area, and I came upon
a  "Not for Retail or OEM Distribution" disk for Office:mac 2001.  The
CD includes the CD case with orange CD Key sticker on the back.
I'm assuming that the software was installed at one time since there is

I'm trying to reset my PID - I deleted the OfficePID files and teh
prefs file - but I've got an upgrade version of MSO and its asking for
the previous version - I point it at the current folder and it doesn't
see it - and I deleted the previous one long ago.  What now?

How can I force Entourage 2004 (SP2) to sort mails by received and
at the same time show me the receive date instead of weekday and
time?
It doesn't work to disable 'Use relative dates in lists (Today,

Does my perpetual student license for office 2002 for my windows
machine carry over if i want to get office 2004 for my mac?

Hello;
Why would .doc and .rtf versions of the same Word file be significantly
different sizes? 176 Kb vs 704 Kb respectively as an example.
Also why would minor text changes in a .doc document change it from 176

I've noticed a few wierd things. Sometimes in Excel, I try to type in
some values, but nothing happens. Some keystrokes work, others do not.
Then in Powerpoint, the keyboard on one document is French, even though
it's selected as US. Other times, everything in Office is exceedingly

How do I insure when I open a document in Office, that the open window
does not open under the toolbars.  Many times when the document window
opens the top of the open window is under the Formatting and sometimes
the Standard Toolbars on the desktop.

I recently purchased an Ibook that came with the latest version of Mac
OS X (10.4.2).  I also purchased at my school's bookstore (Boston
College) the latest version of Microsoft office (2004 standard
edition).  I was told that it would be compatible - however, my