Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / February 2006

Has anyone experienced this?  I just got a new Powerbook yesterday and
when I tried to use PowerPoint the next day (today), it said that the
trial period had expired.  Now, isn't this supposed to last for 30
days?  What gives?  Anyone with any suggestions?

I was having problems with Microsoft Office -- getting a message that
someone else was using my serial number, and that I was exceeding the
number of allowable installations with my version of Office.  I'm not
sure how this happened, but to be safe, I bought a new copy of office,

Can someone please post the EULA?  I need clarification on a fine point
on License Agreement.  Or better yet I need "Authoritative" word on
running one license on my desktop at work and using the same license to
install on my portable, to take work home.  It seems to depend on which

I've recently deployed LCS 2005 SP1 in my network environment, but somehow I
wasn't able to start the service after the Activation stage.
When I checked the event viewer, these are the errors I got:
Event Type:    Error

I use a Mac with OSX Tiger. I installed an Office 2004 test drive, but
then bought an Office X and started using it. I uninstalled Office 2004
test drive, but now whenever I try opening an office document (word,
powerpoint or excel), the Office 2004 dialogue box pops up and tells me

The question of the day....In MS Office 2004 for
mac..how do you get rid of the text box "box lines"?
I would like to position text in a certain area on a
page,but the only way, that I can see to do it is

I have webpages that I made in Word for Windows (office xp for students and
teachers version 2002) but when I edit them and then preview them in word for
mac(office for mac for students and teachers 2004), I get weird code on the
top of the page and the graphics (jpegs and gifs) ...

Just a short question.  I am using a G5 IMac with Office 2004.  My
question is when I go to insert a clipart or graphic in a blank
document, the clipart or graphic goes immediately to the point where
the cursor is blinking and will not move out of that spot.  I try to

I just purchased the new iMac with the Intel processor.  (I am also a
new Mac user.)  When I am using Microsoft Office, everything is
responding slowly.  For example, it can take 30-45 seconds to launch
Excel.  Also, when I'm executing certain actions within the

I am running a G5 Imac 1.8Ghz and a G4 Powerbook 1.5GHz and have been
happily running office X on both machines for as long as I've owned
them (1 and 2 years respectively)  Before the Pbook, I also had an I
book running Office X for 18 months with no troubles.

Most of our users have remote home directories, running Mac OS 10.3.9.
The home directories are stored on file servers.  We were using a
separate LDAP server for authentication.  Office 2004 is installed
locally, in the users' Applications folder.

I have a recurring problem inserting .tif files into Office X
application doc's and ppt's. They insert as blank space.
In the past, I'd worked with MS Tech Support - and what had worked for
a while was to trash the PDFMaker files that are placed into the

Help!
In Word and in Entourage my name appears as "trial user."
For example, if I print an email message, the header includes "trial user,"
or if I add a comment to a Word document, the comment is attributed to

I just recently installed the AIE version of office 04 for my mac and was
excited to get it up and running.  However each time i tried my glory was
short lived...
If anyone can help me out i'm in dire need of a program i can use, being a

I'm Running Microsoft Office X on Mac OS 10.4.5 (PowerPC) on an iMac G5
iSight, Versiontracker pro tellls me i need to update office to version
11.x i download the installer and it says i don't meet the requirements
for the upgrade. And the read me file is corrupted so i cannot read ...