Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / August 2006

Any time I try to use the drop down menu for Formatting in EITHER Word
or Excel 2004, I get the spinning ball and then a crash, after a lot of
spinning.
So I work without formatting on my G4 Powerbook; and then send the

I am sending word and excel documents out. I made sure I followed the steps
in Entourage help. If a recipient has problems opening a file you attached
to a message, try the following solutions:
I am using AppleDouble encoding format by default. I added the file

Hi I'm running Microsoft Office 2004 on my Mac Powerbook. I got the
notice about the office update 11.2.6 which I downloaded and installed.
Then I noticed the note about installing 11.2.5 first. I'm fairly
certain I never installed that update so I downloaded it but it will

I've searched the posts and have seen similar issues, but nothing to
answer my dilema: I erased my hard drive (on purpose!) and just
installed Tiger OS 10.4.7. I've been reinstalling software and all is
going well. EXCEPT Office X; I installed from the same CD I did before

I searched previous posts extensively before posting. But my problem
does not seem to come from corrupted fonts or preferences.
Problem : Office apps work fine after a reboot, but eventually, I
become unable to relaunch them. I have to reboot again to get them to

I am really getting fed up with this now and I am wondering if anybody
can offer me a solution.
I am doing various different things in Word and Excel. In word working
on documents that involve simple layouts, things like columns and in

After doing the MS Office 10.1.7 update, Word works fine, but Excel,
PowerPoint and Entourage have disappeared from Finder.  Suggestions?
Using OS X 10.4.7, and yes, I did follow the Read Me instructions.
Thanks.

Anyone know if/when there will be a release so users can update Office
2004 for MAC that will work with Tiger, 10.4.7?
I have been unable to take advantage of any of the Office updates for
quite awhile since according to Microsoft on May 28, 2006 this was a

I'm not new to Office, but new to MAC. Any tips? What are the major
differences between the programs. I'm used to running Office 2000 for
Windows and now I'm on Office 2004 for MAC. Entourage is completely new to
me. Thanks for any help you may have.

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.2.6 Update
This update fixes vulnerabilities in Office 2004 that an attacker can
use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious
code. [no less!]

Users trying to save office documents via AFP to a win2k3 server.  I've read
some info on this from back around the first of the year but want to know if
the bug has been fixed.
Mac OSX hints says to do this:

Anyone have a Read Me file for the  8/8/06 Office 2004 11.2.6 Update?

This is an incredibly bad decision IMO.  Is there someplace we can let
the decisionmakers know they need to rethink this one?

Hi, I'm trying to set up an excel data source to merge into form
letters, etc.  I know how to do this on my PC at home, but I'm on a Mac
in my new office and when I click on Open Source and my excel file, I
get a message that "Word cannot open the file".  But the documentation

I bought a new Intel MacBook and transfered all my files mron my old
e-mac over, including Office. It worked very well for a while and now,
after opening an application, I get a message," Microsoft Office 2004
cannot start because Microsoft Office is already in use," and this in