Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / November 2006

Just wanted to confirm that if I have Office 98, I can upgrade to 04
and not have to buy the full version.  This is what I read in earlier
posts, or at least what I understand them to say.  My 98 is my own...I
bought it in that year.  I can only use it on OS 9 and now I have

Hello. I have a brand new MacbookPro with 1 GB of ram and I am using
the Office 2004 for Mac. When I try to save an excel document I get the
message to "...close document to save there is -not enough memory". I
have parallels installed but not using it. Can anyone help? It seems

Is it possible to add a text box to a document, but without the black
border around the text box?

BlankWhen I decided I would get a Mac for work, so I can work with the other mac people, I noticed one thing.  When I have a document open, instead of allowing a windows user to open it in read-only mode it gives them an error, but when a mac opens the same file that is open ...

If you by mistake end up with a duplicate License number on your machine,
Office is designed to provide error messages to the effect "you can't use
word, <user Name> is using it right now".
If you are getting any such message, please use the following steps to

My daughter is trying to install her offic:Mac 2004 ver. onto her new
ibook. She has tried all 3 product keys and the software tells her that
none of the keys is a valid key. I am using one of the keys. There is
one that is not used by anyone. Any ideas?

Perhaps someone can help me on what to do on this issue;
My son purchased the Student Version for Microsoft Office - it allows 3
install from what I understand. Office was installed as follows:
1 - on their iMAC dekstop;

When i try to install office 2004 for mac standard edition it tells me
that some of the files in the "English Dictionary" cannot be read and
so it never fully installs on my computer.   I have used the auto
installer but it cuts out half way through like its done but then won't

Initially, it was only in Word.  Arbitrary portions of text spontaneously
replicate throughout my documents as I work on them.  My documents balloon
to their twice length because of this unwanted replication of words,
sentences, and paragraphs.  It doesn't necessarily replicate ...

My son has a two month old Macbook that runs Office 2004 for Students
and Teachers.  When he is in his dorm connected to a printer documents
in Word can be saved or printed with no problems.
If he takes the computer to class--now disconnected from the printer,

Can anyone please tell me how I can close off a project so that the
files do not continue to be added to a project? I use colour labels on
my files for all sorts of identification purposes. Now I find that
green coloured files are being associated with and listed for the

I am experiencing many instability issues since I installed the latest
update to Mac Office 2004 (11.3).
* Entourage (11.2.5) database getting corrupted or functions crashing the SW
(such as printing)

We're looking to have everyone in the office (all Macs) have access to
a shared contact management system. Basically we want to be able to see
the contacts we all share, post notes to each, see each others
calendars, etc.

Does anyone know of a way I can restrict/reduce the size of a word
document? I'm running Office 2004 on an Intel Mac Mini under 10.4.8.
I have a 50 word document that runs to 148K in size. I just find that
ridiculous. I can't seem to get any document under 100K. What the heck

Hi everyone.  I've noticed a new folder created on November 16, 2006 called
c:/temp. Inside this folder is a folder called FixEngine which is empty. I
have found no information yet on Microsoft.com website about it's creation.
Does anyone know what created these folders and is it ...