Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / April 2007

I recently purchased a macintosh computer, and I have the test drive
version of microsoft office.  I have a product key from my other
computer, but I cannot tell how to authenticate the new version.  Can
someone help me?  Thanks!

I re-installed my operaing system a couple of weeks ago. Since then,
Excell, Word and Powerpoint fail to lauch during the "optimizing font
menu performance" part of launch. However, Entourage is working just
fine! I reinstalled my font program thinking this might solve the

Can Microsoft's Office 2004 for Mac convert Traditional Chinese to
Simplified Chinese and vice versa, and such function available in
Word, Excel and Powerpoint? Thanks!

I would like to know if there is a way to create an Outlook rule that
will allow me to move emails where my name/email address is in the Bcc
field to a specific folder.
I was tried using the condition "where my name is not in the To box"

In older versions of Word the content and position of various tear-off menus
was stored in normal (or normal.dot, in Windows).
The Normal file in OSX contains things like default document settings and
stylesheets, but does not seem to include general Word settings like these

I too have upgraded from a G4 to MacBook with the new version of MS
Office. All the date from the G4 was transfered at the Apple store to
the new MacBook and I keep getting "an unexpected error occured when
trying to loat the Microsoft framework library" I have removed and re-

Will there be any public beta testing of Office 2008 like there was
with 2007 for Windows? I'd be very interested to try it out.

Hello.. as many people in here I've been having problems opening
office. I tried disabling fonts, reinstalling office and nothing. If
anybody can help me out I'd really appreciate the help :). Not sure if
the log will help but here it is:

I am using Outlook 2003 and whenever I send a message to my hotmail account
the attachment is missing an in its place is a winmail attachment.
I cannot open this attachment and my wanted attachment is missing,
I have tried sending mail as html, rich and plain and nothing works.

People,
I'm using Office 2004 on an eMac running OS 10.2.8. I have a simple
spreadsheet of people's names and addresses. I wanted to also include
their e-mail addresses so I started typing that info into a new column.

I've just replaced my old iBook with a MacBook 1.83 and used the
Migration assistant to copy over my settings etc from the old
computer.
I ran into problems with both the Test Drive and transfered copies of

I use communicator all the time - if I'm in a conversation and switch focus
to another application - when I return, the IM window and communicator shut
down. It doesn't matter which application I switch to - sometimes it's
another IM window. I can find no consistency.

My mac had to be rebooted and I dont have the mac disc. The mac 3rd
party programs dont transfer over unless you have a disk image --
which i dont. I bought the 3 install student pack office from the mac
store and cant find it. Is there anything i could do, anyone i could

the program icons for my start menu have always stayed at the bottom of my
desktop.  Now they are all on the side and it drives me crazy! LOL.  I have
tried to drag and drop them back down to the bottom of the desktop but to no
avail.  Can anyone tell me how to do this.  I use ...

Hi, i was wondering if there is any way to change the sounds for a new txt
msg to a personal one?