Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / January 2008

Friends...I hope you can help me out
I have a Powerbook G4, that has one of the 3 authorized installations
of Office 2004 Student and Teacher addition running on it
I bought a new MacBook Pro, and transferred everything over to

I'm just curious if there are plans to release a 30-day trial version of Office 2008, as there was for Office 2004, and if so, when it will be downloadable.  I'm considering upgrading to Office 2008, but would like to try it out first to make sure it offers what I need compared to

I cannot use the 'quick look' feature on any Powerpoint documents saved using Mac Office 2008.  I am saving the files using the .PPT format, but they are not generating any previews. I have tried installing Office 2008 on 2 Macs and they both exhibited the same lack of preview issue.

For some reason (I may have been guilty of accidentally deleting), my Microsoft updater is not working.  Whether automatically or manually, I see an error message when I try to launch it.  What should I do? If I need to uninstall and then re-install, what is the safest way to do it

Hi, all.
Downloading the OfficeX-1019UpdateEN.dmg from the Microsoft site.
It downloads fine (39mb), and the file shows on the desktop, but nothing
happens when I double click.  Have deleted and tried a couple of times.  

I have a brand new G5 running OSX 10.4.10. I have installed Office 2004, and am having trouble launching Word. After double clicking, it opens a blank window and then freezes as it works it way through the "optomizing font performance" bar at the bottom of the window. It starts to

I have a minor problem with Word. Every time I open a new blank document I get words automatically entered on my blank page.  I remember entering the words for a project awhile back, but for some reason, they won't go away, and I can't remember how I got them there to begin with.

I am trying to install Office Mac 2004 on my new iMac.  I installed it using a product key I already used on another iMac (I have two other Product keys that I have not used and are therefore valid). I have tried to uninstall the program and reinstall with the other valid product

Here are some of my problems:
1. Blank sheet shows in Print Preview and in Print for new and old
documents.
2. New Worksheet or Workbook is weird and unusable in any view. Page

How do I edit a picture in word (eg: to erase part of the picture)?
Is there a eraser function?  if so how do I use it??

I installed by dragging the Office folder from the install CD into my
Applications directory. When I launch any Office app (Word, Excel,
etc.) afterwards, the Setup Assistant pops up. Ok so far.
When I get to step 3, User Information, I cannot click or tab to any

Using winxp, when i connect my motorola cell phone to laptop and use as a
modem, sometimes fax console works, other times it does not. after
reinstalling it will work for a while, but always fails later. it will still
send the fax, but indicates an error, so it is not stored in ...

I've just upgraded to OS X Leopard and now none of my Office 2004
applications will work
I click on the icons be it in the dock or in the applications folder
and the programmes will not load... All the icon in the dock does is

Since installing OS X 10.5 a lot of my Office files have had the data
erased. My Word documents and Excel spreadsheets are still there, but
do not still have the actual data when I open them. They are blank.
A friend told me that this is a problem with MS Office based Macro

I've worked with Word in Windows and Mac equally. There are features in
both that are wanting in the other.
In Word for Windows, the Formatting Palette is a wonderfully accessible
window that can be made as large as screen real estate allows.