Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / January 2008

What are Microsoft Shift Asserts? Since installing Office 2008 I get these each time I quit - to a variety of servers usually sqm.microsoft.com but I have seen others via Little Snitch. Couldn't see references to these when I had a quick search on Google.

I've just installed Home and Student 2008 on Leopard.  Entourage imported my
connection settings from Mac Mail but hasn't imported the messages.  Are
there any suggestions on how to bring my messages across.  An alternative is
to download all messages from my server but this doesn't ...

The Office 2008 Help program should include in its index how to deal with
changes from the previous version.
1.  For example, I could not find "source" as in Entourage/View Source,
which used to be under the View pulldown menu.  It took awhile to find that

Hello. I'm having an issue getting the dictionary right. This may be how it is supposed to work; if so let me know. I have three main questions at the end. I have the custom dictionary set as English (UK) in preferences, however words like 'organisation' as marked as incorrect. Also

when i am in internet explorer looking at anything and close the window i get
the error message that an error has occured and it needs to close. this
happens no matter where i am looking. or what im looking at. what can cause
this and how do I fix it?

I can't seem to find a trial of this package.  I am unwilling to buy even for home use without a trial.

Can anyone tell me either how I can find user manuals for Office 2008 programs or how to hear the tutorials on Mactopia?

Just today (17 January 2008), I installed Office 2008 on my Mac and discovered a major incompatibility: Excel files, moderate in size or larger (e.g., 2 Mb) created in Excel 2007 for PC and saved in xlsx and xlsb formats cannot be opened by Excel 2008 for Mac.  I just spent an hour

Excel and Powerpoint opens fine - word will not open and an error code is provided: unknown.

I've recently run in to a problem with any of my Office 2004 programs (besides messenger?).  If my computer is connected to the internet, these programs will open for about 30 seconds and then 'unexpectedly quit'.  My mom bought the home and student version, and there are still available

When i put in the CD to start the install process it does not recognize the CD.  I have placed other CDs and DVDs in the drive and they all read just fine.  I even put in the Office CD and tried to boot from the CD nothing happened.  I am thinking it is probably just the CD and I

I have installed Office 2008 beta perivously.
Now I got the Final version of Office 2008 student version. Before I install, I did an Stupid thing: Direct drop the beta 2008 into the trush!
Then when I try to install the final version, I just got the "Cannot find software" error.

Hello everyone, I have noticed in a few threads this reoccurring discussion but no topic to address the issue and only the issue. I am a graduate Student.  What version should I buy?  What is the automation support anyways?  Obviously exchange is not an issue when not in a corporate

How can I change settings in keychain access so that I don¹t have to login
each time/application?

there were few posts about persian language support in office,i find
out that the main problem is in mac osx not office,cause we have this
problem also when we visit persian websites in safari or read docs in
bean.