[X4U] Where can Services be downloaded?

Eddie Hargreaves meged at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 29 08:58:21 PST 2005


Ha! I use Entourage and not Word, Excel or PowerPoint, so that's why I
noticed Services support there and assumed it applied to all of Office 2004.
More evidence that individual Carbon apps have to be specially programmed to
use Services.


On 12/29/05 8:41 AM, Norman Cohen <nacohen at mac.com> wrote:

> I need to <partially> correct myself. Entourage, which I don't use
> and thus never noticed, does support services; however, Word, Excel,
> and Powerpoint don't seem to support them. Or at least, I haven't
> figured out how to get them to work in those applications.
> 
> 
> On Dec 29, 2005, at 08:17 AM, Norman Cohen wrote:
> 
>> Eddie,
>> 
>> Although there is a service menu in Office 2004 apps, try selecting
>> some text and using a service to act upon the text. It doesn't work
>> (at least for me on multiple machines running Tiger 10.4.3). I use
>> Services frequently, but unfortunately not in Office.




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