[X4U] beaucoup problems with Office 08 on G4 running 10.4.11

[stephen e. schwartz]

apology if repost; I didnt see this show up in the digest. -steve

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>Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:27:30 -0400
>To: x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
>From: "stephen e. schwartz" <ses at bnl.gov>
>Subject: Re: beaucoup problems with Office 08 on G4 running 10.4.11
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>I am a somewhat happier camper now. Our IT guy did all the patches 
>on Office 08, and that stopped the crashes.
>
>I then followed Randy's suggestion and did a lot of house cleaning 
>on fonts. I recomend http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html 
>for a very detailed and clear discussion of font issues on OSX. I 
>guess I will learn what colateral damage I have done as I use 
>various apps down the road.
>
>Word 08 now behaves more or less as expected. I had been motivated 
>to get it because it is the first OSX word app that handles quartz 
>pdf from the clipboard. It does that very well. when I use the built 
>in print to pdf it renders very high quality graphics, equivalent to 
>what I had come to expect with eps on word 5 (a 1992 piece of 
>software, I might note, but not quartz pdf savvy).
>
>As widely discussed, Word-08 does not do macros. I record and use a 
>lot of macros in word. So I guess I will keep my more or less trusty 
>Word-X up and going for that purpose.  Can't have everything.
>
>Thanks, Randy, for suggestions
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>-steve
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>>Message: 3
>>Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:37:17 -0700
>>From: "Randy B. Singer" <randy at macattorney.com>
>>To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
>>	<x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>>Subject: Re: [X4U] beaucoup problems with Office 08 on G4 running
>>	10.4.11
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>>On Aug 25, 2010, at 12:14 PM, stephen e. schwartz wrote:
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>>>  I installed Office 08 and cannot get Word 08 to work. The app quits 
>>>  at the least provocation, e.g. opening a Word X for mac document 
>>>  that I had previously saved, especially if it has any graphics in 
>>>  it. Sometimes a simple paste will make the app quit.
>>>
>>>  It has a long list of fonts, but if I select times it gives me 
>>>  American Typewriter.
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>>Sounds like a font conflict.
>>Use Font Book (in your Applications folder) to both Validate Fonts 
>>(and repair them)
>>and to Resolve Duplicates.
>>http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2509
>>http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=FontBook/2.2/en/5285.html
>>
>>It is also possible that you have conflicting preferences files left 
>>over from an older version of Word:
>>http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Word2008Issues.html#LaunchCrash
>>
>>Here is an excellent site for troubleshooting problems with Word:
>>http://word.mvps.org/Mac/TroubleshootingIndex.html
>>
>>See especially here:
>>http://word.mvps.org/mac/Diagnose.html
>>under "Unexpected quit on startup."
>>
>>See this link for unexpected quits:
>>http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/crashes.html#crash30
>>
>>___________________________________________
>>Randy B. Singer
>>Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
>>
>>Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
>>http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
>>___________________________________________
>>
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