Re: word unexpectedly quits on Network user

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From: Alex Chand (alexc_at_rfnsw.org.au)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: 13 Jul 2004 16:38:51 -0700

If i create symlink "Application"subfolder in my home directory, then
Do I need to uninstall the Office that installed in the local HDD?
Thanks

Paul Berkowitz <berkowit@spoof_silcom.com> wrote in message news:<BD132324.6AD90%berkowit@spoof_silcom.com>...
> I had my Home Directory on another partition for years, using Word X.
> (Office was also on yet another partition.) But I've been using a symlink
> for the Home Directory, not a regular alias, so maybe that helped. I also
> created a symlink to a subfolder called "Applications" in my Home Directory.
> (An "Applications" folder in Home Directory is an Apple-approved location
> for 3rd-party apps. The symlink worked just as well.)
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> > From: "Matt Centurión [MS]" <matt@online.microsoft.com>
> > Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.word
> > Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:44:30 -0700
> > Subject: Re: word unexpectedly quits on Network user
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> > Word X is not compatible with environments where the Home directory is not
> > on the startup partition. Word 2004 is however.
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