Re: crashes in office (excel and word for example) on macbook pro

Was the Office 2004 Test Drive on the MBP when you bought it? If so, did you
use the Remove Office Utility app to remove it *completely* rather than just
dragging the Test Drive folder to the Trash? Have you run Disk Utility -
Repair Disk Permissions since installing Office?... each Update?

What about OS X - Are you at 10.4.8? If you've recently applied 10.4.8 using
Software Update you might try d/l the Combo for IntelMacs from the Apple
site. Reinstall, repair permissions, restart & see if that clears it up.

I know the Intel Macs have been coughing & sneezing in a number of ways with
a variety of apps running through Rosetta.
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Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

<zaphon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a Macbook Pro that I have had for about 4 months now. I have
office installed on it (and have applied all updates including 11.3).
Office works fine, but is EXTREMELY finicky. For example, I have found
I can't right click on anything without risk of crashing. I have two
reproducable crashes.

With Excel

1. Open a new workbook
2. Enter something into the first cell (say the number 5), hit enter,
and than click back into the cell.
3. Now right click to open the context menu and boom crash.

With Word

1. Open a blank document.
2. Type a word or two (say new car)
3. Highlight 1 or more words
4. Right click on word to open context menu and boom crash.

Note

These context menus work until you actually enter something into the
program (you can right click in both examples before you type anything
in, but once you try and do it on text you have entered, it crashes).

Is anyone else experiencing anything like this, or is it just a whacked
out installation I have?

Thanks



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