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

I have no real idea if the test drive was on the mac when I bought it
(that was in June). I know it's not in my /Applications directory now,
and I don't recall removing it. But it's possible. If I did remove
it, no I didn't use the Remove Office Utility App to remove it (I own a
mac, not a PC, you uninstall apps by dragging them to the trash can (at
least that's how it's SUPPOSED to work *shrug*)).

I have had this problem since I installed Office on this mac back in
June, just figured that a patch would come along (I only use office for
like 5-10 minutes per week max) and fix it. I have run a repair disk
permissions (just ran another 5 minutes ago).

I have upgraded to 10.4.8, but as I said above, this problem has been
occuring since June, it's not something new. Just something I'm
getting tired of and came here wondering if I'm the only person
experiencing it. I will attempt to remove and re-install office
tonight and see if that helps any (which is a pain in the first place,
my macbook pro absolutely refuses to read my office CD's (their the
only CD's that it won't read), it's really odd).

On Oct 27, 2:15 pm, "CyberTaz" <typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet> wrote:
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.
--
Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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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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