Re: install Office 2004 on my new mac - not as Test Drive

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Hi John:

Does it say any more than that? WHY does it want that?

There are two reasons it might: either you have an Upgrade Install, and it
has not done its "First Run", or you have an incomplete update and it is
re-starting the updater.

Which is it?

If it's the first, it wants a disk older than the current version.

If it is the second, one of the updates has not "taken". Fix your disk
permissions and try again.

Hope this helps


On 3/03/08 2:15 PM, in article ee8522b.22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jon
Green " <> wrote:

I am having the same issue as David above - I have a macbook pro running
10.5.2 and just did a fresh install of Office 2004.

I went through all of the upgrades until the updater said I did not need any
more.

Now when I start Word or any other Office app it asks for the location of a
previously installed Office. I tried the suggestion above - inserting my
Office 2004 CD - but this did not work. The software says the disc contains no
upgradeable software.

Any other suggestions? Thanks!

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