Student Select and Office for Mac 2008

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While operating in Excel(Microsoft Office 2008 Home/Student) if I try and change the window size it will freeze the entire laptop and I have to remove the battery to get it restarted. Also on occasion Excel will crash and I will get a message to the effect that Excel has encountered a problem and it needs to be restarted losing all my current work.<br>
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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On 2/12/08 7:23 AM, in article ee853a2.84.RemoveThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "CDG"
<CDG> wrote:

> While operating in Excel(Microsoft Office 2008 Home/Student) if I try and
> change the window size it will freeze the entire laptop and I have to remove
> the battery to get it restarted.

This is more a performance issue for your computer.

To help performance, add your Entourage Identities folder to Spotlight
Exclude list. See this page for more tips to help performance.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/performance.html#options_perform
ance

Problems from Insufficient RAM and Free Hard Disk Space

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/performance2.html>

For us to offer more solutions we need to know more. Here is an example:

G4 Dual 1.42 GHZ, Memory 2GB, Mac OS X 10.5.2

You can find that info in Apple System Profiler. In the Menu bar under the
Apple icon, select About this Mac click on the "more info" button.

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Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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My first suggestion is "Save every time you stop to think" so that you do
not lose so MUCH.

You will never get a computer application that NEVER crashes, so get in the
habit of "Command + s" every time you stop to think.

Edit carefully: Cut and Paste rather than Drag and Drop. There are bugs in
all of the applications that cause failures unless you are careful not to
have objects landing over the top of each other.

Eventually, you will learn by trial and error what tips it over. Basically
anything to do with pictures is suspect...

But mainly: Wait for Service Pack 2. Service Pack 1 is about two months
away (that's a guess...). It should fix the worst of the bugs. Service
Pack 2, I guess, will appear about July/August.

Hope this helps

On 13/02/08 2:23 AM, in article ee853a2.84.DeleteThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "CDG"
<CDG> wrote:

> While operating in Excel(Microsoft Office 2008 Home/Student) if I try and
> change the window size it will freeze the entire laptop and I have to remove
> the battery to get it restarted. Also on occasion Excel will crash and I will
> get a message to the effect that Excel has encountered a problem and it needs
> to be restarted losing all my current work.
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@mcghie.name
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
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On 2/13/08 12:24 PM, in article ee853a2.87 RemoveThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"COLAVSWDW@officeformac.com" <COLAVSWDW RemoveThis @officeformac.com> wrote:

> I just got mac 2008 I am having problems adding my msn mail account to
> entourage, which is part of windows live. I have use the account manually. and
> it loads up under windows live. But when I try to recieve emails on entourage.
> I just get an error. Can someone please help.

Start with the Account page for help. If you continue to have problems
report back with details. What error do you get?

See this page for help setting up your accounts.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/accounts/index.html>

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/accounts/msn.html>

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Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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For us to offer more solutions we need to know more. Here is an >example:





G4 Dual 1.42 GHZ, Memory 2GB, Mac OS X 10.5.2





You can find that info in Apple System Profiler. In the Menu bar under
>the Apple icon, select About this Mac click on the "more info" button.




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Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees) Entourage
Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>




My Mac Info: 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB Mem, 0S X 10.5.2

I appreciate your help.
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OK, the first thing we can say is that you are very short of memory. Snap
in another 1GB of memory, and Office will run a lot more reliably.

Most of your other issues will be fixed by updates and service packs that
will start appearing from Microsoft any day now.


On 15/02/08 2:04 AM, in article ee853a2.89 DeleteThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "CDG"
<CDG> wrote:

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> For us to offer more solutions we need to know more. Here is an
> >example:
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> G4 Dual 1.42 GHZ, Memory 2GB, Mac OS X 10.5.2
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> You can find that info in Apple System Profiler. In the Menu bar under
>> the Apple icon, select About this Mac click on the "more info" button.
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> Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees) Entourage
> Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> Entourage Help Blog
> <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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> My Mac Info: 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB Mem, 0S X 10.5.2
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> I appreciate your help.

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@mcghie.name
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
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On 2/14/08 7:17 PM, in article C3DB4F85.1090C%john@mcghie.name, "John
McGhie" <john.DeleteThis@mcghie.name> wrote:

> OK, the first thing we can say is that you are very short of memory. Snap
> in another 1GB of memory, and Office will run a lot more reliably.

If you have the money go for 4GB.

The only other thing is the size of your hard drive. How full is it? The
system needs breathing room and if you've filled it up, this could be
slowing down performance too.

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Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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I think this is a different topic.

Please start a new thread and post again. If you try to add a different
topic to an existing thread, your question will get missed by the people who
can answer it.


On 17/02/08 2:20 PM, in article ee853a2.92 RemoveThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Linda"
<Linda> wrote:

> Sure miss the print preview icon....I tried to find it on the customize tool
> menu but it doesn't seem to be there....

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McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia
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Hi
I have Office 2008, but have not got Mac OS X 10.5. If I install it today, can I later reinstall Office 2008, using the same key, after formating and reinstalling when I get Mac OS X 10.5?
Cheers
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Yes, you can. Office for Mac does not get activated, unlike its Windows
counterpart, so the product key can be used again after the hard disk has
been reformatted.


On 18/02/08 10:23, in article ee853a2.94.TakeThisOut@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Andy H "
<> wrote:

> Hi
> I have Office 2008, but have not got Mac OS X 10.5. If I install it today, can
> I later reinstall Office 2008, using the same key, after formating and
> reinstalling when I get Mac OS X 10.5?
> Cheers

--
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Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

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How do you set up Microsoft Word to prevent double spacing?
The setting is for "single" spacing, however, when I'm trying to
type a single-spaced list, it wants to double space every line.
How can I avoid this problem?

Thank you for your help!

GAB
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In the future, please start a new thread when you have a new question,
rather than adding onto an old thread.

It's not actually double-spacing that is the problem. Word changed the
default to add more space between paragraphs, so that each paragraph
will be single-spaced, but between paragraphs, you get extra space.
Paragraphs are created every time you hit enter.

To change in just this document, select all, go to Format | Paragraph.
Look down to the find the Spacing: After field, and change 10 to 0.

To change this in all documents created from now on, change the Normal
style.

First, select Format | Style. Normal should be selected.

Click on Modify--make sure "add to template" is CHECKED. You'll see a
Format menu in the bottom of the dialog--select Paragraph from it, and
change the Spacing: After setting from 10 to 0.

GAB wrote:
> How do you set up Microsoft Word to prevent double spacing?
> The setting is for "single" spacing, however, when I'm trying to
> type a single-spaced list, it wants to double space every line.
> How can I avoid this problem?
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> GAB
>
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